The Science of Self-Realization [Paperback]

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 1994

Self-realization explained.

Through the interviews, lectures, essays, and letters of this book, Srila Prabhupada exhaustively explains how to practice yoga in the modern age. Topics include karma and reincarnation, superconsciousness, how to choose a guru, Krsna and Christ, and spiritual solutions to today's social and economic problems.

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust; First American Edition edition (June 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892131012
• ISBN-13: 978-0892131013
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #969,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Walls Shook!, May 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Science of Self-Realization (Paperback)

Wow! What a book! This was the first Prabhupada book that I ever read. IT ROCKED MY WORLD! The topics it covered changed my life.

I almost underestimated the book because of it's easy read style, but it holds some of the most sublime topics and answers I have ever found in a piece of literature. It also pulled no punches. Topics like evolution, god has a personality, and Christ and Krishna really made me think and question my own life.

I will always be eternally greatful for this book.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Prabhupada's message rocks the foundations of US materialism, November 9, 1998

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[e-mail] (Baton Rouge, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Science of Self-Realization (Hardcover)

When one grows up an American, certain messages are repeated again and again. "Work hard and you'll go far," they say. "Money makes the world go 'round!" A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (ki jaya!), however, came along to challenge those empty ideas and toss them, flaming, to the ground. The Science of Self Realization focuses on Prabhupada's message of practical love of God and how he presented and defended the message over the course of his proselytization crusade throughout the sixties and seventies. In one transcribed discourse after another he gently defeats materialists, dualists, and impersonalists from every angle. This is the book that changed my views on man, God, and religion forever. I recommend it highly! -----All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and his Transcendental ISKCON!

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He would make a funny scientist., January 17, 2001

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Joel Brown (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Science of Self-Realization (Paperback)

This here is a wonderful collection of assembled essays, exegeses, interviews, and letters to serve as a guide on the path of realization of the Supreme Personality of the Godhead. We need to realize that our sole devotion should be our return to Krishna, and we should fully serve God. This world's political leaders are lost without Realization, and by serving them we shall never have satisfaction. The process of Krishna consciousness is not a story of secondhand religion- no no, it is a science. In the material world we inquire about illusory irrelevant things, rather than Brahman. He discusses how we are mediated by a guru, and warns us of the charlatans people have been fooled by. 'Pay me and in six months you can be God!' A guru need not be affiliated with any religion, he only teaches people to love God and focus on Him. Indeed, as one of the chapters is titled, Jesus Christ was a guru. But how many people sincerely follow his message nowadays? It's extremely scarce.

He does not like to be identified as a Hindu. He is not preaching any sect's truth over the others, instead a universal spiritual Unity that anyone who wants to love God can experience. The distinction of "Hindu" "Muslim" or "Christian" is a rubber stamp that was later added on to God consciousness.

We cannot follow a religion or love God until we know the meaning of what these 2 things refer to.