Product Details:
Paperback Edition
- Paperback; 67 pages; 10.2 x 17.8 (centimeters); 4 x 7 (inches)
- no index
- Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust; First issue: 2222
- ISBN: 0-89213-299-X
- Suggested Audience: Introductory
God has a message for us: We're not the body; we’re spiritual beings. We can be happy not by focusing on the body, but by living according to the truth of our real, spiritual identity.
Krishna (God) says that we must understand our spiritual identity and then direct our activities to follow that understanding. These two simple truths will bring us to self-realization and God realization. In pure spiritual understanding there are no designations of race, greed, color, or sex. From this nonsectarian platform, the whole world can achieve real unity and peace. Without this understanding, the happiness we seek will never be within our reach, individually or collectively.
From the back cover:
The influences of various peoples, places, and times have led us to designate ourselves as Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Socialites, Bolsheviks, and so forth. Specifically in the field of religion, we have tried to establish many varieties of ephemeral physical and mental arrangements, varieties of denominations, according to various peoples, places, and times. And precisely for this reason, we can envision ourselves “changing religions.” One who is a Hindu today may become a Mohammedan the next day, or one who is a Mohammedan today may become a Christian the next day, and so on. But when we attain transcendental knowledge and are established in sanatana-dharma, the actual eternal religion of the living entity—the spirit soul—then and then only can we attain real, unidentifiable peace, prosperity, and happiness in the world.
