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verses. The following is the first verse, which was also commented on
Bhak vedanta Swami Prabhupada:

gita‐shastram idam punyam, yah pathet prayatah puman
vishnoh padam avapno , bhaya‐shokadi‐varjitah.

“If one properly follows the instruc ons of Bhagavad-gita, one can be

free from all miseries and anxie es of life. One will be free from all
fears in this life, and one’s next life will be spiritual.” (Bhagavad-giya AS
It Is – introduc on)

Life comes from Life and not from chemicals

False theories of life are the greatest detriment to advancing progres-
sively to spiritual enlightenment. The real principle of libera on is
ge ng free from false concepts and replacing them with the absolute

truth. Freedom is given only to enlightened persons who are no longer
prisoners of false concepts.

The false ego, under the influence of material illusion, thinks, “I am
made of ma er, and material acquisi ons are mine.” This is the great-
est misconcep on. To ignore one’s eternal soul, which is temporarily
entrapped in a material body, is the grossest ignorance. Krishna has
given us an opportunity in the human form of life to use the intelli-

gence and knowledge acquiring senses and body in the service of the
Lord and finally liberate oneself from the cycle of karma. Yet, most peo-
ple cannot recognize this opportunity. They remain unnecessarily
mired in the five types of ignorance that keep them prisoners of the
Karma cycle.

The five points of ignorance are:

1- Forge ulness of one’s real iden ty – thinking I am the body rather

than I am the eternally conscious soul in the temporary body
2- Sense of death and fear of dying

3- Anger a er frustra on

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