Senior Sannyasis Authorize Initiations Systemwide, Disciples Remain Under Prabhupada

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Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Everything was "probably" in their books. Prabhupāda: "Probably," "maybe." Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Those are their favorite words. Śrīla Prabhupāda? We're receiving a number of letters now, and these are people who want to get initiated. So up until now, since your becoming ill, we asked them to wait. Erm... Prabhupāda: The local, mean, senior sannyāsīs can do that. Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: That's what we were doing...

I mean, formerly we were..., the local GBC, sannyāsīs, were chanting on their beads, and they were writing to Your Divine Grace, and you were giving a spiritual name. So should that process be resumed, or should we...? I mean, one thing is that it's said that the spiritual master takes on the... You know, he takes on the...

He has to cleanse the disciple by... So we don't want that you should have to... Your health is not so good, so that should not be... That's why we've been asking everybody to wait.

I just want to know if we should continue to wait some more time. Prabhupāda: No, the senior sannyāsīs... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So they should continue to...

Prabhupāda: You can give me a list of sannyāsīs. I will mark who will... Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Okay.

Prabhupāda: You can do. Kīrtanānanda can do. And our Satsvarūpa can do. So these three, you can do, begin.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So supposing someone is in America, should they simply write directly to Kīrtanānanda or Satsvarūpa?

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