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A brahmana means purified. So those who are going to be sacred-threaded today, they should remember that they are being accepted as sucih, as brahmana

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"A brahmin means purified. So those who are going to be sacred-threaded today, they should remember that they are being accepted as śuciḥ, as brahmin"

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A brāhmaṇa means purified. So those who are going to be sacred-threaded today, they should remember that they are being accepted as śuciḥ, as brāhmaṇa. After chanting process for the six months or one year, it is supposed that he has already become purified. Now he should be recognized that he is purified.


Initiation Lecture -- Boston, December 26, 1969:

So mantra means . . . namaḥ. Namaḥ means surrender, to become submissive. Namanta eva. Namanta eva. That is the process. Namaḥ. When we utter this word namaḥ, means "I surrender." Anyone, I say namaskāra, namaskāra means the surrendering process: "I accept the surrendering process." So when we surrender to Kṛṣṇa or His representative, then apavitraḥ.

Apavitraḥ means contaminated and pavitraḥ means purified. So one may be in contaminated stage or purified stage. It doesn't matter. One who . . . yaḥ smaret puṇḍarīkākṣam, one who remembers Kṛṣṇa, the lotus-eyed . . . puṇḍarīkākṣam means lotus-eyed Kṛṣṇa.

So bahya. Bahya means externally, and abhyantara, internally. Bahyābhyantara-śuciḥ. Śuciḥ means purified. And another meaning of śuciḥ is brahmin. A brahmin means purified. So those who are going to be sacred-threaded today, they should remember that they are being accepted as śuciḥ, as brahmin. After chanting process for the six months or one year, it is supposed that he has already become purified. Now he should be recognized that he is purified.

So this sacred thread means recognition. Sacred thread means one should understand . . . just like one understands a man (is) learned by the degrees M.A., B.A. or Ph.D., similarly, when there is sacred thread, it is understood that he has undergone the purificatory process under superior management, or guidance of spiritual master.

This is called upanayana, upanayana, in Sanskrit. Upanayana: bringing him more near. The initiation is the beginning of purification, and offering the sacred thread means bringing him more nearer. Therefore the principle is those who are ordinarily initiated, they should not touch the Deity. Only those who are in sacred thread, they should touch. This is the system.

Page Title:A brahmana means purified. So those who are going to be sacred-threaded today, they should remember that they are being accepted as sucih, as brahmana
Compiler:MadhuGopaldas
Created:09 of Apr, 2012
Totals by Section:BG=0, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=1, Con=0, Let=0
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