Kulādri: This promise is the minimum determination.
Prabhupāda: Hmm?
Kulādri: This promise of following four regulative principles, chanting sixteen rounds daily, that is the minimum determination. Then, from there, he must increase.
Prabhupāda: Initiation means minimum, just beginning. That is the dictionary meaning, initiation. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta there is a verse,
- śraddhā-śabde-viśvāsa kahe sudṛḍha niścaya,
- kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva-karma kṛta haya
- (CC Madhya 22.62)
(to Pradyumna) Explain it. You understand? Śraddhā, śabde, viśvāsa, sudṛḍha, niścaya. Kṛṣṇe, bhakti, kaile, sarva-karma, kṛta, haya.
Pradyumna: The word śraddhā means faith. So by the word faith, we need firm determination or conviction, śraddhā-śabde viśvāsa sudṛḍha niścaya. Viśvāsa means faith which is sudṛḍha, very . . . sudṛḍha, dṛḍha means firm, and sudṛḍha means very firmly. Niścaya. Niścaya is used here also, sa niścayena yoktavyaḥ. Yoga is to be engaged in, applied with firm . . .
Prabhupāda: Faith. Niścaya means conviction.
Pradyumna: Conviction. Kṛṣṇe . . .
Prabhupāda: Bhakti kaile.
Pradyumna: Kṛṣṇe bhakti kaile sarva kṛta-karma.
Prabhupāda: Sarva-karma kṛta haya.
Pradyumna: Sarva-karma kṛta haya. And if one engages, if one performs service to Kṛṣṇa, then everything else becomes accomplished?
Prabhupāda: Yes.
Pradyumna: Everything else becomes accomplished. If one renders service to Kṛṣṇa, then automatically everything else . . . one has no obligations to the material world.
Prabhupāda: Otherwise, why Kṛṣṇa will say, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66)? Because by that action everything will be done. Kṛṣṇa says, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam. That means He is cheating? There are so many other occupations, say, veda-dharma, samāja-dharma, brāhmaṇa-dharma, kṣatriya-dharma, medical dharma, lawyer dharma. You can manufacture so many occupations. Dharma means occupational duties. But if you take only one occupational duty—to serve Kṛṣṇa—all things will be included. Mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja. This is instruction. So to accept this principle means firm determination, firm conviction: "Yes, if I serve Kṛṣṇa, then all my other duties will be automatically done." This is firm conviction. "By one stroke, I'll kill so many birds."