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. Initiation by a Bonafide Guru is Compulsory 31 January 2025 In his book The Nectar of Devotion Srila Prabhupada writes as follows: In the Eleventh Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Third Chapter, verse 21, Prabuddha tells Mahārāja Nimi, "My dear King, please know for certain that in the material world there is no happiness. It is simply a mistake to think that there is happiness here, because this place is full of nothing but miserable conditions. Any person who is seriously desirous of achieving real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation. The qualification of a spiritual master is that he must have realized the conclusions of the scriptures by deliberation and arguments ...

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 USA Needs a Krishna Conscious President 30 January 2025 In a conversation with his disciple Shyamasundar Das Srila Prabhupada explained: If you spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness and if you make your president Kṛṣṇa conscious, then actually you will be God's empowered nation. Let the president become Kṛṣṇa conscious man. Why not? You are American, you can also capture the post. You can become senator, you can be congressman. So educate the American public in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, elect Kṛṣṇa conscious president and actually you will be God's favored nation is there. You have got the opportunity and the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is also in your hand, now it is up to you to utilize it and become actually the leaders of...

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. Today We Are Heading Out to India 29 January 2025 Today Guru Mataji and I are heading out to the holy land of India. This is most important holy place where Krishna Himself appeared in different incarnations and so many thousands of great saints and sages have taken their birth. Even politically India was of topmost importance. The entire earth planet was formally one nation known as Bharat-varsa and its capital was Hastinapur, which is now New Delhi. In this connection Srila Prabhupada describes follows: "Yes, the dominant nation is, it is connected with the absolute truth that up to Mahārāja Parīkṣit, five thousand years ago, the king of Hastināpur, they were dominating the whole world. Because Mahārāja Parīkṣit, Ma...

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. You Are Not of the World 28 January 2025 There is no need to be in anxiety if this world is getting you down. In fact, it is a blessing to remind you that you are not of this world. So, don't let it bring you down. Instead celebrate the fact that you are a citizen of the spiritual world where life is eternal, full of knowledge, and full of bliss. We were in state of transcendental love and bliss serving Lord Sri Krishna in His transcendental abode. But somehow or other circumstantially we fell down into this material, just like someone is walking down the road but accidentally slips and falls down by stepping on a banana peel. Now all we have to do is pick ourselves up by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra. This will bri...

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. You Must Do These Three Things 27 January 2025 Srila Prabhupada explains in his book The Nectar of Devotion that Srila Rupa Goswami teaches that to advance in Krishna consciousness these three things are most vital: Accepting the shelter of a bona fide spiritual master Taking initiation from him Serving him with respect and reverence Without following these above-mentioned three principles, one cannot properly elevate himself to the platform of sādhana-bhakti, or devotional service in practice. Sometimes we hear a bogus philosophy that initiation by the bona fide spiritual master is not required. But this is not in accord with what has been to us by Srila Prabhupada and Srila Rupa Goswami. Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S: Li...

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. Are You Looking for a Sure Bet? 26 January 2025 It is very beneficial for us that gambling is against our regulative principles because gambling means to throw away our money being lured by the desire to get rich quick. Gambling is the pastime of fools who are captured by the glare of the material energy. We know better than to waste our energy in this way. We don't want to invest our time and energy into something of which the odds are almost 100% stacked against us. Instead we put our time and energy into something in which we are 100% guaranteed to win, devotion to Krishna. Krishna consciousness is a sure bet. We are guaranteed not to lose. Thank you, Srila Prabhupada, for teaching us the science of Krishna conscio...

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 Not Miss this Golden Opportunity 25 January 2025 Lord Caitanya's movement is predicted to go down in history for making the whole world Krishna consciousness. Thus, those fortunate and intelligent souls who dedicate their lives for pushing forward Lord Caitanya's movement will go down in history for being the saviors of the world. Of course such sincere devotees think themselves to be lower than the straw in the street and thus do not desire any honor and prestige for themselves. What they desire more than anything else is to please Lord Caitanya. By dedicating themselves to pushing forward His movement for the deliverance of the world they give Him the greatest pleasure. Thus they embrace His world delivera...

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. Chanting Hare Krishna is the Supreme Bliss 24 January 2025 There is nothing more ecstatic than chanting Hare Krishna. It exceeds all of the pleasures of the material world by millions and billions of times. Even the pleasures of the demigods in the heavenly planets cannot compete with the pleasure that is tasted by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra with love. Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare So if you want to be free from all anxiety, even the anxiety of dying, this Hare Krishna mantra is your best friend. Indeed, it is Krishna Himself bestowing unlimited mercy upon you. Sankarshan Das Adhikari There is Nothing More Blissful Chanting Hare Krishna Urgent! Pleas...

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. Would You Like to Stay Young Forever? 23 January 2025 Would you like to stay young forever, to never get sick, to never get old, and to never die? Lord Sri Krishna is an eternal youth. And we, as spiritual beings, are also eternally youthful. All we to have to reconnect with our original ever-youthful natures to revive our original Krishna consciousness, which is now in dormant state sleeping within us. We already have this unlimited opulence. It is simply a matter of reconnecting with it by chanting these sacred names love: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare This is the insider's secret of how Srila Prabhupada was always able the maintain the demeanor and...

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. Does Might Make Right? 22 January 2025 We have seen in the modern day many politicians have a total disregard for moral principles. Their agenda is to somehow get into a position of political power by hook or by crook. And once they get that position whatever serves their selfish, greedy desires is considered to be right. And whatever stands in the way of fulfilling their selfish, greedy desires is wrong. Thus it is an extremely sad state of affairs in this wicked age of Kali. The only way to counteract this is the wide scale spreading of the Krishna consciousness movement. There is no other hope for the rapidly deteriorating human society. Instead of "might makes right" it should be "right makes might....

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. Which Guru Should I Follow? 21 January 2025 Sometimes we hear the bogus philosophy that one can reject his dīkṣā-guru and follow a śikṣā-guru instead. But we must clearly understand that our initiating guru (dīkṣā-guru) is our one authority. Others who assist us in serving our dīkṣā-guru are known as instructing spiritual masters (śikṣā-guru). It is not that we can neglect following our dīkṣā-guru and follow the śikṣā-guru instead. Srila Prabhupada makes it very clear that if the śikṣā-guru teaches something different from the dīkṣā-guru, he is not a śikṣā-guru, He is a demon. So we have to be very careful not to be misled on this path of Krishna bhakti. This is compared to a razor's edge. One slip and there is blood...

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 a Fault Finder 20 January 2025 Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport to Bhagavad-gita 16.13: "Apaiśunam means that one should not find fault with others or correct them unnecessarily. Of course to call a thief a thief is not faultfinding, but to call an honest person a thief is very much offensive for one who is making advancement in spiritual life." In this connection also the famous American philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise." This is actually our position we were living in the paradise of the spiritual world, but we found fault with it because somebody else (Lord Sri Krishna) is the center of enjoyment, not us. That's why ar...

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 to Do in Times of Trouble? 20 January 2025 We live in this material world, which is the world of dualities. Sometimes everything is going nicely and sometimes we find ourselves in a nightmare. How do we remain equipoised while we are being buffeted on this material in the waves of dualities? This is the great challenge we face. It is easy to say the solution, which is take complete shelter of Krishna, but to fully situated in this consciousness when all hell breaks loose in our life is another matter. To come to this position requires steady faith and practice in the liberating process of Krishna consciousness. We have to dive into deeply into Krishna consciousness on a regular daily basis. We have to make it ou...

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. Everyone Can Join this Hare Krishna Movement 18 January 2025 Srila Prabhupada writes as follows in the Nectar of Devotion: How the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement can attract the attention of the whole world and how each and every man can feel pleasure in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness is stated in the Padma Purāṇa as follows: "A person who is engaged in devotional service in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness is to be understood to be doing the best service to the whole world and to be pleasing everyone in the world. In addition to human society, he is pleasing even the trees and animals, because they also become attracted by such a movement." A practical example of this was shown by Lord Caitanya when He was traveling through the...