Since October 2008 nearly in every country, where I conduct trainings, I have to deal with increasing feeling of fear – world economic crisis. People are afraid of their living standard to go down. Many of them have not had a good sleep for a long time, others have had a pessimistic outlook on the world, someone aren’t getting on well with relatives, friends and there are lots of extreme situations – people start smoking, taking alcohol and even drugs.
The advantage of crisis is that it checks the human: all his weaknesses reveal.
But if the human lives in harmony he easily overcomes all pitfalls and as a result goes up in various aspects.
I have decided to offer a brief of my Moscow training and I hope to help our readers to learn how to overcome any stresses and crises easily.

                                                    Everything in this world goes through three stages: creation (radjas); maintenance (sattva); annihilation (tamas).

Conscious Choice of Gunas – Foundation for Establishing Successful and Long-Term Projects

To create something you have to be active because any kind of creation in this world requires activity – radjas. But even more difficult is to maintain (sattva) what you have created; it has to be done consistently on a daily basis. In most cases, special effort is not required to destroy something – destruction (tamas) often comes on its own.  To produce a good car many people need to labour for many years, but any inexperienced driver can demolish it in just a few minutes. The same applies to people’s lives; if the guna of ignorance enters, their life could be ruined in a moment.     
In the Vedas it is stated that Brahma is responsible for creation, Vishnu for maintenance and Shiva for annihilation.
We should consciously transfer ourselves to different gunas, to choose the guna whose energy we need at that point in time. Passion is also required for some creative work, for example, to develop and start a new business project. This is not an easy task – passion means applying substantial effort.  

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The Word was made flesh» (The Gospel of John, 1:1; 1:14)

The Way you Speak is the Way you Live.
The Buddhist psychology says that the main energy loss is resulted from speaking.
Christianity teaches: "It is not so important what comes IN to your mouth as much as what goes OUT". Someone can use this instruction to justify his style of choosing foodstuff that looks like swine’s taste: eat what you observe and desire, ignoring the second part of this idea. Many ascetics and saints left for lonely places in order to avoid idle talking. According to Vedas, idle talk is called "parajalpa". It is one of the main obstacles on the way of spiritual and material development. The initial judge of a person we obtain is by the way he speaks. Speech identifies personality.

You can only hit a target which you can see.

Several thousand years ago the great sage Patandjali said:

“When you are inspired by a greater goal or some extraordinary idea all your thoughts begin to tear the shackles which confine them.  Your mind exceeds its limits, your conscience expends the boundaries of your potentials in all directions and you begin living in a new large and beautiful world.  Dormant powers, capacities and talents come to life and you find yourself much greater than you have ever imagined.”   

    In ancient times the sages believed that an individual’s life starts from the moment he asks himself: “Who am I?  What is the meaning of my life?  What do I live for?”  Before this a human being just leads a life of a refined animal; worrying only about eating, sleeping, copulating and protecting himself.

A man as a part of the Universe can be happy only when his heart is open. His mission in this world is to generate and give Love as Love is the only thing that helps us to live in harmony with other forms of life.

(taken from the sayings of Hyperboreans,  a  highly developed civilization) 

I would like to briefly touch upon the subject of Sacrifice, ability to give and take, as it frequently comes up in the readers’ letters.

This is indeed a very serious issue. If you just understand and bring it to your life, you will reach the highest level of Harmony, get rid of all kinds of sufferings and illnesses and, what is the most important, you will reach God’s Love which is the only true meaning of life for all living things.

Why is this question so serious? The thing is, the main principle of the Universe is the exchange of energies. And the most important energy is the energy of God’s Love, which is the basis for all interconnections in the Universe. This energy connects all living things to God.