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<h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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If one is engaged in the transcendental loving service to Vāsudeva, then automatically the stage of Brahman realization automatically becomes revealed. So this ceremony is just according to the strict principle of Vaiṣṇava smṛti.
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[[Vanisource:680506 - Lecture Initiation Brahmana - Boston|680506 - Lecture Initiation Brahmana - Boston]]
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:bahūnāṁ janmanām ante
:jñānavān māṁ prapadyate
:vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti
:sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ 
:([[Vanisource:BG 7.19 (1972)|BG 7.19]])
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One who has accepted that Vāsudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa—Kṛṣṇa is Vāsudeva—sa mahātmā, he is the greatest soul. And Bhāgavata confirms:

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:vāsudeve bhagavati
:bhakti-yogaḥ-prayojitaḥ
:janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ
:jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam 
:([[Vanisource:SB 1.2.7|SB 1.2.7]])
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If one is engaged in the transcendental loving service to Vāsudeva, then automatically the stage of Brahman realization automatically becomes revealed.

So this ceremony is just according to the strict principle of Vaiṣṇava smṛti. And today . . . and Sanātana Gosvāmī confirms this, that yathā kāñcanatāṁ yāti kāṁsyaṁ rasa-vidhānataḥ (Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 2.12). By chemical process, one can turn the bell metal into gold. That is alchemistry, that bell metal, if it is treated with mercury properly, then it can become gold. Formerly people knew it. So the example is given that as bell metal, a base metal, can be turned into gold by a chemical process, similarly, yathā . . .
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