1970 - Prabhupada

#25-3· Sannyasa Initiation LA-2-70dd--3Prabhupada: Yes. Bring it and ... No. Garland I shall give lateron when you will dress, come out. I will give you. Like this. Yes.Dress yourself and come. Brahmananda? You come. There shall beno shirt. Open. Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, HareRarna Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.Now you can perform your dailyprogram. Yes. (break)Dayananda:Should we offer the garland?(Karandhara leading Mangalacarana prayers and doing fire sacrifice)Dayananda:Prabhupada:upasitam.You can read the translation.Dayananda: "Translation: I shall cross over the insurmountable oceanof darkness of ignorance simply by taking shelter of the lotus feetof Lord Mukunda who gives all kinds of liberations and who is worshipedby many great previous acaryas. Purport: There are sixtyfourkinds of rendering service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead,out of which to accept the uniform dress of a tridandi sannyasi isalso an important item.One who accepts this order of life, surelyby rendering service unto the Supreme Lord becomes eligible to crossover the insurmountable ocean of ignorance.All previous sages usedto accept such order of life, and later acarya, Visnu Swami, adoptedthis order of life and specifically stressed on this procedure inorder to achieve firm conviction in the matter of devotional service.Those who are unalloyed devotees, they add one more staff along withthe original three.This extra one is representation of the livingentity.There is another sect who are known as ekandi (sic) sect.They misunderstand the purpose of tridanda and by such deviation,sivaswami sannyasis, who claim to belong to the Visnu Swami sect,