We Want to Take You Home

There is no need for you to rot any longer in the cycle of birth and death. You are an eternal spiritual being, full of knowledge, and full of bliss. Currently you are misidentifying yourself with your material body, which is temporary, full of ignorance, and full of misery. For you to remain in this deluded condition is an unnecessary waste of your time and energy taking you nowhere.

We would like to get you out of this material existence. If you will agree to come with us, we will take you back to home, back to Godhead, back to your original home in the eternal spiritual sky. You will regain your original identity and relationship with the Supreme Person. And you will taste unlimited happiness for all of eternity in unlimited varieties of loving pastimes with God and His eternal devotees.

Does this sound too good to be true? You may find it unbelievable because you have been so much conditioned by this material existence for so many millions of lifetimes. But I can assure you that it is absolutely true. Do not doubt it for a minute. We will take you home, if you are willing to go.

Of course, we are not going to pressure you. We are simply giving you the invitation. Now you can do what you like. We hope you make the right decision.

Answers According to the Vedic Version

Question: Self-Realization Without a Guru?...

I have already started chanting mantra to fix myself on transcendental platform without obtaining it from a bona fide spiritual master only by reading from your web site.

Does this qualify me to get self realization?

Your student from India

Answer: Without Guru Mantra is Impotent...

If you are taking instructions from me, you are already connected with a bona fide spiritual master. Because I am connected with a bona fide spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, and I am purely passing on to you whatever he has given me, I am also a bona fide spiritual master.

If you are serious about self-realization, you must now follow the standard pathway as described by the great acharyas (spiritual masters who teach by example.) You cannot concoct your own path. Just as I have been blessed with self-realization by fully surrendering myself unto the bona fide spiritual master, now you must also fully surrender yourself unto the bona fide spiritual master, if you want to attain the self-realization platform.

You cannot become self-realized without taking shelter of the bona fide spiritual master, even if you are chanting a bona fide mantra. This is confirmed as follows in the Padma Purana:

sampradaya-vihina ye
mantras te nisphala matah

"Unless you are initiated by a bona fide spiritual master in the disciplic succession, the mantra that you might have received is without any effect."

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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