1, The loss of my Brahmana initiation thread etched a fault across my heart.

2, When a sage who is a Brahmana has realized the truth by silent concentration, then he becomes free form and formlessness, happiness and suffering.

3, Once in a town named Puru-kutsapura there lived a brahmana called Pingala.

4, It was also my service to place a new Brahmana thread on his desk every month.

5, In the Srimad Bhagavatam, we find the example of the Avanti brahmana who, upon reflecting about the miseries others had inflicted upon him, had an amazing realization.

6, Therefore, I was excited to obtain His Divine Grace's prasadam thread and resume my transcendental Brahmana connection.

7, When Bharata left that place, both trees dried up and died. The two souls living in those trees took their next births as daughters of a pious brahmana.