Initiation

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Guru Maharaja?

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Please accept our humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet, Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Jaya!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Giriraj Swami: Jaya!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: How is Your Divine Grace, Guru Maharaja?

Giriraj Swami: I am fine.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Yes. That is wonderful Guru Maharaja! Srila Giriraj Swami Maharaja ki 

Devotees: Jaya!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Srila Prabhupada ki 

Devotees: Jaya!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: This is a very most auspicious day for us in Mauritius, Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: We are all waiting for Guru Maharaja now with the assembled devotees. We are all assembled here about say hundred devotees or more.

Giriraj Swami: Really!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: At Hare Krishna Land, Sri Sri Radha Goloka Nanda Mandir.

Giriraj Swami: Wonderful!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Yes, with the new would-be initiates and Mataji Sarangi also.

Giriraj Swami: Nice!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: So can we hear from Guru Maharaja what would be Guru Maharaja’s program for today?

Giriraj Swami: Well, I think we can begin with kirtan.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Yes.

Giriraj Swami: And I guess I will speak a little.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Yes Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: We will have the initiation. May be there are questions and answers and the initiation.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Good Guru Maharaja. Then at the end of the program, whatever Guru Maharaja think best for us, we shall serve the whole guest of devotees full prasādam, Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Oh! That is nice.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Full feast, Guru Maharaja and that has been contributed by all the initiates.

Giriraj Swami: Wonderful! We are also having a Mauritian feast here.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Oh that is great, Guru Maharaja!

Giriraj Swami: We can get a whole experience.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Yes we have to share each other’s, I mean, joyful feeling Guru Maharaja. We need that.

Giriraj Swami: Yes. Yes. Alright. So let’s begin with the kirtan.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Guru Maharaja we are ready with our instruments here.

Giriraj Swami: Ok. Good. 

[Leads Samsara Prayers and Nṛsiṁhadeva Prayers]

So we thank you all for gathering on the auspicious occasion at the Lotus Feet of Sri Sri Radha Goloka Nanda, Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai, Srila Prabhupada and the disciplic succession. By Their mercy devotees are brought together to chant and hear and remember Krishna and to engage in service together. The association of devotees is most important. We should always value that association above all. We should not take it for granted because if we take it for granted Krishna may take it away from us so that we learn to value it more. But for the period that He does take it away we have to suffer terribly. So it is better to appreciate the association at every moment and use the association for the best purpose which is to chant and hear together, to remember Krishna and His devotees together and together to try to serve Krishna and His devotees and their mission. 

Of all the processes of devotional service the chanting of the holy names is the most important. Therefore whatever we do we should chant the holy names: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

And that will keep us linked together and to Krishna on the spiritual platform. As long as we remain on the spiritual platform all our relationships will be congenial and beneficial and helpful. But as soon as we allow ourselves to become absorbed on the material platform then the same relationships can become very disturbing and troublesome and difficult. So we should always chant, and chant and chant and chant without offense. If we offend other devotees then even when we chant the holy names of Krishna we won’t feel the same bliss. We won’t get the same enlightenment. So we should chant the holy name and serve the devotees very humbly and attentively and sincerely, then all of our spiritual desires will be fulfilled. 

So later we will have time to discuss more. I just wanted to express myself in brief, how important it is to maintain the association of devotees and to chant the holy names in the association of devotees and without offense. Srila Jiva Gosvami says that the chanting of the holy name is the most important process and that chanting with devotees in kirtan or saṅkīrtana has the greatest power to evoke spiritual sentiment. So although we should chant all the time, we should chant japa, even while we are engaged in other services we should chant or at least hear but especially when we get together to sing in kirtan, we can experience the deepest ecstasy. So we need each other. We need each other to have the full realization of Krishna consciousness and we need each other to render the best service to Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga. 

Of course, we want our family to increase, Srila Prabhupada’s family and so we want to go out and meet people and share with them the great benefit of Krishna consciousness. Of course, we invite them to the centers of Krishna consciousness so that they can experience the great benefits of Krishna consciousness. But again even when they come to the temple they want to see what is the life in the temple especially what are the relationships among the devotees. If the relationship is very pure and simple and congenial, full of genuine love and care then people will want to become part of this wonderful association, this spiritual family, but if they see the same type of dissent and quarrel and hypocrisy among the devotees that they see everywhere else they won’t be so inspired to stay with us. We must be very sincere in our association with devotees. We should simply desire to serve them and in their association to chant the holy names and to serve the saṅkīrtana movement. Then we will be able to chant without offense. We will be able to relish the nectar of the holy name and the nectar of Krishna consciousness. So that proper association with devotees, association with devotees in the proper mood along with the chanting of the holy names will bring the desired result both in terms of our own advancement in Krishna consciousness and in terms of our expansion of the mercy of Lord Chaitanya and His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, the expansion of the Hare Krishna movement. 

So today we are initiating two devotees into the disciplic succession. Of course we all depend on the mercy of Srila Prabhupada. It is only by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada that any of us are engaged in devotional service and it is only by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada that any of us will have the chance to go back home, back to Godhead. So whatever we do we should remain faithful to Srila Prabhupada, to his instructions and to his desires, to his mission and we should remain true to our vows. Today the new initiates will take their vows to chant sixteen rounds and to follow the regulative principles and all of us should take the opportunity within ourselves to renew our vows, to renew our efforts, to fulfill our vows and to realize our service to Srila Prabhupada and his representatives. Of course, in the Bhagavad-gītā, Lord Krishna says, sarva-dharmān parityaja mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja—give up all varieties of religiousness and just surrender unto Him but Kali-yuga is such that we surrender and then——Of course real surrender is permanent but Kali-yuga is such that we have the feeling to surrender and in a way we do surrender but then later the feeling changes and we don’t want to surrender so much but today let us all remember the mood of surrender that originally inspired us to take initiation, to make our vows and to offer, to dedicate our lives to the service of Srila Prabhupada and the mission and become determined to continue our spiritual practices to the highest, I suppose, standard and to offer our services to the mission to the fullest possible extent. So in one sense the ceremony and vows are meant for all of us to remind us of our vows and to help us to renew our commitment to our spiritual master and to Srila Prabhupada and the mission. 

Now I will ask Bhakta Rakesh to come forward. First he should offer his obeisances to Srila Prabhupada and then come forward to take his vows.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Guru Maharaja, Rakesh is offering obeisances to Srila Prabhupada, then he will offer obeisances to Your Divine Grace, Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Alright.

Bhakta Rakesh: 

nama oṁ viṣṇu pādāya kṛṣṇa preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate giriraja-svamin iti nāmine.

nama oṁ viṣṇu pādāya kṛṣṇa preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhakti vedānta svāmin iti nāmine.

namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

Giriraj Swami: Thank you. So what are the four principles that you promise to follow?

Bhakta Rakesh: No meat eating including fish and eggs. No intoxication including tea and coffee. No gambling and no illicit sex.

Giriraj Swami: Good. And how many rounds do you vow to chant?

Bhakta Rakesh: Sixteen rounds Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Good. Is there anything you would like to say now or commit yourself to?

Bhakta Rakesh: Reading Srila Prabhupada books as much as possible Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Good. Reading Srila Prabhupada’s books is most important. Anything else?

Bhakta Rakesh: To serve all the Vaishnavas.

Giriraj Swami: That is very nice. That is very nice. Anything else?

Bhakta Rakesh: Following your instructions Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Alright. Your name is Radhika Ramana dasa.

Devotees: Haribol!

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna!

Radhika Ramana dasa: Thank you so much Guru Maharaja for taking care of me.

Giriraj Swami: Thank you. I hope you do well in Krishna consciousness.

Radhika Ramana dasa: Thank you Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Bhaktin Vasanti. 

Hare Krishna. 

Bhaktin Vasanti: 

nama oṁ viṣṇu pādāya kṛṣṇa preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate giriraja-svamin iti nāmine

nama oṁ viṣṇu pādāya kṛṣṇa preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate bhakti vedānta svāmin iti nāmine

namas te sārasvate deve gaura-vāṇī-pracāriṇe
nirviśeṣa-śūnyavādi-pāścātya-deśa-tāriṇe

Giriraj Swami: Jaya! 

Bhaktin Vasanti: Jaya Guru Maharaja!

Giriraj Swami: What are the four principles?

Bhaktin Vasanti: No meat eating. No gambling. No illicit sex. No intoxication. 

Giriraj Swami: Good. And how many rounds?

Bhaktin Vasanti: Sixteen rounds and twenty-five rounds on Ekādaśī day.

Giriraj Swami: Good and anything else?

Bhaktin Vasanti: Read Prabhupada’s books and service to the temple. Associating with devotees.

Giriraj Swami: That is nice. 

Bhaktin Vasanti: Following Guru Maharaja’s instructions.

Giriraj Swami: That is nice. Anything else? Said a lot already but—-

Bhaktin Vasanti: Yes Guru Maharaja. Guru Maharaja, you have any instructions Guru Maharaja?

Giriraj Swami: Well, just like you said serve the devotees but at the same time we also want to, of course, that is also service to the devotees but we want to bring new people to Krishna consciousness. So whenever you get a chance, speak to people about Krishna and try to bring them to Krishna consciousness.

Bhaktin Vasanti: Yes Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Alright. Your name is Vraja Vilasini dasi.

Devotees: Haribol!!

Vraja Vilasini dasi: Thank you Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Thank you. We wish you all the best in your devotional service and in your Krishna consciousness.

Vraja Vilasini dasi: Thank you very much Guru Maharaja. Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja!

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna! 

So today is the auspicious disappearance day of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura and Sri Gadadhara Pandita but I will not speak at length about them but of course we do remember them today and pray for their mercy. Now I will ask if any of you have any question that you would like to ask or have any comments.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Any questions from our guest devotees please? Guru Maharaja to begin with, a humble request, if we can know more about the auspicious passing away of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja from Guru Maharaja please?

Giriraj Swami: Well, there has been many wonderful reports about His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami that are available on his website, btswami.com and I would really request everyone to go to his website and read the reports about him. The reports about his actual disappearance were extraordinary and also read his letters that he wrote in the last months and hear his talks. Nothing I could say would take the place of reading directly what his caregivers wrote and what he himself wrote and hearing his talks and his kirtans in the last weeks. What I may add is the effect that he is still having on the lives of devotees. Yesterday I spoke with one devotee who lives in Alachua. She is in a woman’s body and being in a woman’s body she didn’t often get the same opportunity for association as the devotees in men’s bodies but some years ago she was living in North Carolina and His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami came to visit there. There is a devotee named Nityananda, got a big house and Maharaja agreed to come there for maṅgala-ārati. The lady devotee, Chaitanya dasi, she also came and after the maṅgala-ārati Maharaja was going to go on a japa walk. She didn’t really get to go on japa walk with Srila Prabhupada, may be once or twice she went again because she was in a woman’s body she had to be way at the back and she couldn’t really hear what Srila Prabhupada was saying. She asked him if she could accompany him on his walk. She was not sure what he would say but he said yes. There was only about four or five people at the house for maṅgala-ārati but I think before the walk they were chanting in the temple, chanting rounds in the temple. She could see how deeply absorbed Bhakti Tirtha Swami was in his chanting and she was feeling that he was really connecting with Vrindavan, with Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sri Vrindavan-dhāma. Anyway she, I guess there are a lot of details but the conclusion was that she did not have so much association with him. 

Once again he came to Alachua and gave a seminar on depression, how to deal with depression and we know one of the causes of depression is feeling alone and so basically he was taking the verses of Bhagavad-gītā and relating them to the problem of depression and at the end he led the devotees through a visualization and she said it was probably the most powerful visualization that she ever experienced but he asked the devotees to close their eyes and to visualize Krishna in their hearts and in a very wonderful way he described the beauty of Krishna, his curling locks of hair and His glistening lips and His sidelong glances and in a very intimate and detailed way he led the devotees through this visualization of Krishna within their hearts and the idea was that they could actually feel Krishna’s presence in their hearts and if they would always able to feel Krishna’s presence in their hearts then how could they ever feel depressed. At the end of the visualization when all the devotees opened their eyes she saw that practically every devotee in the room was just shedding tears of joy, having discovered Krishna in such an intimate way and such a wonderful way. She mentioned the two experiences that she had with him. 

Often she would lament that because of her family responsibilities she couldn’t move to Vrindavan although within her heart she would really like to move to Vrindavan, dedicate herself fully to the service of the Lord without any distractions or any diversions but he got the answer from Bhakti Tirtha Swami that if you chant with enough sincerity and enough intensity your house can be Vrindavan. When she was chanting with him in that house in North Carolina and feeling that he was really in Vrindavan, he told her that you can be in Vrindavan if you chant with sincerity and intensity. 

At different times since he left she felt great separation from him but just when her feelings of separation were at their peak somehow she would feel his presence again. So I just cited her as one example of one devotee whose life was very deeply touched by His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami even though she really got to interact with him the two times that I mentioned but because of his great love and compassion and spiritual potency he was able to help her a lot and now even after his departure she is able to feel his presence and be inspired and guided in her Krishna consciousness. So we cannot hardly estimate the value of a pure devotee like His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja and even now we can benefit from his association from his spiritual presence. Actually I have his picture up on our altar now. So during the kirtan and even now we have his picture before us and somehow during the kirtan I happened to think of the most unfortunate incident when he was denied entry into Mauritius and I do feel that anyone who was involved with that and I have no idea who was but anyone who was involved in that should now really, earnestly pray to him to forgive them and he will. He is completely pure in heart and extremely merciful but still we have to do that. We have to make that appeal to him and then he will be pleased to forgive us. Any other questions or comments?

Krishna Candra Prabhu: His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami Maharaja ki jaya!

The most auspicious passing away of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Maharaja ki jaya!

Srila Giriraj Maharaja ki jaya!

Guru Maharaja, we have one question from Prabhu Ajay Chaitanya dasa.

Giriraj Swami: Yes?

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Dear Maharaja, please accept my humble obeisances at the dust of your lotus feet. Maharaja, to my understanding it appears that devotees may lose taste of Krishna consciousness with time. Will Maharaja tell us why it is so and what should be done to avoid such problems?

Giriraj Swami: Well, there can be different reasons. On the one side we may become too familiar with devotees and take them for granted. We may become too familiar with devotees and commit offenses either within our minds or by words and of course when we commit offenses we disrupt our spiritual progress and lose taste and on the other side we may need more engagement. Srila Prabhupada said that Krishna consciousness should always be a great challenge that will inspire us to come to a higher level of Krishna consciousness. Once one of our godbrothers did a little survey about why some of our devotees leave Krishna consciousness and one reason was they felt they didn’t have enough opportunities to realize their full potential for service and then of course the other reasons are a lack of love and care among the devotees and lack of strong spiritual practices but His Holiness Sacinandana Swami spoke on that subject some days ago. I have the transcript of what he said on the subject. I could send it to you or Ajay Chaitanya but the main thing is to chant. We just have to keep chanting and avoid offenses. If we do those things we will be able to continue. But if we don’t have enough challenging service, if we become complacent and lazy and then start to wander into different types of maya, naturally we will lose our taste and then again if we become too familiar with devotees or if we are too close to the wrong devotees then we may commit offenses, that also will cause us to lose taste.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Thank you very much Guru Maharaja. We have another question from Man Mohan dasa.

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Guru Maharaja this is from your fallen servant, Man Mohan dasa. We often see and think that many of the pure devotees suffer before their departure but I would like to know, to hear from you do they really suffer?

Giriraj Swami: Well if we see the case of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami and His Holiness Śrīdhara Swami. They were very blissful up until the end. Of course, there is pain in the body. We can’t deny the pain in the body but because of their absorption in their Krishna consciousness. Their absorption in devotional service actually made them feel very blissful. I had a very nice talk, quite a long talk with His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami on the phone and I could perceive that he is completely liberated from the body. He is in the body but he didn’t identify with the body and he was so enlivened in devotional service that he forgot the pains of the body, at least for some time. Even if they do suffer they accept the suffering willingly because they want to serve the devotees, serve Srila Prabhupada to the maximum extent, to the last breath and therefore they tolerate the pain so that they can continue with their service to their full capacity, to the end. So they are not really suffering. In a way they do, they certainly feel pain and that also is painful for us but on another level they are blissful in their service to Srila Prabhupada and Krishna.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: If time allows may we hear from Guru Maharaja about his preaching program, recent one.

Giriraj Swami: Well, I will just briefly mention the last three. Towards the end of May, I went to San Diego and I gave several lectures. Wednesday Night I gave a talk at the University of California at (Irvine?) on the subject, “Why do bad things happens to good people?” They gave the topic. We have transcribed the talk and it is ready to go out but just waiting for the right time. The next morning I spoke at the San Diego Hospice before all the doctors and nurses and staff except for the ones that were on duty. We distributed transcript of the talk and questions and answers but they. . .We kept extending the time but they kept having more questions. I am going back there in two weeks and I am going to meet with the doctors and nurses that still have more questions to ask. 

And then on Saturday we had a program at Advaita Candra Prabhu’s place. He has a big place right on the beach but it was the first program he ever had there and a lot devotees came and new people came and there we wanted to speak on Bhagavad-gītā because he owns ‘Torchlight Publishing’ and he entered into a collaboration with the BBT to try to promote the sale of Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. We spoke on Bhagavad-gītā and yoga and then Sunday was Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśi and so there was morning program and then again evening program for the public. The talk from the evening will come out in one of the books on “Festivals.” 

Then I think just one week later was Prabhupada’s festival in Los Angeles and so many senior devotees came and spoke about Srila Prabhupada and I also spoke. That was very nice and then just recently I spent more than a week in Texas and I gave some talks in Houston. In fact two of the talks will be coming out very soon because they deal with the subject of going back to Godhead and certainly while I was there I was thinking of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami and His Holiness Tamal Krsna Goswami. So those two lectures from Houston will be coming out probably they will be the next ones and then I went to Dallas and gave the morning class on Tamal Krsna Goswami’s Vyasa-puja day and then the next day we inaugurated his puṣpa-samādhi and so I spoke then and then after His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami left I was in Dallas when he left. So after he left I gave—it was a Bhāgavatam class, wasn’t specifically a talk about him but it discussed the issue of guru-tattva and so I did speak about him and Tamal Krsna Goswami as well. 

Now I am back in Carpinteria working on the books because although I like to go out and speak and I feel enlivened and inspired and the devotees also do but still I feel my message isn’t just for the devotees in Texas or wherever but our messages are for the world. So I come back and make the same message available for others. But we have Mp3s now that are available. I don’t know how many of them have reached Mauritius but it is interesting because while I was working on the first talk from Houston there were some words that were not properly heard by the transcriber so they were missing some of the transcription. So I myself I had to listen to the audio file to try to catch the missing words and there is a definite value to hearing the voice. We got a lot from hearing the voice. So we have various Mp3s that are available and many devotees listen to them not just my disciples. Then I suppose may be end of August, beginning of September, sometime I will go back up Northern California and meet His Holiness Satsvarupa dasa Gosvami again and visit other places along the way.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Wonderful Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Thank you. Alright. Well it is getting pretty late there.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: It is quarter to ten here Guru Maharaja, our local time.

Giriraj Swami: I know. the devotees must be getting hungry there.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Well we have been more hungry for hearing Guru Maharaja’s nectarean talks.

Giriraj Swami: Thank you.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Thank you Guru Maharaja. We have Mother Sarangi.

Giriraj Swami: Yes I hope.

Devotees: (Laughter)

Krishna Candra Prabhu: So How would you schedule the remaining time before prasādam Guru Maharaja?

Giriraj Swami: Well I think I mean as far as I am concerned, we covered a fair amount and I am concerned about the devotees’ prasāda. So what we could do is or maybe you didn’t have any trouble getting through on the phone, did you? 

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Not at all Guru Maharaja. It is perfectly clear.

Giriraj Swami: Alright then maybe we should end. If you like, I can lead devotees in the śarīra avidyā-jāl prayer.

Devotees: Haribol!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Haribol Guru Maharaja, that is perfect!

Giriraj Swami: That is very good. 

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Actually we are seeing you here among us.

Giriraj Swami: Yes! I am among you. That is why I know how hungry you are!

Devotees: (Laughter)

Krishna Candra Prabhu: So may be Guru Maharaja should also, with the other devotees who are there, partake together with us some prasādam.

Giriraj Swami: Jaya! Alright so while we say the prayers and then do you have like a portable phone or do you just take the phone to some place and I could give her the mantra. You could phone back in five or ten minutes but she should receive the mantra before she takes prasāda.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Yes, yes. It is arranged now Guru Maharaja. Mother Sarangi will go into a private room with the mantra and in the meantime Guru Maharaja will lead the śarīra avidyā-jāl prayers.

Giriraj Swami: That is right. Alright. 

[Leads the śarīra avidyā-jāl prayers]

Giriraj Swami: So thank you all very much for your nice association. It was a wonderful experience to be with you again and chant and hear about Krishna. So I will take your leave—well not really, I will still be with you but part of me will take your leave—- and Bon Appetit!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Merci Guru Maharaja! Merci beaucoup! We have one local news Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Because you are concerned with Mauritius, of course, with Krsna consciousness, and because we have a few Mauritian devotees with you. So the news is recently on Sunday we had the general elections. 

Giriraj Swami: Yes.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: So result is exit Beranger and party and enter Ramgoolam with Dulloo and others.

Giriraj Swami: Jaya!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Haribol!

Giriraj Swami: Haribol!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Remember Mr. Dulloo who came when we were opening the temple; we had the big program with His Holiness Lokanatha Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: I know, Madan Dulloo. That is good news.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Yes, it is really good news. I mean most Mauritians about 60 percent or more have been asking for change.

Giriraj Swami: Good. Well another reason to celebrate!

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Thank you very much Guru Maharaja. So now we are breaking for prasādam and we will call Guru Maharaja in about five minutes, Guru Maharaja?

Giriraj Swami: That is fine. That would be fine.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Thank you very much for giving us your wonderful association, Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Thanks to all of you.

Krishna Candra Prabhu: Hare Krishna Guru Maharaja.

Giriraj Swami: Hare Krishna!