Ultimate Self Realization

Srila Prabhupada is bestowing unlimited loving mercy upon all the conditioned souls who are suffering here in this material existence. He explains in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Fourth Canto, Chapter 7, Text 53, "The equal vision of the devotee is that he works to get all living entities back home, back to Godhead." So this is his vision, to deliver everyone, and it should be our vision also to assist him in this great mission since we are trying to be devotees. We should all desire that all the living beings who are suffering here in this material existence should now be delivered back to Home, back to Godhead. Our lives should be dedicated both to our own deliverance and to the deliverance of all others. The more we are successful in getting ourselves out of the clutches of the material energy, the more we will be empowered to deliver others. Therefore not only for own deliverance should we aspire for pure devotion. We should also aspire for pure devotion so that

Because we as the human race are not living in harmony with the higher principles that govern the universe we are getting many "slaps in the face" from nature. The coronavirus is a graphic example of this. Just like it is said "What goes around comes around", when we inflict violence upon innocent creatures such as on unborn babies and cows that violence is going to sooner or later come bouncing back upon us. So we have no one to blame for the coronavirus epidemic except for ourselves. What this means is that now we must demand leaders who are aware of and properly in tune with the higher universal principles. Until we have such leaders the world situation is stuck in a downward spiral and we will experience greater and deterioration of the social order. Thus we now strongly insist that the government leaders all over the world must now agree to be educated in the understanding of these higher universal principles. And if they are not willing to be thus educated,

Can we even begin to imagine how ridiculous our modern day governments are? For example, since the 1960's the US government has spent over one trillion dollars on the moon program simply to gather some rocks. At the same time as I write these words in this wealthiest and most powerful country in the entire world there are many hundreds of thousands of US citizens who are now living homeless on the streets of the US. What more can we expect from a cow-killing, baby-killing civilization? It's time that we now demand Krishna conscious leadership in the US and in every other nation all over the world. Otherwise this whole planet Earth will nothing more than a dungeon for the demons. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Over a Trillion Dollars Spent on Moon Program Homeless People in Austin, Texas Albert Martinez Has Lived for 20 Years on the Streets of Los Angeles Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Get a Guru? When a person is need of a guru does the guru appear? Jayanti

My dear , here is some of the most amazingly powerful wisdom. I very much relished it yesterday in my morning study of the Sri Isopanisad. This wisdom has been so mercifully given to us by Srila Prabhupada in his purport to Sri Isopanisad Mantra 10: "One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind." Anyone who always remembers and seriously applies this teaching fully will never ever be carried away again by lamentation of illusion and will able to see everything that happens as the unlimited mercy of Krishna. He will be fully empowered to transcend this material existence. Would you like that person to be you? If so, you should seriously apply this instruction. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Lord Sri Krishna is Unlimitedly Kind Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Report: We Gave Birth to a Child Hare Krishna, dear Gurudeva! All glories to You and Gurumata! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Best

Here is the most wonderful transcendental poem: kṛṣṇa—sūrya-sama, māyā haya andhakāra yāhāṅ kṛṣṇa, tāhāṅ nāhi māyāra adhikāra "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." This material world is full of darkness and ignorance of spiritual life, but by bhakti-yoga this ignorance is dissipated. So let us take this process of Krishna consciousness most seriously to drive away all the darkness of ignorance within our own hearts, and then proceed boldly to enlighten the entire world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Lord Sri Krishna is Like the Sun Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Know and Love Myself? How to know myself? How to love myself? Many are telling that I am a soul and am not the body. But I cannot experience my soul. Please guide me, Srila Gurudeva, to know myself and experience my soul so that I can lead a satisfactory life in the service of God. Vemula Shylaja Answer: Here is How From: ISKCON Austin, Texa

Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the reservoir of all wealth, all fame, all strength, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation. When Lord Krishna was present personally on earth, He exhibited these six opulences in full. Therefore He is known as Bhagavan, the one who is full with all opulences. No one was richer than Lord Krishna, no one was more learned than Him, no one more beautiful, no one stronger, no one more famous and no one more renounced. Therefore there is no one more wonderful than Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Bhagavan--the One Who is Full with All Opulences Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Why is a Person Unique? Why is a person unique? Does it depend on karma? Jayantilal Patel Answer: Krishna's Desire to Enjoy Unique Relationships Lord Sri Krishna is manifesting from Himself an infinite number of living beings. Each one of them is totally unique so that Krishna can enjoy an in

Today all over the world people are celebrating the appearance day of Lord Jesus Christ. For me also his appearance day is worshipable. Srila Prabhupada describes him as follows: "We accept him as a śaktyāveśa avatāra, a living entity especially powered from God." In 1971 I was a young spiritual seeker trying to figure out how to become self-realized. I knew that Jesus was a great self-realized soul. By studying the Bible every morning I was trying to figure out what was his secret so I could become like him, fully self-realized. One day I found it! He says, "Father, not my will, but Thy will be done." I then understood that my perfection would be to do what God wanted me to do, not what I wanted to do. So I prayed every day, "Dear God, please guide me how I can become your perfect servant." Shortly thereafter Krishna answered my prayers by sending His Holiness Vishnujana Swami to Austin to establish an ISKCON center here. By associating with him, hear

On 9 December 1968, the disappearance day of His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami, Srila Prabhupada spoke these powerful words: "I was born in a different family. My Guru Maharaja was born in a different family. Who knew that I will come to his protection? Who knew that I would come in America? Who knew that you American boys will come to me? These are all Krishna's arrangement. We cannot understand how things are taking place." (To hear the entire lecture click here.) Today (22 December 2021) my heart melted when I heard these words because I understood from this, as one his American boys, that just as Krishna had arranged for him to come to the protection of his Guru Maharaja I had also come to Srila Prabhupada's protection by the divine arrangement of Krishna. I became overwhelmed with tears when I considered how kind Lord Sri Krishna had been to me to bring under the shelter of His pure devotee, Srila Prabupada. Now Krishna has also arranged

Krishna consciousness is simple for the simple and difficult for the crooked. The way to be simple is to be fully obedient without hesitation to whatever Krishna says. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Simply Do Whatever Krishna Says Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Have a Peaceful Life? Dear Gurudeva, I am doing construction business with two partners. My business is good but my personal finance and family life are not balanced. How I can lead a peaceful life? Please advise me. Regards, Diju Dileep Answer: Follow this Instruction from Lord Krishna From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Diju, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. The way to live a peaceful live is to always follow this instruction given by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 9, Text 27: yat karoṣi yad aśnāsi yaj juhoṣi dadāsi yat yat tapasyasi kaunteya tat kuruṣva mad-arpaṇam "Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever auste

Srila Prabhupada explained in a room conversation in Bombay, India on 15 April 1977: "Every one of us messiaḥ. Anyone Krishna conscious, he's the messiaḥ. Every one. Why one? All of us." And then he quoted the Vaisnava poet Sri Devakinanda Dasa: "Gaurāṅgera bhakta-gaṇe jane jane śakti dhare. The devotee of Lord Caitanya, every one has so immense power that every one, they can deliver the whole universe." He has written in his purport to Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Madhya Lila, Chapter 24, Text 25: "Gaurāṅgera bhakta-gaṇe jane jane śakti dhare. The purport of this song is that the devotees of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are very powerful, and each and every one of them can deliver the whole world." So what does means for those who have fully dedicated their lives to Krishna? They are messiahs, world saviors, and their mission is to deliver the world from its present most hellish nightmarish condition by making everyone Krishna conscious. Sankarshan

We can make today the most auspicious day of our entire lives by fully embracing within our hearts pure devotional service to Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as our only business from now on for all of eternity. And we can do the same thing tomorrow and every day after that. By doing this we will perfectly situate ourselves beyond time and space and beyond all the sufferings of this material existence. So now it's up to each of us whether we have sufficient conviction and determination to factually do this. Sri Radha and Krishna, please help us and bless us that we can now fully, perfectly situate ourselves on this transcendental platform. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Sri Sri Radha and Krishna, Please Bless Us Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Why Did Krishna Create Us? Why did Krishna create us and the universe? Mintu Manna Answer: To Enjoy Loving Relationships With Us From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Mintu, Please accept my blessings. All

Don't worry about the so-called love of this material world. Just chant the Hare Krishna mantra begging Lord Sri Krishna to bless you with feelings of love for Him. When your love for Krishna awakens you will have perfect love for all living beings. It is just like watering a tree. When you water the root of the tree all the leaves and branches are nourished. When you give your love to Krishna you will be perfectly loving all living beings. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Water the Whole Tree Just by Watering the Root Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Connect with Spiritual Guides? How does one connect with Spiritual guides? Bob H. Answer: By Hearing Submissively We connect with spiritual guides by hearing submissively the words emanating from their lotus mouths. Sankarshan Das Adhikari World Deliverance Mission ISKCON Founder-Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ordered his disciples to become gurus and deliver the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari h

Every morning when I bathe Srila Prabhupada I very much relish visiting the holy places of Vrindavan within my mind by singing this song. Here is a recording of it that I made many years ago. Click here to hear it now. Here are the lyrics: Śrī Vraja-dhāma-mahimāmṛta The Nectarean Glories of Vraja-dhāma jaya rādhe, jaya kṛṣṇa, jaya vṛndāvan śrī govinda, gopīnātha, madana-mohan All glories to Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and the divine forest of Vṛndāvana. All glories to the three presiding Deities of Vṛndāvana-Śrī Govinda, Gopīnātha, and Madana-mohana. śyama-kunḍa, rādhā-kuṇḍa, giri-govardhan kālindi jamunā jaya, jaya mahāvan All glories to Śyāma-kuṇḍa, Rādhā-kuṇḍa, Govardhana Hill, and the Yamunā River (Kālindī). All glories to the great forest known as Mahāvana, where Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma displayed all of Their childhood pastimes. keśī-ghāṭa, baṁśi-baṭa, dwādaśa-kānan jāhā saba līlā koilo śrī-nanda-nandan All glories to Keśī-ghāṭa, where Kṛṣṇa killed the Keśī demon. All glories to the Vaṁśī-vata t

You exist as a totally unique individual. There is absolutely no one in all of existence, in which there is an infinite number of living beings, who is exactly the same as you. You are absolutely unique so that Krishna can enjoy a certain flavor of loving relationship with you that He cannot enjoy from anyone else. Thus Krishna consciousness is not an artificial imposition on your mind. It is the is reawakening of your original unique transcendental personality that has been sleeping, lying dormant within you, since time immemorial. So get back now to your original sublimely unique relationship with Krishna and relish unlimited happiness for now and forever. Are you ready? Sankarshan Das Adhikari Your Relationship with Krishna is Absolutely Unique Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Know If You've Been Chosen? How do you know if you have been chosen to awaken spiritually? Cedric Makhathini Answer: If Informed that You're Krishna's Servant If someone

Those who are fully awakened in Krishna consciousness see how at every moment Lord Sri Krishna is bestowing upon them unlimited oceans of loving mercy. Thus they have a constant attitude of gratitude which enables them to always be in beatitude , a state of pure spiritual bliss. They see that for all of eternity Krishna has so much blessed them in this way and that He will continue to so for all of eternity. Thus they deep sea dive in unlimited oceans of beatitude at every minute. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Beatitude is a State of Pure Spiritual Bliss Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Appreciation: You Gave Me the Courage to Preach Hare Krishna Dear Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisance at your lotus feet. All Glories to Your Divine Grace and Srimati Gurumataji. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada Dear Gurudev, I thank you so much for giving me so much courage and strength otherwise I would not have been able to do it. It's on Your Divine Grace's encouragement that

I am now writing a book giving the detailed story of how by the mercy of Guru and Krishna I was transformed from a miserable college youth into a super blissful devotee blessed with the mission of delivering the entire world. I am trying to come up with the perfect title and subtitle that will be so attractive to the billions of people who are suffering in the material world that it will be recognized as being one of the best selling books in history. Here is one sample of the title and subtitle: Title: Unlocking the Unlimited Bliss Within You Subtitle: How a Frustrated Extremely Depressed College Youth Realized the Highest Truth Which Delivered Him and Will Now Deliver the Entire World I would to hear your suggestions for a winning title and subtitle that will attract the entire world to read this book. Please now send your suggestion or suggestions to sd@worldleader.com Sankarshan Das Adhikari Help Me Now Make the Whole World Krishna Conscious Answers According to the Vedic Wis

Today I am sharing with you one of my all time favorite lectures by Srila Prabhupada. I love to hear it again and again. Srila Prabhupada is telling us that we must be very eager to see Krishna. I have given you the transcript below. Here this lecture repeatedly and qualify yourself to see Krishna. Click here to hear the lecture. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Transcript of Lecture Given by Srila Prabhupada on August 5, 1972 on Srimad Bhagavatam, First Canto, Chapter 2, Text 12 So people, they sometimes say, "Can you show me God? Have you seen God?" These questions sometimes we meet. So the answer is here. Yes, you can see God. Everyone can see God. I am also seeing God. But there must be the qualification. Just like God is there... Suppose a motorcar is there, something is wrong there. Everyone is seeing. But one engineer or mechanic, he sees differently. Therefore we have to go there. "What is the wrong in this car? It is not running." He immediately touches some m

There is no absolutely no reason to continue any longer suffering birth, death, and old age here in this hellish material world when by the grace of Guru and Gauranga there is now the facility for your sage passage into the all-blissful spiritual world. Click here for your safe passage. Sankarshan Das Adhikari There is No Reason to Suffer Any Longer Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Can I Keep a Bible in Our Home? Hare Krishna, Srila Gurudeva, Please accept my respectful and humble obeisances unto your lotus feet. Srila Gurudeva, I want to know is it okay to keep a Bible in the home. Although I'm Hindu I know that we're all the part and parcel of Krishna and that Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc, are only bodily designations. So considering this is there anything wrong about keeping a Bible in our home? Thank you. Yours sincerely, Anudeep Deb Answer: The Bible Brought Me to Krishna Consciousness From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Anudeep, Please accept my bl

It a great tragedy for our movement that Srila Prabhupada is no longer with us. I have many most ecstatic memories of being with my beloved spiritual master such as sitting at his lotus at ISKCON Atlanta in March of 1975. Plus I wrote him many times and got back the most wonderful, merciful reply letters from him. We can lament our separation Srila Prabhupada by hearing, meditating upon, and singing this great song by the great Vaisnava acharya Srila Narottama Das Thakur. This wonderful heart-melting song to the departed Vaisnavas can be heard by clicking this link. Here are the lyrics in Bengali with the English translation: Sapārṣada-bhagavad-virahajanita-vilāpa (je ānilo prema-dhana) Lamentation Due to Separation from the Lord and His Associates (from Prārthanā) Text One je ānilo prema-dhana koruṇā pracur heno prabhu kothā gelā ācārya-ṭhākur He who brought the treasure of divine love and who was filled with compassion and mercy—where has such a personality as Advaita Ācārya go

To become more powerfully and intimately connected with my most beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, I intensely tune into to hearing him speaking while taking a daily predawn walk in the neighborhood of our ashram/temple at 10700 Jonwood in Austin, Texas. Other devotees join me on the walk. I broadcast Srila Prabhupada's transcendental voice via a portable speaker so that those who are walking with me can also be purified and uplifted by hearing Srila Prabhupada's most wonderful nectarean voice. In this way all of us together experience a very sweet and enlightening connection with our most beloved ISKCON Founder-Acharya, Srila Prabhupada. Connecting solidly with him especially in the most profoundly spiritual time of day known as the brāhma-muhūrta, is the ultimate ecstasy, millions of times greater than even the greatest pleasures of this material world tasted by the demigods on the higher planets. In his purport to Srimad B

You are an eternal spiritual being, full of knowledge and full of bliss. So do not cheat yourself by misidentification with your material body, which is temporary, full of ignorance, and full of misery. You should instead reward yourself by reviving your factual identity through loving service to Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the source of all existence, under the expert guidance of the bona fide spiritual master and the devotees. Sankarshan Das Adhikari No One is More Wonderful than Lord Sri Krishna Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Would You Like to Debate? HK, I was wondering if your grace would be interested in a formal, moderated debate on ISKCON's view of history and cosmology. I am a former Hare Krishna myself who has since gone on to earn a master's in Christian theology. Please let me know if you might be interested. If need be I can start a fund raising platform to pay for any and all travel expenses. Kind regards, Bill Kennedy I

We know that Krishna speaks the truth because truth works. In other words, we know that a recipe is good if when we strictly follow it we get an amazingly delicious food preparation. Similarly we know that Krishna speaks the truth because when we do exactly what he says we awaken into a transcendental dimension of pure bliss consciousness beyond all the ignorance and miseries of this material existence. Someone may argue that they followed Krishna's teachings but not awaken to transcendental bliss. This happened because they did not strictly follow Krishna's teachings. They mixed in some material sense gratification. Anyone who strictly follows Krishna's teachings without deviation will be situated 24 hours a day in the transcendental dimension beyond the cycle of birth and death. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Krishna Liberates Arjuna from All Ignorance and Misery Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: Philosophy and Spirituality? We tend to distinguish between philos