Hridayananda Goswami : When I was initiated in Los Angeles, I got a little piece of paper with my name on it, "Hridayananda." For some reason I thought that someone had left out the "a" and that my name was actually "Haridayananda." When people said, "What's your name?" I said, "Haridayananda". It sounded like a perfectly good, Krishna conscious name. No one ever questioned me. No one ever said, "That doesn't sound like a bonafide name." For the first several months after I was initiated, I was Haridayananda. In fact, there's an old Back to Godhead article by Haridayananda das Brahmachari. Anyway, I wrote Prabhupada a letter about a year after my initiation, and I signed it "Haridayananda." Prabhupada wrote back saying, "Dear Hridayananda, please accept my blessings. By the way, your name is Hridayananda." I thought, "How in the world would Prabhupada remember who I am?" I had no real importance within the structure of ISKCON, as I was just a young member. I was amazed that Prabhupada remembered who I was.