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. Krishna's Smile is the Ultimate Sweetness 28 February 2025 The great Vaisnava acharya, Bilvamangala Thakur, lived for 700 years in Vrindavan. He became so spiritually perfect that he entered into Krishna's pastimes in the spiritual world even while he maintained his material body in this material world. As a young man who was addicted to illicit sex he blinded himself so that he would no longer be attracted to women and went to Vrindavan. In his blindness he was personally served by Lord Krishna who would bring him milk. His book, Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, was very much appreciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Here is verse 92 from that extraordinary book: madhuraṁ madhuraṁ vapur asya vibhor madhuraṁ madhuraṁ vadanaṁ madhur...

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. Become Empowered to Deliver the World 27 February 2025 Our scriptures say that when after many thousands of births when one realizes that he is the eternal servant of Krishna he can deliver all the worlds. This is truly amazing, the potency that one can have simply by reviving his dormant Krishna consciousness. This being an indisputable fact, confirmed in the scriptures, can you can think of anything more enlivening and thrilling than to embrace the mission of delivering all of the fallen souls in this material world back to home, back to Godhead? You have this option to become so empowered if you would like to take advantage of it. Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S: Live classes are at:  www.LiveLectures.net For videos  Click...

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. Here's My Spiritual Path in a Nutshell 26 February 2025 As an American youth I was taught to believe in the. "American dream": Study hard, get a good education and a good job to get a good wife some good kids in a good house to enjoy a good life. But when I got to college I realized that this was not enough. I wanted to know what is the meaning of life, but no one could tell me. So I took to the path of self-realization and was blessed in 1968 with the Hare Krishna mantra and the worship of Radha and Krishna. (I did not know about ISKCON at that time.) This inspired me to drop out of college and renounce the world to become a holy beggar in India. But on the way to India I realized that to renounce everything...

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 Withdraw into a Shell Like a Tortoise 25 February 2025 Sometimes we are treated so unjustly that we lose all hope for things to turn out okay. Instead of giving up all hope and withdrawing ourselves into a state of lamentation and depression like a tortoise hiding within his shell, we should remember this verse from the Bhagavad-gita 18.78: yatra yogeśvaraḥ kṛṣṇo yatra pārtho dhanur-dharaḥ tatra śrīr vijayo bhūtir dhruvā nītir matir mama "Wherever there is Kṛṣṇa, the master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my opinion." Thus we should bravely, valiantly fight against injustice, knowing...

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. Is Love of Krishna Automatic? 24 February 2025 Sometimes we are asked if love of Krishna is automatic. The answer is "yes and no." In our present stage of still being addicted to material sense gratification it is not automatic. It just like a young child who has been happily playing at home for many years is now told that he has to start going to school. He does not want to go. So he is forced to go. But after some time of going under force he develops a taste for going to school and like to go to school. Similarly, after some time of engaging in devotional service according to rules and regulations after some time it becomes natural, automatic devotional service. Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S: Live classes are ...

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 Story of Hanuman and the Spider 23 February 2025 We find this in Back to Godhead Magazine: There is a nice story that occurred at the time Rama Chandra and the monkeys were building a bridge across the ocean to reach Lanka. Hanuman and the other Vanaras were hefting huge boulders and throwing them into the sea. In the course of such tremendous labor, Hanuman spied an insignificant spider, who appeared to be brushing some specks of dust into the water with its back legs. "What are you doing, worthless?" Hanuman asked of the spider. "I am helping Rama Chandra build His bridge," the spider replied. Hanuman was about to move the spider out of the way of his own serious work, when Rama Chandra interposed...

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 Deplete Your Duration of Life 22 February 2025 The Srimad Bhagavatam (2.3.27) advises us how the rising and setting of the sun robs us of our duration of life if we are not Krishna conscious. āyur harati vai puṁsām udyann astaṁ ca yann asau tasyarte yat-kṣaṇo nīta uttama-śloka-vārtayā "Both by rising and by setting, the sun decreases the duration of life of everyone, except one who utilizes the time by discussing topics of the all-good Personality of Godhead." Here is Srila Prabhupada's wonderful purport for this verse: This verse indirectly confirms the greater importance of utilizing the human form of life to realize our lost relationship with the Supreme Lord by acceleration of devotional service...

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. ISKCON Will Save the World from Barbarianism 21 February 2025 Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON movement is destined to save the world. In this connection Srila Prabhupada wrote in London on 13 November 1969 to his disciple, Jayasri: "Our movement is the greatest gift to the human race. They may not immediately appreciate it, but time will come and history will give evidence that this movement saved the human society from being fallen into barbarianism." It is certainly Srila Prabhupada's mercy upon us that we have gotten this opportunity to participate in the Krishna consciousness movement. Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S: Live classes are at: www.LiveLectures.net and for recorded lectures go to: www.EcstaticMedia...

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 Must Now Distribute Srila Prabhupada's Books 20 February 2025 Srila Prabhupada's labor of love was to write his books. Even though he was going through so many difficult situations with his health and his living conditions he never failed to keep writing these books. He said, "Every morning, when I sit here to write my books, Krishna comes personally and dictates to me what to write. I simply take dictation from Krishna to write these books. Therefore, when I read them, even I learn something." His books are the greatest blessing upon the fallen souls of this age, They are now trapped in the cycle of birth and death in this most vicious age of Kali. Therefore we must make very endeavor to see that ev...

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. Why is All Hell Breaking Loose on this Planet 19 February 2025 Lord Krishna is the supreme owner and supreme controller of everything. So, one might ask, "If Krishna is the supreme controller why is He allowing all hell to break loose in this planet right now?" If reply we can ask in this regard, "Why don’t the parents put their child in hand cuffs to keep him from doing something naughty?" The answer is that in that condition the child will never learn how to have a loving relationship with his parents. Love requires freedom, and freedom always carries the risk of being misused. So, the parents give the child their loving affection and educate him how, by becoming well-behaved, he can be happy and pe...

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 Should Always Shoot for the Rhinoceros 18 February 2025 Sometimes we see that a preacher of Krishna consciousness shoots for the impossible. He desires to deliver all the suffering souls who are trapped here in the miserable prison of this material existence back to their original all blissful home in the spiritual world. We may wonder what kind of naive head-in-the-clouds foolish idealist he is. But we should carefully note in this connection these wonderful words of profound wisdom given by Srila Prabhupada in a letter he wrote in Mumbai, India on 22 December 1971 to his disciple, Balavanta Das: "We should always be enthusiastic to try for shooting the rhinoceros. That way, if we fail, everybody will say Never ...

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. Can a Dog Swim Across the Ocean? 17 February 2025 It is not possible for a dog to swim across the ocean because after some time he will lose his energy and either come back to shore or continue swimming and drown. But yet Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmi prays as follows in the Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Adi Lila, Chapter 9, Text 1: taṁ śrīmat-kṛṣṇa-caitanya- devaṁ vande jagad-gurum yasyānukampayā śvāpi mahābdhiṁ santaret sukham "Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual master of the entire world, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by whose mercy even a dog can swim across a great ocean." Srila Prabhupada gives the following purport to this verse: "Sometimes it is to be seen that a dog can swim in t...

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. Beautiful Full Moon in Vrindavan 16 February 2025 On 11 February at 4am when I was walking from our quarters at the MVT to attend another super ecstatic mangala arati at Srila Prabhupada's samadhi I was very pleased to view a beautiful full moon enriching the night sky and beaming down on Vrindavan. This immediately brought to my mind this wonderful verse from the Bhagavad-gita. I uttered it aloud to my disciple, Vraja Kishore das, who was walking with me: prabhāsmi śaśi-sūryayoḥ "I am the light of the sun and the moon," (Bg 7.8) Then this brought to my mind another wonderful, enlightening verse: yo māṁ paśyati sarvatra sarvaṁ ca mayi paśyati tasyāhaṁ na praṇaśyāmi sa ca me na praṇaśyati "For one who see...