Title: initiation mantra from Shripada Puri

User: Damodara Svarupa dasa      Date: 2004-12-18 14:12:52

 

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna! All glories and obeisances to Swami Gaurangapada.

 

Shri Chaitanya bhagavata Ch17 : The Supreme Personality of Godhead Narayana, the Supreme instructing spiritual master of everyone, accepted initiation from Shripada Puri, with an initiation mantra consisting of ten syllables.

 

What was the initiation mantra the Lord received from Shripada Puri?

 

Daniel

 

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User: Swami Gaurangapada Date: 2004-12-18 14:38:31

 

It was the ten-syllable Gopala Mantra:

 

gopijanavallabhaaya svaahaa

 

go-pi-ja-na-va-ll-bhaa-ya-svaa-haa

are the ten syllables.

 

This ten-syllable Gopala Mantra is a part of the eighteen-syllable Gopala Mantra glorified in the Gopala Tapani Upanishad and the Hari Bhakti Vilasa and one of the seven Mantras imparted at the time the Gayatri Diksha in our Vinoda Sarasvata Parampara:

 

klim krishnaya govindaya gopijana vallabhaya svaha.