Press Release BUDDHA Life and Work of the Forerunner in India

Encountering Eternity

Five hundred years before the time of Christ, the young prince Siddhartha renounced his earthly possessions to seek spiritual enlightenment. His pilgrimage from wealth to wisdom inspired millions to follow in his way, creating the great tradition we know as Buddhism.

Throughout the centuries since that time, the earthly life of Siddhartha has become mythic in scope. What of the man behind the myth? Humankind has asked this question to no avail.

Finally, someone has answered it.

In Buddha: Life and Work of the Forerunner in India, an associate of Abd-ru-shin (author of the spiritual classic, In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message) has reached back through the ages to make a spiritual connection with the reality that Siddhartha/Buddha knew and lived. The result has the drama of a novel, but it is not a novel. It has the immediacy of a channeled work, but it is not that either.

It is the result of a spiritual connection to the Book of Life. Containing an indelible record of everything that has transpired in time, here the struggles of Siddhartha are vivid and clear; recorded in every detail. The writer of this book had but to put them into words. The result is an account that is readable and immensely human.

The narrative moves effortlessly from one perspective to another, stopping to record a small, intensely personal moment, then stepping back to take a global view. It reaches epic proportions in its description of the passage of years and the onset of disaster.

Most importantly, and like no other biography of Buddha, this work describes Buddha's relationship to God, making this work a bridge to readers from any denomination. As the man who will become Buddha questions and copes with the harsh realities of life, he comes to understand and finally transcend them. This powerful book gives us a glimpse into that process.