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[[Category:Disciples of SP Receiving Their Initiated Names]]
[[Category:Disciples of SP Names - Initiations By Year - 1971]]
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2>
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<div id="Initiation_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="8" parent="Lectures" text="Initiation Lectures"><h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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<div class="heading">Kaṁsā was the sister of King Kaṁsa. Kaṁsā was not bad, but Kaṁsa was bad. Yes. Come on.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Initiations -- New York, July 21-22, 1971|Initiations -- New York, July 21-22, 1971]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: What is your name? Eh?</p>
<p>Susie: Susie.</p>
<p>Devotee: Kaṅkā dāsī.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kaṅkā. Your name is Kaṅkā dāsī, the daughter of a great king. All our, I mean, girl disciples are named great devotees' daughter or wife, like that. So you know what are the rules and regulations?</p>
<p>Kaṅkā: Yes.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Tell me.</p>
<p>Kaṅkā: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: And what is your name, spiritual? You forget immediately? (laughter) Hare Kṛṣṇa. All right. How many rounds you will chant?</p>
<p>Kaṅkā: Sixteen rounds a day.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Only?</p>
<p>Kaṅkā: More if I can.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. (Kaṅkā offers obeisances) All right. Next. (japa)</p>
<p>Devotee: Rāṣṭrapālikā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Rāṣṭrapālikā, governess, governeress. Is that?</p>
<p>Devotee: Governess.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Governess? Governess. You have to govern. So what are the rules and regulations?</p>
<p>Rāṣṭrapālikā: No meat-eating, no intoxication, (indistinct).</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Who is your husband?</p>
<p>Rāṣṭrapālikā: Nitāi dāsa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Nitāi dāsa. Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p>
<p>Devotee: Vidarbha-sūtā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Garbha-sūtā.</p>
<p>Devotee: Vidarbha-sūtā.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Eh? Vidarbha-sūtā. Vidarbha-sūtā means the wife of Lord Rāmacandra. Come on. You are married? No, not yet. All right. Come on, next.</p>
<p>Devotee: Vilāsinī.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Vilāsinī. Vilāsinī means who enjoys with Kṛṣṇa. Come on. (japa)</p>
<p>Devotee: Uṣika.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Uṣika.</p>
<p>Devotee: Uṣika.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Uṣika is Brahmā's another name, Uṣiksaya. So you know the rules and regulations? What are they?</p>
<p>Devotee: No illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. (japa) Ceto-darpaṇa-marjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇam ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12]]).</p>
<p>Devotee: Romapāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Brahmapāda?</p>
<p>Devotee: Romapāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Roma?</p>
<p>Devotee: R-o-m-a-p-a-d-a.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Rāmapāda? R-o?</p>
<p>Devotee: R-o.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: All right. So there was a great ṛṣi, Romaharṣaṇa, Romaharṣaṇa. So his disciple or servant. Yes. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Come on.</p>
<p>Devotee: Cedirāja.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Cedirāja. Cedirāja was Kṛṣṇa's aunt's(?) husband. In connection with Kṛṣṇa. He was a great king. His son, Cedirāja's son was Kṛṣṇa's cousin-brother but greatest enemy. Yes. Kṛṣṇa killed him. Yes. (laughter) Come on. (japa)</p>
<p>Devotee: Kuśakratha dāsa.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kuśakratha. Kuśakratha. You know the rules and regulations? What are they?</p>
<p>Kuśakratha: No meat-eating, no gambling, no illicit sex, uh, no intoxication.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Which you like best? (laughter) Which of them?</p>
<p>Kuśakratha: You are reading my mind, Śrīla Prabhupāda.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: (laughs) All right. Don't do that again.</p>
<p>Devotee: Kirtīrāja.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Kirtīrāja. The king who is famous. Who is that king who is famous, very? Do you know? No? Kṛṣṇa. (laughter) What are the rules?</p>
<p>Kirtīrāja: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, and no intoxication.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Thank you. (break) Kaṁsā was the sister of King Kaṁsa. Kaṁsā was not bad, but Kaṁsa was bad. Yes. Come on. So is there any thread?</p>
<p>Devotee: Yes. There's seven gāyatrīs in all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hm?</p>
<p>Devotee: Four threads, seven gāyatrīs in all.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: So they may come after. (end)</p>
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