Ultimate Self Realization

Unfortunately in this present of age of Kali, the most materialistic age, it is very easy to find a guru who will rob you of your money, but very difficult to find a guru who can steal away all of your anxiety. Personally, I was misguided by several so-called gurus who could do nothing to teach me about genuine spiritual awakening. Under their misguidance my sufferings in material existence continued. But when I realized that my only real happiness was to fully surrender. myself to the will of God and begged Him for His guidance at that time the bona fide spiritual master was revealed to me. Thus on 12 August 1971 I was blessed by Krishna or God with the greatest of all benedictions. I was accepted on that day as a duly initiate disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Since that day almost a half a century ago my life has been transformed from agonizing depression into the most exciting and thrilling adventure at every minute. Anyone who does what I have d...

After reaching puberty lust is something that each and every one of us has to deal with in such a way that we not the slaves of lust. This is because if we remain under the control of lust we descend from the human platform, which is meant for self-realization, down to the animal platform thus qualifying ourselves to descend to the animal kingdom in our next births. In the Bhagavad-gita Chapter 3, Verse 37 Lord Sri Krishna mercifully warms against this: śrī-bhagavān uvāca kāma eṣa krodha eṣa rajo-guṇa-samudbhavaḥ mahāśano mahā-pāpmā viddhy enam iha vairiṇam "The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: It is lust only, Arjuna, which is born of contact with the material mode of passion and later transformed into wrath, and which is the all-devouring sinful enemy of this world." However lust can easily be conquered simply by taking complete shelter of Lord Sri Krishna's holy names: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare...

When we eat the flesh of animals who have not died naturally we are participating in their murder. The karma for doing this is that in our next lives we will become such animals as we are eating and we will become murdered and eaten just as we have eaten those animals. There is no need for us to have to go through all of this hell. God has given us fruits, grains, vegetables and dairy products that we can offer to Him with love and devotion before eating them. By eating in this we become free from all sin and our eating will help us achieve spiritual perfection. Otherwise our eating will take us down to the animal kingdom in our next births. In this connection it is sometimes said, "You are what you eat." Our Second Mother Gives Us Milk Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Where Do We Go When the Body Dies? Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my obeisances. I really appreciate your mails to me. It's helping my spiritual unfolding. Please, there is a qu...

Animals are regulated in their sexual habits. They have certain times for mating and certain times when they do not mate. Therefore when a human being engages in sex unrestrictedly without any consideration of time, place, and circumstance he is factually lower than an animals. In such a state of mind he can never be actually happy because by nature's way human life is meant for self-realization, spiritual awakening. This means that practically the entire human civilization at the present moment is lower than animals. No wonder our global atmosphere has turned into such a hellish nightmare. Let's do something about now to wake up everyone to their actual identities as eternal spiritual beings! We can now make the whole world peaceful and happy! Human Beings Only Have Sex for Procreation Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Pregnant Outside of Marriage. What to Do? Dear Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisance unto your lotus feet. I am a young female ISKCON dev...

Since everything emanates from Krishna, He is the Supreme Absolute Truth and His teachings spoken in Bhagavad-gita clearly distinguish the difference between what is true and what is false. Unfortunately 99.99% of the human population does not take advantage of His teachings to make their lives perfect. Kindly, my dear disciples, students and readers, do not be misled by bogus gurus who do not present the teachings of Krishna as He speaks them in the Bhagavad-gita. The bogus guru is very expert at robbing you of your money, while the bona fide guru is every expert at robbing you of all you anxieties. Therefore you should only hear and learn from bona fide gurus, those who speak the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna exactly as He speaks them in the Bhagavad-gita without any addition or subtraction. Such bona fide instructing and initiating gurus will liberate you from the all the miseries of material existence. They don't charge you any money for their service like the bogus so-calle...

As a young person checking out Krishna consciousness in 1971, I was very expertly trained by His Holiness Vishnujana Swami. This was confirmed by Srila Prabhupada when he wrote me in a letter, "You have been trained up under the expert guidance of Vishnujana Swami." One of the profoundest things he taught me about the path of Krishna consciousness is that I should not follow it blindly. He taught me to inquire until my intelligence was fully satisfied. This same point is there in Srila Prabhupada's books, In his Bhagavad-gita purport Prabhupada states that blind following is condemned by Krishna. One who is coming to this pathway should sincerely inquire about all aspects of Krishna consciousness until all of his doubts are gone and he is fully satisfied that this is the perfect system of self-realization mercifully bestowed upon man by God Himself. This methodology of basing my practice of Krishna on profound philosophical understanding, not on blind faith, has empowe...

When I was a child growing up Christmas meant new toys. In the days before Christmas my mother would come to my room as I was getting ready to go to sleep for the night and she would instruct me to pray to God for what I wanted for Christmas. She wanted to teach me to believe in God that by my praying for something I would get it. In spite of all of her best intentions of teaching me to believe in God by understanding Him as my order supplier, this is not the proper way to have a relationship with God. We are supposed to see ourselves as His servant, not that we simply accept Him as our servant. Instead of taking God as our servant we need to present ourselves to God as His servant. This surrender to the will of God is the real meaning of Christmas. This understanding is not there in our modern materialistic society. However, in our Krishna consciousness movement, which understands Krishna consciousness and Christ consciousness to be the same, our mission is to teach everyone how to...

Each of one us has a totally unique identity in our original loving relationship with Krishna or God in the spiritual world. By taking complete shelter of the bona fide spiritual master we will be led back to that original relationship. There is truly nothing sweeter or more wonderfully delightful than this. So instead of foolishly trying to enjoy this material world where this nothing but misery mixed with illusory happiness we should focus our attention 100% on getting back to our original, all blissful, fully cognizant unique identities in the unlimitedly blissful spiritual world. Krishna Is Inviting Us to Come Back Home Srila Prabhupada--The Bona Fide Spiritual Master Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Proof for Being a Bona Fide Guru? Respected sir, All glories to Srila Prabhupada With most respect, I am curious to know what are the qualifications of a spiritual master. As when I sometimes talk to my friends about Krishna Consciousness they ask me, “What p...

If we can popularize the ecstatic chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra all over the world, we can turn this planet into a paradise. So take every opportunity you can get to spread this most amazing Hare Krishna mantra everywhere. By this endeavor you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. And you will be engaged in the ultimate welfare activity for the unlimited benefit of all living beings. Check out the YouTube video posted below to see how much the general public relishes the chanting of: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare You'll be glad you did! Click Here to See Super Ecstatic Harinam Video Radharani Cries After Krishna Left Vrindavan Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Radharani After Krishna Left Vrindavan? Dear Srila Gurudev, Pranam at your lotus feet. I am interested to know more on the pastimes of Radharani after Lord Krishna left Vrindavan to Mathura and subsequently to Dwa...

It is sometimes said that it is very easy to find a guru who can take away your money, but very difficult to find that guru who can free you from all of your anxieties. I find this to be a very wise saying indeed because this is my personal experience. One of these so-called gurus charged me an initiation fee to accept me as his disciple and gave me a mantra that did absolutely nothing to liberate my consciousness from the influence of the material energy. I was as miserable as hell before initiation and even more miserable after initiation. He expertly took away my money, but he could not take away my anxiety. But then after a period of great struggle and soul searching I was most fortunate to get initiation from a bona fide spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He did not charge me even one a penny and he took away all of my anxieties. And still almost 50 years later I have a life free from anxiety. Now my only anxiety is how to save the world from ...

My dear world leaders, Please accept our blessings. By God's arrangement you all have been made the leaders of the world. So now we are requesting that you all kindly now take your responsibility very seriously to lead the world in such a way that everyone can become happy in this lifetime and fully qualified to achieve the spiritual world upon leaving their present material bodies. For this purpose you should all now be fully surrendered to executing the will of God and accepting the responsibility to train all the citizens of your respective countries to become now also fully surrendered to the will of God. According to all of the revealed scriptures of the world this is the universal principle of what it means to rise about the animal platform and become actually a human. If you all will heed and comply with our humble request, our planet will be completely transformed into a peaceful, happy, prosperous paradise in every corner of the world. So please now you all now kindly do...

There is absolutely no empirical evidence to substantiate that anything can come from nothing. But yet this highly illogical, non-scientific proposition has been put forward by Nobel Prize winning, very much glorified, so-called scientist Dr. Steven Hawking. With all due respect to this PhD we must make it clear that Dr. Hawking is wrong. His theory is absurd. Nothing comes from nothing. Everything comes from something, and that original something is the Absolute Truth Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna as Sri Krishna Himself confirms as follows in the Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 10, Text 8: ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaṁ pravartate iti matvā bhajante māṁ budhā bhāva-samanvitāḥ "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts." The perfection of our existence to fully surrender ourselves to Krishna. Dr. Steven Hawking Says ...

My student and aspiring disciple, Dhiraj Shetty, has rendered a very valuable to service to our mission by making our course available for both on IPhones and Android phones. In regards to these apps he has written me as follows: Hare Krishna Srila Gurudeva, If possible (and acceptable to you), please share the following two links in your Thought for the Day post. Android Playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sda.usr Apple AppStore: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1488484361 Devotees need to click on one of the above links to install. Please note that the name for the App within the stores is "Ultimate Self Realization". The Apps will be searchable by search term "Ultimate Self Realization" within the AppStore and PlayStore respectively. The App's display name (after installation) is "Supreme Nirvana". Apologies if my explanation is confusing to you. Please ask any questions or concerns you have. Your devoted serv...

In this world those who are most unfortunate are carried away by lust, thus relegating themselves to take birth again in this material world. We try to save them. But because they have totally lost their intelligence they stubbornly refuse to take our guidance. So what can be done? Only we can pray that somehow, someday they will give up their most foolish service to their temporary material senses and take up very seriously the devotional service of the Lord. Then and only then will they be saved from doing down to the animal kingdom in their next birth. Lust: Our All-Devouring Enemy Srila Prabhupada's Most Wonderful Books Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Importance of Reading Prabhupada's Books? Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisance. All glorious to Srila Prabhupada. All glorious to you. I wanted to humbly ask you: What is the importance of reading the Bhagavad-gita and the other books of Srila Prabhupada in this most ...

We are situated at the most exciting moment in world history. The seeds of the ultimate global paradigm shift have been planted 500 years ago in India by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and in the late 60's and 70's have been planted all over the world by ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Now on the order of Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada we have been ordered and empowered to cultivate these planted seeds all over the world and bring them to fruition so that the full blown mercy of pure love of God can be tasted by every man, woman, and child in every city, town, village, and hamlet all over the world. Such a program will transform our greatly troubled planet into a most sublime and delightful paradise. Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada Have Blessed this World with the Seeds of Pure Love of God Entering the Spiritual World Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Can We Decide Our Next Life? Can we decide what ...

In this material world we are constantly being harassed by the dualities of heat and cold, happiness and distress, and honor and dishonor. Thus things can sometimes be extremely difficult. Sometimes it's so bad that we feel like we are basketballs being bounced around on basketball court. Therefore to have any kind of peace of mind we must train ourselves to be tolerant of these dualities. This is why Lord Sri Krishna so mercifully gives us the following instruction: mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino 'nityās tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata "O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed." Today while writing this Krishna blessed me with a a great chance to practice this. The internet where I a...

In this Krishna consciousness movement our goal is to teach everyone throughout the entire world how to awaken their divine consciousness, their Krishna consciousness, and thus to make the whole world happy. Kindly assist us in this mission by become Krishna conscious yourself and as much as possible helping us to spread it all over the world by any and all means possible. This will make your life truly a grand success. And you will not take birth again here in this miserable world. At the time of death you will joyfully and triumphantly enter into the spiritual sky where Lord Sri Krishna's unlimitedly amazing pastimes are going on at this very minute. Return to the Most Wondrous Spiritual Sky Different Religions Is Our Material Conception Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Why So Many Religions? Dear Srila Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. As we are all part and parcel of Krishna, why do we have so many different religions? Sam Devesh...

On 2 February 1977 Srila Prabhupada spoke as follows during a foundation stone ceremony in Bhuvanesvara, India: "We are misunderstanding. The human society, they are trying to adjust things by the United Nations, but it is not possible. United Nations cannot do. In Melbourne I was speaking, so I accused the United Nations, 'They're assembly of barking dogs.' Because you cannot be united on this material platform. If you keep yourself that 'I am dog,' 'I am tiger,' 'I am American,' 'I am Indian,' 'I am brahmana,' 'I am sudra,' then there is no question of United Nations." So that is the present precarious position. The entire world population is suffering under leaders who are not competent to guide us properly. Anyone whose vision is on the material platform is not qualified to be a proper leader. Our Illustrious World Leaders George Harrison Chanting Hare Krishna Japa Answers According to the Vedic Wi...

Especially here in Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean, we can easily appreciate the beauty of God's creation. The air is always fresh and clean. It's non-polluted because it is blowing off the ocean. And there is so much natural beauty. But even here it is painful to see how God's creation is being spoiled by the sinful activities of the people. This is the situation of our entire planet. We are turning that which is beautiful into a hellish nightmare. It's time we stop act like barking dogs considering ourselves to be the center of existence and remember that God is the center, not us. The Beauty of God's Creation in Mauritius Mauritius Meat Market Spoils God's Creation ISKCON Nairobi Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Be a Devotee of Krishna? Hello, Spiritual Master. Hare Krishna. Hope this finds you well. My name is Samuel Cherop Kiprono. I am from Kenya. Last year around October a friend handed me a book by His D...

Dear Eternal Spiritual Being, On 10 December 2019 on a small uninhabited island off the coast of Mauritius I invited the whole world to learn the art of how to be situated in unlimited happiness. Please share this video with the whole world, and we will have the greatest era of peace and prosperity that the world has known for thousands of years. To see the video click on this link or the photo below: https://youtu.be/P7YiOYsUrho Click on This Photo to See the Video Fasting in the Service of Krishna Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How Do You Fast? How do you fast for Lord Vishnu/Krishna? Luna Starz Answer: Eat Only Sanctified Foodstuffs My Dear Luna, Please accept my blessings. Here is the method of fasting in the service of Lord Sri Krishna: Only eat vegetarian foodstuffs (no meat, fish, eggs, onions, or garlic) which have first been offered to the Lord with love and devotion. Such sanctified foodstuffs are called “prasadam.” Eat a diet that only consists ...

It does not make any sense to be suffering when instead you can be enjoying unlimited bliss at every moment. This is why we want to make the whole world Krishna conscious. Let everyone now connect with their eternal, fully cognizant, unlimitedly blissful actual nature by awakening their dormant Krishna consciousness. Nothing else makes any sense at all. Anything besides awakening one's dormant Krishna consciouseness is sheer lunacy. So what is your decision? What do you want to do? Do you want to remain suffering in a state of illusion? Or do you want to awaken your factual fully enlightened self. I hope that you make the right choice because it breaks my heart to see anybody who is a suffering condition unnecessarily. Awaken Your Fully Enlightened Self When You Please Krishna Everyone is Pleased Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Sing Hare Krishna to the Goddess? Can I sing the Hare Krishna mantra to the Goddess? I feel so happy when I sing the Har...

In this materialistic age of Kali, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy. there are many so-called gurus who will take away your money, but it is indeed very, very rare to find a guru who can take away your anxiety. To find a such bona fide guru nowadays is indeed quite a challenge. So what is the the criterion by which one can determine who is a bona fide guru and who is not? The answer to this question is given by the supreme authority, Lord Sri Krishna Caitanya, Who is the source of all existence: kibā vipra, kibā nyāsī, śūdra kene naya yei kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, sei ‘guru’ haya “Whether one is a brāhmaṇa, a sannyāsī or a śūdra—regardless of what he is—he can become a spiritual master if he knows the science of Krishna.” (Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya Lila 8, Text 128) Thus the bona fide guru is the devotee of Krishna who teaches us how to become the devotees of Krishna. Srila Prabhupada Teaches Who is a Bona Fide Guru Yoga Asanas Won't Save You at the Time of Death Answer...