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Nitai Gauranga

Shri Radhe Govinda Man Bhaj Le Hari Ka Pyara Naam Hai

Natwar Naagar Nanda

Jai Jai Radha Raman Hari Bol

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna Hare Hare

Initiation is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to this path. As soon as we have faith in a guru and the willingness to serve and to follow, then our relationship with our Guru has been established. But the particular ceremony, the particular offering of initiation is a deep, sincere, lifelong commitment to follow. ‘yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado’ to please our Guru, and please all the previous acharya and Krishna, though the sincerity of our efforts, 
So these vows that are taken, sometimes Prabhupad would call them rules and regulations. And especially Srila Prabhupada explains from Krishna’s words in Bhagavad Gita ‘raga-dvesa-vimuktais tu’ these are the regulative principles of freedom. They're not meant to bind us, they're meant to the parade us because we're already bound. Sometimes people think that these rules and regulations are too restrictive. But the reality is we are already restricted, our hands, our legs, our heads, our feets, our hearts, our brains, every part of us is shackled, like prisoners of Maya’s dictations. And whatever principles there are in Bhakti, are there to liberate us from those shackles, liberate us from that bondage, so that we could actually be free to live by the real spirit of the soul, to be free, to love Krishna, to be an instrument of Krishna’s love and to be happy, to be free from the fear of death and all the uncertainties of life. So, we're taking vows for this purpose.

Initiation Is The Beginning Of A Lifelong Commitment

Chaitanya mahaprabhu said, “Krishna is non different than his name, nämnäm akäri bahudhä nija-sarva-çaktis, all of his powers are within his name. But then my lord said, if a devotee is chanting the holy names but offends Vaishnavas, Krishna is so displeased, that Krishna through his name may destroy you out of mercy. Krishna’s name is Krishna, he is a person. It is not something mechanical, we ,must chant in a way that pleases the holy name. The seventh offence to the holy name is to commit sinful activities on th trength of chanting. If we think let me chant and then I can do any thing sinful and then I will rectify it by chanting again, if that is our mentality you are offending god in his name and the first of all offences is to blaspheme devotees of the lord. Why are these offences? It is not just something mechanical. It must be understood in a very personalized way. These are offences because they displease Krishna substantially.

The Crucial Principles of Bhakti

Sometimes even in Krishna consciousness, the persons in a position and they become so materially entrenched in that position that they think it's totally spiritual. But when the seniors say do something else, “no, no! Only I can do it. I have to do it.” That means that there's a material sense of I and mine. Tamal Krishna Goswami had the biggest, most successful devotee making preaching making project in the entire world, “Radha Damodar Travelling Sankirtan Party.” And he was the main person to develop it into that, distributing more of Prabhupada books than any other entity ever did in history and making more devotees faster than anybody in history. It was unbelievable and you can't do that without taking total responsibility. It wasn't that he was just, “Oh! Krishna, you're in control, I'll do what I feel like doing.” He was working, he was struggling, he was sacrificing, he was anything if it took total suffering, anxieties, headaches, he was willing to do it because he was responsible for it, “Prabhupada gave me this project, it's my project, I must do it for Prabhupada.” But what was the test of his pure devotional service?

Nitai Gauranga

Nityananda Charan Das