Ultimate Self Realization

People are all over the world are miserable because they do not know who are they are. Even the world's leaders in all spheres (educational, political, etc.) do not know who they are. It is impossible to experience genuine happiness if one does know who they are. Therefore the first education that should be given to everyone is to educate them as to what is their actually identities as eternal spiritual beings, servants of the Supreme Person. Then with this self knowledge they will be able to attain the platform of genuine peace and happiness. Teaching Self Knowledge in Melbourne-27 June 2017 Video For the Day In Prabhupada's Quarters Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Bhakti Knowledge Better Than Chanting? Is bhakti knowledge more important than chanting? Question from Srimad Bhagavatam class in Melbourne, Australia. Answer: Chanting is More Important than Knowledge Chanting is the most important thing because even if has no knowledge and he

Our goal is to attract everyone on this planet to the Krishna consciousness movement. Since Krishna is all-attractive by His very nature, if we will simply introduce Krishna as He is without any addition or subtraction to the entire world population, there is great hope that we can indeed attract everyone to Krishna. If we can pull this off, it will be greatest paradigm shift that has every happened in the history of this universe. The whole world will become peaceful and happy. Therefore we are humbly begging Krishna to bless us with the ability to attract everyone to Him. There Is Absolutely No One as Attractive as Krishna Video For the Day Early Morning Japa Bliss Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How to Become Qualified to See God? Your Grace, Please accept my humble obeisances. In my limited understanding I believe I have read somewhere that a pure devotee of Lord Krishna who is fully immersed in devotional service will see Krishna face to face. He will

Living in this material world is a hellish nightmare. Since we are all originally inhabitants of the all blissful paravyoma, the spiritual sky, we find such a totally miserable atmosphere to be completely intolerable and unacceptable. Since we cannot accept living in such a place we imagine this material world to be a happy place. Since it is such a horrible place this is the only way that we can tolerate living here. In other words we imagine that we are actually experiencing happiness here even thought factually we are not. But why should we have to compromise our actual happiness? Why should we accept imagined happiness when we can constantly sport in the waves of the ocean of unlimited happiness? We don't have to cheat ourselves like is. We can take shelter of Lord Sri Krishna and His representative, the bona fide spiritual master, and go back to our original all-blissful home in the spiritual sky. Let me tell you. That is real living! Get Back to Your Original Home Video

Neophyte devotees are struggling to attain the perfectional stage of pure devotional service. They are battling it out with their most auspicious spiritual desires on one side and their crazy material desires on the other side. The key to being successful in this war of desires is to take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master by the process of initiation and to then to become his completely sold out servant. This is how the neophyte devotee advances himself more and more in his Krishna consciousness so that in due course of time he attains the sublime transcendental platform of pure devotional service. Srila Prabhupada Walks With His Disciples in Los Angeles Video For the Day Oasis in the Desert Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: ISKCON in North Korea? All respects to you. Is there an ISKCON temple in North Korea? Aditya Kulkarni Answer: Public Execution of Religionists Although ISKCON has been in South Korea for a long time ( http://centers.iskcondesiret

You are an eternal spiritual being qualitatively one with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore just as the Supreme Personality is eternal, full of bliss, and full of knowledge, you are also eternal, full of bliss, and full of knowledge. Therefore you should not cheat yourself by focusing your life's energy on gratifying the senses of the temporary material covering that you are wearing, namely, your material body. Rather you should intelligently focus your energies on reviving your Krishna consciousness, your original state of pure, enlightened consciousness as a servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna. Blessing the World With the Hare Krishna Mantra Melbourne, Australia-23 June 2017 Video For the Day Free From All Misery Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Is Hare Krishna a Religion? Is Hare Krishna a religion? Question asked in a lecture in Melbourne Answer: No. It is the Perfection of Religion. Hare Krishna or Krishna c

The whole world is in chaos for one reason and one reason only: the lack of Krishna consciousness. Therefore naturally our desire is to make the whole world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. Although it seems impossible, still we are making this endeavor and depending on the sweet mercy of Krishna for what will be the result of our endeavor. Presenting the Science of Krishna in Melbourne Video For the Day Get Back to Your Home Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How Do You Know that Krishna is God? How do you know that Krishna is God? Question asked by a child in a lecture in Melbourne Answer: His Possession of Unlimited Opulences We know that Krishna is God because He possesses unlimited power, beauty, renunciation, knowledge, wealth, and fame. No one else in all of existence possesses these opulences unlimitedly. Therefore it is very clear that Krishna is indeed God. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Whenever we take long international flights we observe how all around us our fellow passengers are so much absorbed in watching movies. Cinema is a huge, global, multi-million dollar industry. People all over the world watch movies seeking some imaginary adventure to fill in what they are missing in their otherwise boring, dull, hum drum lives. On the other hand the devotees of the Lord who have fully embraced the revolutionary-flood-the-universe-with-mercy attitude as taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu feel no attraction for such movies because they live at every moment in a super-movie which is millions and billions of times more exciting than any film produced by Hollywood or Bollywood. Once one has a gotten taste for that which is unlimitedly nectarine he is no longer attracted by the gross, nasty, disgusting things that may have previously captivated his consciousness. Factually when one full embraces the sankirtana movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu his life's activities bec

In the 21 June 2017 edition of the South China Morning Post states as follows: "Hong Kong's incoming leader has vowed to pay close attention to independence advocacy in the city and counter it with strict law enforcement as well as stepped up national education to nurture a sense of 'I am Chinese' identity among youth from as early as kindergarten." Just see the fallacy of the modern day world leaders. Instead of educating the youth that they are the eternal spirit-soul servants of Krishna they inculcate in the youth the false sense of national consciousness, which is the cause of all the wars that have ravaged the human society throughout history. Leaders should be creating peace, but instead they are creating wars. Something should be done about this nonsense. From now on the policy should be that unless someone is Krishna conscious they should not be allowed to take any kind of leadership position anywhere throughout the human society. Krishna, Our Eternal M

The sure cure for all anxiety is to always have an attitude of gratitude for everything that happens to you. Even in the heaviest so-called calamities the devotee see the loving hand of Krishna who is always manifesting His mercy in many ways for bringing His devotee to the liberated platform of pure devotional service as soon as possible. Unlimitedly Merciful Krishna Video For the Day Achieving the Impossible Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Problem: I Can't Chant Dear Respected Gurudev, I have a problem. I cant chant. Kapars Answer: If You Can Write Fifteen Syllables, You Can Utter Four You have written: "Dear Respected Gurudev. I have a problem. I cant chant.” This is fifteen syllables. Saying “Hare Krishna” is only four syllables. If you can write fifteen syllables, you can utter four. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

When one becomes completely hopeless about achieving happiness in his life he becomes depressed. Sometimes people become so hopelessly depressed that they commit suicide foolishly thinking that suicide will somehow or other free them from their misery. They do not realize that the karmic reaction for suicide is to become even more miserable as a ghost. Therefore suicide is not an escape. It simply makes things worse. The good news is that there is no reason for anyone to become depressed because the natural state of consciousness for every living being is that he is full of unlimited bliss. Therefore instead of being killed by depression one should kill depression by reviving their original, natural all-blissful state of consciousness by faithfully and regularly chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Hare Krishna Devotees Are Naturally Happy Video For the Day Being a Devotee is Natur

Why continue suffering in this hellish material existence when you can transcend it right now and enter eternally into the beautiful reality of the unlimitedly merciful Lord Sri Krishna? Kick out birth, death, old age, and disease and embrace your eternal, all blissful identity. You owe to yourself to stop cheating yourself. Krishna Awaits Your Return to His Kingdom Video For the Day How to Not Be Cheated Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: What Do You Aspire For? Hare Krishna, Please tell me what is your aspiration? I discovered that there is a nectar which is made of nothingness. Your humble servant, Saulius Križinauskas Answer: Loving Relationship with the Original Person Nothingness is not nothing. It is a concept, and is therefore is something. Therefore there is no such thing as nothingness except as a false concept. True reality is substance or somethingness. Since nothing comes from nothing, in order for us to exist, which we know is a fact because we

Lord Caitanya has over 500 years ago in 1486 blessed our universe with his causeless mercy in the form of the Caitanya Era, the most auspicious dawning of a new age of peace and happiness for all living beings. Because this most auspicious era is now existing in a seedlike form it is our duty to cultivate that seed very nicely so that it grows into a full blown plant that completely engulfs the entire world. Krishna Das Kaviraja has confirmed that the whole world will indeed become Krishna consciousness. So now let us fully dedicate our lives for making this happen as soon possible! Lord Caitanya Inundates the Universe with Pure Love of God Video For the Day How to Not Be Cheated Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Meaning of the Hare Krishna Mahamantra Hare Krishna! I've been told by senior devotees that literal meaning of the Hare Krishna mahamantra (Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare) is: &q

Krishna's devotee is an ocean of mercy. Because of his unlimited love for everyone he strongly desires that every living being who is entangled in the cycle of birth and death can be delivered back to home, back to Godhead. He is so much devoted to their welfare that he is willing to take birth after birth in the hellish material existence for delivering the suffering souls of this world back to home, back to Godhead. Therefore there is no greater friend or well-wisher of the living beings than Lord Sri Krishna's devotee. Srila Prabhupada Blesses a Little Girl Video For the Day Material Existence is Hell Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Worship Without Obstacles and Distractions? How shall I worship Krishna without obstacles and distractions? Your servant Question asked in class in on 16 June 2017 in Malaysia Answer: Transcendentalize Everything When one is Krishna conscious he no longer sees obstacles in his path. What would be seen by a materialis

There is an unending stream of difficulties here in this material existence. Therefore as it sometimes said, "Onwards through the fog." we must always persevere and remain very strong in spite of all varying situations of happiness and distress that each of us face every day. This is how we will attract the special mercy of Lord Sri Krishna. Krishna is Unlimitedly Kind Video For the Day Beyond All Miseries Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Is Srila Prabhupada the Only Acharya? Srila Gurudeva, Please accept humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, I often don't write to you as many of my questions get answered just by reading your daily emails. But lately questions have come in my mind. 1. Is it true that Srila Prabhupada is the only acharya (initiating spiritual master) for the next 10,000 years? 2. Is it true that Srila Prabhupada gave the permission to his disciples to become gurus and initiate disciples? 3. What is the position of S

The Lord's devotee very expertly utilizes everything to increase his Krishna consciousness. When things are going wonderfully he sees this as Krishna's special blessing to encourage him in his devotional life. And when things are very difficult he sees this also as Krishna's special mercy to help him feel more and more dependent on Krishna as his only shelter in this miserable material existence. In this way in all situations the devotee continues increasing his transcendental Krishna consciousness bliss more and more and more. Krishna Constantly Bestows His Mercy Upon Us Video For the Day Hare Krishna From the Muslim World Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How Can the Super Conscious Exist? Venerable Shri Sankarshan Das Adhikari, Please accept my humble obeisances. The heart pleads to answer these questions: What was present before me? What is there behind me? What was present before I came into existence? It is an agony, because there is no way t

Recently we have heard the argument that in this modern age when we have books it is not necessary to have a guru because we can get all of the self-realization knowledge we need simply by reading books. It is argued that when there were no books you would need to go to a guru to get the knowledge, but now that is no longer necessary because all the self-realization knowledge is written in books. But we would ask those who argue this, "Can one become a lawyer simply by reading law books without attending law school?" Such a thing is not possible. Theoretical knowledge alone will not liberate one from this material existence. Practical, hands-on training is also required if one is going to master the art of bringing his senses completely under control. And furthermore, Lord Sri Krishna says in the Adi Purana that those who are only His devotees are not self-realized, that only those who are the devotees of His devotees are factually self-realized. So who is a greater authorit

Srila Prabhupada is ordering us, "Now push on with full enthusiasm to save the fallen humanity from the most degraded and wretched conditions of material life." Therefore we must absorb our lives in this topmost of all welfare activities to save the fallen humanity from its entanglement in the vicious cycle of birth and death. In this connection Srila Prabhupada has written in his book Renunciation Through Wisdom: "The Lord's devotees can save even those whom the Lord Himself rejects. This is their unique character. Therefore the devotees of the Lord arrange various means to save the fallen, reprobate souls from perdition. In fact, they live among these spiritual derelicts to encourage them toward spiritual perfection, using any means at hand-even tricks. His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura Prabhupada wanted to open a students' hostel in London, the logic being that it was necessary to give sugar-coated pills, in the form of a little sense g

We have just the received the shocking new that three relatives (two adults and a child) of some of our devotees in our Pretoria temple we were found bound, gagged, and burned to death in a grassy field near here. This is a stark reminder of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur's pronouncement that this material world is not fit place for a gentleman's living. How could someone be so demoniac to commit such ghastly violence against other human beings? It is unthinkable, but yet such things are happening every day on this planet with the permission of our grossly ignorant government leaders. We can understand that such atrocities are fully in the tune with the present day zeitgeist when we remember that we are living in global culture whose governments condone the murders of 66 thousand innocent babies every day in the abortion clinics and 156 million innocent animals every day in the slaughter houses. So, it's time for a drastic change. We need to bring sanity back to th

We have gotten this rare human form of life after millions of births in the lower species. If we do not utilize it properly, we will go back down into the lower species after we finish this current lifetime. Therefore the only intelligent way to live is to dedicate our lives fully to the self-realization process so that we can get out this material existence and return to the spiritual world as soon as possible. If we explain this to the atheist class, they will laugh at us, considering us to be foolish religionists. But they won't be laughing when they are dragged at their time of death by the Yamadutas to the hellish regions of the universe for punishment. Dragged by Yamadutas to Hell for Punishment Video For the Day Serve the Master of the Senses Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Liberation Without Surrender? It's difficult to surrender to Krishna because there are so many conditions. The "don'ts' are too difficult. Is there any other w

It is sometimes said that man is the architect of his destiny, and this is most certainly a fact. When you attain the perfection of serenity by always absorbing your mind in Krishna your destiny will become amazingly transformed. Instead of being dragged repeatedly through the torturous birth, death, old age, and disease you will relish the sublime dimension of eternity, knowledge, and bliss. Qualify Yourself Right Now for Entering Krishna's Abode Video For the Day Make Your Mind Like a Waterfall Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How Many Births to Attain Krishna? How many birth does it take for someone to attain the lotus feet of Lord Krishna in Goloka Vrindavan? Your student Answer: That Depends on One's Determination One can attain Krishna's lotus feet after one birth or it may take many millions of births. It all depends on the strength of one's determination to become a pure devotee of Krishna. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The ultimate goal of life is to awaken pure love of God within one's heart. This gives one unlimited satisfaction. Those who have not taken to this path never find any real satisfaction and can only image that they are satisfied. Why one should settle for imaginary satisfaction when can experience genuine satisfaction at very minute? Only a fool accepts imaginary satisfaction. Krishna's Pure Devotee Feels Great Happiness Video For the Day How to Relish Unlimited Bliss Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Why So Many Religions? If God is one, why are there so many religions? Your student Answer: Material Desires Because God is one, there is only religion, to love Him. But when religion is polluted by material desires it becomes divided into so many bogus religions. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada told us that if we fully co-operate with him we can conquer the world in eighteen days. Therefore out of compassion for the entire world population, which is presently suffering like anything in the cycle of repeated birth and death, we must always strive diligently to the best of our abilities to kick out all of our material desires and fully absorb ourselves in following the teachings of Srila Prabhupada with our every thought, word, and deed in all times, places, and circumstances. In this regard there is one thing that is absolutely sure: By fully absorbing ourselves in following Srila Prabhupada's teachings we will experience the most amazing miracles happening to us and around us every day, and indeed the entire world will become Krishna conscious in fulfillment of the prediction given by Krishna Das Kaviraja in the Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 7.26 as follows: saj-jana, durjana, paṅgu, jaḍa, andha-gaṇa prema-vanyāya ḍubāila jagatera jana "The Krishna

While traveling with his disciples from Allahabad to Calcutta in January 1977 Srila Prabhupada told them, "History will mark this period, how the Krishna consciousness movement changed the world." So what an inconceivably great legacy gift Srila Prabhupada has bestowed upon us. Those who faithfully follow the orders of Srila Prabhupada will indeed, by his mercy and Krishna's mercy, change the world. So now let's do it. Making a Point-L'Avenir Mandir, Mauritius-6 June 2017 Video For the Day Getting Back into Harmony Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How to Measure Growth in Spiritual Life? Hare Krishna!! Dear Sankarshan Prabhu, This is Chitta from Copenhagen, Denmark. Today, I was reading the Bhagavad-gita and one question came to mind which I could not find a satisfactory answer. So I thought to share with you. Below is the brief description: Nowadays people strive for the growth in professional life (material life) however they forget t

The original natural position of the living being is that he is the eternal servant of Krishna. Therefore any other sort of consciousness besides Krishna consciousness is artificial and never satisfies the self. This is the reason that the topmost of all welfare activities is to teach the science of Krishna to those who are suffering in the cycle of birth and death having forgotten Krishna, their eternal lord and master. Explaining the Supreme Bhakti Science Phoenix, Mauritius-5 June 2017 Video For the Day Personally Associate with Krishna Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: Does Mahavatar Babaji Exist? Hare Krishna, Does Mahavatar Babaji exist? Saulius Answer: Just Find Out Who is Krishna There are so many bogus Babajis. Just try to understand who is Krishna. That is sufficient. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

The world's present day leaders are totally baffled in their attempts to curb down terrorism. They do not have even the slightest clue how to stop it. What they do not realize is the law of karma. What goes around does indeed come around. As you sow, you shall most certainly reap. Because the world's nations have legalized mass terrorism against the innocent animals and unborn babies it is natural that terror will bounce back in their faces. Every day 156 million innocent animals are slaughtered so that their flesh can be eaten by those who lust after blood and 66 thousand innocent babies are murdered every day by abortion because people do not want to take the trouble to love their own children. The present ever-increasing proliferation of terrorism is a natural karmic result of all the terror that we are already committing. Therefore the first step in defeating terrorism is that we must stop engaging in it ourselves. Once we stop terrorizing others we will then have the nece

It is not difficult to conquer over death. All you have to do is take shelter of the bona fide spiritual master through the process known as initiation. If one faithfully follows the order of the spiritual master made on the day of initiation to strictly avoid illicit sex, meat eating, intoxication, and gambling and then chants regularly every day at least 16 rounds of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra, he will become deathless. Such a simple formula for such a complicated problem! Its a shame that the whole world has not yet embraced this simple formula. The good news is that someday they will. May that day come soon. May that day come soon! New Initiates in Mauritius-4 June 2017 Manoj Becomes Murlidhar Das Jeevan Becomes Janamejaya Das Sandeep Becomes Sakshi Gopal Das Pratima Becomes Priti Lakshana Video For the Day Stop Terrorism Now! Here's How! Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How to Overcome My Bad Nature? Hare Krishna Gurudeva, I am getting

Don't be a miser. As far as possible give Krishna to everyone you meet, because the more you give Krishna, the more you get Krishna. Therefore if you will fully dedicate your life for making the world Krishna conscious, Krishna will become your personal property. And when you have Krishna, you have everything. You are not lacking in any way. Krishna Can Be Yours Video For the Day Mauritius Sunrise Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: What is My Duty? Respected Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to you. Humbly request you to please tell me what is my duty? Your disciple, Visvanatha Das Answer: To Fully Surrender to Lord Krishna You have one duty and one duty only, to fully surrender to Lord Krishna. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport to Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila, Chapter 7, Text 83 as follows: "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 Hare Krishna maha-mantra." This is the amazing potency of chanting Hare Krishna. A person who chants it purely becomes jagad-guru, the spiritual master of the entire universe, and thus sparks off a global spiritual revolution in which the entire world takes up the chanting of the

The Ultimate Self-Realization Course has just passed another milestone. We now have over 24,000 subscribers. While we are pleased by this increase, we know that this is nothing compared to where we want to be. Our actual goal is 75 million subscribers, which is one per cent of the world population. We want to achieve this one percent because Srila Prabhupada said that if one percent of the world population accepts Krishna consciousness, the whole world will be peaceful. He then clarified that if even less that one percent take to Krishna consciousness we would have world peace. So if we even can come close to this one percent, we will experience the most amazing transformation of world history. Let us pray that that day comes soon. Someday the World Will Appreciate the Harinam Party Video For the Day With Krishna's Cows Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: 16 Rounds in One Session? Hare Krishna Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisance’s, I am a relatively

I've recently recorded a collection of ten songs which will soon be released in an album called Our Sweet Lord. The focus of the album is to introduce the general public to the philosophy of Krishna consciousness in English songs in way that will appeal to them. If you would like to get on my special mailing list to receive regular updates regarding my music, you can do so right here on the following web page: https://turnontheworld.com/home Bringing Krishna Consciousness to Threadgill's-29 May 2017 Video For the Day Global Respiritualization at Threadgill's Answers by Citing the Vedic Version Question: How to Cultivate Love to the Spiritual Master? Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! After the online class last Saturday, I have been meditating upon the deep love you have for Srila Prabhupada. This overwhelms my heart with joy. At the same time, I feel ashamed and worthless that I have yet to cultivate such