Ultimate Self Realization

Fully surrender to Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, right now. You've got nothing to lose except for the oceans of anxieties that have tortured you for millions of lifetimes. Is there any reason for you to foolishly hang on to the source of all your sufferings for millions of lifetimes. Kick out all the dirt from your heart right now and fully surrender to Lord Sri Krishna. You'll be glad you did. It will be the greatest decision that you've made for millions and billions of lifetimes. Krishna Awaits Your Return to His Abode Video For the Day: Make the Whole World Krishna Conscious Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Do Terrorists Go Back To Godhead? Esteemed Guru, what happens when individuals perform suicide attacks like the one that took place in the Belgium airport, pronouncing the names of God and most probably thinking of Him at the time of death? Do they reach some special spiritual planet as it is proclaimed by the Muslims? ...

In Krishna consciousness our modus operandi is very simple: Save yourself and save the world. The more you bring your senses under control by engaging them in the service of Krishna, the more you become powerful for having a Krishnizing effect upon the world. This is why it is said that one pure devotee can deliver the entire universe. So, if every member of the Krishna consciousness will sincerely endeavor to become a 100% pure devotee of Krishna as soon as possible, very quickly the Krishna consciousness movement will be able to take over the world ushering in a new era of peace and prosperity for all. Lord Caitanya Inundates the Universe with Prema Bhakti Video For the Day: Make This Your Life and Soul Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Destination of Military Men? What is the destination of army and police personal who die doing their duty? Such death is considered very heroic in this world. Do they get any special mercy of Krishna when many of them are bre...

If something is auspicious, do it immediately. And if something is inauspicious keep postponing it and postponing it until it finally does not happen at all. Auspicious means that which is pleasing to Krishna and inauspicious means that which is not pleasing to Krishna. If you will follow this principle strictly, your life will be perfect and upon leaving your present body you will become one of Krishna's intimate personal associates in the spiritual world. Krishna Awaits Your Return to His Abode Video For the Day: Transcendental Bliss on 6th Street Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Qualification for Entering Goloka Vrindavan? Hare Krishna, Dandavat pranam. I am not very clear with concept of how a person can reach Goloka Vrindavan. From my reading of Bhagavad-gita, initially I understood that only a person who thinks of Krishna, at the time of death, will certainly attain Goloka Vrindavan. It seems to me that, our goal is to attain perfection in terms of ...

If you want to enjoy genuine happiness and not be a miserable fool like 99.99% of the world population, you need to tune in, turn on, and bliss out. Tune in to Krishna. Turn on your true spiritual identity. And bliss out by surfing on the waves of Lord Caitanya's unlimited mercy. You've nothing to lose except for your ignorance and anxiety. So, why not do it right now? Sankirtana Ecstasy on 6th Street--Austin--26 March 2016 Video For the Day: How to Get the Crud out of Your Heart Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Authenticity of ISKCON's Books? As devotees, what tangible assurances do we have that Srila Prabhupada's words remain unchanged by ISKCON? For example, in my copy of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is there was a revision that took place in 1989, 12 years after His Divine Grace left this material world. I feel in my heart that Srila Prabhupada is a bona fide spiritual master. But I don't trust ISKCON. Please help release my doubt! Sincerel...

In London on July 9, 1973 in a room conversation with sculptor David Wynne Srila Prabhupada made this prediction: "At the present moment, the world situation is not very good. And it will deteriorate more and more if they do not take to Krishna consciousness or God consciousness." And we can see how truly prophetic are his worlds. In the last 43 years since Srila Prabhupada made this prediction the world society has not yet adopted Krishna consciousness as their guiding principle in life and the world situation has indeed shockingly deteriorated. And it will continue to get worse and worse until the people wise up and take to Krishna consciousness as their only hope for genuine happiness. When that golden day comes this world will become like a paradise. So may that day come soon. May that day come soon! Lord Caitanya's Movement is Out to Save the World Video For the Day: Just Be Yourself Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How to Serve this Missio...

Why would you want to be a dead man suffering in the modes of material nature when you could instead be swimming in an ocean of transcendental bliss at every minute? This is common sense. Unfortunately due to massive global ignorance people don't realize that they have a choice. Hence they continue suffering the threefold miseries perpetually in the cycle of birth and death until by the grace of guru and Krishna they become awakened from their slumber. Super Ecstatic Kirtan on the Yamuna River in 2014 Video For the Day: Don't Be Topsy-Turvy Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Lost My Job. How to Conquer Depression? Today I have lost my job. I am in depression. Please guide me how to come out of my depression. Thanks and regards, Amit Gupta, New Delhi, India Answer: Fully Surrender to Guru and Krishna Your depression is caused by your false sense of independence, not from having lost your job. Someone who has taken complete shelter of Krishna is always...

As evidenced by the recent terror attach in Brussels, the world situation is deteriorating more and more, becoming ever-increasingly more hellish and chaotic. But it does not have to be this way. There is indeed a positive alternative for all of this madness. We can solve all the world's problems if the world's leaders will only agree to hear from us, take instructions from us, and carefully and sincerely follow our instructions. But the difficulty is that they are way too proud of themselves thinking that they are very great in spite of their total disqualifications to properly guide the human society. So we will continue with our duty as spiritual teachers by continuing to present our books and teachings as much as possible to everyone that we meet with the hope that somehow someday the entire world will heed and follow the most sublime teachings of Lord Caitanya. When that day comes it will mark the beginning of the most sublime unprecedented era of peace and happiness that...

Since time immemorial when we entered into this material world to try to enjoy separately from Krishna we have been foolishly clinging to a false sense of being the center of enjoyment. In other words we have been totally selfish. Our egotistical attitudes have not brought us genuine happiness. Indeed, they have simply made us more and more miserable. Even after having heard from bona fide scriptures and from great spiritual masters that this selfishness is the cause of all our miseries and accepting this as true, we still stubbornly and foolishly cling to this false conception that we are the center of enjoyment. The fact is that it is very, very difficult for us to become completely pure, 100% selfless. But this seemingly impossible task can be easily accomplished if we take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master dutifully and enthusiastically accepting all of his instructions as our very life and soul. Srila Prabhupada Bestows Selfless Mercy Upon Janaki Video For the Day: W...

Recently one of our subscribers dropped out of our e-course. The reason he gave is that the search for what is within is best carried out in silence. But if silence is the key for unlocking the higher truth within, why he did break silence by telling me why he is dropping the course? If he truly believed in silence, he would have silently dropped out without saying a word. Regarding realizing the truth within, any attempt to realize this higher truth by practicing silence (mauna-vrata) will always fail because the mind by its very nature always active. Both the illusioned material mind and enlightened spiritual mind within are always active. Some say that within is the state of no mind, but this is fallacious. There is no such state. Your mind will either be material or spiritual. It never becomes non-existent. This is why any attempt to turn off the mind will always be futile. The solution then for attaining the liberated state of awakening the within is to absorb the mind in trans...

Today we are unlimitedly blessed because today is the transcendental appearance day of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is none other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna Himself appearing in the form of His own devotee. We offer our most humble respectful obeisances unto Him and Lord Nityananda with the following most auspicious prayer: vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya- nityānandau sahoditau gauḍodaye puṣpavantau citrau śan-dau tamo-nudau "I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Krishna Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauda to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all."--Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 1.2 It is not possible to even begin measuring the unlimited extent of our good fortune that we have come into contact with Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement, because such contact is tantamount to directly meeting God face to face. Therefore ...

Lord Brahma states in verse 41 of Chapter 5 of his Brahma-Samhita: māyā hi yasya jagad-aṇḍa-śatāni sūte traiguṇya-tad-viṣaya-veda-vitāyamānā sattvāvalambi-para-sattvaṁ viśuddha-sattvam- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is the absolute substantive principle being the ultimate entity in the form of the support of all existence whose external potency embodies the threefold mundane qualities, namely, sattva, rajas, and tamas and diffuses the Vedic knowledge regarding the mundane world." This reminds of us of the term used by Christian theologian Paul Tillich who said that God is the “ground of being itself”. He saw God as the ground upon which all beings exist. According to him, God precedes “being itself.” Although Tillich failed to understand God as a person, he at least had some correct ideas about the impersonal aspect of God. It's a fact that nothing exists, not even being itself, without Krishna's support. So we shou...

My Dear Srila Prabhupada, Please accept my humble obeisances in the dust of your divine lotus feet. You have us left with an unimaginable mission. You have instructed us to deliver the entire world. This seems quite impossible because we have a hard enough time delivering ourselves and even a harder time working together co-operatively as a unified worldwide ISKCON. So how is it possible that we can successfully carry out the order you have given to us to deliver the whole world? It almost seems like a dream. But it can happen, and indeed it will happen because it is predicted in the Caitanya Caritamrita that the entire world will someday be inundated with pure Krishna bhakti. How will it happen? It will only happen by our sticking tightly to all of your instructions accepting them as our very life and soul. Then and only then will your full world-delivering potency be manifest through us. Therefore, Srila Prabhupada, we are begging this boon from you that in all times, places, and ci...

Nowadays there are so many types of therapy available in the wellness marketplace: hand therapy, back therapy, trauma therapy, over-eating therapy, depression therapy, marriage therapy, chemotherapy, vocal therapy, occupational therapy, sound therapy, enzyme replacement therapy, massage therapy, cobalt therapy, cold compression therapy, and the list goes on and on and on. Practically every day somebody is dreaming up a new kind of therapy. But still everyone is unhappy and unhealthy. This is because the world is not adopting the most important therapy of all: identity therapy, the healing process of becoming re-established in one's original and factual identity as the eternal servant of Krishna. At the present moment the world is tortured by ever-increasing chaos, because nobody knows who they are. Identity crisis is running rampant as a global epidemic. Therefore the International Society for Krishna Consciousness has been started to provided the ultimate therapy, identity therap...

There is no one more powerful and influential in this world than Krishna's pure devotee. By his every thought, word, and deed in all times, places, and circumstances he spearheads the ultimate revolution, the re-spiritualization of the entire human society. In this connection Srila Prabhupada writes as follows in his purport to Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila, Chapter 7, Text 83: "A sincere student aurally receives the holy name from the spiritual master, and after being initiated he follows the regulative principles given by the spiritual master. When the holy name is properly served in this way, automatically the spiritual nature of the holy name spreads; in other words, the devotee becomes qualified in offenselessly chanting the holy name. When one is completely fit to chant the holy name in this way, he is eligible to make disciples all over the world, and he actually becomes jagad-guru. Then the entire world, under his influence, begins to chant the holy names of the ...

Are you disgusted with the world situation? Are you heartbroken that 50 million innocent children are being murdered every year in the abortion clinics and that ten billion animals are slaughtered for food every year? Does it bother you that the entire human civilization is engaged in such grossly sinful activities that practically everyone is going down to the animal kingdom in their next birth? Do you find it to be disconcerting that people are being forced unnecessarily to work so hard and for such long hours that there is hardly any time left for them to cultivate spiritual awakening? If your answer is "yes" to any of the above questions, then you, my dear reader, are not meant to be an ordinary worker. You are instead meant to become a spiritual revolutionary fully dedicated to bringing a new God-centered paradigm to this beleaguered world. If you are ready for this, we will train you how. That's what we're here for. Srila Prabhupada Trains His Disciples V...

Even if you find yourself out in the middle of a large body of water, you will not drown if you can keep your nose above the water. In a similar way if you can always remember Krishna even in the midst of the most hellish, nightmarish conditions of material existence, you will not fall down from the spiritual platform. Therefore you should always practice the art of remembering Krishna in all situations, both the pleasant and the unpleasant. By this simple act of always remembering Krishna you will experience how you are swimming in an ocean of unlimited transcendental bliss at every minute. Lord Caitanya's Ocean of Transcendental Bliss Video For the Day: Glories of the Spiritual Name Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Why Pure Devotee Does Not Desire Liberation? Srila Prabhupada writes in the Nectar of Devotion that by practicing devotional service devotees don't even desire for getting the four types of liberation from the Supreme Lord in the spiritua...

According to atheist philosophy everything comes out of nothing. But there is not one shred of empirical evidence to confirm that it is possible for anything to come out of nothing. Therefore, it is patent dogmatism. To the contrary all empirical evidence establishes just the opposite principle. Everything we experience comes from something, which comes from something, which comes from something, back, back, back to that original something from which everything has come. So we can logically, scientifically understand that existence, therefore, must also have a source. It is not sourceless as the atheists loudly proclaim. What is the nature of that source can be analyzed later, but through simple logic we can deduce the dogmatic absurdity of atheistic philosophy. Krishna, the Source of All Existence Video For the Day: Religion is One Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How Close to Get to Your Guru? Should one try to get personal with his guru, or should he remai...

Pure Krishna bhakti is the ultimate drug. It is so powerful that even one drop of it can inundate the entire universe drowning all of its inhabitants. In this connection it is stated in the Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya Lila, Chapter 2, Text 49: śuddha-prema-sukha-sindhu, pāi tāra eka bindu, sei bindu jagat ḍubāya “Unalloyed love of Krishna is like an ocean of happiness. If someone gets one drop of it, the whole world can drown in that drop."--CC Madhya 2.49 Therefore we should desire nothing except for pure Krishna bhakti because any other desire is sheer madness, the foolishness of an ass-like man who works like an ass with no real benefit for himself or for anyone else. Lord Caitanya Inundates Entire Universe with Pure Love of God Video For the Day: Drop of Pure Bhakti Can Drown the Universe Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Who Suffers? Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada and you When we suff...

In warfare there is a strategy calls blitzkrieg, which in German literally means "lightning war." Blitzkrieg is an intense all out military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. On Saturday 12 March 2016 taking advantage of the South-by-Southwest festival which has attracted 200,000 people to come to downtown Austin, we launched our version of blitzkrieg, know as "blisskrieg", to drown the people in downtown Austin in an ocean of transcendental bliss. To be out there in the midst of hundreds of thousands of people blessing them with Krishna consciousness was unimaginably ecstatic. We chanted down so many streets and so many people went home with the greatest treasure of their lives after purchasing one of Srila Prabhupada's books. If you want to taste the sweetest nectar join the sankirtana party in your town as soon as possible. Ecstatic Harinam Party at South-by-Southwest Festival Austin, Texas--12 March 2016 Dwijamani Gaura Das Brahmacari Di...

Are you on the right track? Is pleasing Krishna the only purpose of your life? Or are you still foolishly holding onto your absurd material desires? If you are not focused purely only on pleasing Krishna, you need to rectify yourself because you are going in the wrong direction. You are definitely off the track. Just as the hand cannot be properly satisfied and nourished unless it feeds the stomach, it is absolutely impossible for you to be truly happy and satisfied unless you fully surrender yourself to Lord Sri Krishna by accepting His instructions as the only guiding principle for your life. This Is Where You Should Be Going Video For the Day: Bring Your Rascal Mind Under Control Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Why God Sent Us Here? My humble greetings, If we have to return to Godhead, first of all why did God bring us here to this life? Why didn't He just create us and leave us where we ought to be? Were we all with Him before we decided to come to...

In this material world what is called knowledge is actually nothing but sophisticated mental speculation, fancy nescience. That's why every few years the science text books have to be rewritten, to keep up with the current, most popular trends in mental speculation. This is not how we gain actual knowledge. If you want to know things as they are, you must approach that person who is the origin of reality itself, namely Lore Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead because it is only from Krishna or His authorized representative that you can gain actual knowledge and become liberated from ignorance and suffering. Srila Prabhupada Gives Factual Knowledge Video For the Day: Help Us Save the World Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How to Deal with Anger? How to deal with anger? Joe Boike Answer: Krishna Consciousness The best way to deal with anger is to dedicate your whole life for making the world Krishna conscious and to tolerate whatever difficult...

A devotee always sees the bright side in all situations, even the most negative ones because He sees how Krishna is constantly bestowing His loving mercy upon everyone. It is amazing to note in this connection that very existence of love itself is rooted in Krishna. Indeed love exists because Krishna is so kind. Apart from Krishna's sublime kindness there is no existence of love. Therefore in this material world only a shadow of love exists. Krishna Loves Everyone Video For the Day: The Glories of ISKCON Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: What is Life? What is life? Sonilal Panchal Answer: Krishna Consciousness Devotion to Krishna is life. Without devotion to Krishna there is only death. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

A devotee never thinks that he is great. He always considers himself to simply be insignificant. But he knows that he has been blessed with the greatest message that has ever been given in the history of the universe, a message so potent that it will go down in history for having saved the world. That message is the Bhagavad-gita as it is. Therefore he fully dedicates his entire life's energy for awakening the sleeping souls of this planet to the liberating message of the Bhagavad-gita. For whatever success he has in his missionary activities he does not take the credit. Rather he gives all credit to his spiritual master and Lord Sri Krishna. In this connection Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport to Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya Lila 16.67 as follows: "Although the Lord wants to give all credit to His devotee, the devotee himself never takes credit, for he acts only under the Lord's direction. Consequently all credit goes to the Lord. This is the nature of the rela...

A devotee is never offended by any amount of ill words or ill treatment that he may receive from another because he sees that these are simply the reactions for his own previous impious activities. The devotee sees that the person who is supposedly mistreating him is in actuality doing him a favor by delivering his karmic reactions to him and thus freeing him from them. Instead of manifesting hatred to the so-called offenders the devotees wishes them well. This is why when Jesus Christ was being crucified he prayed to Krishna to forgive the Roman soldiers who were nailing him to the cross. We can learn much from Christ's perfect example of compassion, tolerance, and forgiveness how to never feel offended in any situation. Jesus Christ Has Compassion Even For Offenders Video For the Day: Don't Be Offensive Towards Devotees Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Why Chant the Hare Krishna Mahamantra? If the word "Krishna" is more powerful than ...

In 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia USA I was unlimitedly blessed to be sitting directly at the lotus feet of my most beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, one morning in the temple room when he taught us a melody for the most wonderful bhajan (devotional song), Sri Sri Gaura-Nityanander Daya--The Mercy of Sri Gaura and Nityananda, by Locan Das Thakur. I was also very fortunate to be able to record it on my cassette recorder. That recording is now here available for your transcendental enlivenment and enlightenment. www.joincourse.com/iskconaustin/Parama_Karuna.mp3 parama koruṇa, pahū dui jana nitāi gauracandra saba avatāra-sāra śiromaṇi kevala ānanda-kanda The two Lords, Nitai-Gauracandra, are very merciful. They are the essence of all incarnations. The specific significance of these incarnations is that They introduced a process of chanting and dancing that is simply joyful. bhajo bhajo bhāi, caitanya nitāi sudṛḍha biśwāsa kori viṣaya ...

By Lord Sri Krishna's grace we now have over 18,000 subscribers for our Ultimate Self Realization e-course with more people joining every day. We are certainly happy to see our numbers growing but unhappy that they are not growing fast enough. Our first goal is to have at least 18 million subscribers. And from there we can then expand to gradually enroll all of the 840 million English-speaking people throughout the world. Because our mission is to deliver the entire human society back to home, back to Godhead we must always think how to get more and more people enrolled in our course. We are therefore requesting you, our readers, to do everything you can to promote our e-course by inducing as many people as possible to go to our signup page ( www.joincourse.com ) to begin or to enhance their journey back to home, back to Godhead. Krishnize Earth Today, Tomorrow the Universe Video For the Day: Admit Your Faults Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Materi...