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." Can We Ever End this Crazy Violence? We are seeing now an ever-increasing upsurge of horrific violence all over the world. Law and order are vanishing from this planet while disorder and lawlessness become more and more prominent. A gunman enters an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas killing 19 young children and 2 teachers while law enforcement personnel wait outside for 70 minutes before confronting him. The president of the United States inspires a violent uprising against the democratic system of his country trying by brute force to keep himself in power. A violent mob of Muslims attack and burn an ISKCON (Hindu) temple in Bangladesh. Russia invades Ukraine with brute military force for the purpose of making Ukraine part of Russa. Criminal gangs take over the the country of Haiti even murdering a Christian missionary who sole a...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Mundane Morality vs. Spiritual Morality I wrote for yesterday's Thought for the Day No More Mr. Nice Guy. Today I realized that Arjuna is the perfect example of this. He was thinking to be a nice guy by not killing his relatives. Bu then after hearing the Bhagavad-gita from the lotus mouth of Lord Sri Krishna he realized that instead he should kill hi relatives on the order of Lord Sri Krishna. In other words he realized that spiritual morality takes precedence over mundane morality. This is a lesson that we all need to learn. Otherwise, we remain entangled in the cycle of repeated birth and death. Sankarshan Das Adhikari We Must All Learn from Arjuna's Realization Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now By Clicking Here Questions and Answers Hare Krishna Prabhu! Please accept my humble obeis...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." No More "Mr. Nice Guy" In this material world our tendency is to please everyone. We want to be "Mr. Nice Guy." We don't want to make waves. Because of this we sometimes compromise our principles of Krishna consciousness in order to not be a disturbance to those with whom we associate. But this a big self-destructive mistake. In all times, places, and circumstances we must always think, speak, and act in accordance with what is beneficial for our Krishna consciousness and avoid thinking, speaking, and acting in a way that is detrimental for our Krishna consciousness. If we do this we are on the liberated platform transcendental to the sufferings of this material existence. Now you decide where you want to be and do the needful. Is That Okay? Sankarshan Das Adhikari Always Do What is Favorable for Your Krishn...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Song of Despair Here's the rough draft of my first attempt to write Song of Despair. Presently it is song lyrics only with no melody yet chosen: Our leaders are zonkeys A big pack of donkeys Leading us to despair And they don't really care When will we ever learn? When will we ever lern? They're brutalizing the babies. And murdering the cows. To save and protect these Is our duty right now. When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? The world's bogus teachers Are nothing but cheaters Their misguided classes Train us to be asses When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Their scientific delirium madness Obliterates my gladness Instead of showing the way They lead me into a cave When will we ever learn? When will we ever leran? People dying and crying In the Darien Gap While the conscienceless leaders...

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 Put a Stop to the Demons? If the devotees at the temple that was recently destroyed by burning by Muslims in Bangladesh had used guns to protect the temple by shooting the terrorists, this could have easily sparked off massive killing of Hindus by Muslims all over Bangladesh. Even though the devotees according to moral principles had every right to do this, if some of the terrorists had been shot the Muslims would take this as a green light to now kill Hindus all over Bangladesh, burn their homes and rape their women. So how are we going to put a stop to this terrorism? The real solution is Lord Caitanya's sankirtan movement. My proposal is that the US government should now step in to organize a massive sankirtan party consisting of people from every nation of the world. This massive sankirtan party should travel to ev...

May You Be Blessed with an Eternal Life Full of Bliss and Full of Knowledge Muslims Destroy ISKCON Temple Recently in Meherpur, within Bangladesh's Khulna division, an ISKCON temple was attacked, vandalized, and set ablaze amid ongoing unrest following the resignation of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The incident is part of a broader wave of violence targeting Hindu temples across the country. ISKCON spokesperson Yudhistir Govinda Das confirmed that the temple, along with the deities of Lord Jagannath, Baladev, and Subhadra Devi, was destroyed. Fortunately, the three devotees residing in the center managed to escape unharmed. Our scriptures say that we should be more tolerant than a tree. So what be our mood when one of our ISKCON temples along with its deities are destroyed. Should our mood be to be very tolerant and forgiving? Or should we think of punishing the blasphemers? In this connection Srila Prabhupada has written as follows in his purport to CC Ādi 10.85 ”One can...

May You Be Blessed with an Eternal Life Full of Bliss and Full of Knowledge   Vishnujana Swami Made Me a Devotee When I prayed to God to guide me how to become His perfect servant, He heard my prayer and reciprocated by sending His Holiness Vishnujana Swami to Austin, Texas in the spring of 1971 to teach me by his example and by his words how to become His devotee. He was the great personality who recommended to Srila Prabhupada for initiation and who performed my initiation ceremony. I cannot even begin to imagine how much I am indebted to him. How I met him and how he made me Krishna's devotee is described in detail in memoir, The Divine Love Memoir, which can be ordered by clicking right here. Sankarshan Das Adhikari His Holiness Vishnujana Swami Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now By Clicking Here Questions and Answers What do you like the most about Vishnujana Swami? His ability to see the tiny spark of devotion in the heart of a person and f...

May You Be Blessed with an Eternal Life Full of Bliss and Full of Knowledge Theories Are Not Scientific When I attended a gathering in which a scientist was presenting his theory before a public assembly I asked him, "How do we know that your theory will not be replaced by another theory?" He answered, "I hope it is because then we will be making progress." Thus the obvious conclusion of this is that theories are not facts. They are simply speculations. Yet they are dishonestly put forward as facts and are accepted as facts by the fools and rascals. Darwin's theory that we came from the apes is an example of this. In this connection there is word "oxymoron." This refers to a statement that contradicts itself such as "cruel kindness." Just as "cruel kindness" is self-contradictory "scientific theory" is also self-contradictory because theories are speculative. They are not factual. Science means to know things as they a...

May You Be Blessed with an Eternal Life Full of Bliss and Full of Knowledge 1% Will Change the World The world population is 8 billion. On 2 May 1972 while in Tokyo Srila Prabhupada wrote in a letter to his disciple Karandhara das, "If only 1% become devotees, that will change the world." This means that we need to focus only on making 80 million people Krishna conscious. That will be sufficient for transforming world history. But Is this doable? In this connection on 27 March 1972 while in Sydney, Australia Srila Prabhupada wrote to his disciple Jagadish, "If we simply repeat this philosophy exactly as it is, without any misrepresentation or adulteration, then this movement will never be checked, and we will conquer the world." So the real formula for conquering the world is purity, determination, and patience. If Jeff Bezos could launch the worldwide marketing giant Amazon in the garage of a rented home just think what we can accomplish for making the whole worl...

May You Be Blessed with an Eternal Life Full of Bliss and Full of Knowledge Can an Unrealized Person understand the Rasa Dance? One time, while Prabhupāda was eating jackfruit, he joked about the taste of jackfruit. A man in a foreign land tried to describe jackfruit to a friend, but he confessed that there was no way to describe it unless you tasted it. When the friend insisted on some verbal description, the man replied that if you were to drink sugarcane juice through a Muslim’s beard, then you might understand the taste of the jackfruit. Prabhupāda said that attempts to understand the rāsa dance of Kṛṣṇa by unrealized persons are like that. So instead of speculating on the rasa dance we should learn about it from Srila Prabhupada. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Sugar Cane Juice The Beard of a Muslim Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now By Clicking Here Questions and Answers My Dear Respected Gurudeva. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sril...

Are you a worrier or a warrior?--3 August 2024 (C.E.538) May You Be Blessed with an Eternal Life Full of Bliss and Full of Knowledge Are You a Worrier or a Warrior? We have a choice. We can be worriers, the victims of history or we can be warriors, the makers of history. Which one are you? The worriers are those who succumb to the waves of the modern day materialistic civilization and are thus carried away by the waves of maya to remain entangled perpetually in the cycle of repeated birth and death. According to the law of karma sometimes they are humans. Sometimes they are animals. Sometimes they are fish. Sometimes they are demigods. Sometimes they are germs. etc, etc, On the other are the warriors, those who take advantage of the material energy seeing that it is ultimately the energy of Krishna. They ride of the waves of the material energy for the pushing forward a new era of spirituality on this planet. This is the sankirtan movement of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. You have a choic...

 If not for Krishna where would we be?--2 August 2024 (C.E.538) May You Be Blessed with an Eternal Life Full of Bliss and Full of Knowledge If Not for Krishna Where Would We Be? We wouldn't exist at all if it were not for Krishna's emanating us from Himself for the purpose of enjoying loving relationships with us. Yet, it spite of this we deny His existence and take our unexplained existence for granted. Can you imagine how ungrateful we are? It's time to revive the universal attitude of gratitude that once in former ages existed all over the world. In this way the whole world will become peaceful, prosperous, and happy. Sankarshan Das Adhikari All-Attractive Krishna is Our Source Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now By Clicking Here Questions and Answers Hare Krishna Srila Gurudeva, I pray to Radha and Krishna every day. I chant every day, but still I am facing difficult times. I am a Krishna conscious devotee. Why Krishna is not protectin...