Our Mission
Rediscovering real happiness and fulfilling the ultimate goal of human life through spiritual wisdom and divine service.
What is the mission of human life?
The mission of human life is to end the miseries of material existence and attain a blissful life. We are constantly searching after happiness, but we often fail in our pursuit. We may get a glimpse of happiness, but it does not last forever. We do not want miseries, but we cannot avoid them.
Scriptures inform us that we are spiritual beings, part and parcel of the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna, and by nature we are full of happiness – anandamayo 'bhyasat (vedanta-sutra). Then, why do we suffer? How do we rediscover the lost happiness and lead a blissful life?
The Core Principles
Honor Prasadam
Honor the food sanctified by offering to the Supreme Lord, preventing further sinful reactions.
How does this work?
First, let us understand the root cause of our problems that makes our life miserable. We are entrapped in this material world from time immemorial and the happiness we pursue here is temporary and illusory. In the pursuit of such happiness, we engage in various activities, pious and sinful, that bind us more and more in this material world.
Our miseries are due to sinful reactions, and when we follow these three principles, all the material contaminations and sins are washed away; consequently, we are reestablished in our real constitutional position of unlimited bliss and happiness.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said: ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
"Chanting the holy names of the Lord cleanses the mirror of the heart and stops the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence."
Srimad Bhagavatam says: nasta-prayesv abhadresu nityam bhagavata-sevaya
"All the inauspicious things in our heart are completely destroyed by reading Srimad Bhagavatam every day. The darkness of ignorance is dissipated and we become situated in the mode of goodness and develop all good qualities equivalent to that of the demigods."
By honoring prasadam (food offered to the Lord) we do not incur further sinful reactions. Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita (3.13): "The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin."