The amazing progress of science that has marked our time has brought with it not only undoubted material comforts, but also innumerable problems and disasters. Modern society is trying to solve these problems by material means, but instead it only creates new ones. How to break this vicious circle? What can we do for the future? What is the meaning of our existence? Where did we come from in this world and what happens to us after death? In this book A.Ch. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada gives surprisingly clear and comprehensive answers to all these questions, based on the ancient wisdom of the Vedas.