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Lect MAY 1976-02-05 Initiation Sannyasa--Welfare to Others

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ANNOUNCER: The following
is an initiation lecture,

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given by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda,

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recorded on the 5th of February,
1976, in Māyāpur, India.

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PRABHUPĀDA: You should understand
the purpose of taking <i>sannyāsa</i>,

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by the example given by Śrī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself.

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It is stated in the
<i>Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam</i>,

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<i>tyaktvā su-dustyaja-surepsita-rājya-lakṣmīṁ
dharmiṣṭha ārya-vacasā yad agād araṇyam</i>

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<i>māyā-mṛgaṁ dayitayepsitam anvadhāvad
vande mahā-puruṣa te caraṇāravindam</i>
[SB 11.5.34]

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Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was resident of
this place where you are taking <i>sannyāsa</i>.

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So, what was the purpose
of His taking <i>sannyāsa</i>?

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He was [a] very respectable
<i>brāhmaṇa</i>, Nimāi Paṇḍita.

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This tract of land, Navadvīpa,

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is the place of highly educated
<i>brāhmaṇas</i> from time immemorial.

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So, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu belonged
to a very respectable <i>brāhmaṇa</i> family,

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the son of Jagannātha Miśra, His
grandfather, Nīlāmbara Cakravartī.

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Very respectable persons.

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He took birth in that family.

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Personally He was very beautiful; therefore
His another name is Gaurasundara.

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And He was [a] very
learned scholar also.

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Therefore His another
name is Nimāi Paṇḍita.

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So, and in His family life He had very
nice, beautiful young wife, Viṣṇupriyā,

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and very affectionate
mother, and very…

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He was very influential;
you know that.

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In one day,

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He collected about one
hundred thousand followers

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to protest against the Kazi’s order.

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So in this way His social
position was very favorable.

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Personal position
was very favorable.

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Still, He took <i>sannyāsa</i>, left home.

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Why?

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<i>Dayitaye</i>, in order to favor,

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in order to show mercy to
the fallen souls of the world.

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So, He left a legacy that anyone
who has taken birth in India,

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<i>bhārata-bhūmite manuṣya-janma haila yāra
janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra</i>
[Cc. Ādi 9.41]

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So He exhibited personally
how to do <i>para-upakāra</i>,

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welfare to others, fallen souls.

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So this <i>sannyāsa</i> means following the
order of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu that,

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<i>āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tara’ ei deśa
yāre dekha tāre kaha ‘kṛṣṇa’-upadeśa</i>
[Cc. Madhya 7.128]

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So not only…

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We are trying to create a position

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that not only the Indians have
got this responsibility, but,

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according to Śrī Caitanya
Mahāprabhu, anyone—

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<i>pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi grāma</i>
[CB Antya-khaëòa 4.126]

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They should take up this missionary
work, and I am so much obliged to you,

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you American boys and girls also,

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that you have taken this Kṛṣṇa
consciousness movement very seriously.

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And by the grace of Śrī
Caitanya Mahāprabhu,

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you are taking
<i>sannyāsa</i>; some of you.

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Keep it very perfectly and go from town
to town, city to city, village to village,

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all over the world,

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and spread this Kṛṣṇa consciousness
movement so that everyone will be happy.

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People are very much suffering.

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They…

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Because they are <i>mūḍhas</i>, rascals,

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they do not know how to adjust
living condition in human form.

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This is the <i>bhāgavata-
dharma</i> everywhere.

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So the human form is not
to become a dog, hog, pig.

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You should become a
perfect human being.

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<i>śuddhyet sattva</i>
[SB 5.5.1]

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Purify your existence.

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Why you are subjected to birth,
death, old age, and disease?

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Because we are impure.

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Now if we purify our existence,

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then there will be no such thing as
birth, death, old age, and disease.

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That is the version of Śrī Caitanya
Mahāprabhu and Kṛṣṇa Himself.

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Simply by understanding Kṛṣṇa,

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you become purified,

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and you escape the contamination
of birth, death, old age and disease.

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So, try to convince the people in general,
the philosophers, the religionists.

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We have no such
thing, sectarian view.

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Anyone can join this movement
and become purified himself.

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<i>janma sārthaka kari’ kara para-upakāra</i>
[Cc. Ādi 9.41]

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So I am very much pleased.

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You have given already
service to the society.

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Now you take up <i>sannyāsa</i>,

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and preach all over the world so
that people may be benefited.

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Thank you very much.

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DEVOTEES: <i>Jaya</i> Śrīla
Prabhupāda! [splice]

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So add to your name. [splice]

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Viraha Prakāśa Swami.

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Viraha Prakāśa; Caitanya Mahāprabhu
is the symbolic of <i>viraha prakāśa</i>.

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<i>Govinda-viraheṇa me</i>.

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He says, <i>śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ
govinda-viraheṇa me</i> [Śikṣāṣṭaka].

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That is <i>viraha-prakāśa</i>, that “Everything
is vacant for me without Govinda.”

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That is called <i>viraha</i>.

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So, we should be
mad after Govinda.

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That is <i>govinda-viraheṇa me</i>.

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<i>śūnyāyitaṁ jagat sarvaṁ govinda-viraheṇa me</i>
[Śikṣāṣṭaka 7]

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- Thank you very much; Hare Kṛṣṇa.
- <i>Jaya</i> Śrīla Prabhupāda.

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