This is the first volume in a series of books of lectures by His Holiness Niranjana Swami. This volume contains lectures from 1998 to 2001 on the various topics, including:
- Srila Prabhupada’s unique position;
- disciplic succession;
- relationships with a spiritual master and other devotees;
- devotional service;
- chanting the holy name;
- preaching;
- Vaishnava qualities;
- the spiritual life of grihasthas;
- sadhana;
- prajalpa;
- attachments and material desires;
- and the counselor system.