Spiritual initiation requires sincere commitment to four regulative principles that purify consciousness for authentic devotional service.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Initiations — July 23, 1971, New York 710723IN-NEW YORK [09:55 Minutes] Initiations_710723IN-NEW YORK Prabhupāda: You know the rules and regulation? That's all right.
Prabhupāda: Yes. Jamadāgni was a great sage. That's all. Father of Paraśurāma.
[japa] You know the rules and regulation? Hmm. What are those? Rules?
Devotee: No meat-eating, no illicit sex, no intoxication...
Prabhupāda: Brahma-vita. Brahma-vita, "whose profession is to realize Brahman." [indistinct] That's all right. [japa] Hmm.
Prabhupāda: Pāyasvinī dāsa [sic]. Pāyasvinī means the surabhī cow, who delivers milk as much as you like. [devotees laugh] Surabhīr abhipālayantam. Cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs. 5.29].
Prabhupāda: Bhārgava. Bhārgava means the descendant of Bṛghu. Bṛghu is one of the great sages, seven sages, in..., rotating around the polestar, seven sages. And Bṛghu Muni is one of them.