Initiations Prabhupada: What is your name? Eh? Susie: Susie. Devotee: Kanka dasi. Prabhupada: Kanka. Your name is Kanka dasi, the daughter of a great king. All our, I mean, girl disciples are named great devotees’ daughter or wife, like that. So you know what are the rules and regulations? Kanka: Yes. Prabhupada: Tell me. Kanka: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication. Prabhupada: And what is your name, spiritual? You forget immediately? (laughter) Hare Krsna. All right. How many rounds you will chant? Kanka: Sixteen rounds a day. Prabhupada: Only? Kanka: More if I can. Prabhupada: Thank you. (Kanka offers obeisances) All right. Next. (japa) Devotee: Rastrapalika. Prabhupada: Rastrapalika, governess, governeress. Is that? Devotee: Governess. Prabhupada: Governess? Governess. You have to govern. So what are the rules and regulations? Rastrapalika: No meat-eating, no intoxication, (indistinct). Prabhupada: Who is your husband? Rastrapalika: Nitai dasa. Prabhupada: Nitai dasa. Hare Krsna. Devotee: Vidarbha-suta. Prabhupada: Garbha-suta. Devotee: Vidarbha-suta. Prabhupada: Eh? Vidarbha-suta. Vidarbha-suta means the wife of Lord Ramacandra. Come on. You are married? No, not yet. All right. Come on, next. Devotee: Vilasini. Prabhupada: Vilasini. Vilasini means who enjoys with Krsna. Come on. (japa) Devotee: Usika. Prabhupada: Usika. Devotee: Usika. Prabhupada: Usika is Brahma’s another name, Usiksaya. So you know the rules and regulations? What are they? Devotee: No illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. Prabhupada: Thank you. (japa) Ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam [Cc. Antya 20.12]. Devotee: Romapada. Prabhupada: Brahmapada? Devotee: Romapada. Prabhupada: Roma? Devotee: R-o-m-a-p-a-d-a. Prabhupada: Ramapada? R-o? Devotee: R-o. Prabhupada: All right. So there was a great rsi, Romaharsana, Romaharsana. So his disciple or servant. Yes. Hare Krsna. Come on. Devotee: Cediraja. Prabhupada: Cediraja. Cediraja was Krsna’s aunt’s(?) husband. In connection with Krsna. He was a great king. His son, Cediraja’s son was Krsna’s cousin-brother but greatest enemy. Yes. Krsna killed him. Yes. (laughter) Come on. (japa) Devotee: Kusakratha dasa. Prabhupada: Kusakratha. Kusakratha. You know the rules and regulations? What are they? Kusakratha: No meat-eating, no gambling, no illicit sex, uh, no intoxication. Prabhupada: Which you like best? (laughter) Which of them? Kusakratha: You are reading my mind, Srila Prabhupada. Prabhupada: (laughs) All right. Don’t do that again. Devotee: Kirtiraja. Prabhupada: Kirtiraja. The king who is famous. Who is that king who is famous, very? Do you know? No? Krsna. (laughter) What are the rules? Kirtiraja: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, and no intoxication. Prabhupada: Thank you. [break] Kamsa was the sister of King Kamsa. Kamsa was not bad, but Kamsa was bad. Yes. Come on. So is there any thread? Devotee: Yes. There’s seven gayatris in all. Prabhupada: Hm? Devotee: Four threads, seven gayatris in all. Prabhupada: So they may come after. (end)
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
New York, July 21, 1971 (and July 22, 1971)