Ultimate Self Realization

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss   Srila Prabhupada Launches ISKCON in New York's Tompkins Square Park Hare Krishna is Where It's At Thought for Day--16 January 2026 In the lingo of the countercultural youth — the hippies, ten thousand of whom in the 1960s and 1970s became Śrīla Prabhupāda’s first disciples — we could say, “Hare Kṛṣṇa is where it’s at. You dig?” This means: “Do you understand that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the perfection of existence?” Śrīla Prabhupāda was very expert in preaching according to time, place, and circumstance. For example, when he first came to preach Krishna consciousness in San Francisco, his center was in Haight-Ashbury, the hippie neighborhood. When a reporter asked him about his center, just see how he replied: Reporter: "Downstairs, you said you were inviting everyone to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Does that include the Haight-Ashbury Bohemians and beatniks?" Pra...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss Krishna with a Calf Know Krishna, Know Everything No Krishna, Know Nothing Thought for Day--15 January 2026 In the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.3 we are blessed with this sublime wisdom: yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati "If one knows the original cause, the subordinate causes are automatically known." Stated simply this means that if you know Krishna you know everything. The opposite of this is that if you don't know Krishna, even though you may be very proud of your material knowledge, you don't know anything, you know nothing. One may argue that knowing everything means that he must be able to know how many grains of sand are on the beach. This is not what is meant. He knows everything in the sense that he knows the pure essence of everything. He knows that the sand is the emanated energy of Krishna. In this way he perfectly understands the utility of t...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss Jagannatha, Baladeva, and Subhadra Here's How Lord Jagannatha Became Manifested Thought for Day--14 January 2026 It seems mysterious how Krishna manifests Himself in the form of Lord Jagannatha. My beloved senior Godbrother, His Grace Sriman Achyutananda Prabhu, has very nicely described in his book Blazing Sadhus how this happened. His Royal Highness Sri Krishna, the Lord of the opulent city of Dwarka, the Lord of the universe, is always longing for His days in Braj Vrindavan when He played with the cowherd boys and His gopis. Once Rohini, the mother of Balaram, described the Braj pastimes to the queens in Dwarka. She told them to shut all the doors because these tales are very confidential and if Krishna hears them He may run away to Vrindavan. Krishna, Balaram, and Subhadra listened outside the door, side by side. Hearing about Braj, They melted in ecstasy. Their arms ...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss Our Most Beloved Lord Sri Krishna Don't Be Misled by False Propaganda Thought for Day--13 January 2026 There is a growing trend within ISKCON to accept hearsay as authoritative evidence— “so-and-so said this, so-and-so said that,” etc., etc., and therefore it is assumed to be authoritative. This tendency is especially evident in the new definition circulating within ISKCON regarding the meaning of the vow of “no illicit sex” that we take at the time of initiation. The inherent fallacy of relying on hearsay is very nicely illustrated in the following story of Sargal Singh, as told by Jayadvaita Swami in his book Srila Prabhupada’s Kirtan Standards. A man in the village had shaved his head, as one does when a relative dies, and was lamenting, “Sargal Singh is dead! Sargal Singh is dead!” “Sargal Singh is dead?” asked the local grocer. “Yes, he’s dead,” the man sobbed. “He wa...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety and Bless You With Unlimited Bliss Krishna is Our Best Friend Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Our E-Course Thought for Day--12 January 2026 Today we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of our Ultimate Self Realization Course with its highly popular Thought for the Day daly broadcast. This means that I have sent more than 7,300 broadcasts of Thought for the Day to you all my beloved students and disciples all over the world. I thank you very much for being one of my students, and I pray to Lord Krishna that He may bless you and your family members with pure love of God so that your lives will be completely free from illusion and anxiety and filled with unlimited bliss. Hoping this meets you in good health and in a cheerful mood, Your ever well-wisher. Sankarshan Das Srila Prabhupada's Writing is My Inspiration Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here For Trans...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety and Bless You With Unlimited Bliss Drowning in the Ocean of Maya How the Word "Blooped" Entered ISKCON Thought for Day--11 January 2026 Here's how the word "blooped" entered our Krishna consciousness movement as told by Acyutananda Prabhu in his book Blazing Sadhus: Swamiji’s lectures often included the metaphor of falling back into the material illusory ocean of maya. He would gesture as if throwing a stone. One day Vince got confused and yelled, “I don’t get it. It’s just another religion, another sectarian cult.” He stomped out of the temple. Brahmananda and I looked at each other, and I said, “He fell back into the ocean of maya.” Brahmananda made the gesture of throwing a stone and said, “Bloop.” After that, every time a devotee left we’d say, “Ah, he’s blooped.” Or if someone was misunderstanding we’d say, “I think he’s gonna bloop.” Or when someone didn’t show up for a few weeks, ...