740110 - Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles

Lectures by Date, 1974

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

740110IN-LOS ANGELES - January 10, 1974 - 04:46 Minutes

Prabhupāda: So your spiritual name is Abhirāma . . .?

Karandhara: Manobhirāma.

Prabhupāda: Manobhirāma. Manobhirāma. Manobhirāma is Kṛṣṇa. He pleases everyone's mind.

Devotees: Jaya. Haribol.

Karandhara: David? (break)

Prabhupāda: There is all neck beads, everyone? You knows the rules and regulation? (break) Dhanurdharī. (aside) Not left. Yes. Dhanurdharī. Dhanurdharī is Lord Rāmacandra's name. (pause)

Karandhara: Gilbert? (to Prabhupāda) Gambhīra.

Prabhupāda: Gambhīra. You know the rules and regulation? Here, take. Your spiritual name, Gambhīra dāsa, "Very grave." That is Kṛṣṇa.

Karandhara: Bill?

Prabhupāda: (japa) (break) Bāṅke-bihārī.

Devotees: Oh, haribol.

Prabhupāda: Bāṅke means "curved." Kṛṣṇa stands always this. That is Bāṅke-bihārī.

Karandhara: Hannah?

Prabhupāda: He is not very straight, Kṛṣṇa. People are crooked, so He is the most crooked. (break)

Karandhara: Hari-sevakā.

Prabhupāda: Hari-sevikā. So, Hari-sevikā, Hari-sevikā, "maidservant of Kṛṣṇa."

Devotees: Jaya. (break)

Karandhara: Delores? (break)

Prabhupāda: Greedy for Kṛṣṇa. Tatra laulyam eka laulyam. To get Kṛṣṇa, you have only one price: to become greedy for Kṛṣṇa.

Devotees: Jaya!

Prabhupāda: That's all. That is the only . . . (break) . . . tatra laulyam ekalaṁ mūlyaṁ na janma-koṭibhiḥ sukṛtibhir labhyate (CC Madhya 8.70). (break)

Karandhara: Vidya.

Prabhupāda: Divya. Divya. Your spiritual name is Divya. Divya means "spiritual." (pause)

Karandhara: Dhīra-sevā.

Prabhupāda: Huh?

Karandhara: Dhīra-sevā.

Prabhupāda: Dhīra. Dhīra-sevā. Dhīra-lalitā. Dhīra-sevā? No. Dhīra-sevī. She is woman. (to devotee) You know all the rules and regulation? Yes. Your name is Dhīra-sevī. Kṛṣṇa is Dhīra. Dhīra-lalitā.

Karandhara: Sajjana-jīvana.

Prabhupāda: Sajjana-jīvana. You know rules and regulation?

Devotee: No meat-eating, no . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Yes. Sajjana-jīvana. Sajjana-jīvana. Life is very gentle.

So thank you very much. (devotees exclaim)

Now begin chanting and yajña. Yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtanaiḥ prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ (SB 11.5.32). That is the yajña, saṅkīrtana.

Devotee: Hare Kṛṣṇa (end)