New York Initiations - Spiritual Names Tilaka Beads and Instructions at the Fire Ceremony

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Initiations — July 21, 1971, New York 710721IN-NEW YORK [11:03 Minutes] Initiations_710721IN-NEW YORK Prabhupāda: What is your name? Eh? Susie: Susie. Aravinda: Kaṅkā dāsī.

Prabhupāda: Kaṅkā. Your name is Kaṅkā dāsī, the daughter of a great king. All our, I mean, girl disciples are named great devotees' daughter or wife, like that. So you know what is the rules and regulation?

Prabhupāda: Tell me. Kaṅkā: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no gambling, no intoxication.

Prabhupāda: And what is your name, spiritual? Kaṅkā: [prompted by Aravinda] Kaṅkā?

Prabhupāda: You forget immediately? [laughter] Hare Kṛṣṇa. All right. How many rounds you will chant?

Prabhupāda: Thank you. [Kaṅkā offers obeisances] Come on. Next. [japa] Aravinda: Rāṣṭrapālikā.

Prabhupāda: Rāṣṭrapālikā: governess, governeress. Is that? Aravinda: Governess.

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