Ultimate Self Realization

For material creation, Lord Kṛṣṇa's plenary expansion assumes three Viṣṇus. The first one, Mahā-Viṣṇu, lies down in this material world in the Causal Ocean. He creates the total material energy, known as the mahat-tattva. From Him an infinite number of material universes are manifested. In each of these infinite universes He furthers expands Himself as an infinite number of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇus, lying down in the Garbhodaka ocean in the bottom half of each universe. From His naval sprouts a lotus flower from which the Lord Brahma for that particular universe takes birth. Then He further expands as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who is diffused as the all-pervading Supersoul in all the universes and is known as Paramātmā. He is present within the heart of all living beings and even within the atoms. The Nārada Pañcarātra says that anyone who knows these three Viṣṇus can be liberated from material entanglement. So to facilitate your knowing these three Viṣṇus for your liberation from materia

There is no greater blessing than to be able to come into direct contact with Sri Sri Radha and Krishna. And this we can experience every day by chanting their holy names with love. By chanting "Hare" we are begging Srimati Radharani to bestow her mercy upon us and bless us that we can be connected with Her most beloved Lord Sri Krishna. And when we chant "Krishna" we are directly in touch with Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Person Who is the Source all existence including our humble selves. Even after millions and billions of lifetimes there is no greater good fortune than to be blessed with the priviledge of chanting: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare So let us now take full advantage of this make our lives perfect. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Srila Prabhupada Devotedly Chanting Japa Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Report from War Torn Ukraine Dear Srila Gurudeva! Please accept my humble obeisanc

Krishna consciousness is simple for the simple and difficult for the crooked. Since this material world has nothing to offer us except for birth, death, old age, and disease, we should make it easy on ourselves by giving up our tendency to be crooked. We can give up this cheating propensity by fully taking shelter of the lotus feet of Guru and Krishna. So let's do that right now! Sankarshan Das Adhikari Devotees Taking Shelter of Srila Prabhupada (Vrindavan, India 1972) Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Develop Faith in Spiritual Master? Hare Krishna Please accept my most humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. All Glories to Shri Guru and Shri Gauranga. How can I know that I have gotten the shelter of Spiritual Master? Does it come only after initiation? How to develop 100% faith on the words or instructions of the Spiritual Master? Please guide this foolish soul, Thank you, Most unfortunate and insignificant soul, Chinmayi Hare Krishna Answer

There is some very nice wisdom in the popular saying, "Let your conscience be your guide," because Srila Prabhupada has explained as follows in a lecture he gave in Mumbai, India on 19 February 1974: "Everyone has got experience. When we want to do something wrong, there is conscience: 'Don't do it.' 'No, no, let me do.' There is struggle. So this is the struggle between the soul and the Supersoul." So the conscience is actually the Supersoul, the Paramatma, talking to us. The problem we have is that instead of following the guidance of our conscience, the Supersoul, we give in to the dictates of the senses and the mind. This is why at the present momemt we are entangled in the cycle of birth and death. The solution for all of our difficulties is that from now on we should do what deep within our heart we know is right. That is we should fully surrender ourselves unto Lord Sri Krishna under the guidance of His empowered representative, the

In the Nectar of Devotion Srila Prabhupada very nicely describes as follows how to get from the reactions of sinful activities: "It is stated in the Padma Purāṇa that there are four kinds of effects due to sinful activities, which are listed as follows: (1) the effect which is not yet fructified, (2) the effect which is lying as seed, (3) the effect which is already mature and (4) the effect which is almost mature. It is also stated that all these four effects become immediately vanquished for those who surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, and become engaged in His devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness. "Those effects described as 'almost mature' refer to the distress from which one is suffering at present, and the effects "lying as seed" are in the core of the heart, where there is a certain stock of sinful desires which are like seeds. The Sanskrit word kūṭam means that they are almost ready to produce the seed, or the effect

In his converstion with Rāmānanda Rāya Lord Caitanya quoted the following verse from the Adi Purana: ye me bhakta-janāḥ pārtha na me bhaktāś ca te janāḥ mad-bhaktānāṁ ca ye bhaktās te me bhakta-tamā matāḥ ”[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.’ This means that if I consider myself to be Krishna's devotee but not a devotee of the devotees of Krishna that I am not actually Krishna's devotee. Even the Christians have this idea. They consider that you cannot be devoted to God unless you are first devoted to Jesus. The conclusion is that if I am serious about being Krishna's devotee that I must seek out that devotee who I can accept as my spiritual master and take complete shelter of him. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Lord Krishna Enlightens Arjuna Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Help Mother Reach Safe Place? Hare Krishna, Gurudeva Please

In his song "Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Prabhu" Narottam Das Thakur prays as follows to Lord Nityānanda. hā hā prabhu nityānanda, premānanda sukhī. Understand the essence of Narottam's prayer Srila Prabhupada has mercifully given us this expanded translation: "My dear Lord Nityānanda, You are always joyful, in spiritual bliss, and You appear always very happy. So I have come to You because I am most unhappy. So if You kindly put Your glance over me, then I may also become happy." So if we ever get depressed all we have to do is beg Lord Nityananda for His most merciful glance so that we can become blissful just like He is always blissful in His mood of pure love of God. In this way we can take anxiety as a special blessing to inspire us to take complete shelter of Lord Nityananda and thus perfect our consciousness. Sankarshan Das Adhikari The Most Merciful Lord Nityananda Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Problem: I Am Missing Krishna Hare Krishna, I don't

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I was a young collge student in the Fall of 1968 in Denver, Colorado USA who was more interested in self realization than I was in a college degree. One night after I had gone to bed I got an impassioned knock on my apartment door. It was my friend, Patrick Dolan, with a few of his friends coming to hide in my apartment from their Joe who had just gone crazy on LSD and was going naked on the street. Patrick started chanting Hare Krishna and told us all to also chant it for Joe's protection. After a while they all left and I feel asleep. The next day I went to Patrick's apartment to ask him about the Hare Krishna that he was chanting. He showed me article from a popular magazine which told about Bhaktivedanta Swami describing the benefits of chanting Hare Krishna. I was intrigued. So I checked out a copy of the Bhagavad-gita from a local library and read how Krishna was saying that if we offer Him our vegetarian food with love and devotion that He would accept. This truly amaze

It is a pity that the entire world population is suffering in the grips of bodily consciousness. Our mission is to deliver them from their suffering by teaching them how to revive their Krishna consciousness. Here are the lyrics for a song I wrote called "Turn On Your Soul" for the purpose of enlightening people about their real spiritual identities. Do you know who you really are? Do you know where you’re coming from? Do you know for sure where you’re goin’ Or what you will become? You’re eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. So remember and celebrate this. You’re not of this world, dear friend. Better tune in and turn on your soul. Do you know what happens when you die? Do you know what’s beyond the sky? Do you think that body is you? It’s just something that you’re passing through. You’re eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. So remember and celebrate this. You’re not of this world, dear friend. Better tune in and turn on your soul. We’re told that everything happens by

There is nothing more sublime than Krishna consciousness. Indeed, there is nothing which is truly sublilme except for Krishna consciousness. And one of the greatest enhancememts for our Krishna consciousness is to talk about Krishna and write about Krishna just as I am doing right now. Here's what Lord Sri Krishna says about this: mac-cittā mad-gata-prāṇā bodhayantaḥ parasparam kathayantaś ca māṁ nityaṁ tuṣyanti ca ramanti ca "The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are surrendered to Me, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss enlightening one another and conversing about Me." --Bhagavad-gita 10.9 Therefore we should take advantage of every available opportunity that we have to talk about Krishna. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Talking About Krishna is Ecstatic Answers According to the Vedic Wisdom Question: How to Survive in the Material World? How does one survive in this material world with so many material things around? To balance between material a

There is no reason at all for anyone to suffer at all anymore. Suffering is simply a pastime for fools. Instead of suffering everyone can be instead be blessed with boundless bliss. The reason I can authoritatively say this is that within everyone there exists a reservoir of unlimited pleasure. All they have to do is simply turn on the dormant love for Lord Sri Krishna that is currently sleeping within their hearts. In Chapter 87 of the Krishna Book Srila Prabhupada writes about this reservior as follows: "Vidyāpati, a great Vaiṣṇava devotee and poet, says, 'My dear Lord, undoubtedly there is some pleasure in the midst of society, friendship and love, although it is materially conceived, but such pleasure cannot satisfy my heart, which is like a desert.' In a desert there is need of an ocean of water. But if only a drop of water is poured on the desert, what is the value of such water? Similarly, our material hearts are full of multidesires, which cannot be fulfilled by m