An increasing number of people believe in reincarnation. Reincarnation is when the living entity leaves this body and accepts a new one, over and over again. You do not have to continuously reincarnate in this material world again and again. This small powerful book gives the knowledge to help you break the cycle of reincarnation and enter into the spiritual world. From chapter One: βO descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body is eternal and can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any creature.β (Bhagavad-gita 2.30) The very first step in self-realization is realizing oneβs identity as separate from the body. βI am not this body but am spirit soulβ is an essential realization for anyone who wants to transcend death and enter into the spiritual world beyond. It is not simply a matter of saying βI am not this body,β but of actually realizing it. This is not as simple as it may seem at first. Although we are not these bodies but are pure consciousness, somehow or other we have become encased within the bodily dress. If we actually want the happiness and independence that transcend death, we have to establish ourselves and remain in our constitutional position as pure consciousness. Living in the bodily conception, our idea of happiness is like that of a man in delirium. Some philosophers claim that this delirious condition of bodily identification should be cured by abstaining from all action. Because these material activities have been a source of distress for us, they claim that we should actually stop these activities. Their culmination of perfection is in a kind of Buddhistic nirvana, in which no activities are performed. Buddha maintained that due to a combination of material elements, this body has come into existence, and that somehow or other if these material elements are separated or dismantled, the cause of suffering is removed. If the tax collectors give us too much difficulty because we happen to possess a large house, one simple solution is to destroy the house. However, Bhagavad-gita indicates that this material body is not all in all. Beyond this combination of material elements, there is spirit, and the symptom of that spirit is consciousness.