720525 - Lecture SB 02.03.08 and Initiation - Los Angeles
Prabhupāda: So where is Pradyumna?
Devotee: He's typing.
Prabhupāda: Why? One śloka. Yes, you can... Anyone can chant. (japa) (pause) One verse.
Pradyumna: (leads chanting)
dharmārtha uttama-ślokaṁ
tantuḥ tanvan pitṟn yajet
rakṣā-kāmaḥ puṇya-janān
ojas-kāmo marud-gaṇān
Prabhupāda: Where are those books? These small books? (pause) My spectacles? Nobody's here? Where is Nanda Kumāra? Sleeping? As soon as there is opportunity, sleep. (laughter) (japa) Nidrāhāra-vihārakādi-vijitau ** , one has to conquer over sleeping, eating, and sense enjoyment. Nidrā, nidrā means sleeping. Āhāra means eating or collecting more, collecting. Eating, sleeping, and vihāra, sense gratification. Vijitau, the Gosvāmīs, they conquered over this.
Devotee: He said he's making the kacaurīs.
Prabhupāda: Hm. Rājya-kāmo manūn devān nirṛtiṁ tv abhicaran yajet, kāma-kāmo yajet som ... No, not this. Dharmārtha uttama-ślokam (devotees chant responsively) tantuḥ tanvan pitṟn yajet, rakṣā-kāmaḥ puṇya-janān, ojas-kāmo marud-gaṇān Hm. Repeat, repeat again. (devotees chant śloka ) So, word meaning?
Pradyumna: Translation: "One should worship Lord Viṣṇu or His devotee for spiritual advancement of knowledge, and for protection of heredity and advancement of the dynasty one should worship the different demigods."
Prabhupāda: Hm. Other line is not translated. Hm. Then?
Pradyumna: Purport?
Prabhupāda: Hm.
Pradyumna: "The path of religion entails making progress on the path of spiritual advancement, ultimately reviving the eternal relation with Lord Viṣṇu in His impersonal effulgence, localized Paramātmā feature, and ultimately in His personal feature by spiritual advancement of knowledge. And one who wants to establish a good dynasty and be happy in the progress of temporary bodily relations should take shelter of the pitās and the demigods in other pious planets. Such different classes of worshipers of different demigods may ultimately reach the respective planets within the universe, but he who reaches the spiritual planets in the brahmajyoti achieves the highest perfection."
Prabhupāda: Yes. So, now. (devotees chant japa ) (break in tape)... the word is abhyantaram, the word is abhyantaram ... Antara means internal. (break in tape)
Jayahari: So the translation to this mantra: "Unpurified or purified, or even having passed through all situations, one who remembers the lotus-eyed Supreme Personality of Godhead is cleansed without and within." So speaking from our own situation, we can understand that we've been brought up in a very degrading culture that right from the beginning is teaching propaganda how one must forget God. So Prabhupāda has so kindly given us a process to cleanse the mind. Ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam CC Antya 20.12 . We want to clear our mind again so we can see things as they are. So this human form of life is very rare opportunity, and it is rare because out of so many species of life we have been given the opportunity to again remember God. [break] (CB interference is heard coming through the speaker.) (japa)
Prabhupāda: Where is found, this name?
Devotee: List of names.
Prabhupāda: So you know the rules and regulations? The regulations?
Lāla Kṛṣṇa: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication.
Prabhupāda: So your name is Lāla Kṛṣṇa.
Lāla Kṛṣṇa: Bāla?
Prabhupāda: Lāla. Or Bāla Kṛṣṇa? Lāla Kṛṣṇa is name. You can give them. Next.
Devotee: Roger? (Raghu-nandana)
Prabhupāda: You know the rules and regulations? What are they?
Raghu-nandana: No meat-eating... (inaudible)...
Prabhupāda: Hm. How many rounds you will chant?
Raghu-nandana: Sixteen rounds a day.
Prabhupāda: Minimum, minimum. So your name is Raghu-nandana dāsa. Raghu-nandana is Lord Rāmacandra's another name.
Devotee: Cassandria?
Prabhupāda: What is her name?
Devotee: Kasamapriyā dāsī?
Prabhupāda: Kusuma.
Devotee: Kusuma-priyā dāsī.
Prabhupāda: So you know the rules and regulations?
Kusuma-priyā: (inaudible)
Prabhupāda: So your name is Kusuma-priyā. Kusuma-priyā, "the best of the flowers."
Devotee: Pam? (Pāṇḍurāṇī.)
Prabhupāda: Pāṇḍurāṇī?
Devotee: Pāṇḍurāṇī.
Prabhupāda: So, what are the rules?
Pāṇḍurāṇī: No meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex, no gambling.
Prabhupāda: How many rounds you shall chant?
Pāṇḍurāṇī: Sixteen.
Prabhupāda: So your name is Pāṇḍurāṇī, "Queen of the Pāṇḍus." That means Draupadī.
Devotee: John?
Prabhupāda: Draupadī had five husbands. (laughter)
Devotee: Dharma-kṣetra.
Prabhupāda: What are the rules?
Dharma-kṣetra: No eating of meat, fish or eggs, no gambling, no intoxication, and no illicit sex.
Prabhupāda: Dharma-kṣetra dāsa. Dharma-kṣetre kuru-kṣetre samavetā yuyutsavaḥ BG 1.1 . Dharma-kṣetra, "the field of religious activities."
Devotee: Patricia. Pātrī, Pātrī dāsī, Pātrī.
Prabhupāda: Pātrī. Pātrī. What are the rules?
Pātrī: No meat-eating, no intoxication, no gambling or speculation, and no illicit sex.
Prabhupāda: Thank you. So your name is Pātrī dāsī. Su-pātrī. Pātrī means a good reservoir. Everything good is there.
Devotee: Mary? Mañjuālī? Mañjuālī?
Prabhupāda: So what are the rules?
Mañjulālī: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling... (inaudible)
Prabhupāda: Thank you. So, Mañjuālī. Your name is Mañjuālī, one of the gopīs. Thank you. There is another. Come on.
Devotee: Pārvatī.
Prabhupāda: Pārvatī. So what are the rules?
Pārvatī: (inaudible)
Prabhupāda: Yes. So your name is Pārvatī. Pārvatī, "the daughter of Himalayas and wife of Lord Śiva." (devotees offer obeisances)
Jayahari: So what time is ārati? (kīrtana)
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