Spiritual Warrior II: Transforming Lust into Love is a book to savor and treasure, a book that needs to be read and reread because of its spiritual potency and priceless value for everyday living. I receive so many books in the mail to read and, I am sorry to say, the vast, vast majority of them have little or no substance, simply being combinations of words strung together to entertain the mind and, perhaps, the intelligence. You can imagine how happy and excited I was as I began to read Spiritual Warrior II and found myself saying, “Yes, yes! This is what I need. This is what I choose to learn and apply.”
It is with great pleasure that I offer my reactions to Swami Krishnapada’s unique, easy-to-understand presentation of the ancient, eternal teachings included in this book. Although I have never met Swami Krishnapada personally—an occasion I look forward to—in a sense I have already met him through his previous books and an audiotape of one of his lectures.
His courage to speak the deepest truths and his wealth of knowledge have impressed me greatly. As a writer, minister and speaker myself, I am familiar with the tendency to say what pleases people so that they will continue to listen and attend classes. Swami Krishnapada cuts right to the core of our problems and offers real, eternal solutions that transcend the mundane beliefs and rhetoric of the average religious leader or politician.
The book’s combination of primarily, but not exclusively, Christian, Muslim and Vedic teachings is for serious students who genuinely desire to know who they are, how to live in harmony with God’s laws and how to love God and achieve success as a human being. The lessons the author shares so generously are the difficult ones, not how to catch a man, how to keep your woman or even how to use God and His universe to get what you want. All these benefits come naturally when you love—not when you use, but when you love.
Those of any religion who care about themselves and truly desire to fulfill their mission as human beings will devour the knowledge that jumps off every page of Spiritual Warrior II. Some books give us an “ah-ha!” or two, or one interesting point to apply, which may be enough to justify the price of the book and the time spent reading it. Here, how about every paragraph, and sometimes every line! I am currently on my second and even third reading of certain chapters of this divinely inspired offering.
Everyone needs a copy of this book. Couples and families need to read it together, comment on its lessons and discuss ways in which they can apply these powerful truths to their communications and interactions. Schools need to include this book in their psychology classes, for it goes beyond the mundane psychology of analyzing illness and aims directly at the heart and core of every issue, which is love of God. Without God, no system will ever bring a utopia, because we cannot live a heavenly life by keeping the owner and proprietor, God, on the outside while we are on the inside living off of His kingdom. With God in the center, all is possible, and life is blissful, loving and prosperous.
At some point in our lives, each of us must wake up and face the challenge of being who we truly are, and of bringing forth and expressing this true self from moment to moment. The only way we can solve the problems of life, which we ultimately can do, is to have eternal knowledge and truth and to apply this knowledge under any and all circumstances.
Whatever we have in life is what we have earned. If you desire love, bliss and liberation, I suggest you start here with this book.
God bless you, Swami Krishnapada, and thank you, my friend, for your enormous gift to us all.
—Terry Cole-Whittaker, D.D.
Author of: What You Think of Me Is None of My Business; How to Have More in a Have-not World; The Inner Path from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be; and Love and Power in a World Without Limits