Ultimate Self Realization

Everyone Please Pray for the Recovery of His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami My dear Reader, 30 June's Thought for the Day is being sent early because of an extreme emergency. One of the greatest leaders of ISKCON, a very advanced senior devotee, His Holiness Bhakti Caru Swami, is in intensive right now in the US with corona virus. He is on a ventilator and is in critical condition. To make things worse in this condition he has also suffered a heart attack, and this is affecting his organs and bodily functions. The doctors are working full time to stabilize him. The coming hours are the most critical because he could leave his body at any time. I am requesting everyone to pray to Krishna for his protection and full recovery. Do this right now!!! Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Find My Guru? How do I find my spiritual living master who can transform my life into a different level altogether? Vibhor Sharma Answer: Find He Who Presents Bhagavad-gita As It Is Find

The Calibre of Materialistic Men My dear reader, the most important thing we can do in this human form of life is to set the proper goals for our lives. Animals don't set goals. All they do is continue to gratify their material senses as much as possible by eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. man beings set goals. But in order to perfect their human form of life they must set the proper goals. They should not simply strive for a more polished version of animal existence. They set the goal of getting out of the cycle of birth and death by returning to their original identity in the spiritual world as a servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is real intelligence, Everything else is simply polished animalism. Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Plea: Someone Out There to Help Me I'm so tired. Nothing ever works for me, but I still hold a smile and help those I can, which has led me to poverty and depression. I'm broke, but I know there is someone out

Time is Unlimitedly Valuable My dear reader, time is the most valuable asset that you possess. Even if you owned all of the wealth found in the entire universe, it could not buy back one second of wasted time. The point is that we should always be engaged in the service of the Lord with our every thought, word in all times, places and circumstances. This will liberate us immediately from all miseries and qualify us to enter into the spiritual world at the time of leaving our present material bodies. So the next time you find yourself getting frivolous with your time, get serious, get back on the track, and make proper use of your most valuable human form of life. Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How Can I Save the World? My name is Kendall Brewer. I'm 26. Well ahead of my time and most of the people around me. I want to save the world just as exactly what you want. School me. Tell me when and where I will be there. Answer: Tune Into the Will of God From: ISKCON Au

The Ultimate Paradigm Shift Lord Caitanya appeared in India five centuries ago to launch the greatest paradigm shift in history, the re-spiritualization of the entire world. Anyone who dedicates their life to assist Him in His mission with be living with Him in a state of pure spiritual bliss at every minute. Would you like to join Him? The choice is yours. It does not matter what is your gender, your age, your location, or anything else. Simply if you decide to join His movement He will be with you at every moment showering His unlimited al-merciful blessings upon you. Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Big Devotee with Big Problems I am from India and am regularly following your messages in my e-mail. I am a big devotee of Lord Krishna. I am not interested to marry because my entire life is devoted to chanting Hare Krishna . I have decided to to join the Hare Krishna team. Sincerely I am humbly requesting that you please pray for me to Lord Krishna to solve my financi

At Least a Million Times Better than Sex In the material world sex is taken as the greatest pleasure. Sex desire is so predominant that is used to sell everything. I remember as a small boy how we were bombarded through television advertising that the new Ultrabrite toothpaste gives your mouth sex appeal. (See sample video below.) I hadn't even attained puberty yet, but still I was being propagandized to become mad after sex and of course Ultrabrite toothpaste. What the fools and rascals of this material world unfortunately do not realize is that Krishna consciousness is (at least) a million of times better than sex. Thus they unnecessarily suffer for millions and billions of lifetimes in the cycle of repeated birth and death. The unlimited nectar found in Krishna's name is confirmed as follows by Srila Rupa Goswami: tuṇḍe tāṇḍavinī ratiṁ vitanute tuṇḍāvalī-labdhaye karṇa-kroḍa-kaḍambinī ghaṭayate karṇārbudebhyaḥ spṛhām cetaḥ-prāṅgaṇa-saṅginī vijayate sarvendriyāṇāṁ kṛtiṁ no jā

"Become Guru and Deliver the World." Srila Prabhupada ordered his disciples, "Become guru and deliver the world." Therefore it is our duty to be perfect in our Krishna conscious and to make the whole world Krishna conscious. In this connection Srila Prabhupada wrote in a letter to one of his disciples, "I simply want to present this great philosophy to serious students who will understand it and deliver the world from the present-day ignorance of misinformation, so if you can help me in this way I shall very much appreciate." Therefore to please Srila Prabhupada and to save the suffering souls of this Kali-yuga, (the miserable age we have now been experiencing on this planet over the past 5,000 years), from their countless miseries, let us all become perfect now in our Krishna consciousness and preach vigorously for making a total, complete spiritual revolution on this greatly troubled planet Earth as soon as possible. Answers According to the Vedic Wisdo

The Nectarean Ocean of Unlimited Bliss Why suffer unnecessarily in the cycle of birth and death when simply by taking shelter of Krishna's unlimitedly sweet holy names you can dive into the nectarean ocean of unlimited bliss. Chant these names with love and you will know what I am talking about. (I've been doing this for a half a century. It really works!) Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Link for Nectar of Devotion Lectures? Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Your Divine Grace and Srimati Gurumataji. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to all Devotees. My dear Srila Gurudeva, kindly let me know the link where I can find all of Srila Prabhupada's lectures on the Nectar of Devotion that Your Divine Grace plays after the evening arati. Thank you so much dear Srila Gurudeva. Hare Krishna Your insignificant servant, Lila manjari devi da

The Deliverance of Jagai and Madhai by the Mercy of Lord Nityananda Srila Prabhupada wonderfully tells the most amazing story of Jagai and Madhai as follows: Once Nityānanda Prabhu and Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura were walking down a main road, and on the way they saw a roaring crowd assembled. Upon inquiring from passers-by, they understood that two brothers, named Jagāi and Mādhāi, were creating a public disturbance in a drunken state. They also heard that these two brothers were born in a respectable brāhmaṇa family, but because of low association they had turned into debauchees of the worst type. They were not only drunkards but also meat-eaters, woman-hunters, dacoits and sinners of all description. Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu heard all of these stories and decided that these two fallen souls must be the first to be delivered. If they were delivered from their sinful life, then the good name of Lord Caitanya would be even still more glorified. Thinking in this way, Nityānanda Prabhu and H

Deep Sea Diving in an Ocean of Unlimited Bliss Bliss in the park The chanting of the holy names of God is so powerful that it drives away all anxiety enabling the sincere chanter to deep sea dive in an ocean of unlimited bliss at every minute. So why torture yourself for a moment longer? Chant the holy names of God as much as possible with others or by yourself. Even when you are chanting alone you are not chanting alone because Krishna is right there with you dancing on your tongue. So chant, chant, chant and relish the bliss of your eternal identity as a lover of God at every minute. Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How Many Versions of Spirituality? How many versions of spirituality are out there? Jennifer Ghresh Answer: One Spirituality is one. When there are different versions it is materialism masquerading as spirituality. That one spirituality is to become a pure lover of God. Sankarshan Das Adhikari By Putting God Back in the Center Whole World Will Be Happy

Depression is the Pastime of Fools There is no reason to ever be depressed ever again. All you have to do is remember that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Who is the source of all existence, has unlimited love for you and is making all arrangements at every minute for you to reconnect with Him, thus regaining your original, eternal, all-blissful, fully cognizant spiritual identity as soon as possible. As soon as you remember Him you will experience every moment as the most auspicious blessing bestowed upon by Lord Sri Krishna. Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Control Senses in College Life? How to be disciplined in life? I find it is very hard to control my senses as I'm constantly bombarded by a lot of sense gratificatory things on the internet. I'm a college student. How can I be vigilant about the senses? Yours sincerely K.R. Sriram Answer: Strong Sadhana From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear K.R., Please accept my blessings. All glories to

How to Dive into the Ocean of Unlimited Bliss There is no reason to ever suffer again even for a moment longer. Your actual identity is that you are an eternal spiritual being, who is full of knowledge and full of bliss. All you have to do to be unlimitedly happy at every minute is to reconnect with your actual self by chanting the holy names of God: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare What could be simpler than that? So take advantage right now of this most amazingly powerful system of spiritual awakening and make your life unlimitedly sublime. Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Self Realization While in High School? Hare Krishna Prabhu, Dandavat Pranam. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am Sushant Nair, a Class XII student and an aspiring devotee of Lord Krishna. Thank you very much for the daily Thought for the Day, which has really enlightened me and has been h

Are We Being Led by Dogs, Hogs, Camels, and Asses? It is stated in the Srimad Bhagavatam, Second Canto, Chapter 3, Text 19: śva-viḍ-varāhoṣṭra-kharaiḥ saṁstutaḥ puruṣaḥ paśuḥ na yat-karṇa-pathopeto jātu nāma gadāgrajaḥ "Men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the deliverer from evils." Srila Prabhupada explains that when these persons who are like dogs, hogs, camels, and asses go to vote to elect a leader they will vote for big dogs, hogs, camels, and asses. So this tells us what kind of leaders we have in today's totally materialistic society: big dogs, hogs, camels, and asses. In the concluding words of his purport to the above verse Srila Prabhupada writes as follows: "The Bhāgavatam openly declares that although a person may be a great leader of such dogs and hogs disguised as men, if he has no taste for being enlightened in the science of Kṛṣṇa, such a leader is also an

The Possible Future of Our Godless Civilization If we maintain our present destruction course of ever-increasing Godlessness, our human civilization will fall apart and we will be living like naked savages in the jungle. In this connection in Hawaii on March 27, 1969 Srila Prabhupada tells a story: ( Click here to here the story .) Here is the transcript of the recording: This is animalistic civilization. Nature gave us the opportunity to realize God, but God-realization is meant for human being. The human being, if he does not realize God, he's simply engaged in animalistic way of life—eating, sleeping, mating—then nature will call, "All right, sir, again become animal." Punar mūṣiko bhava: "Again become a mouse." You know this story? Punar mūṣiko bhava. There is a story. There is a very nice story. One rat, mouse, he came to a saintly person. Everyone comes to saintly person for some blessing, you see. Real blessing they don't want. Some material bless