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Prabhupāda: Two brahmacārīs will be initiated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You can come forward. Yes.

[break] ...means the beginning, and the beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Because at the present moment we are merged into non–Kṛṣṇa …

[aside:] Oh, this sound, down. No, in this.

Girl: Speaker.

Haṁsadūta: Oh, that speaker. Something outside.

Prabhupāda: All right, you... Let your... Beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness means first of all faith. Ādau śraddhā: the beginning is …

This is called faith. And that conviction must be firm, not tottering faith. So when this faith is created, then …

[break] When one is firmly convinced that "If I be engaged in the transcendental loving service of Kṛṣṇa..." When we …

So this firm conviction is the beginning of initiation. The Bhagavad-gītā teaches this firm conviction gradually. And ultimately the Lord …

"My dear Arjuna, you give up all other engagement. Just be engaged in My service or be engaged in executing …

Just like Arjuna. Arjuna was a military man. So Kṛṣṇa said that "You give up all your engagements." That did …

What is that bhakti? Sarvopādhi-vinirmuktaṁ tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170]. One has to become free from all designations.

So long we are in the material conditional life, we have got various designations—"I am Indian," "I am American," "I …

And what I have to think? There must be thinking. I am not stopping my thinking what I am. That …

And when you identify with the Supreme Brahman, that is your liberated stage. Brahma-bhūtaḥ prasannātmā. When you identify yourself with …

[Bg. 18.54]

So when one, after being freed from all designation, when one is actually engaged in the activities of Brahman, that …

So initiation means to be engaged in that Brahman activities. How Brahman activities? The same example can be cited, that …

So ādau śraddhā [Brs 1.4.15],

When one becomes firmly convinced that "By becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious, or being engaged in the transcendental loving service of Kṛṣṇa, …