Student: Is this the ceremony which is often referred to as mantra-dīkṣā?
Prabhupāda: Yes. Mantra-dīkṣā. Yes. The first ceremony is hari-nāma-dīkṣā, and then mantra-dīkṣā. Hari-nāma-dīkṣā, all these boys present, they were, one year before, they were initiated for chanting, and now they are being second time initiated by mantra-dīkṣā, yes. Any other questions?
Student: Has there been a fasting or other preparatory . . .?
Prabhupāda: No. According to Vaiṣṇava tantra, we do not require to fast, because we are taking Kṛṣṇa's prasādam. Hare . . . just like in Jagannātha Purī, there is no fasting, so long one is accepting Kṛṣṇa's prasādam. The fasting means purificatory. One, one who is taking all nonsense things, at least one day fasting to become purified.
But one who is eating simply kṛṣṇa-prasādam and simple foodstuff, vegetable, grains, milk—they are not allowed to eat anything and everything; they are not allowed to take anything in the hotel—so practically, they are fasting. According to the general regulation, they are fasting every day. They are simply accepting kṛṣṇa-prasādam. That is already accepted. And because this ceremony is Vaiṣṇava smṛti, so we do not require particularly to fast.
Student: Do the disciples take on new injunctions and prohibitions at this time? You mentioned that there were four nisidhacara mentioned . . .
Prabhupāda: No. This . . .
Student: . . . at the earlier stage.
Prabhupāda: Earlier, earlier stage, the injunctions were . . . they have already practiced those injunctions. They have already practiced, and they now stand firmly situated in those practices and they have chanted. Therefore the second initiation. Just like in the school education—from one class to another is promotion stage—similarly, it is like that.
Student: Are there any formal rules that they agree to accept at this stage? Over and above the earlier . . .
Prabhupāda: Yes. Only form is that the mantra which will be given to him, he has to chant that mantra three times a day: morning, early in the morning; and in the noon; and in the evening. Tri-sandhya. Tri-sandhya means three times, junction of different moments. Morning, day and night, evening, day and night, junction, and the noon, afternoon and before noon. Three times.