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<h2>Lectures</h2>
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<h3>Initiation Lectures</h3>
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Your spiritual name is Surānanda. Sura, this word, it, it becomes, sura means "liquor," and sura means "the demigods or the devotees." Sura-asura. Asura means demons. So your name is Surānanda.  Ananda means pleasure, so it can bear two meanings. Don’t take pleasure in liquor.
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[[Vanisource:731210 - Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles|731210 - Lecture Initiation - Los Angeles]]
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Prabhupāda: What is dharma? You are going to be in charge of religious principle, and what is religion?

Hṛdayānanda: (to devotee:) What is religion?

Dharma-dakṣa: Oh. Remembering Kṛṣṇa.

Prabhupāda: Yes. Thank you.

Devotees: Jaya! (laughter) (japa)

Karandhara: (to Prabhupāda) His name is Mahāvīrya dāsa.

Prabhupāda: So, what are the... (break)

Willie: ...no illicit sex, no intoxicants...

Prabhupāda: Hmm. So your name is Mahāvīrya. Means "very great, powerful."

Devotees: Jaya!

Karandhara: Pat. (to Prabhupāda) Surānanda. Surānanda. Surānanda.

Prabhupāda: Surānanda. So, what are the rules and regulation?

Pat: No meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex and no gambling.

Prabhupāda: So your spiritual name is Surānanda. Sura, this word, it, it becomes, sura means "liquor," and sura means "the demigods or the devotees." Sura-asura. Asura means demons. So your name is Surānanda. That don’t be… Ananda means pleasure, so it can bear two meanings. (laughs) (laughter) Don’t take pleasure in liquor. No. (laughter) Surānanda means to be associate with the devotees. That is Surānanda.

Devotees: Jaya! (japa)

Karandhara: Luis. (to Prabhupāda) His name is Loka-dakṣa. Loka-dakṣa.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. So why you have kept Kṛṣṇa back side, picture?

Luis: Why...? (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Hmm. Now you know the rules and regulation?

Luis: No illicit sex, no intoxication, no gamble, no eat meat, including fish or egg.

Prabhupāda: Hmm. (aside) What is the...? Loka-dakṣa. Loka-dakṣa. Loka-dakṣa means Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the proprietor, sarva-loka-maheśvaram. Nobody is proprietor of anything. This planet belongs to Kṛṣṇa. Not only this planet, other planets also. So Loka-dakṣa means Kṛṣṇa. Loka-dakṣa dāsa. All right.
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