Accept the spiritual master with complete faith, remember Krishna always, and never blaspheme His devotees.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiation Lecture — July 13, 1971, Los Angeles 710713IN-LOS ANGELES [80:35 Minutes] Initiation_710713IN-LOS ANGELES [devotees chanting japa]
Prabhupāda: So, what is next? We are begin? Or there is ārati?
Devotee: Yes, we have [indistinct]. Get the beads?
Prabhupāda: Yes. [japa] [Viṣṇujana leads kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] [20:02] First of all, you are... Mantra? Oh, yes.
[japa] Dayānanda: Repeat the mantra three times with water, taking water, then wash. oṁ apavitraḥ pavitro vā sarvāvasthāṁ gato 'pi vā yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣaṁ sa bahyābhyantaraḥ śuciḥ śrī-viṣṇu śrī-viṣṇu śrī-viṣṇu [Garuḍa Purāṇa] [devotees repeat each word] [break] ....that is to say whether one is in liberated platform or whether one is in the animal platform, the hellish platform, that one is a denizen of the lower planets, in any condition of life, one can..., if one simply remembers the lotus-eyed one, or Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, then one becomes purified, or śuci, internally or externally. And externally. Internally and externally. So this mantra is enjoining that you simply remember the lotus-eyed one, simply remember Viṣṇu, then we can be come purified, we can become śuci. So this process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is that purification process.
This process is that process whereby we can remember that lotus-eyed one, or by which we can become Kṛṣṇa conscious, we can become conscious of that lotus-eyed one, we can remember that lotus-eyed one, twenty-four hours a day. We are trying..., we expand all of our energies to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. So this initiation process is the beginning of that process to become purified. To begin to remember God, to remember Kṛṣṇa, Viṣṇu. So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness, this initiation process is the initial step and then after this initial step then there is another step the second initiation. One receives second initiation after one is serious in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness process.
One is becoming a little purified so this second initiation is given and then this means that the individual is becoming first-class man. He is becoming purified, he is living up to human standard. The human platform, this human form of life is simply meant for cultivating Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is simply meant for purification. So in this day and age there is no qualification, no birth right qualification for achieving this platform of life, for becoming first-class man.