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Once is sufficient, Narayana.

Urmila: I got first the initiation through mail and for second initiation I received gayatri mantra directly from Prabhupada in Philadelphia. There was a huge initiation that morning where seventy-five devotees got initiated. At that initiation, Prabhupada didn't like a lot of the names that the sannyasis had picked out. At least three times he changed the names and the third time he looked at Brahmananda and said, "Where did you get these names?" One of the names I remember was Buhbrit and I forget the original name but when Prabhupada changed it to Buhbrit he said, "Buhbrit means one who carries all the planets on their head". The other name the sannyasis had given he said, "That means one who carries a heavy load." He also gave an interesting lecture about Ajamila. One of the devotees was reading the translation as the book hadn't been published yet, and it read, "Ajamila called out three times, Narayana, Narayana, Narayana" and Prabhupada said, "Three times? I did not say three times. One time. Once is sufficient, Narayana."


Reference: Memories Anecdotes of a Modern Day Saint - Volume 4 by Siddhanta Dasa