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." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. Do You Know Why You Exist? 31 December 2024 "Do you know why you exist?" I asked this question in my Sunday Feast lecture on 29 December to a young woman who had asked me a question. She did not know why she exists. If we do not know why we exist it will not be possible for us to perfect our existence. Thus it is essential if we are to achieve the goal of this human form of life form that we must know why we exist. The good news is that this can be very easily understood. Because Lord Sri Krishna, the source of all existence, very much relishes loving relationships He is emanating us from Himself for the sole purpose of having loving relationships with each and every one of us. We are His expanded energy. Since l...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. Don't Be Depressed 30 December 2024 Many times when devotees became very downhearted and discouraged Srila Prabhupada would write to them, "Don't be depressed." Oftentimes when we are very unhappy and discouraged we want to blame our depression on the external situation in which we find ourselves. This is a big mistake. Whenever we feel miserable or discouraged it is simply due to our lack of Krishna consciousness. We are not remembering Krishna. That's all. So the solution is not the changing of our external situation. If not we are Krishna conscious even changing the external situation will not help us. The solution is that we have to bring our minds back to Krishna. This will immediately solve al...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. How to Alway Taste Unlimited Bliss 29 December 2024 Here's some wonderful advice directly given by Lord Sri Krishna in the Bhavagad-gita, Chapter Five, Texts 20 and 21 how we can always be in a state of unlimited bliss: na prahṛṣyet priyaṁ prāpya nodvijet prāpya cāpriyam sthira-buddhir asammūḍho brahma-vid brahmaṇi sthitaḥ "A person who neither rejoices upon achieving something pleasant nor laments upon obtaining something unpleasant, who is self-intelligent, who is unbewildered, and who knows the science of God, is already situated in transcendence." bāhya-sparśeṣv asaktātmā vindaty ātmani yat sukham sa brahma-yoga-yuktātmā sukham akṣayam aśnute "Such a liberated person is not attracted to material sens...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. Have You Visited the Famous Hare Krishna Tree? 28 December 2024 The New York Parks Department has officially designated as a special landmark "The Hare Krishna Tree." You can click this link to see their online commemoration of this special tree . This is the elm tree under which the first widely attended public Hare Krishna kirtan took place on 9 October 1966. If you are ever in New York City you should visit ISKCON's first center at 26 2nd Avenue. This is where Srila Prabhupada legally incorporated ISKCON on July 13, 1966. You should also take a mere 13 minutes walk to the nearby Tompkins Square Park to see the Hare Krishna Tree. The New York Times reported, “In 1965, after a difficult month on a steamship...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. What is Krishna Consciousness? 27 December 2024 "Kṛṣṇa consciousness" is Prabhupāda's own rendering of a phrase from Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī's Padyāvali, written in the sixteenth century. Kṛṣṇa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvita: "to be absorbed in the mellow taste of executing devotional service to Kṛṣṇa. Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S. Please join our Srimad Bhagavatam class on Zoom every day at 7:15 am (Central US Time):: Click here to join zoom classes: Or to join on Zoom manually: ID: 8011081064 Passcode: sda5 Rupa Goswami Śrīla Rūpa Writes Padyāvali Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here Questions and Answers Dear Gurudevji, God created the material world as it was our d...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. We Are All Sheltered by Srila Prabhupada 26 December 2024 Srila Prabhupada is the foundational siksa guru (instructing spiritual master) for everyone who joins ISKCON, which is predicted to remain active for the next 10,000 years. There will be many thousands and millions of acaryas (initiating gurus) as ISKCON grows and grows to gradually completely include every man, woman, and child on this planet, throughout our entire universe, and throughout the infinite universes which constitute the material world. The duty of ISKCON's initiating gurus and senior preachers (siksa gurus) is to train their students how to perfectly connect with Srila Prabhupada by always thinking, speaking, and acting in 100% accordance with Sri...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. What is the True Meaning of Christmas? 25 December 2024 What does Santa Claus and the reindeer have to do with Lord Jesus Christ? Nothing. If's time that we bring Jesus back to Christmas. Jesus Christ is a pure devotee of Krishna, described by Srila Prabhupada in this way: "We accept him śaktyāveśa avatāra, a living entity especially powered from God." According to the Aquarian Gospel, before he began his preaching mission in Israel he lived in the Jagannath temple in Jagannath Puri, associated with the priests there and had philosophical discussions with them. One of them was very friendly with him. He also witnessed the Ratha Yatra festival. In Israel his teaching even the most basic spirituality was too ...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. What is Happening to Colonel Sanders? 24 December 2024 Srila Prabhupada declared that Colonel Sanders of the Kentucky Fried Chicken world wide fast food chain would have to undergo a chicken-birth-life-and-death for every chicken smeared with his famous recipe. Considering that Kentucky Fried Chicken has so far killed about 1.54 billion chickens we can feel sorry for this poor soul, Colonel Sanders, how many times he has to become re-incarnated as a chicken and how many times he is now ending up back in his KFC frying pans all over the world. Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S. Please join our Srimad Bhagavatam class on Zoom every day at 7:15 am (Central US Time):: Click here to join zoom classes: Or to join on Zoom manually: ID...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. The Bastardization of Sacred Sex 23 December 2024 In Vedic culture sex is sacred. This is why Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 7, Text 11: kāmo 'smi bharatarṣabha I am sex life which is not cont\rary to religious principles, O lord of the Bhāratas [Arjuna]. In Vedic culture sex is a divine act for bringing saintly children into the world. In this regard Srila Prabhupada has explained: "The higher castes, the brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas especially, and the vaiśyas also, they must observe the dāsa-veda saṁskāra, ten kinds of reformatory methods. The first method is garbādhāna-saṁskāra. Before giving birth to a child. There is a ceremony which is called garbādhāna-saṁskāra, and it is stated in the śāstras that if...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Note: This is not written by artificial intelligence. It is written by a real person who truly cares about you. Big Monkey--Big, Big Belly 22 December 2024 There is a Bengali saying that Srila Prabhupada fondly quoted: "Baro baro badare baro baro pet laṅka dingake mata kare het: Big, big monkey, big, big belly—Ceylon jumping, melancholy." Srila Prabhupada applied this to the material scientists who have big, big PhD titles and Nobel Prizes but when it comes to actually explaining things as they are they don't have any idea what they are talking about. They are number one fools and rascals. In a conversation with newspaper reporters on 25 March 1976 in Delhi, India Srila Prabhupada also applied this proverb to the mundane scholars who don't know that the law given by Krishna is to fully surrender to Him: Big, big s...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Do Not Become Forever Doomed 21 December 2024 Caitanya Mahāprabhu has warned us, māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa: "If one follows the instructions of Māyāvādī philosophers and believes that the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the individual soul are one, his understanding of real philosophy is forever doomed." The Māyāvādī philosophers are now active in their heinous attempt to pollute the minds of the human society with the false philosophy that the individual person can become God by merging into Him. I just received the following in my email box from Jon Shore who claims to be Spiritual Psychotherapist: There is Only One Life One Mind One Self One Creator One Creation One Awareness One Consciousness Being All That Is Surrender and Dissolve into This Until There is Nothing Left of You To deny the existence ...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Nietzche Said that God is Dead 20 December 2024 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and culture critic, who ended up being one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. He is very famous for his declaration that God is dead. But Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 10, Verse 34: mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham--I am all-devouring death. So who won? Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S. In 1889, at age 44, he collapsed and then suffered a complete loss of his mental faculties with paralysis. It would have been wonderful if we could have enlightened him with Krishna consciousness, the perfection of science and philosophy. Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here Questions and Answers Please accept my humble obeisance to you, Sr...

Thought For the Day The Ultimate Self Realization Course "Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience." Faith Can Move Mountains "Faith can move mountains" is a metaphor that means if you have unflinching determination there is no limit to what you can achieve. It's based on the Bible verse Matthew 17:20, where Jesus says, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." This reminds me of what Srila Prabhupada has written in his purport to Sri Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila Chapter 7, Text 83: "A sincere student aurally receives the holy name from the spiritual master, and after being initiated he follows the regulative principles given by the spiritual master. When the holy name is properly served in this way, automatically the spiritual nature of the holy name spreads; ...