The author of this book, Lyudmila Vasilyevna Shaposhnikova, is a famous scientist, Indologist, writer, vice-president of the International Center of the Roerichs. More than two decades ago, the great family of the Roerichs and their philosophical Teaching of Living Ethics found themselves in the field of scientific and human interest of L.V. Shaposhnikova. Shaposhnikova repeated the route of the famous Central Asian expedition of the Roerichs. Many years of friendship connected her with Svyatoslav Nikolaevich Roerich. L.V. Shaposhnikova owns about two hundred published works. Their bibliography is given at the end of the book. The proposed edition is an anniversary edition. It is dedicated to the seventieth birthday and forty-fifth anniversary of the scientific and literary activity of Lyudmila Vasilievna Shaposhnikova. The book contains her articles of recent years, devoted to the understanding and development of the problems of the Teaching of Living Ethics. The author is distinguished by the depth of content combined with a clear, accessible form of presentation. We are confident that everyone who picks up the book, both those who are seriously studying the philosophical heritage of Elena Ivanovna and Nikolai Konstantinovich Roerichs, and those who become acquainted with them for the first time, will - you will certainly find a lot of interesting and useful things for yourself. On the cover: a fragment of N. Roerich’s painting “Agni Yoga” and a fragment of a statue of Pharaoh Ramses II (Egypt)