Ultimate Self Realization

In this distress-filled world we are always in anxiety about something. This thing or that thing, that thing or this thing, there is always something to be worried about. But it does not have to be this way. If instead of being entangled im anxiety we will always remember the most beautiful, lotus-eyed, and charming Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna, Who is most adept on playing on His flute, and we will never ever forget Him, anxiety will never be able to pinch us ever again, and we will be able to turn this whole world into a most sublime paradise. Always Remember Krishna & Never Forget Him The Most Astonishing Krishnaloka Planet Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Description of Krishnaloka? Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.   Could you please give me a brief description of the spiritual world especially Krishnaloka?   Your servant  Mahima Gupta Answer: Chant Hare Krish

Those who clicked on the link to hear me interviewed on the radio on 27 November experienced that I was not on the radio. Somehow or other the phone call not did come through to me when it was my time to go on the show. It is naturally disappointing when one gets to the opportunity to preach to thousands of people and somehow or other that opportunity is thwarted. But in Krishna consciousness we are not defeated by failure. We use failures as the stepping stones to success. Therefore if necessary, we are willing to fail again and again and again because we know that by Krishna's grace in due course the greatest possible success will be ours. That success is the awakening of pure love of Krishna within our hearts and great success in making the material society more and more Krishna conscious. Devotees Are Not Discouraged by Failure Mind Perfectly Engaged Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Silence a Busy Mind? How do you silence a busy mind?   Liam Ande

The more we give our love to Krishna's devotees, the more we become ecstatic. So why should we cheat ourselves by withdrawing into a shell of impersonalism and voidism? The most intelligent thing to do is to open our hearts fully and completely absorb ourselves in loving Krishna's devotees. If we do so, we will be swimming in an ocean of unlimited transcendental bliss. The World's Most Lovable People Perplexed by Having Only Material Goals Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Am I On the Right Path? Respected Sir,    I am now studying for a degree in banking and insurance. Next I want to do an MBA.  I am going to the correct way or not?   Regards, Sundari Answer: Make Pure Love of God Your Goal My Dear Sundari, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. If you simply pursue material goals, you will never be happy.  You should make the goal of your life to awaken pure love of God within your heart. Then God fr

Today I am appearing on the Ed Tyll Show, which is advertised as America's best talkradio show. I am being presented to the audience as a Woodstock era singer/songwriter who is on a world peace mission. This is how I came to Krishna consciousness. I was searching for that message which could successfully bring a new era of peace and happiness for our greatly beleaguered Earth planet. It was Srila Prabhupada who revealed to me what is that message in Krishna's peace formula. Therefore I have dedicated my life to making the whole world peaceful by teaching everyone how to put Krishna or God back into the center of their lives. Please tune in and if there is chance to call in with questions, do that. You can tune into the show at: www.Edtyll.com Ed is going to call me at 1:45pm US Central time. So I should be on the show shortly after that. I will be on his show for twenty minutes. Here are the times for various places around the world: Melbourne: 6:45am. (28 November)

Just as many people fill their houses with unnecessary clutter accumulated over many, many years, at the present moment here in this material existence our minds are cluttered with so much unnecessary garbage such as lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, and envy. This is why we need to chant Hare Krishna as much as possible. The more we chant, the more the clutter becomes cleared away. Our natural position is that we are eternal, full of knowledge of bliss. But because of our cluttered minds we have imprisoned ourselves in temporality, ignorance, and misery. This chanting process is the simple, sublime way to get rid of all of our mental clutter that has been causing us so much unnecessary torment for millions of lifetimes. Do Yourself a Big Favor Krishna's Pure Devotee is Free From Material Desires Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Pure Love for Krishna? How do you know if your love for Lord Krishna is pure?   Luna Starz Answer: All Material Desi

The secret of success on the ultimate self-realization pathway of Krishna consciousness is to always lovingly serve Krishna's devotees. This is the quickest and easiest to be recognized by Krishna and to receive His special blessings. This is confirmed in the Ādi Purāṇa, which was quoted by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as follows: ye me bhakta-janāḥ pārtha na me bhaktāś ca te janāḥ mad-bhaktānāṁ ca ye bhaktās te me bhakta-tamā matāḥ TRANSLATION Lord Kṛṣṇa told Arjuna: "Those who are My direct devotees are actually not My devotees, but those who are the devotees of My servant are factually My devotees." There's No One More Dear to Krishna Than His Devotees Srila Prabhupada Dictates His Purports Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How Has Meditation Changed Your Life? Why do you meditate and how has your life changed?   Alex Kerr Answer: Blessed With Formula to Lead the World Out of Chaos For self-realization I have mediated on the Hare Krish

Successful people know the art of the setting the highest unachievable goals for themselves. They focus on achieving the unachievable, and thus they realize the most amazing success. In this connection Srila Prabhupada gives the example of shooting for the rhinoceros, which is a very difficult animal to kill: "We should always be enthusiastic to try for shooting the rhinoceros. That way, if we fail, everybody will say Never mind, nobody can shoot a rhinoceros anyway, and if we succeed, then everyone will say, Just see, what a wonderful thing they have done." (from a Letter to: Balavanta Das -- Bombay 22 December, 1971) This is of course is only an example because our philosophy is not to hurt even a little ant. The point is by trying for what is considered to be impossible we can achieve astoundingly amazing results. Srila Prabhupada writes: "The Lord is all-powerful, and in His presence anything impossible can be made possible by His inconceivable energy." So i

In this material world everyone is mad after sex. Because of this they are locked into the illusion of misidentification with their temporary material bodies. It is this misidentification which is the root cause of all the miseries of material existence. The result of sex life is to make a woman pregnant. The preacher of Krishna consciousness is getting a much higher taste than sex pleasure. Instead of making one woman pregnant he is making the whole world pregnant. Instead of injecting semen into one woman's womb he injects Krishna katha, the topics of Krishna, into the ears of the entire human civilization. In this way preaching Krishna conscious is the greater sex life and one who embraces preaching Krishna can easily give up sex life by not indulging in it at all or only using it to make his wife pregnant. Mad After Sex Our Eternal Lord and Master Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: What You Have Learned? What's the most important thing you've lea

Srila Prabhupada very wonderfully gives the story of the little sparrow in his purport to Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 6, Text 24 as follows: "As for determination, one should follow the example of the sparrow who lost her eggs in the waves of the ocean. A sparrow laid her eggs on the shore of the ocean, but the big ocean carried away the eggs on its waves. The sparrow became very upset and asked the ocean to return her eggs. The ocean did not even consider her appeal. So the sparrow decided to dry up the ocean. She began to pick out the water in her small beak, and everyone laughed at her for her impossible determination. The news of her activity spread, and at last Garuda, the gigantic bird carrier of Lord Vishnu, heard it. He became compassionate toward his small sister bird, and so he came to see the sparrow. Garuda was very pleased by the determination of the small sparrow, and he promised to help. Thus Garuda at once asked the ocean to return her eggs lest he himself take up t

In his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Seventh Canto, Chapter 9, Text 41 our beloved spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, has ordered us, his followers, to make the whole world Krishna conscious: "The Lord is always ready to help the fallen souls, but because they are fools and rascals, they do not take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and abide by the instructions of Kṛṣṇa. Therefore although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is personally the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, He comes as a devotee to preach the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Yāre dekha, tāre kaha 'kṛṣṇa'-upadeśa. One must therefore become a sincere servant of Kṛṣṇa. Āmāra ājñāya guru hañā tāra' ei deśa (Cc. Madhya 7.128). One should become a guru and spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness all over the world, simply by preaching the teachings of Bhagavad-gītā." So this is our mission. We must now lead the whole world out of its present most chaotic situation by bring the entire human population to Krishna. This a certainly a task of Herculea

Why cheat yourself? That does not make any sense. You owe it to yourself to awaken your dormant Krishna consciousness, which means to revive your original, natural, pristine state of consciousness that you once had before you made the mistake of trying to enjoy separately from the Lord and thus fell down into this hellish material existence to suffer unendingly in the cycle of repeated birth and death. Just as a fish cannot be happy on the dry land because he is meant to be in the water, in the same way because we are creatures of the spiritual world it is not possible, no matter how hard we may try, for us to be happy in the foreign environment of this material world. The spiritual master is that most merciful representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who seeing our most pitiable situation picks us up from the desolate desert of this material hell and tosses us pack into the spiritual ocean of eternity, unlimited bliss, and unlimited knowledge. Therefore there is no one m

There is one Supreme Person, the source of all existence. And there is only one method of connecting with Him. That method is pure devotional service. No matter what religious tradition one follows, the essence of religion is one and the same, to develop a pure loving relationship with that Supreme Person, Who is the source of all existence. The Krishna consciousness movement recognizes the validity of any religious system that brings one to the point of fully surrendering oneself to the will of God. The problem with all modern day religionists is that instead of approaching God to fully surrender unto Him, they approach Him to fulfill their material desires. Such an approach to God is not religion. Real religion means to fully surrender oneself to the will of God. This what we teach here in the Krishna consciousness movement. Therefore our movement is the perfection of religion. Srila Prabhupada Teaches Krishna Consciousness: The Perfection of Religion My Most Merciful Spiritual M

On 15 November 2019 I was speaking at the University of Texas at Austin in an evening program called "Music for Peace." One of the students asked me which path we are following. I explained to him that Krishna consciousness is not another one of the paths. It is instead the essence of all paths. In other words, by becoming Krishna conscious one becomes the best Christian, the best Muslim, the best Jew, the best altruist, the best philosopher, the best scientist, etc. Unfortunately due their foolish attachment to material sense gratification most people are not able to take up the sublime path of Krishna consciousness. Thus our mission is to convince the whole world to take up this path so that everyone can become happy. Teaching the Essence of All Paths in India Srila Prabhupada Guarantees Our Spiritual Perfection in One Lifetime Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Perfection Not Possible in One Lifetime? I offer to You my respectful obeisances. Thank

It is sheer foolishness to remain in anxiety when we can instead be relishing ever-increasing bliss at every moment. This is why we recommend that everyone in the world should be Krishna conscious. Since Krishna is the reservoir of all pleasure those who always remember Him and serve Him with love taste the sweetest happiness at every moment. Everyone in the world requires Krishna consciousness in order to be truly happy. This is why we have dedicated our lives for making the whole world Krishna conscious as soon as possible. Devotees Relish the Bliss of Krishna Consciousness We Should Give Our Love to Krishna Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How Can I Support  You? Please accept my obeisances.  Please let me know how I can help and support you. When are you going to visit here next time in city of Helsinki. Ari Valtonen Answer: Here's How My Dear Ari, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you very m

On 8 January 1974 in Los Angeles Srila Prabhupada ordered his disciples as follows: "Go from country and country, from village to village, town to town, and make digvijaya: 'Here is our philosophy. There is God. We can prove there is God. Who are you, you deny God? Come on.' That is digvijaya." Digvijaya means "one who conquers in all directions." So our duty as the disciples and grand disciples of Srila Prabhupada is to conquer the whole world by making everyone Krishna consciousness. This is the absolute necessity for the human society because there is no other way that they can become peaceful and happy. Srila Prabhupada Lectures in Los Angeles Krishna Wants to Reveal Himself to You Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How Can I See/Meet Krishna? How can I see/meet Sri Krishna in this life?    Luna Starz Answer: By Fully Surrendering Unto Him You can meet/see Krishna in this very life by fully surrendering your ever

Only the envious fools and rascals deny the existence of God. Any sane, sincere person can easily understand that God must exist by this simple example: Every machine requires an operator. No machine can turn itself on on its own without an operator. At the the same time we can study how the vast universe in which we live also operates just like a machine. Therefore we can easily understand that since every machine requires an operator, this universe also requires an operator. Therefore God is sure. Every Machine Requires an Operator Nobody Works a Job in the Spiritual World Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Careers in the Spiritual World? Hare Krishna Can you have a career in heaven? Are there famous people like we have here?   Thank you,   Catalina Mada Answer:  No Need   My Dear Catalina, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. No one has jobs in the spiritual world so there are no careers. Everything you ne

Srila Prabhupada very nicely explains in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 2, Chapter 8, Text 5 as follows: "It is said that a single pure devotee of the Lord can deliver all the fallen souls of the world. Thus one who is actually in the confidence of a pure devotee like Narada or Sukadeva Gosvami and thus is empowered by one's spiritual master, as Narada was by Brahmaji, can not only deliver himself from the clutches of maya, or illusion, but can deliver the whole world by his pure and empowered devotional strength. The comparison to the autumnal rain that falls on muddy reservoirs of water is very appropriate. During the rainy season, all the waters of the rivers become muddy, but in the month of July-August, the autumn season, when there is a slight rainfall, the muddy waters of the rivers all over the world become at once clear. By addition of some chemical, a small reservoir of water like that of a metropolitan waterworks tank can be cleared, but by such a tiny ef