Ultimate Self Realization

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Hare Krishna Mantra Frees Everyone Here's an amazing quote from Srila Prabhupada given in a Nectar of Devotion Lecture on 8 November 1972 in Vridavan: So here, Rūpa Gosvāmī says auspicity means that which spreads for everyone, in all parts of the world. That is auspicity. Not partial. In politics or sociology or humanitarian activities, there is partiality for a certain section of human being, or certain section of living being. But this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, awakening Kṛṣṇa consc..., dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness, is meant for all living entities. Even birds, beasts, insects, they can also awaken. This is the recommendation of Haridāsa Ṭhākura, that if we chant loudly, the trees will hear, the birds will hear, the insect will hear, and they will be liberated. That is the statement of Nāmācārya Haridāsa Ṭhākura. Therefore...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." We Are Prisoners of Maya We have been captured by Maya and now are imprisoned, locked up tightly in the three modes of material nature. There are many prison guards making sure that we do not escape: lust, anger, greed, madness, illusion, and envy. But the soldiers in Lord Caitanya's army, the preachers, have come to rescue us. Their general is His Divine A.C. Bhaktivedanta Goswami Maharaja Prabhupada. Let us take take full advantage of those who have come to rescue by following their instructions how to get out of this prison. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Prisoner Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious Donate Now By Clicking Here Questions and Answers Please get me citizenship in Australia, Answer From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Devotee, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I cannot ...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." This Is One of My Favorite Verses This super ecstatic verse (CC Madhya 1.76) is spoken by Srimati Radharani: priyaḥ so ’yaṁ kṛṣṇaḥ saha-cari kuru-kṣetra-militas tathāhaṁ sā rādhā tad idam ubhayoḥ saṅgama-sukham tathāpy antaḥ-khelan-madhura-muralī-pañcama-juṣe mano me kālindī-pulina-vipināya spṛhayati ”My dear friend, now I have met My very old and dear friend Kṛṣṇa on this field of Kurukṣetra. I am the same Rādhārāṇī, and now We are meeting together. It is very pleasant, but still I would like to go to the bank of the Yamunā beneath the trees of the forest there. I wish to hear the vibration of His sweet flute playing the fifth note within that forest of Vṛndāvana.” PURPORT This verse also appears in the Padyāvalī (387), an anthology of verses compiled by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī. By remembering this verse, even if one is in a state of gr...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." The Whole World is Sleeping The whole world sleeping in the lap of the witch named Maya. Thus, they are suffering from the hellish nightmare of bodily misidentification. We, the followers of Lord Krishna, have been given the duty to wake them and bring them to their constitutional position of Krishna conscious so they can all can be happy. So let us take our duty very seriously and bring them out of their hellish nightmare. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now By Clicking Here Questions and Answers Hare Krishna Actually, I have one question, I am practicing bhakti. I am chanting Hare Krishna maha mantra. I don’t eat onion garlic and also following brahmacharya. Still I am not happy. I don’t feel joy inside. What's the reason? Please guide me. Thanks Dhuv Answer From: ISKCO...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Sri Vyas Puja The Appearance Day of our Most Beloved Srila Prabhupada This prayer was written back in 1935 or 1936 by my spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, as an offering of love and devotion to his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur. I am today on the occasion of his divine appearance day offering this prayer of perfect devotion to Srila Prabhupada. Adore adore ye all the happy day. Blessed than heaven, sweeter than May. When He appeared at Puri, the holy place, My Lord and Master, His Divine Grace. Oh! my Master, the evangelic angel Give us Thy light, lite up Thy candle. Struggle for existence, a human race. The only hope, His Divine Grace. Misled we are, all going astray, Save us Lord, our fervent pray. Wonder Thy ways to turn our face Adore Thy feet, Your Divine Grace Fo...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Krishna Janmastami Regarding the appearance of Lord Krishna we find thus wonderful description in Srila Prabhupada's Krishna Book, which is a summary study of the 10th Canto of the Srimad Bhagavatam: In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says that His appearance, birth and activities are all transcendental and that one who understands them factually becomes immediately eligible to be transferred to the spiritual world. The Lord’s appearance or birth is not like that of an ordinary man, who is forced to accept a material body according to his past deeds. The Lord’s appearance is explained in the Second Chapter: He appears out of His own sweet pleasure. When the time was mature for the appearance of the Lord, the constellations became very auspicious. The astrological influence of the star known as Rohiṇī was predominant. This star is con...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Will the Human Civilization Be Destroyed? Srila Prabhupada spoke very grave of words of warnings to us on a morning walk in Los Angeles on 12 December 1973: Prabhupāda:..two classes of men: the communist and the non-communist. Not exactly communist and capitalist, but communist and non-communist. Out of these two, the communists are going to be powerful. This is the world tendency. So if the world becomes full of communists, then the human civilization will be finished. All rogues and rascals, that's all. The American government wants to check this tendency. But they cannot check it if they remain "so-called trust in God." That will not be possible. So according to our proposition... Not only now, it is forever. Two classes of men are there: sura and asura. Surāsura. Viṣṇu-bhakto bhaved devaḥ. Deva and sura, the same t...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going There is a popular saying, "When the going gets tough, the tough gets going." When applied to the practice of Krishna consciousness what does this mean? At the present moment the going has gotten very tough. We are prisoners of the material energy being forced by our material desires to transmigrate through the 8,400,000 different species of life gain and again and again. But there is some light at the end of the tunnel. There is a way to become tough, to become strong and thus free ourselves from the clutches of maya. Actually, It is not our strength. We become tough or strong when we take the shelter of the supreme tough, the supreme strong, Lord Sri Krishna Who instructs us as follows in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 7, Verse 14: daivī hy eṣā guṇa-mayī mama māyā duratyayā mām e...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." They are Lower than Animals The present day modern civilization has so drifted so far away from the standard for human beings that it has reached the point of being much, much lower than animals. Animals act 100% in accordance with the laws of nature. They do not pollute the water or the air. They never deviate from the specific behavior that goes with their species. Humans are meant by nature to take to the process of self-realization. They are meant to ponder the meaning of their existence and to seek how to perfect their existence. Hardly even 1% of humans are doing this. This leaves 99% or more who are out of sync with nature. Thus it is no small wonder that the misguided, profusely confused human civilization (What is civil about it?) is polluting the air and polluting the water and more and more turning this planet into a he...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." When One Offends a Vaisnava In his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto, Chapter 10, Text 24 Srila Prabhupada writes: "When one commits an offense at the feet of a Vaisnava, one must immediately apologize to such a personality so that his spiritual advancement may not be hampered." Also in this connection Srila Prabhupada has written in purport to verse 17 of the same chapter: "When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was instructing Rūpa Gosvāmī at the Daśāśvamedha-ghāṭa in Prayāga, He pointed out very clearly the seriousness of offending a Vaiṣṇava. He compared the vaiṣṇava-aparādha to hātī mātā, a mad elephant. When a mad elephant enters a garden, it spoils all the fruits and flowers. Similarly, if one offends a Vaiṣṇava, he spoils all his spiritual assets. Offending a brāhmaṇa is very dangerous, and this was known to Mah...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Krishnadelic Experience Turn off desire Surrender now to Krishna. He's the begining Of all being. So you will see The meaning of everything. His love is glowing Forever growing. Forget the past Ne'er future dream at all. Stop overlapping What's really happening. Become now servant Of person supreme. His name is Krishna. He really misses ya. His name is Krishna. He truly misses ya. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Now Experience Krishna In Full Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now By Clicking Here Questions and Answers I want to commit suicide because I am jobless, and I have no money. S.S. Answer From: ISKCON Austin, Texas USA My Dear Sahil, Please accept my blessings. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. India’s greatest saints were penniless and jobless. So you should be a true Indian and become ...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Great Reformers Speak Or Do Not Speak In Text 33 of The Light of the Bhagavat Srila Prabhupada has written: "There are waterfalls flowing from the hills of the forest, but sometimes water does not flow from them. So the waterfalls are not like ordinary rainfall. They are compared to great reformers, who speak or do not speak, as the time requires." His commentary is as follows:: There are two different kinds of religious preachers. One of them is called the professional preacher, and the other is called the ācārya. The professional preachers are like the rainfall from the sky, but the ācāryas are like waterfalls. The professional traders in Bhāgavatam and Rāmāyaṇa will speak from the portion of the scripture that will appeal to the mundane senses of the audience. For example, the professional Bhāgavatam reciter will genera...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." How to Be Blissful When You Are Suffering Like Hell Does it seem impossible? The answer is, "Yes, it can be done." In this regard Lord Sri Krishna explains as follows in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 2, Text 28: yadā saṁharate cāyaṁ kūrmo 'ṅgānīva sarvaśaḥ indriyāṇīndriyārthebhyas tasya prajñā pratiṣṭhitā "One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness." Srila Prabhupada gives the following purport to this verse: "The test of a yogī, devotee, or self-realized soul is that he is able to control the senses according to his plan. Most people, however, are servants of the senses and are thus directed by the dictation of the senses. That is the answer to the question as to how the yogī is situated. The senses are c...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Garbage In, Garbage Out Modern day education means to fill your mind your with garbage. This is done gradually step by step. First there is kindergarten, then first grade, then second grade, etc, etc. all the way up to Phd (plough driver.) At each step along the way your mind is stuffed with more and more garbage until it is packed with so much garbage that all you can do is spout off garbage wherever you go to whomever you meet. This is the meaning "Garbage in--Garbage Out." This is why you need to hear from a bona fide spiritual master. He fills your ears with so much truth that eventually you will be speaking truth to everyone you meet. In other words you will also be a bona fide spiritual master who can create bona fide spiritual masters who can create bona fide spiritual masters. In this way the whole world will be ...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." X.com (formerly Twitter.com) Appreciates My Humble Effort to Deliver the World Describing my world deliverance mission X.com has posted, "He's been at it for over half a century teaching, lecturing, and singing his way into the hearts of many aiming to revolutionize the consciousness of the entire planet. Talk about ambition!" Also, "Sankarshan Das is not just a spiritual teacher but a cultural icon, a bridge (pun intended with his original name) between ancient wisdom and modern seekers, all wrapped in a package that's as entertaining as it is enlightening." My thanks to x.com for these encouraging words. My request is now that the x.com should be fully pointed towards the ultimate welfare work of delivering all of the fallen souls of this material world back to home, back to Godhead. Sankarshan Das Ad...