Ultimate Self Realization

Click here to hear a lively lecture and question and answer session with the brahmacaris (celibate monks) at the ISKCON Pune New Vedic Cultural Center recorded on 29 April 2019 Today's Video on YouTube Ecstatic Pune Parikrama

Click here to hear a Sunday Feast Lecture given in Pune, India on 28 April 2019 by Sankarshan Das Adhikari with answers to questions given by Sankarshan Das and his wife affectionately known as "Gurumata" to his disciples. Today's Video on YouTube Formula for Unlimited Bliss

The real fact is that the whole world is waiting for our spiritual revolution. Deep within everyone's heart there is the burning desire to attain that state of consciousness beyond all miseries by becoming purely, totally reconnected with God. The only difficulty is that everyone has been so heavily propagandized by the culture of material sense gratification that they have lost touch with their original consciousness. They are now taking material sense gratification to be the all in all. But now if we will simply give everyone the chance to be exposed to Krishna prasadam, to Hare Krishna kirtan, and this great transcendental knowledge, we can make the whole world Krishna conscious immediately. Let Everyone Now Hear the Kirtan Party Video for the Day Chant Hare Krishna and Taste Unlimited Bliss Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Who is the One True God? Who is the one true God? Many religions claim their God is the one true God? Anonymous Answer: T...

The spiritual master personally has no anxiety because He sees how Krishna is so perfectly, lovingly, and wonderfully orchestrating his life for him at every moment. However he does have one anxiety. And that is that he is in great pain to the see how the living beings here in this material world are all suffering like anything due to their being bereft of Krishna consciousness. Therefore the spiritual master is always praying for the deliverance of all the fallen, conditioned souls while he simultaneously travels and preaches all over the world trying the devise the ways and means to attract everyone to Krishna. The Spiritual Master is an Ocean of Mercy Video for the Day Super Ecstatic Duty Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Feeling Derived from Reading Bhagavad-gita When was the first time you started reading the Bhagavad-gita? How was the feeling? Sidharth Sabat Answer: Offer My Food to Krishna Dear Sidharth, Please accept my blessings. The ...

Today as we leave Vrindavan we find great solace in Srila Prabhupada's explanation as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter 1, Text 28: "It is understood that Mathurā City is the transcendental abode of Lord Kṛṣṇa; it is not an ordinary material city, for it is eternally connected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Vṛndāvana is within the jurisdiction of Mathurā, and it still continues to exist. Because Mathurā and Vṛndāvana are intimately connected with Kṛṣṇa eternally, it is said that Lord Kṛṣṇa never leaves Vṛndāvana (vṛndāvanaṁ parityajya padam ekaṁ na gacchati). At present, the place known as Vṛndāvana, in the district of Mathurā, continues its position as a transcendental place, and certainly anyone who goes there becomes transcendentally purified...There are many devotees who vow never to leave Vṛndāvana and Mathurā. This is undoubtedly a good vow, but if one leaves Vṛndāvana, Mathurā or Navadvīpa-dhāma for the service of the Lord, h...

Our modern day human society is tortured by turbulence and conflict at every level. Within families there is conflict. Between families there is conflict. Among and between neighborhoods, communities, cities, states, and nations there is also conflict. If conflict so natural, why are we even bothered by it at all? The answer is that conflict is not natural. Peace is natural. Therefore conflicts are very disturbing. It is an unhealthy, unnatural condition of relationships that are not going on properly. So now the question remains: Where will we find peace and relief from all these conflicts? The most sublime answer is given by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita (Chapter 5, Text 29): bhoktāraṁ yajña-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram suhṛdaṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ jñātvā māṁ śāntim ṛcchati Lord Sri Krishna is so mercifully revealing that anyone who knows Him as the supreme enjoyer, the supreme owner, and the best friend of all living beings relishes unlimited peace within his he...

Atheists beware. Your philosophy leads nowhere. It simply qualifies you to be a dog in your next birth. Is this what you want? The dogs have no consciousness of God. If you try to tell a dog about God or the process of self-realization, how he can become liberated from the cycle of birth and death, he has no way of understanding what in the world you are talking about. He only wants to know where there is a bone and a she-dog. So, my dear atheist friends, what is your choice d.o.g or g.o.d? Because I am your well-wishing friend, I do hope that you will make the only intelligent choice and not make the stupidest mistake. Otherwise after leaving your present body instead of being a liberated soul tasting unlimited bliss and love in the spiritual world, you will be a dog sniffing for another bone to nibble on here in this miserable material world. To Be a Dog or to Be With God? What Is Your Choice? Video for the Day Relishing Krishna in Sri Vrindavan Dhama Answers Acc...

In his purport to Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila, Chapter 7, Verse 83 Srila Prabhupada 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." The most powerful and effective technique for bringing the mind completely under control in this most materialistic age of Kali is to purely chant the Hare Krishna mahamantra without any offense. The person who has mastered the art of purely chanting...

The key to making rapid advancement on the ultimate self-realization path of Krishna consciousness is to be steady in your practice in spite of all difficulties that may come. We have to be transcendental to the dualities of heat and cold, sickness and health, honor and dishonor, poverty and wealth, happiness and distress, etc. If we practice like this, we will advance very quickly on the pathway back to home, back to Godhead. So what are we waiting for? Let's it do right now! Tolerate the Changing Seasons Video for the Day Experiencing Krishna Everywhere Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Chant Offenselessly? Please accept my humble obeisances. I have a question based on your Thought for the Day. How can we chant offenselessly? All we can control is the desire and sincerity with which we are praying in the moment, and many times I do pray with sincerity and focus on Krishna. I can't control what i can't perceive in the moment. I can at b...

When I was asked that what is the correlation between agnosticism and intelligence I immediately replied that agnosticism means zero intelligence. Why did I say that? An agnostic is defined as follows in the dictionary: a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God or of anything beyond material phenomena. The reason I say that this is zero intelligence is that this is simply blind faith. The agnostic is convinced that nothing is known or can be known regarding the existence of anything transcendental. Where is the evidence for this? It simply blind faith. The fact is that God can be known by those who approach Him with love. This is confirmed as follows in the Brahma-samhita (5.38): premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti yaṁ śyāmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarūpaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi "I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Śyāmasundara, Kṛṣṇa Himself with inconceiva...

By surrendering fully to Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality Godhead, we have nothing to lose except for our anxiety and the most sublime and relishable transcendental existence to gain. The only reason that everybody in the entire world does not do this is that they are totally covered by ignorance and illusion. Their heads are buried in the sand. This is why we must now make the most vigorous and intelligent propaganda to free the world population from the clutches of ignorance and illusion in which it is now so tightly entangled. Please therefore free yourself from all illusion by carefully studying and following the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna that He gives in the Bhagavad-gita as it is, and then dedicate your life fully to assisting us in this vastly all-important global deliverance mission. World Population Has Their Heads Buried in the Sand Video for the Day Now is Your Chance to Taste Ultimate Bliss Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Request: Video to Chee...

Why be a miserable idiot when instead you can be a super ecstatic enlightened sage? This is real intelligence. All you have to do to achieve this stage is become the student of an enlightened sage, i.e. a bona fide spiritual master. By sincerely following his instructions you will naturally in due course of time also become an enlightened sage fully empowered to deliver others from delusion. This is the kind of leaders which our planet now needs more than ever. So kindly rise to the occasion and thus become one of the pivotal persons in global history. Instead of wondering what is happening or watching what is happening, you can indeed be what is happening. Srila Prabhupada Empowers Spiritual Revolutionaries Video for the Day For Those Who Have the Eyes to See Them Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Is Agnosticism Sensible? Is agnosticism the most sensible belief since it does not accept what's not proven and does not deny it either? Anonymous Answer: ...

Srila Prabhupada writes as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Ninth Canto, Chapter Ten, Text 53: "It is said, kali-kāle nāma-rūpe kṛṣṇa-avatāra: Kṛṣṇa descends in this Kali-yuga in the form of His holy name—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Rāma. If we chant offenselessly, Rāma and Kṛṣṇa are still present in this age. The kingdom of Rāma was immensely popular and beneficial, and the spreading of this Hare Kṛṣṇa movement can immediately introduce a similar situation, even in this Kali-yuga." So my dear readers and disciples, let's do it. Let us all chant the Hare Krishna without offense and turn this planet immediately into the kingdom of God, paradise on earth. Why should suffer any longer in a hellish atmosphere on this planet. By purely chanting Krishna's names we can immediately make a spiritual revolution on this planet. So let's do it right now, not next week, or tomorrow. Let's do it right now! Under Lord Rama's Rule Planet Earth Was Paradise Vi...

We exist for the purpose of giving pleasure and satisfaction to Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is why all attempts to try to enjoy separately from Him ultimately end in failure. Therefore the intelligent course of action in this human form of life is to learn how to reawaken one's original loving relationship with Krishna or God. This will give Krishna great pleasure and bring about the awakening of unlimited happiness with the heart of His devotee who has revived his loving relationship with his most beautiful, powerful, renounced, wealthy, famous, and wise Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. There is No One More Lovable Than Krishna Video for the Day In the Association of Srila Prabhupada Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Nirvana? It is written that nirvana is enlightenment. Bhakta Laimonas Jančas, who gave me Krishna Consciousness when I was in university and became one of the main vaishnavas in ISKCON Vilni...

Being in the holy land of Vrindavan magnifies greatly all of our devotional activities. This is why everyone should come to the most holy places of Sri Mayapur Dhama and Sri Vrindavan Dhama to engage in devotional service and reap the amazing benefit. On 15 April 2019 in Sri Vrindavan Dhama, on the bank of the most sacred Yamuna River I gave a lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, 7th Canto, Chapter 13, Text 29. The text and Srila Prabhupada's most wonderful and enlightening purport is as follows: jalaṁ tad-udbhavaiś channaṁ hitvājño jala-kāmyayā mṛgatṛṣṇām upādhāvet tathānyatrārtha-dṛk svataḥ SYNONYMS jalam—water; tat-udbhavaiḥ—by grass grown from that water; channam—covered; hitvā—giving up; ajñaḥ—a foolish animal; jala-kāmyayā—desiring to drink water; mṛgatṛṣṇām—a mirage; upādhāvet—runs after; tathā—similarly; anyatra—somewhere else; artha-dṛk—self-interested; svataḥ—in himself. TRANSLATION Just as a deer, because of ignorance, cannot see the water within a well covered by...

When in a mood of devotion we eat the remnants of foods that have been offered to Lord Sri Krishna this is known as honoring prasadam. Such eating is a wonderful way that everyone can connect with Krishna and revive their original divine consciousness of pure love of God. It is described by Lord Sri Krishna in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 9, Text 26 as follows: patraṁ puṣpaṁ phalaṁ toyaṁ yo me bhaktyā prayacchati tad ahaṁ bhakty-upahṛtam aśnāmi prayatātmanaḥ "If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it." Let everyone all over the world now take advantage of the special mercy of Krishna prasadam. The whole world will become happy.. Sankarshan Das Explains Prasadam's Glories to Guests (New Vrindavan 1973) Video for the Day What Could Be More Wonderful than This? Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Taking Prasadam? How to take prasadam? Vrajendra Nandana Sacisuta Das Answer: How to Honor Prasadam...

Krishna says: ye me bhakta-janāḥ pārtha na me bhaktāś ca te janāḥ mad-bhaktānāṁ ca ye bhaktās te me bhakta-tamā matāḥ “Those who are My direct devotees are actually not My devotees, but only those who are the devotees of My devotee are factually My devotees. If one is serious about being God's devotee, he must follow the Lord's order to be the devotee of His devotee. In other words those who claim to be devotees of God but are not devoted to God's devotees are rejected by Him as not being His devotees. This is not some of kind of draconian rule. It is rather a very ecstatic principle. Why? The devotees of God are naturally very kind. They are thus very approachable and wonderful. By associating with them we naturally develop love and affection for them. And by awakening our loving feelings for them we automatically awaken love of God within our hearts, which is the perfection of our existence. Srila Prabhupada Trains Disciples How to Be Perfect Video fo...

You owe it to yourself to awaken your actual identity, which is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss. In other words, why waste time with great endeavor futilely trying to be what you are not, namely that material body you are currently wearing, when you can just naturally be who you really are, the eternal spirit-soul within? This simply a matter of common sense. Why suffer when you can enjoy unlimitedly? The difficulty is that we have been robbed of common sense because we live in a culture of ignorance in which we are programmed into thinking ourselves to be these rotting, stinking bodies when in fact they are nothing more than garments that we are temporarily wearing. The Soul Within the Body is the Actual Self Video for the Day Krishna is Simply Wonderful Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: How Will I Unlock My Factual Identity? How will I unlock my factual identity? Please guide me.. Koma Ibrahim Answer: Be Now Blessed From: Sri Vrindavan D...

Don't cheat yourself by trying to be something which you are not, namely that material body, in which you, the eternal spiritual being, are currently situated as the driver of the machine. If you are driving a Rolls Royce automobile, does that make you a Rolls Royce? You are temporarily the driver of your current vehicle, your current material body, until by the laws of material nature, namely your karma, you qualify yourself for another body, at which time you will be transferred to that different body. Those who are thoughtful, who have awakened their intelligence, live in such a way that upon leaving their present material body they attain their original divine form in the spiritual world, where birth, death, old age, and disease are conspicuous by their absence. Driving a Rolls Royce Does Not Make You a Rolls Royce Video for the Day Krishna Consciousness: The Pure Essence of Everyone Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Request: Please Bless Me With Exponential Grow...

Srila Prabhupada solidly defeats atheism in the following conversation he had with Dr. Wolf on June 25, 1975 in the garden of ISKCON Los Angeles: Prabhupada: ...is not knowledge. If the tenant thinks that "This apartment is mine, I am owner," then he is wrong. If he knows perfectly well that it belongs to the landlord, "I have given for use," then it is knowledge. Dr. Wolf: Srila Prabhupada, and the tenant can be easily evicted. Prabhupada: Yes. Evicted. At that time he knows the owner. (laughter) When he is kicked out. That is stated also in the Bhagavad-gita. Mrityu sarva-haras caham [Bg. 10.34]. Those who are not believing in God, to them God will come one day as death, "Now believe Me. Get out!" Finished. All your pride finished. Your pride, your property, your family, your bank balance, your skyscraper building—all taken away. "Finished. Get out." This is God. Now understand God? To believe or not believe, God will come one day. He wi...

We are out to conquer the world, to bring peace, happiness, and prosperity back to a world which is becoming more and more fragmented, chaotic, miserable, and poverty stricken with each passing generation. The real cause of all this madness is godlessness. The more the world becomes godless, the more it becomes a hellish nightmare. The solution is to bring God back to the center of the human society. I am not speaking of a sectarian conception of God. I am talking about a scientific understand of God, as the supreme source or fountainhead of all that exists. Therefore we must now capture the attention of all the leaders of the human society and educate them in the science of God. All Hell Breaks Loose in a World of Chaos Video for the Day Back to My Home Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Where to Get the Energizing Exercise? I am confused, who would I turn to, to get the energizing exercise. Please advise. Adeline Padilla Answer: Here It Is From: Co...

In this material world practically everyone is most foolishly running after sex life accepting it as the topmost pleasure. And because of this they are unnecessarily suffering in so many ways. By such absorption in sex pleasure they are destining themselves to become animals in their next life, getting their next body in a species where there is much better facility for sex pleasure. However, those who are intelligent realize that far, far beyond sex pleasure is the pleasure of loving Krishna or God. Therefore instead of absorbing their lives in sexual pursuits they deep sea dive every day and at every minute into that unlimitedly sublime ocean of love of God. Persons who are too much mad after sex have to learn from such self-realized souls how to get the higher taste of Krishna consciousness, which is millions of times better than the so-called pleasure of sex. Hare Krishna Kirtan Defeats All Material Pleasures Video for the Day Devotees Have Compassion Answers According ...

There's absolutely no need for all the chaos and strife that we are presently experiencing on this planet. We can turn this hellish, nightmarish earth planet atmosphere into a sublime, heavenly, divine atmosphere simply by putting God back into the center, where He belongs. It's time now for a new golden age. Please everyone now give your hearts and lives to God. We will find unlimited peace and happiness. Everyone will be happy Let Everyone Now Become Pure Lovers of God Video for the Day There's No Reason for All the Madness Answers According to Vedic Wisdom Question: Information from Vedas on Peace What is your highest personal purpose and, as a leader, how do you embed higher purpose in your organization? Michael Maher Answer: Lord Sri Krishna's Peace Formula From: Copenhagen, Denmark My Dear Michael, Please accept my blessings. My highest or ultimate personal purpose is to become a pure devotee of Krishna or God, fully qualified to see Him...