On the 27th July 2014 HH Bhakti Charu Swami Gurumaharaj gave me 1st & 2nd (Harinam & Brahmin) Initiation ISKCON Gita Nagari Farm, USA, after a 24 year wait. My initiated name is Lakshman Ishvara Dasa.
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SRILA PRABHUPADA REGARDING INITIATION :
“I am the Spiritual Master of this institution, and all the members of the Society, they’re supposed to be my disciples. They follow the rules and regulations which I ask them to follow, and they are initiated by me spiritually.”
Srila Prabhupada~ (Radio interview, March 12, 1968,SanFrancisco)
"Initiation is a formality. First of all you have to decide whether you will abide by the rules and regulations and become Krsna conscious. That is your consideration. You have to decide for yourself whether you are going to take this Krsna consciousness seriously. That is your decision. Initiation is a formality. If you are serious, that is real initiation. If you have understood this Krishna philosophy and if you have decided that you will take Krishna consciousness seriously and preach the philosophy to others, that is your initiation. My touch is simply a formality. It is your determination. That is initiation."
(Srila Prabhupada Conversation, 'The Search for the Divine', Back to Godhead, # 49)
"The chanting of Hare Krishna is our main business, that is real initiation. And as you are all following my instruction in that manner, the initiator is already there." (Srila Prabhupada Letter, August 19th, 1968)
"If you have understood this Krishna philosophy and if you have decided that you will take Krishna consciousness seriously and preach the philosophy to others; that is your initiation. My touch is simply a formality. It is your determination that is initiation.”
(Srila Prabhupada's Back To Godhead Article, ‘Search for the Divine’)
"Well, initiation or no initiation, first thing is knowledge...knowledge. Initiation is formality.
Just like you go to a school for knowledge,and admission is formality.
That is not very important thing."
(Srila Prabhupada Interview, Chandigarh, 16/10/76)
SRILA PRABHUPADA REGARDING INITIATION :
“I am the Spiritual Master of this institution, and all the members of the Society, they’re supposed to be my disciples. They follow the rules and regulations which I ask them to follow, and they are initiated by me spiritually.”
Srila Prabhupada~ (Radio interview, March 12, 1968,SanFrancisco)
"Initiation is a formality. First of all you have to decide whether you will abide by the rules and regulations and become Krsna conscious. That is your consideration. You have to decide for yourself whether you are going to take this Krsna consciousness seriously. That is your decision. Initiation is a formality. If you are serious, that is real initiation. If you have understood this Krishna philosophy and if you have decided that you will take Krishna consciousness seriously and preach the philosophy to others, that is your initiation. My touch is simply a formality. It is your determination. That is initiation."
(Srila Prabhupada Conversation, 'The Search for the Divine', Back to Godhead, # 49)
"The chanting of Hare Krishna is our main business, that is real initiation. And as you are all following my instruction in that manner, the initiator is already there." (Srila Prabhupada Letter, August 19th, 1968)
"If you have understood this Krishna philosophy and if you have decided that you will take Krishna consciousness seriously and preach the philosophy to others; that is your initiation. My touch is simply a formality. It is your determination that is initiation.”
(Srila Prabhupada's Back To Godhead Article, ‘Search for the Divine’)
"Well, initiation or no initiation, first thing is knowledge...knowledge. Initiation is formality.
Just like you go to a school for knowledge,and admission is formality.
That is not very important thing."
(Srila Prabhupada Interview, Chandigarh, 16/10/76)
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