Super Ecstatic Prabhupada Video

In 1972 I was there with Srila Prabhupada at a super ecstatic double festival in New Vrindavana. We celebrated Janmastami one day and Srila Prabhupada's Vyasa Puja the next day. It was unlimitedly ecstatic because Srila Prabhupada was personally with us the whole time. There is a wonderful video of this event which you can see by clicking here (although it has been dated incorrectly as 1973.)

In those days New Vrindavan was the place for big movement-wide festivals since Mayapur and Vrindavan had not yet developed. This video will take you there with the hundreds of devotees from all over ISKCON who were relishing the nectar of chanting, dancing, hearing, and feasting in the unlimitedly divine association of Srila Prabhupada.

So do yourself the supreme favor. Take some time out of your busy schedule and dive deeply, deeply, deeply into this super ecstatic ocean of pure transcendental bliss.

Sankarshan Das Adhikari

Srila Prabhupada Vyas Puja--New Vrindavan 1972

Srila Prabhupada Vyas Puja, New Vrindavan

Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom

Question: How to Deal With Negative Thoughts?

I would like to ask if you don't mind. If I get negative or unwanted thoughts is it better to let them come or is it better to suppress them?
In other words how to deal with negative thoughts?

Is it wrong for a person to commit suicide? I have absolutely no intention of doing it.

Will be grateful if you can answer.
Hari Bol
With regards,
Gopala

Answer: Lusty Thoughts Flying Out the Window

From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA

My Dear Gopala,

Please accept my blessings.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Lord Sri has mercifully given this instruction how to conquer your mind:

yato yato niścalati
manaś cañcalam asthiram
tatas tato niyamyaitad
ātmany eva vaśaṁ nayet

"From wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdraw it and bring it back under the control of the Self."

If you will simply put your full faith in Lord Krishna's instruction and do what He says, your mind will become fully conquered and under your control. In other words all you have to do is absorb your mind in chanting the Hare Krishna mantra.

Kick suicidal thoughts out of brain. Suicide makes things worse. One becomes a ghost.

I hope this meets you in the best of health.

Your ever well-wisher,
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
Sankarshan Das Adhikari
By the blessings and the order of his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Sankarshan Das Adhikari is a bona fide spiritual master with tens of thousands of students and disciples all over the world. Since he has been blessed by his spiritual master with the formula for solving all of the world's problems both individually and collectively he is thus endeavoring to attract the whole world to pay serious heed to these teachings, which if followed will make everyone happy and usher in a most glorious new enlightened era in global history.

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