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You should learn how to do this ceremony.

Laxmimoni: In Los Angeles in 1974 I was pregnant. Jagadish was coming to see Prabhupada from Toronto because there was one boy who wanted to get initiated and he couldn't cross the Canadian border because he was a draft dodger. So Jagadish had brought his letter for initiation into Prabhupada's room. Prabhupada said, "You should perform this initiation ceremony. Do you know how?" Jagadish said, "No." Then Prabhupada instructed someone, "You should give him instruction." Then he said to Jagadish at that time, "You should learn how to do this ceremony." He said, "Just like your wife is now pregnant. Before she was a young girl and couldn't have children of her own. But now that she is mature, she is having children of her own. So in the same way, you will become mature eventually and you will have children of your own and you will have to perform this initiation ceremony." So he was telling him then that eventually this would be the way it will be done and that was in 1974.


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