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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div class="heading">From next year, unless one passes bhakti-śāstrī, he cannot be second initiated. First initiation is open for everyone. "Come on. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." That will purify him. Then let him understand what is bhakti.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- January 6, 1976, Nellore|Morning Walk -- January 6, 1976, Nellore]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Mahāmṣa:  . . .''oṁ tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padam.'' That claims Viṣṇu as the Supreme, but where does it say that Viṣṇu . . . I mean Kṛṣṇa, is the source of Viṣṇu from the ''śrutis''?

Prabhupāda: ''Śruti'' . . . Brahmā said, ''īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ'' (BS 5.1).

Acyutānanda: ''Brahma-saṁhitā'' is ''śruti''.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Brahmā spoke ''śruti'', ''Vedas'', so whatever he speaks is ''śruti''. It is therefore called ''saṁhitā. Saṁhitā'' means ''Vedas'', ''śruti''. As soon as it is called ''saṁhitā'', that is ''Vedas''. (break) 

Acyutānanda:  . . . comprises the examination for ''bhaktivedanta'' and ''bhakti-śāstrī''?

Prabhupāda: Hmm?

Acyutānanda: There was talk that they would be given examinations.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.

Acyutānanda: What is the syllabus for . . .?

Prabhupāda: Whatever books we have got, it should be studied. ''Bhakti-śāstrī'' means ''Nectar of Devotion'', ''Bhagavad-gītā'', ''Nectar of Instruction'', Beyond Death—in this way we select some ten books. That is ''bhakti-śāstrī''.

Acyutānanda: So when will that . . .

Prabhupāda: Then we come to ''Bhāgavata'', then we come to ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta'', in this way. 

Acyutānanda: That'll be wonderful.

Prabhupāda: So from next year, unless one passes ''bhakti-śāstrī'', he cannot be second-initiated. First initiation is open for everyone: "Come on. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa." That will purify him. Then let him understand what is ''bhakti''.

Yaśodānandana: This is very good, because then those that will become second . . . those that will have second initiation will have to know the scriptures, will have to know your books.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is . . . Now there is . . .

Mahāmṣa: And unless they know your books, they will never be fixed-up devotees.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Acyutānanda: Many times people give second initiation because they need a ''pūjārī'' in the temple.

Prabhupāda: No.

Acyutānanda: So they give. (break)

Mahāmṣa:  . . .different ''Purāṇas'' have different ''Gītās'', Prabhupāda? So some person said that there is a ''Gaṇeśa-gītā''. Similarly, there are different demigods, they speak their ''Gītā''. And they also say . . .

Acyutānanda: Universal form.

Mahāmṣa: They show the universal form, or they say that they are ''paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma'' ([[vanisource:BG 10.12-13 (1972)|BG 10.12]]). They say the same things in their ''Gītās''.

Prabhupāda: That's all right. Let them do that. We take ''Bhagavad-gītā''. That's all. Śaṅkarācārya also—''Bhagavad-gītā'' ''kiñcid adhītā''. If ''Bhagavad-gītā'' is understood a little only, he becomes liberated.
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