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"Who is God? Is He just an abstract concept conceived in the bewildered mind looking for some real meaning to life? Fruitive activity seems to be the obvious solution to redress mental ailments. 'Just go wherever the sense impulses take you and you will be alright. If you feel like eating something now, go for it. Want to indulge in intoxication, why not give it a try?' When the pattern of repeated acceptance and rejection, happiness and dissatisfaction, is recognized, the search continues for a higher truth. Perhaps there is something beyond this temporary realm. Maybe there is a supreme...

"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change." (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.13)

"What we refer to as death is nothing more than the changing of bodies. For example, we were all infants at one point in our life, though we have no memory of it. We take it on authority from our parents that we were indeed once small children who roamed around in tiny bodies, not having much intelligence. As we became adults, what changed? The body,...

In dream one moment you're dwelling upon, And then the next moment it is gone. The universal manifestation in son's mouth to see, Then in an instant Yashoda from vision set free. To loving her beautiful son she returned, In process a deep respect for God was earned. But devotion in maternal affection not to stop, Concern for darling of Vrindavana she couldn't drop. Thus know there is higher state than reverence, Love in bhakti-rasa God's preference.

"Yashoda's son" is a collection of twenty-one essays discussing the pastime where Lord Krishna shows the universal form to mother Yashoda.

"I was born in the darkest ignorance, and my spiritual master opened my eyes with the torch of knowledge."

"Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth." (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 4.34)