Initiation Lecture

Initiation And Marriage Mark Second Spiritual Birth

📅 September 5, 1968 📍 New York ⏱ 19 min
Marriage in Krishna consciousness unites souls in lifelong devotion to serve the Lord together, transcending material separation.
Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca

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] Again do that. Yes, chant. Those who are initiated, chant, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma... I forgot to say you about the thread ceremony.

Those who have passed one year's chanting, they can be offered this sacred thread. [break] ...first of all. Everyone has done? [ācamana] You have done second time.

You have done second time? Then you do second time, you. Hṛṣīkeśa.

Kīrtanānanda: They have done it twice, all of them.

Prabhupāda: They have done now? Oh. [oṁ apavitraḥ recitation] Yes. Do it for the third time, circle.

[oṁ apavitraḥ recitation, followed by maṅgalācaraṇa and other prayers] Now... Yes. You chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. [all chanting japa] You have...

You can sit down. You are going? She is going? Your mother is going?

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