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. Remembering My Dear Father 30 June 2025 My father, Lorren Bridge, was in many ways a wonderful person. On one occasion, he rode nearly ten miles on a bicycle to hear a lecture by a visiting sannyasi at our ISKCON temple in Houston, Texas. He very much appreciated that lecture and told me so. On another occasion, he invited Guru Mataji and me to his home and gathered many of his friends to meet with us. During that gathering, he spoke very appreciatively about the Krishna consciousness movement openly glorifying it. In his old age, when he had become invalid, he was staying in a care home in our town of residence, Austin, Texas. One day we received an urgent phone call from the care home informing us that he was about to di...

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. Remembering My Dear Mother 29 June 2025 Although I was born in America, my parents were not devotees of Krishna. Still, I was blessed with two remarkable parents who possessed many admirable qualities. My mother, Carolyn Bridge, majored in Voice during college and could sing with great power and beauty. She often sang solos glorifying God during our Sunday morning church services. Even without the aid of a microphone, her voice would fill the entire church sanctuary—the sacred space where the congregation gathered—with a reverberating, soulful sound. In those days, practically all the women were stay-at-home moms. There was no need for them to work, as the father’s 9-to-5 income was sufficient to comfortably support the fa...

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 How Padaduli Devi Dasi Was Saved from Certain Death 28 June 2025 A devotee named Mishra has told the most amazing true story. Here it is: In 1986 I stopped in Singapore with a devotee for a few days before attending the 500th anniversary of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's advent in Sridham Mayapur. We visited Govinda's Boutique, a small shop that sold many items, including Srila Prabhupada's books. Walking around after visiting the boutique, we heard a big boom. A multistory building had collapsed right around the corner. Hundreds of people were in the building when it came down. The Singapore army was brought in. Piece by piece they dug through the building. Some people were saved, many were not. About 2...

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 Attitude of Gratitude 27 June 2025 Srila Prabhupada writes in The Nectar of Devotion; Any person who is conscious of his friend's beneficent activities and never forgets his service is called grateful. In the Mahābhārata, Kṛṣṇa says, "When I was away from Draupadī, she cried with the words, 'He govinda!' This call for Me has put Me in her debt, and that indebtedness is gradually increasing in My heart!" This statement by Kṛṣṇa gives evidence of how one can please the Supreme Lord simply by addressing Him, "He kṛṣṇa! He govinda!" The mahā-mantra (Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare) is also simply an address to the Lord 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. Here's How to Become Deathless 26 June 2025 In this material world, everyone is trying to do whatever they can to eliminate death or postpone death. But all of their attempts will be failures because our death is determined according to our past karma. However, if one comes to the platform of Krishna consciousness, then he's free from bodily identification, and he actually becomes deathless. He enters into the liberated state of deathlessness. So, this is the most intelligent thing we can do, to become Krishna conscious and thus become free from the anxiety of death. Another point is that for a devotee, since Krishna has freed him from his karma, his time of leaving the body is no longer under the laws of karma but...

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 Overindulge Your Senses 25 June 202 We should not overindulge our senses in the matter of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending because when we do we lose our Krishna consciousness. Thus, we should only indulge in these things as much as required to keep body and soul together and not beyond that. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Overeating Causes Sickness 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 Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here Transcendental Reply Hare Krishna Prabhu, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to You And Srila Prabhupada! Prabhu, How can one...

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. I Embrace the Mood of Prahlada Maharaja 24 June 2025 I like very much appreciate and resonate with the mood of Prahlada Maharaja. He said, "I do not wish to go alone to Vaikuṇṭha unless I take all these rascals with me." This is also my desire. I want to stay here in this material world until all of the fallen souls who are trapped here in the cycle of birth are delivered back to their original identities in the spiritual world. My going back to home, back to Godhead can wait. First let them all be delivered, then I can also go back to Godhead. I know this mood will very much please my beloved Guru Maharaja, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, because he ordered us to deliver the world.. Thus I feel great happin...

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. When a Disciple Falls Down 23 June 2025 When a disciple falls down from devotional service into the clutches of the material energy, it is a most devastating blow for the spiritual master. A rough mundane example of this is if someone has a darling little child who is suddenly run over by a car—the child’s tiny body crushed both by the impact of the collision and the weight of the car as it passes over it. There is no material means of expressing how much the spiritual master is devastated by even losing one of his dear disciples. Thus after taking shelter of the bona fide spiritual master we should never ever deviate from his lotus feet. We should eternally take his orders as our very life and soul. It is very risky for ...

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. There Are No Newspaper in Hell 22 June 2025 Once a Christian evangelist was preaching to some coal miners trying to convince them to accept Jesus, He told them, "If you don't accept Jesus, you will go to hell." So the miners asked, "What is hell?" And the preacher said, "It's very cold. It's very damp. It's very dark." But the coal miners weren't affected by that because they lived in such an atmosphere every day in the coal mine. They were used to it, So the preacher thought how he convince them to surrender to Jesus and he got an idea. He said, "In hell there are no newspapers." So when the miners heard that are no newspapers in hell they immediately decided 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. Here's How to Become Krishna's Most Dear Devotee 21 June 2025 Srila Prabhupada explains as follows in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam, Fourth Canto, Chapter 12, Text 36: "A Kṛṣṇa conscious being is always engaged in planning how to take all of suffering humanity back home, back to Godhead. Even if one is not successful in reclaiming all the fallen souls back to Godhead, still, because he is Kṛṣṇa conscious, his path to Vaikuṇṭhaloka is open. He personally becomes qualified to enter the Vaikuṇṭhalokas, and if anyone follows such a devotee, he also enters into Vaikuṇṭhaloka. Others, who engage in envious activities, are known as karmīs. Karmīs are envious of one another. Simply for sense gratification, they ca...

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 Misguided by a Rascal 20 June 2025 Sometimes someone tells an initiated disciple of a bonafide spiritual master that they understand the disciple's situation better than their spiritual master and that thus the disciple should follow them instead of their spiritual master. Srila Prabhupada explains that such a person who misguides a disciple is a rascal and a demon. So the disciple should be cautious to never fall under the way of such a rascal. The disciple should always stick tightly to the instructions he has received from his spiritual master taking them as his very life and soul. If the disciple is having any difficulty in doing this he should contact his spiritual master explaining his difficulty s...

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. By Surrendering to Krishna We've Got Nothing to Lose Except for Our Anxiety 19 June 2025 Surrendering to Krishna brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress and immediately puts us into a state of transcendental bliss. So why not surrender? Why foolishly remain in anxiety? Sankarshan Das Adhikari Blessed With Bliss 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 Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here Transcendental Reply My get up and go got up and went. How can I get it back? Answer From: Austin, Texas USA My Dear Anonymous, Please accept my blessings. All ...

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 Not Be Fooled by the Material Energy 18 June 2025 To avoid being fooled by the material energy (māyā), one must take full shelter of Krishna through sincere chanting of the Hare Krishna mahā-mantra, regular reading of scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā As It Is and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and consistent association with devotees. Māyā works subtly through our desires, making the temporary seem permanent and illusion appear real. But by cultivating spiritual intelligence, watching our thoughts, and humbly praying for Krishna’s protection, we can remain spiritually alert. As Krishna says in Bhagavad-gītā 7.14, only those who surrender to Him can overcome His powerful material energy. Through humility, prayer, and a determined s...

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 Amazing Story of Mrigari, the Hunter 17 June 2025 Today I want to share with you all this amazing as told by Srila Prabhupada in The Teachings of Lord Caitanya: Once there was a hunter in the forest of Prayāga who was fortunate enough to meet Nārada Muni when the great sage was returning from Vaikuṇṭha after visiting Lord Nārāyaṇa. Nārada came to Prayāga to bathe in the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā. While passing through the forest, Nārada saw a bird lying on the ground. The bird was half-killed, having been pierced by an arrow, and it was chirping piteously. Further on, Nārada saw a deer flopping about in agony. Further, he saw that a boar was also suffering, and, in another place, he saw a rabbit twit...