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. Upcoming Travel Schedule March 31 Lithuania April 8 Estonia April 12 after Bhagavatam in Estonia to Finland. April 14 Travel to Austin Tx USA The Spiritual Master is Like a Rain Cloud 31 March 2025 We sing every morning during the mangala-arati this from the Gurvastakam Prayers: saṁsāra-dāvānala-līḍha-loka- trāṇāya kāruṇya-ghanāghanatvam prāptasya kalyāṇa-guṇārṇavasya vande guroḥ śrī-caraṇāravindam "The spiritual master is receiving benediction from the ocean of mercy. Just as a cloud pours water on a forest fire to extinguish it, so the spiritual master delivers the materially afflicted world by extinguishing the blazing fire of material existence. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of such a spirit...

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. Upcoming Travel Schedule March 30 Lithuania April 8 Estonia April 12 after Bhagavatam in Estonia to Finland. April 14 Travel to Austin Tx USA Can I Offer My Means of Livelihood to Krishna? 30 March 2025 I often advise my students and disciples that they can do their job or business and offer its results to Krishna. Here is the sastric reference for this advice. It is in The Nectar of Devotion under the headline Performing All Endeavors for Krishna. "In the Nārada-pañcarātra there is a statement of how one can act in all spheres of life for the satisfaction of the Lord. It is stated there that a person who is actually in devotional service must be engaged in all kinds of activities—those prescribed in the revealed scr...

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. Upcoming Travel Schedule March 29 Lithuania April 8 Estonia April 12 after Bhagavatam in Estonia to Finland. April 14 Travel to Austin Tx USA Is Initiation from a Spiritual Master Required? 29 March 2025 Sometimes we hear claims that initiation from the bona fide spiritual master is not required, that simply taking instructions from a spiritual master without initiation is sufficient. However, this is not what Srila Prabhupada has taught us. Here is what he has written in his introduction to his book The Nectar of Devotion; "The connection with the spiritual master is called initiation. From the date of initiation by the spiritual master, the connection between Kṛṣṇa and a person cultivating Kṛṣṇa consciousness is est...

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. Did We Come from Stoned Monkeys? 28 March 2025 In 1993 Terence McKenna (November 16, 1946–April 3, 2000, an American ethnobotanist, introduced the stoned ape theory that apes who regularly ate psilocybin mushrooms in large quantities became human beings. He thus proposed that such psychedelic drugs as psilocybin mushrooms enhance consciousness. But factually such drugs degrade the consciousness instead of enhancing it. Did he not realize how stupid his speculation was because of taking too many "magic" mushrooms? The fact, as confirmed the Vedic wisdom and by the personal experience of those who are seriously practicing the science of Krishna consciousness, is that our original enlightened spiritual consciousness...

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 is the Ultimate Weapon 27 March 2025 Normally when we think about the ultimate weapon we think about a nuclear bomb. Or if we are learned in Vedic wisdom we think about the yogic perfection known as īśitā siddhi by which one can create and destroy an entire planet simply at will. But these powerful weapons are dwarfed by the ultimate weapon, a pair of cymbals in the hands of Krishna's pure devotee, Srila Prabhupada. By this pair of cymbals (khartals) that he brought from India to launch the Krishna consciousness movement in the Western world he has set into motion the greatest paradigm shift that has ever taken place in this material world, the total deliverance of all the conditioned souls who are suffering 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. Interview at Foot of Snow-Capped Mountain 26 March 2025 On 22 March 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria I was asked in a recorded video interview to give the story of how I came to Krishna consciousness. Click here to hear the interview. Sankarshan Das Adhikari P.S: Live classes are at:  www.LiveLectures.net For videos  Click here for my YouTube Channel For recorded lectures go to:  www.EcstaticMedia.com Here's the Mountain Here's the Interview Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here Transcendental Correspondence I want to become a Krishna conscious, but I don't how to become. I need a complete details about this, please help me with this. I started to read Bhagavad Gita and I a...

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. Before I Failed. This Time I Will Succeed. 25 March 2025 Srila Prabhupada personally wrote me from London on 12 August 1971 in my initiation letter. "..you have been trained up under the expert guidance of Visnujana Swami." Thus I very much appreciate and cherish the instructions that he gave me. One of the most powerful instructions Visnujana Swami gave me was, "Within the order of the spiritual master comes the potency to successfully carry it out." Previously I was out to the save the world as a hippie idealist singer/songwriter and I was not successful. Now I am out to save the world on the order of my spiritual master, "Deliver the world." This time, instead of armed with a guitar I am 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. Khatvanga Maharaja is the Ideal Vedic King 24 March 2025 Regarding Khatvanga Maharaja Srila Prabhupada writes as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Second Canto, Chapter 1, Text 13 as follows: "Mahārāja Khaṭvāṅga was invited by the demigods in the higher planets to fight demons, and as a king he fought the battles to the full satisfaction of the demigods. The demigods, being fully satisfied with him, wanted to give him some benediction for material enjoyment, but Mahārāja Khaṭvāṅga, being very much alert to his prime duty, inquired from the demigods about his remaining duration of life. This means that he was not as anxious to accumulate some material benediction from the demigods as he was to prepare himsel...

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. Great Devotees Travel All Over the Universes 23 March 2025 Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Fourth Canto, Chapter 22, Text 16 as follows: "The devotees are representatives of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and to elevate the conditioned souls to their original consciousness, they travel all over the universes to enlighten the conditioned souls about Krsna consciousness." In the Krishna we read how Narada Muni prayed to Krishna for the blessings to be able to do so: "Now please give me Your blessings so that I may be able to travel all over the universes singing the glories of Your transcendental activities." How fortunate we are here in these universes that great person...

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 Suffering? 22 March 2025 Suffering is natural in this material world because this is a world suffering. We are so accustomed to it that we often don't notice it.. But sometimes when it is acute we strongly feel its pinches. In those times the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna are our only solace (BG 2.14): mātrā-sparśās tu kaunteya śītoṣṇa-sukha-duḥkha-dāḥ āgamāpāyino 'nityās tāṁs titikṣasva bhārata "O son of Kuntī, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed...