Product Details:
Softbound Edition
- Softbound; 275 pages; 12.7 x 19.1 (centimeters); 5 x 7.5 (inches)
- no index
- Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust; First issue: 1996
- ISBN: 0-000000-000-0
- Suggested Audience: Advanced
This is a technical look, from the Gaudiya-Vaishnava perspective, at a complicated philosophical question: Were we with God before we came to the material world?
This philosophical question is carefully analyzed according to shruti, smriti, and the Vaishnava acharyas’ translations of key words in Sanskrit texts. Evidence from Srimad-Bhagavatam, Brahma-vaivarta Purana and other books are examined, as well as discussions with Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Bhaktivinoda Thakura and other recent acharyas.
From the back cover:
In Our Original Position, writers representing the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON present for the ISKCON GBC Press the siddhanta, or essential conclusions of the Vedic literature and the Vaishnava acharyas, on the fall of the spirit soul from the spiritual world to the material world. This book shows that Srila Prabhupada is the true follower of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his understanding and teaching of this siddhanta.
