Ultimate Self Realization

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss The Most Astonishing Lord Sri Krishna We are Enjoyers by Nature Thought for Day--20 January 2026 Just as the hand enjoys—by receiving nourishment—when it feeds the stomach, we are likewise meant to enjoy the benefits of serving Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Enjoyer. If the hand thinks, “Why should I work so hard to feed the stomach when it does nothing but sit and enjoy the results of my endeavor?” and thus refuses to feed the stomach, the hand will in due course of time suffer a total and complete loss of energy. So, the point is that we cannot enjoy independently. We can only enjoy when we give pleasure to the Supreme Enjoyer, Lord Sri Krishna. Sankarshan Das Hand Feeds the Stomach Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here For Transcendental Videos Click Here Transcendental Reply Bob: When you have some knowledge of God, then l...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss The Great Sages Show Us the Way We are Not Meant to Quarrel Like Cats and Dogs Thought for Day--19 January 2026 As soon as we stop considering Krishna or God to be the center of existence and start considering ourselves to be the center of existence we run into endless conflicts with so many others who also consider themselves to be the center of existence. Thus there is no question of. peace and happiness without Krishna consciousness. Here's what Srila Prabhupada has written in this regard: In this world human beings are not meant for quarreling like cats and dogs. People must be intelligent to realize the importance of human life and refuse to act like ordinary animals. A human being should realize the aim of his life, and this direction is given in all Vedic literatures, and the essence is given in Bhagavad-gītā. Vedic literature is meant for human beings, not for an...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss A Dangerous Tigress We Are Being Devoured by a Tigress Thought for Day--18 January 2026 Srila Prabhupada wonderfully writes in his introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is: Every one of us is full of anxieties because of this material existence. Our very existence is in the atmosphere of nonexistence. Actually, we are not meant to be threatened by nonexistence. Our existence is eternal. But somehow or other we are put into asat. Asat refers to that which does not exist. He further explains: Lord Kṛṣṇa descends specifically to reestablish the real purpose of life when man forgets that purpose. Even then, out of many, many human beings who awaken, there may be one who actually enters the spirit of understanding his position, and for him this Bhagavad-gītā is spoken. Actually, we are all swallowed by the tigress of nescience, but the Lord is very merciful upon living entities,...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss Mahabhagvat Prabhu and His Son,Vitthal Bhakta                                              Out for Preaching in Severe Cold in Toronto Braving the Cold to Spread Krishna Bhakti Thought for Day--17 January 2026 One of the great pioneers of pushing forward our Krishna consciousness movement is my beloved disciple, Sriman Mahābhāgavat Prabhu. Even in severe cold he goes out to distribute Śrīla Prabhupāda’s books in Toronto, where in the winter it can go as low as minus 14 degrees Celsius, which is about 6 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. Kindly read more about his heroic preaching activities by clicking here. His example and the examples of others like him are shining torchlights illuminating this deeply darkened age of Kali. Sankarshan Das Mahabhagavat with his...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss   Srila Prabhupada Launches ISKCON in New York's Tompkins Square Park Hare Krishna is Where It's At Thought for Day--16 January 2026 In the lingo of the countercultural youth — the hippies, ten thousand of whom in the 1960s and 1970s became Śrīla Prabhupāda’s first disciples — we could say, “Hare Kṛṣṇa is where it’s at. You dig?” This means: “Do you understand that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the perfection of existence?” Śrīla Prabhupāda was very expert in preaching according to time, place, and circumstance. For example, when he first came to preach Krishna consciousness in San Francisco, his center was in Haight-Ashbury, the hippie neighborhood. When a reporter asked him about his center, just see how he replied: Reporter: "Downstairs, you said you were inviting everyone to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Does that include the Haight-Ashbury Bohemians and beatniks?" Pra...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss Krishna with a Calf Know Krishna, Know Everything No Krishna, Know Nothing Thought for Day--15 January 2026 In the Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 1.3 we are blessed with this sublime wisdom: yasmin vijñāte sarvam idaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavati "If one knows the original cause, the subordinate causes are automatically known." Stated simply this means that if you know Krishna you know everything. The opposite of this is that if you don't know Krishna, even though you may be very proud of your material knowledge, you don't know anything, you know nothing. One may argue that knowing everything means that he must be able to know how many grains of sand are on the beach. This is not what is meant. He knows everything in the sense that he knows the pure essence of everything. He knows that the sand is the emanated energy of Krishna. In this way he perfectly understands the utility of t...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety  and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss Jagannatha, Baladeva, and Subhadra Here's How Lord Jagannatha Became Manifested Thought for Day--14 January 2026 It seems mysterious how Krishna manifests Himself in the form of Lord Jagannatha. My beloved senior Godbrother, His Grace Sriman Achyutananda Prabhu, has very nicely described in his book Blazing Sadhus how this happened. His Royal Highness Sri Krishna, the Lord of the opulent city of Dwarka, the Lord of the universe, is always longing for His days in Braj Vrindavan when He played with the cowherd boys and His gopis. Once Rohini, the mother of Balaram, described the Braj pastimes to the queens in Dwarka. She told them to shut all the doors because these tales are very confidential and if Krishna hears them He may run away to Vrindavan. Krishna, Balaram, and Subhadra listened outside the door, side by side. Hearing about Braj, They melted in ecstasy. Their arms ...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety and Bless You with Unlimited Bliss Our Most Beloved Lord Sri Krishna Don't Be Misled by False Propaganda Thought for Day--13 January 2026 There is a growing trend within ISKCON to accept hearsay as authoritative evidence— “so-and-so said this, so-and-so said that,” etc., etc., and therefore it is assumed to be authoritative. This tendency is especially evident in the new definition circulating within ISKCON regarding the meaning of the vow of “no illicit sex” that we take at the time of initiation. The inherent fallacy of relying on hearsay is very nicely illustrated in the following story of Sargal Singh, as told by Jayadvaita Swami in his book Srila Prabhupada’s Kirtan Standards. A man in the village had shaved his head, as one does when a relative dies, and was lamenting, “Sargal Singh is dead! Sargal Singh is dead!” “Sargal Singh is dead?” asked the local grocer. “Yes, he’s dead,” the man sobbed. “He wa...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety and Bless You With Unlimited Bliss Krishna is Our Best Friend Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of Our E-Course Thought for Day--12 January 2026 Today we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of our Ultimate Self Realization Course with its highly popular Thought for the Day daly broadcast. This means that I have sent more than 7,300 broadcasts of Thought for the Day to you all my beloved students and disciples all over the world. I thank you very much for being one of my students, and I pray to Lord Krishna that He may bless you and your family members with pure love of God so that your lives will be completely free from illusion and anxiety and filled with unlimited bliss. Hoping this meets you in good health and in a cheerful mood, Your ever well-wisher. Sankarshan Das Srila Prabhupada's Writing is My Inspiration Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here For Trans...

The Ultimate Self Realization Course To Free You from Confusion and Anxiety and Bless You With Unlimited Bliss Drowning in the Ocean of Maya How the Word "Blooped" Entered ISKCON Thought for Day--11 January 2026 Here's how the word "blooped" entered our Krishna consciousness movement as told by Acyutananda Prabhu in his book Blazing Sadhus: Swamiji’s lectures often included the metaphor of falling back into the material illusory ocean of maya. He would gesture as if throwing a stone. One day Vince got confused and yelled, “I don’t get it. It’s just another religion, another sectarian cult.” He stomped out of the temple. Brahmananda and I looked at each other, and I said, “He fell back into the ocean of maya.” Brahmananda made the gesture of throwing a stone and said, “Bloop.” After that, every time a devotee left we’d say, “Ah, he’s blooped.” Or if someone was misunderstanding we’d say, “I think he’s gonna bloop.” Or when someone didn’t show up for a few weeks, ...

Srila Prabhupada's Early Days in New York City There is Nothing More Delightful Than This Thought for Day--10 January 2026 There is nothing more delightful than the pastimes of Krishna and His associates in Vrindavan. Here is one of them for you to relish. It is mentioned in The Nectar of Devotion: When Kṛṣṇa was holding up Govardhana Hill with His left hand, the vayasyas (Krishna's friends of the same age) said, "Dear friend, You have been standing for the last seven days and nights without any rest. This is very troublesome for us, because we see that You have undertaken a severely laborious task. We think, therefore, that You need not continue to stand in that way holding the hill. You can just transfer it onto Sudāmā's hand. We are very much aggrieved to see You in this position. If you think that Sudāmā is not able to support Govardhana Hill, then at least You should change hands. Instead of supporting it with Your left hand, please transfer it to Your right hand,...

Krishna and Balarama in ISKCON Vrindavan Here's How to Surrender to Krishna Thought for Day--9 January 2026 In the preface to The Teachings of Lord Caitanya Srila Prabhupada telll us exactly what we need to do to surrender to Krishna. Here's what he says: In the surrendering process, one should (1) accept things favorable for discharging devotional service, (2) reject things unfavorable, (3) firmly believe that the Lord will always protect His devotee, (4) feel exclusively dependent on the mercy of the Lord, (5) have no interest separate from the interest of the Lord, and (6) always feel meek and humble. So each of us should see to what extent we are following these guidelines. If we not following them 100% we should adjust ourselves to come to 100% as soon as possible. If we do not do this we are cheating ourselves. Hoping this meets you in good health and in a cheerful mood, Your ever well-wisher. Sankarshan Das Prabhupada's Perfect Example Attracts Thousands Urgent! Ple...

Krishna Kills Ariṣṭāsura, the bull demon His killing so many demons makes Him more glorious. There is No Question of Glorious Victory Without Strong Opposition Thought for Day--8 January 2026 Just as the kṣatriyas—the warrior class in Vedic culture—were enlivened and inspired to fight powerful enemies in battle, those who are dedicated to spreading Krishna consciousness do not shy away from philosophical battle. Rather, they find enthusiasm and joy in defeating all opposing arguments—arguments that challenge the Vedic siddhānta, the conclusive understanding derived from the Vedic literature and confirmed by the great ācāryas. By smashing to smithereens the most powerful arguments of all varieties of materialists—the hedonists, the atheists, the agnostics, the so-called scientists, the pantheists, etc.—the Vaiṣṇava preachers achieve the most glorious victory and give the greatest pleasure to Lord Sri Krsihna. Just as Krishna relished killing so many demons, His devotees similarly relish...

Krishna and Balarama--Transcendental Cowherd Boys (Who could imagine that God is a cowherd boy?) Heading Out Today on a Deliver the World Tour Thought for Day--7 January 2026 The whole world is dying to be born. Thus, it is the mission of our Krishna consciousness movement to awaken them. Today I am very happy to be heading out on another around the world Krishnaization tour. I am humbly down at the feet of my beloved spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, begging for his mercy that very soon we may be able to make the whole world Krishna conscious. Hoping this meets you in good health and in a cheerful mood, Your ever well-wisher. Sankarshan Das Prabhupada Gives the Order: Become Guru and Deliver the Whole World December 17, 1973, Los Angeles Urgent! Please Help Us Make the World Krishna Conscious. Donate Now by Clicking Here For Transcendental Videos Click Here Transcendental Reply Bob: Do we get sick because of our bad actions in the past? Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes...

The Divine Couple in ISKCON Pune (NVCC) Truth Passes Three Phases Thought for Day--6 January 2026 It is sometimes said that truth passes through three phases: first it is ignored, then it is abhorred, and finally it is adored. In the early days of ISKCON, we were completely ignored. But when people saw the movement spreading like wildfire, one politician declared, “The Hare Krishnas are spreading like an epidemic. They are a great danger. They are spreading like wildfire, and if they are not stopped, they will eventually take over the government.” So, from being ignored, we came to be hated. Devotees were even kidnapped in attempts to “deprogram” them from Krishna consciousness. But now gradually as Srila Prabhupada's books are more and more distributed our movement will come to be adored all the over the world. Hoping this meets you in good health and in a cheerful mood, Your ever well-wisher. Sankarshan Das Distributing Prabhupada's Books is the Topmost Welfare Urgent! Please...