Ultimate Self Realization

Since Krishna or God is the source of everything and since everything that exists beside He Himself is HIs expanded energy, when you connect with Him you are connected with everything in a state of pure unadulterated constant ever-increasing bliss. So one may then ask, "How then do I connect with Him?" The answer is that one connects with God through full surrender to Him. This principle of full surrender to the will of God is taught in the Koran, in the Bible and in the Bhagavad-gita. And the art of doing this perfectly is mastered when one becomes the fully surrendered disciple of the bona fide spiritual master.​​​​​​​ Arjuna Surrenders to Krishna Video for the Day The World Solution Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Can You Release Me from Bondage? A warm greeting to you, my master. Please, I would like to ask for your services if you don't mind. Can you help me today to be released from the spell of blockage that has been holding me down more

l remember distinctly how in 1965-1966 when I was a freshman at Austin College in Sherman, Texas USA I wanted to know what is the meaning of life. I could not figure it out. Nor did any of my professors or textbooks tell me what is the purpose of my existence. One afternoon I wanderd the aisles of the campus bookstore perusing the book titles, searching for a book that would tell me the reason that I exist. The only thing I saw that made any sense was a book containing two essays by Søren Kierkegaard. The cover said, "Fear and Trembling" and "The Sickness Unto Death." I took them as one title telling me that my purpose of life was to suffer the disease of fear and trembling until death finally put me out of my misery. Talk about a bleak existence! I also heard that life has no meaning, but that you should invent some meaning to somehow pull yourself through the grind of your daily routine. How depressing can you get? It was not until I discovered Krishna that I u

Since time immemorial you've been unnecessarily rotting here in this most miserable material existence when instead you could be back in your original position in the spiritual world as an eternal youth relishing pure love and unlimited bliss at every moment in the association of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His pure devotees. So, on the order on my spiritual to deliver all of the fallen souls of this material world back to home, back to Godhead, I want to now take you back to your original position in the spiritual world. Are you willing to come? Or would you rather continue rotting here in this hellish material existence? It's your choice. I sincerely hope that you will make the right decision for your ultimate benefit and the ultimate benefit of all living beings! Krishna is Inviting You to Come Home Video for the Day I Want to Take You Back to Godhead Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: How Can I Get a Guru? Dear Sir, How can I

Don't be bewildered if you are sometimes depressed and confused. Such feelings are normal here in this material world because this is not our actual home. Our actual home is in the spiritual world. Here we are all like fish out of water, an unnatural bewildering predicament. All we have to do to regain our composure is to get back to our original spiritual nature by faithfully (not mechanically) chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra. This will immediately drive away our depression and bewilderment by bringing us back to our original divine consciousness, Krishna consciousness. So the next time you are depressed, try it. You'll love it! Bewildered Fish Out of the Water Video for the Day Fish Out of the Water Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Request: I Need a Job in the ISKCON Temple Hi Sir, I need to join ISKCON because I need a job in the ISKCON temple. Please help me. Nataraj Answer: We Should Support ISKCON From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Nataraj

In a morning walk conversation on 11 December 1973 in Los Angeles Srila Prabhupada gave his disciples the following instruction: "You should utilize the favor of God and be yourself perfect, and be leader of the whole world." As a disciple of Srila Prabhupada it is my duty to successfully carry out the order given to me by my spiritual master. Therefore in fulfillment of this instruction my desire is to be perfect in Krishna consciousness and to lead the entire world out of chaos by bringing everyone to Krishna consciousness. Even though this is a seemingly impossible task I am begging Lord Sri Krishna that the impossible can now become possible and that He will now empower me to be His completely pure devotee and to awaken the entire world to Krishna consciousness. Srila Prabhupada Instructs Disciples on Venice Beach Video for the Day I Teach Individual and Global Perfection Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: What Food is Good For Me? Good day. Pl

Having a guru is to important that even Krishna Himself accepted Sandipani Muni as His guru to teach us by example that we should also accept a guru. So when someone tells you that you don't need a guru for self-realization, you can tell them that therefore you will not accept their authority to guide you properly. Rejecting their guidance will be in perfect harmony with their philosophy. Krishna and Balarama with Sandipani Muni Video for the Day Guru is Required for Self Realization Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Verse Against Meat Eating? My dear Guru Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Hope this finds you in good health and spirits. When I was trying to tell about the four regulative principles, one of my friends challenged me asking me to show any one verse from the scriptures which specifically says to avoid meat eating. All conclusions regarding this are only indirect surmises, he says, "Can y

On 21 and 22 July 2018 at the Body, Mind, and Spirit Expo in Austin, Texas Gurumataji, myself, and many other devotees were blessed with the opportunity to work at our book table promoting Srila Prabhupada's books to the attendees at the expo. Many, many books went out, and we had many wonderful loving exchanges with so many different people. It was indeed a very enlivening and invigorating experience for all those who participated. The video clip below gives a sample of how ecstatic indeed it was. The Sweet Happiness of Sharing Krishna (Note below how the man at the adjoining is blissing out by hearing Gurumatajis' preaching.) Video for the Day Guru Mataji Distributes Books at the Body, Mind, Soul Expo Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Become Successful? How do I become a successful someone in life? Moruphos Answer: Surrender to ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Krishna From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Moruphos, Please accept my blessings. All gl

You are not a citizen of this material world. You are simply a visitor here. But you've been stranded here for so long that it has started to feel like this is home. This place is incompatible with your real nature. Your actual nature is that you are eternal, full of bliss, and knowledge. But in this material world, to the the contrary, you experience temporality, ignorance, and misery. Therefore the only intelligent to do is to revive your original nature and go back to your original home in the spiritual world. When you are ready to go the guru, the bona fide spiritual master, is ready to take you there. Are your ready to begin your journey now back to you original home? I certainly hope so because it troubles me greatly for you to be unnecessarily suffering. Lord Sri Krishna is Inviting You to Come Home Video for the Day Dance in the Rain of Krishna's Love Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Become Free From Misery? Yesterday I have enrolled fo

The whole is waiting to be awakened to Krishna consciousness because although they have forgotten it, every single living being in all of existence is the eternal servant of Krishna. Eons upon eons ago they were all serving Him directly in the spiritual world. Now they have been separated from Him for so long that they have totally forgotten Him. But if we tell them about Krishna in the most compassionate, intelligent, and attractive way, we can awaken the whole world to Krishna consciousness. What could more ecstatic than this? In this connection it is very nicely described in the Srimad Bhagavatam 9.10.53 verse and purport as follows: When Lord Rāmacandra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, was the King of this world, all bodily and mental suffering, disease, old age, bereavement, lamentation, distress, fear and fatigue were completely absent. There was even no death for those who did not want it. PURPORT All these facilities existed because of Lord Rāmacandra's presence

On 4 January 1972, when he was in Bombay, India, Srila Prabhupada wrote as follows to his disciple Krishna Bhamini devi dasi: "If we introduce these books in all the bookstores, schools, colleges, libraries and everyone's home our religion will be the only religion in the world very soon. This prediction has been made publicly here in one newspaper, by a Japanese philosopher, that within ten years Krishna Consciousness will be the world religion. If you all keep preaching in such a pure way this will undoubtedly prove true." Although it did not happen that by 1982 Krishna became the world religion, it is still possible that we can make Krishna consciousness the world religion. This can be accomplished if we purely follow Srila Prabhupada, purely preach his mission, and introduce his books everywhere. So let's do it. Let us now work co-operatively and bring the entire society to the platform of the world religion. Srila Prabhupada Establishes the World Religion

There is one thing that we all have to experience sooner or later, and that is death. We prefer to block it out of our minds and pretend that it will never happen. But this is not very intelligent because we all know that that it IS going to happen. It is not a matter of "if." It is a matter of "when." If one understands that this human form of life is meant for one purpose only, to attain spiritual perfection and thus enter into the spiritual world, he can accept death joyously as life's final exam, which if passed guarantees one's entrance into the spiritual world, where life is eternal, full of bliss, and full of knowledge. So how do you pass this final exam? It's very simple. You simply have to remember God at the time of death. So how do you prepare yourself? It's very simple. You simply have to remember God always. In this way when death comes you are automatically covered. Krishna consciousness is the art of always remembering God. Destina

The entire human population is suffering like anything without Krishna consciousness. Therefore to relieve them from their current misery and save them from going down to the animal kingdom in their next births we want to attract the whole world to join our Ultimate Self Realization Course to train them how to awaken their dormant Krishna consciousness. My disciple, Amala Purana Das, who is advertising our course on Google, has found an effective way of advertising that is bringing in hundreds of new subscribers every day. Because of his noble efforts we have recently added over 2,000 new subscribers to our e-course. The advertising is billed on a pay-per-click basis, so there is substantial expense required for this dynamic growth. Thus I am requesting you, my students, disciples, and followers to kindly pitch in and contribute something to help fund this highly successful advertising campaign. Those who assist our world deliverance mission will be greatly blessed by Lord Sri Krishna

There is no need for you to continue to suffer in this material existence when instead you can attain the state of unlimited bliss. My most beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada instructed one of his disciples very nicely how one can attain the state of unlimited bliss. Here is what he wrote: "I have noted your unbounded enthusiasm to carry out this great mission of spreading the light of love of Godhead in this hellish material world. That is the only requirement for successfully completing the perfection of the living condition, that you should always be enthusiastic to perform services unto the lotus feet of the Lord despite all obstacles, and then you can be assured that all of the other qualities or necessities for pure devotional service will be met, such as patience, determination, etc. and then without doubt you shall be delivered to the realm of unlimited bliss, freed from all anxieties." From this we understand that if w

I want to take you home, back to your original identity that you once had in the spiritual world before you fell down into this miserable material existence. All you have to do is follow my simple instructions. Are you ready to enter into the spiritual sky, that abode where there is no birth, no death, no old age, and no disease? If so, I am ready to take you there. Come With Me Back to the Spiritual Sky Video for the Day Don't Misuse this Human Life Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: True Meaning of Love? I have a question to you, Sir. Please help me. I want to know what is the true meaning of love. Ananya Dey Sikder Answer: Give Yourself to Krishna​​​​​​​ From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Ananya, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The true meaning of love is to fully give yourself to Lord Sri Krishna, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all existence. Just as when you water the root of a tree

Every moment of your life is more valuable than all of the wealth of this entire material existence multiplied millions and billions and trillions of times. This is why your should never waste a single moment by not being Krishna conscious. In other words, there is nothing more essential or important than being Krishna conscious at every moment for all of eternity.​​​​​​​ Don't Waste a Single Moment Video for the Day Your Most Amazing Opportunity Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Most Magical Thing? What's the most magical thing about life? ​​​​​​​Shubham Singh Answer: Krishna​​​​​​​ From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Shubham, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Krishna is the most magical because He is the source of all existence. Everything comes from Him. What could be more magical than this? I hope this meets you in the best of health and in an ecstatic mood. Your ever well-wisher, Sankarshan Das Adhika

Why be miserable when you can instead relish unlimited bless within your heart by being Krishna conscious? How does this work? Why does being conscious of Krishna catapult us into a state of ever-increasing, unlimited bliss? The answer is that we are already pure devotees of Krishna, His eternal associates who participate in His unlimitedly blissful divine pastimes in the spiritual world. The only reason we are suffering now in the repetition of birth, death, old age, and disease is that we have forgotten that Krishna is our eternal lord and that we are His eternal servants. So simply by remembering Him and engaging ourselves in His devotional service once again we will gradually wake up and realize our actual eternal identities that we have in the spiritual world and then factually regain or re-enter into them. What could be more sublime than this? Unlimited Bliss in the Spiritual World Video for the Day Do Not Cheat Yourself Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Request:

The two most important goals of my life are: 1. Become a completely pure devotee who is qualified to see Krishna face-to-face at every moment. I desire this because is Srila Prabhupada personally instructed me to do this in a letter dated 18 December 1972 from Bombay, India: "Now you just apply yourself for becoming qualified to see Krishna face-to-face." 2. Delivering all of the suffering humanity back to home, back to Godhead. I desire this because my spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada has ordered me to be Krishna conscious and has defined a person who is Krishna conscious in the following way in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, 4th Canto, Chapter 12, Text 36 as follows: "A Krishna conscious being is always engaged in planning how to take all of suffering humanity back home, back to Godhead." Thus on the order of my spiritual master I am praying to Lord Sri Krishna that I can now see Him face-to-face and that I can now spark off a global spiritual revoluti

There is truly no greater devotee than Vasudeva Datta. He is one of the intimate associates of Lord Caitanya and he prays as follows: jīvera pāpa lañā muñi karoṅ naraka bhoga sakala jīvera, prabhu, ghucāha bhava-roga “My dear Lord, let me suffer perpetually in a hellish condition, accepting all the sinful reactions of all living entities. Please finish their diseased material life.” Just see the unlimited depth of his compassion. He is praying for the deliverance of all the poor souls who are caught up in the cycle of birth and death. He is willing to take all of their sinful reactions upon himself and suffer perpetually in hell so that they can be delivered back to home, back to Godhead. Because of his intense devotion he was very, very dear to Lord Caitanya as described here by Srila Prabhupada: "Vāsudeva Datta was such a powerful devotee that Krishna was purchased by him. Vāsudeva Datta stayed at Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita’s house, and in the Caitanya-bhāgavata it is described

Today we crossed a new threshold. We have now have over 27,000 subscribers in our e-course. Most of the credit for the ever-expanding number of subscribers goes to my disciple, Amala Purana Das, who is funding an aggressive advertising campaign on the internet. Of course we must also give credit to Damodar Das who produced a new video of my invitation which everyone sees after they respond to the advertising. And everyone else who has spread the word about the Ultimate Self Realization course also deserves credit. I am now requesting all of my 27,000 subscribers to do everything possible to promote this course so that we will have millions and then billions of sincere souls enrolled in this course getting the guidance they need how to go back to Godhead and thus escape their endless suffering in the cycle of birth and death.​​​​​​​ Vilnius Lithuania Airport Farewell--11 July 2018 (Gurumata does not like to be photographed so she stood aside.) Video for the Day Most Painful Th

Why suffer when instead you can be tasting unlimited spiritual bliss within your heart at every moment? It does not take being a brilliant Phd to understand the difference between bliss and misery. Therefore those who are actually intelligent to take to the path of Krishna consciousness with determination, enthusiasm, and patience. How about you? What kind of life do you want to live? Bliss or Misery? It's Your Choice Video for the Day Take Advantage of the Early Morning Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Brain Melting?​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​Once a light entered through ajna chakra and my brain melted. and I experienced extreme peace for a few moments. What is this experience? Harish T. Answer: Mental Concoction ​​​​​​​My Dear Harish, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. It was a mental concoction like a dream state. If it were real, it would not go away. If you will chant the Hare Krishna mantra with love, you will have a ge

You owe to yourself to awaken your dormant Krishna consciousness. Otherwise you are cheating yourself out of an ever-expandingly blissful, unlimitedly adventurous existence in the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all existence. So why cheat yourself a moment longer?Immediately surrender yourself to Lord Sri Krishna and enter into the perfection of existence!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Super Blissful Devotees of Krishna Video for the Day Super Ecstatic Kirtan Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Become Steady?​​​​​​​ ​​Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Some days we are very eager in our chanting and service. Other days we are less enthusiastic. In this regard my questions are two: Why does this happen? How to overcome this? Thank you, Rashmi Answer: Take Shelter of Guru and Krishna ​​My Dear Rashmi, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. As long

Even though the present world civilization has been caught in turmoil and war for the last 5,000 years since the advent of the age of Kali, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy, it does not have to be this way. If we can convince the people of this world to follow Lord Sri Krishna's peace formula as given in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 5, Text 29, the immediate result will be that we will have the most amazing era of peace and prosperity throughout the entire world. Therefore our burning desire is to educate the entire global society in how to understand and perfectly follow Lord Sri Krishna's peace formula, which He states as follows: ​​​​​​​ bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati "The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries."

There is no reason to remain miserable in the darkness of illusion separated from God when one can directly be in the presence of God at every moment. If one fully embraces the orders he has received from his spiritual master accepting them as his very life and soul, such embracing of his guru's orders is as good as directly seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, at every minute. This is confirmed by Bilvamangala Thakur as follows: bhaktis tvayi sthiratarā bhagavan yadi syād daivena naḥ phalati divya-kiśora-mūrtiḥ muktiḥ svayaṁ mukulitāñjali sevate 'smān dharmārtha-kāma-gatayaḥ samaya-pratīkṣāḥ "If I am engaged in devotional service unto You, my dear Lord, then very easily can I perceive Your presence everywhere. And as far as liberation is concerned, I think that liberation stands at my door with folded hands, waiting to serve me—and all material conveniences of dharma [religiosity], artha [economic development] and kāma [sense gratificatio

My disciple, Yasodamayi devi dasi, (Ieva Zasimauskaitė) who is a very famous pop singer in Lithuania, led an amazing kirtan on 6 July 2018 at ISKCON's Goloka Party in Lithuania. She engaged a huge crowd of hundreds consisting of mostly non-devotees in the congregational chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra. The entire crowd was dancing and chanting in ecstasy in a huge kirtan circle. You can see excerpts from this amazing kirtan in today's Video for the Day. Yasodamayi's Amazing Kirtan Video for the Day Yasodamayi Devi Dasi Leads Mahakirtan Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: What's Wrong with Material Pleasure? ​​​​​​​Respected Gurudeva, With due respect and humble submission i would like to put up some questions and they are as follows; What is happiness? Why do the religious texts condemn pleasures when they can give us happiness? What's wrong in indulging with pleasures? With regards, Mohan Sharma Answer: It's Not Real