'Just Try to Learn the Truth''

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This book relates the story of a conditioned soul (Māyā Dāsa*) in search of the Absolute Truth. Of course, Māyā Dāsa did not know it was the absolute truth that he was searching for. He just thought that there must be something else other than what was going on in his own life. He had grown up in a family hidden in the back streets of Perth, Western Australia and was caught in the web of the bright lights and mod-cons of this make believe, so-called picturesque, ephemeral existence.

One day, however, Māyā Dāsa actually finds something that he feels is greater than all this when he purchases an ancient scripture from India called the Bhagavad-gītā. After reading the commentaries by His Divine Grace Śrīla AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda he attempts to take the given instructions [see quotes below] to heart.

"The path of spiritual realisation is undoubtedly difficult. The Lord therefore advises us to approach a bona fide spiritual master in the line of disciplic succession from the Lord Himself."1

"Satisfaction of the self-realised spiritual master is the secret of advancement in spiritual life. Inquiries and submission constitute the proper combination for spiritual understanding. Unless there is submission and service, inquiries from the learned spiritual master will not be effective."2 "Transcendental life begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣņa, clearly states here that this process of knowledge is the actual path. "3.