In this ceremony, Tulasi Manjari dasi received second initiation from Giriraj Swami, who read and spoke from Bhagavad-gita 14.26.
“Srila Prabhupada would say that in other conceptions, the worshippers think of God as the father and that the nature of the children is to take service from the father — ‘I need this,’ or ‘I want that.’ But in the Bhagavata conception, God become the child of the devotee. Instead of the devotee thinking, ‘O God, You are my father. I have so many needs and wants, and You have to fulfill them.’ Instead, a devotee is thinking, ‘O Krishna, You are my son. I have to feed You, otherwise You will be hungry.’ So, it is a very elevated and sublime process — part of the process of bhakti-yoga that has come down to us from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu through Rupa Goswami and other acharyas.”
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Second Initiation, Carpinteria, California