By Ajit Krishna Dasa
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Devotees affirm that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the source of all knowledge. Yet when reasoning, arguing, or preaching — especially in dialogue with atheism, science, or modern philosophy — we often proceed as if reason were neutral, knowledge autonomous, and revelation optional until later.
This book was written to confront that contradiction.
It does not attempt to introduce Krishna consciousness from scratch, nor does it refute atheism by accumulating counter-arguments. Instead, it asks a prior question:
What must already be true for knowledge, reason, and intelligibility to be possible at all?
From a Vaiṣṇava standpoint, the answer is decisive. Knowledge does not originate in the jīva. Reason does not stand independently of God. Neutrality is not a shared platform, but an illusion sustained by unexamined assumptions.
The book argues that atheism is not merely false, but epistemically dependent — borrowing reason, normativity, and meaning from the very reality it denies. It also argues that evidentialist preaching methods quietly concede this ground by treating Kṛṣṇa as a hypothesis rather than the foundation of knowing itself.
What is proposed is not a foreign system imported into Vaiṣṇavism, but a clarification of what Vaiṣṇava epistemology already entails:
- Revelation is not fideism, but coherence
- Reason is not rejected, but subordinated
- Śāstra is pramāṇa, not supporting evidence
- Paramātmā is the ground of cognition, not merely the witness
This approach is sometimes labeled “presuppositional,” but the insight itself is embedded in śāstra, articulated by the ācāryas, and consistently reflected in Śrīla Prabhupāda’s preaching — even if not expressed in modern philosophical terms.
The book is written primarily for devotees who preach, teach, or engage intellectually with modern thought, though thoughtful non-devotees willing to examine their own starting points may also find it useful.
The book is available at Amazon.com.
If it clarifies thinking, strengthens epistemic fidelity, or sharpens preaching without compromise, it has served its purpose.
-Ajit Krishna Dasa
Ajit Krishna Dasa 
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