Srila Prabhupada was not just another oriental scholar, guru, mystic, yoga teacher or meditation teacher but also the embodiment of an entire culture, which he then implanted in the Western world.
In modern English it conveys eternal knowledge, the science of self-knowledge, which reveals the secrets of the personal being within us, nature, the universe, and the supreme being present within and without.
U knjizi, Svami Prabhupada osporava materijalističku naučnu tvrdnju da je život proizvod hemijskih procesa. Delo je kritika materijalizma i poziv na duhovno buđenje i razmišljanje van okvira savremenog naučnog determinizma.