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. Here's the One Switch that Turns on the Whole World July 31 2025 Here's the most wonderful, encouraging words that Srila Prabhupada has blessed us with. They are in his preface to The Nectar of Devotion. The Nectar of Devotion will teach us how to turn the one switch that will immediately brighten everything, everywhere. One who does not know this method is missing the point of life. The point is that when you become Krishna conscious, the entire world you live in becomes illuminated—you experience Krishna everywhere. It's like living in a beautiful spring morning at every minute. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Flip One Switch To Brighten the Whole World P.S: Live classes are at:  www.LiveLectures.net For videos  Cli...

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 Life From Matter? July 30 2025 There is a popular theory that conscious living beings have their origin in non-conscious, dead matter, primordial soup--that from somehow, by a random combination of material elements, conscious life has emerged. But when we ask scientists to demonstrate this in the laboratory, they admit that although science has not advanced enough to do so now, they say that it will be possible in the future. They want us to trust them and give them the Nobel Prize for their advanced scientific knowledge. In this regard we can ask them a simple question: If you were selling your house for $850,000 and someone offered you a postdated check for $850,000 dated five years in the future, would you hand ov...

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 Had a Blissful Hare Krishna Festival in Austin July 29 2025 We had an ecstatic Ratha Yatra ane Festival of India here in Austin. We wish you could have been here! Sankarshan Das Adhikari Ratha Yatra in Austin, Texas 27 July 2025 Explaing Bhagavad-gita to Levi and Noah.  Austin Hare Krishna Festival 27 July 2025 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 Krsna, Srila Gurudeva  Please accept my humble obesiences and please accept my deepest gratitude from the bottom of my heart for everything. 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. We Have Been Unlimitedly Blessed July 28 2025 Just see the unlimited good fortune we have received by comng into contact with Srila Prabhupada. Here is what he as written in The Teachings of Lord Caitanya: The living entity transmigrating through 8,400,000 species of life is sometimes likened to a log gliding downstream on the waves of a river. Sometimes, by chance, a log washes up on shore and is thus saved from being forced to drift further downstream. In this regard there is a nice verse in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.38.5) that encourages every conditioned soul: ”No one should be depressed by thinking he will never be out of the clutches of matter, for there is the possibility of being rescued, exactly as it is possible 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. Can One Renounce Renunciation? July 27 2025 Srila Prabhupada describes that there is further progress to made after renunciation. If one renounces everything to leave this material world completely behind there is still one thing left to renounce and that is renunciation itself. In other words denying everything is not the perfection of our existence. To achieve perfection we have to ultimately deny denial itself and accept something transcendental. In other words we have to take to the loving service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna. Sankarshan Das Adhikari Transcendental Bliss of Devotional Service to Krishna P.S: Live classes are at:  www.LiveLectures.net For videos  Click here for my YouTube Ch...

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 Isolated July 26 2025 I encourage all of you, my disciples and students, to not be isolated from the world at large and from other branches of the ISKCON family. By interacting with the world society at large we can learn how to communicate with them more effectively for the ultimate purpose of bringing them to this wonderful process of Krishna consciousness. And by interacting with the the greater ISKCON family we can gain so much inspiration for expanding our Krishna consciousness. I am personally doing this. Presently every morning I am reading one chapter from Srila Prabhupada's books and every evening a chapter from one of my Godbrother's books. Sankarshan Das Adhikari ISKCON is a Loving Family P...

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 It Wrong for the Spiritual Master to Be Strict? July 25 2025 Sometimes we hear that it is wrong for the spiritual master to be strict with his disciples—that he should not be so strict. I have heard in this connection that I have a reputation in ISKCON for being strict. But in this regard, on November 25, 1968, in Los Angeles, Śrīla Prabhupāda explained as follows regarding the compassion of Arjuna for his kinsmen and thus wanting to not fight the battle: “So-called compassion. He was thinking that by showing that compassion, he’ll be, I mean to say, eulogized by Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa condemned it. Yes. Just the opposite. In other words, Kṛṣṇa is very strict also. That is the qualification of Kṛṣṇa and His associates. Vajrā...

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. This is an Urgent Request 24 July 2025 I am writing to share some deeply distressing news. Our beloved Ambarisa Prabhu has suffered a stroke and is currently in critical condition. He is in the hospital under ventilator support. At this moment, we do not have further details, but Braja Vilas Prabhu has gone to the hospital to try to serve him in whatever way possible. I earnestly request all of you to urgently circulate this message to devotees around the world and begin heartfelt prayers to the Lord for his swift recovery and continued presence among us. Ambarisa Prabhu’s life is dedicated to fulfilling Srila Prabhupada’s vision for the Temple of the Vedic Planetariam, ISKCON's world headquarters, and his continued se...

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. Rise Above the Storm 23 July 2025 If we thoughtfully and scientifically analyze this material world, we can clearly see that material existence is nothing but a stormy nightmare of birth, death, old age, and disease. When an airline pilot sees that his plane is entering a storm, he guides it to rise above the turbulence. In a similar way, we must recognize this material existence as a stormy condition—and rise above it. The way to transcend this storm is by coming to the spiritual platform through the chanting of the holy names of the Lord: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Sankarshan Das Adhikari In the Storm Above the Storm P.S: Live classes are at:  www.Liv...

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 Realize the Highest Truth? 22 July 2025 How to realize the highest is an open secret. It is open to those rare souls who hear submissively from the bona fide spiritual master and closed to those who do not. Here is what Śrīla Prabhupāda has written in this connection: “The Lord is the supreme spiritual master, and the bona fide representative of the Supreme Lord is also a spiritual master. The Lord from within enlightens the devotees by the effulgence of the nails of His lotus feet, and His representative, the spiritual master, enlightens from without. Only by thinking of the lotus feet of the Lord and always taking the spiritual master’s advice can one advance in spiritual life and understand Vedic knowledge. yasya...

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 there a Hospital that Can Cure Death? 21 July 2025 There are approximately 165,000 hospitals all over the world, but not one of them can treat and prevent the most serious health issue of all: death. But ISKCON (The International Society for Krishna Consciousness) is the topmost of all hospitals because this hospital cures the death disease. The doctor is the spiritual master. He is empowered agent of Lord Krishna. Thus he can cure the death disease by bestowing deathlessness upon all those who are willing to take bhakti yoga treatment. 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 Urgent! Plea...

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. Let the Dogs Bark; the Caravan Will Pass. 20 July 2025 In our endeavor to preach Krishna consciousness there are many envious persons who oppose what we are doing. But we are not discouraged. Let the dogs bark. We don't mind. The caravan will pass. We will continue with our God-given mission to deliver the fallen souls of this material world back to home, back to Godhead in spite of the envious critics. Srila Prabhupada has explained that even sometimes there can be such envy amongst the devotees. He explained this as follows in a room conversation on November 3, 1973,in New Delhi, India: "Even in the spiritual field, my Godbrothers are envious. You see? So as soon as you become successful, there will be many ene...

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. 19 July 2025 There are innumerable obstacles on the path of Krishna bhakti. At times, they overwhelm us so completely that we completely lose sight of our direction. Yet in spite of this, if we persist in chanting the Hare Krishna mahamantra, we will overcome even the most seemingly insurmountable difficulties. And our journey back home, back to Godhead, and our mission to make the whole world Krishna conscious will become free from all impediments. 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 Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here Transcendental Repl...

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 Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating 18 July 2025 How do I know that Krishna consciousness is bona fide? I am personally experiencing the validity of Kṛṣṇa bhakti because my life has been totally transformed by it since I first chanted Hare Kṛṣṇa in Denver, Colorado, USA, in the fall of 1968. I have been living in another dimension since then, no longer a slave of the norms of the material society. As it is said: the proof of the pudding is in the eating. 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 Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here Transcen...