Purification begins with remembering Kṛṣṇa while voluntarily restraining from four sinful practices.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation Lecture — March 10, 1968, San Francisco 680310IN-SAN FRANCISCO [63:11 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [aside:] Where is Annapurna?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Chant. [devotee leads chanting] [kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances] [16:52] Today's colors are very nice.
Who has made it? Or purchased from the market?
Prabhupāda: Pradyumna. Pradyumna is expert. Very nice colors. [break] [indistinct] You do like this.
Yes. Left hand. No, that's all right. Take water.
Yes. Take water in the left hand. Yes. Throw it.
That's all. Now... nama apavitraḥ pavitro vā sarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ sa bāhyābhyantara-śuciḥ śrī viṣṇu, śrī viṣṇu, śrī viṣṇu [Garuḍa Purāṇa] [Either pure or impure, or having passed through all conditions of material life, if one can remember the lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa, he becomes externally and internally clean.] You all chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Outsiders, all right, you also chant this. Take again. Do that, like.