The Ability to Live by the Soul’s Desires Means to be Healthy, Happy and Successful.

2.1. To be able to Hear One’s Heart, One must Stop Being a Slave of Baser Instincts.

 If you have not found anything worth dying for, then you do not know how to live.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“You write a lot about the importance of having aspirations, and that this will make us happy. But I have a plethora of desires, yet I continuously remain unhappy, as many of my goals do not come to fruition. Even when some of them do materialize, I only become happy for a mere while.”

First of all, it is very important to distinguish between desires that originate from our true self and ones that are merely fabricated. Our mind will willingly accept everything that involves our own pleasure, and recoil from anything disagreeable to us. For example, as soon as you enter a room and see a cake, the senses of smell and sight seize upon it, sending a message to your mind: “This cake is freshly baked and delicious!” The mind’s reaction is instantly clear: “Go and enjoy it! Take as much as possible!” It does not care that it might possibly be unhealthy, or that there may be something else that should have priority at this moment, etc.

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…
And the Word became the flesh.”
The Gospel of John, 1:1; 1:14

We Live the Way we Speak

Buddhist psychology states that the main cause for loss of energy is our speech. Christianity teaches, “It is not as important what comes into your mouth as much as what goes out.” Some individuals may use this instruction to justify their mode of diet that resembles that of a swine, “Eat whatever you want or see,” while ignoring the second part of this statement. Many ascetics and saints went away to lonely places in order to avoid idle talking. According to the Vedas, idle talk is called “prajalpa.” And precisely this is a main obstacle in the way of spiritual and material development. We initially judge a person by the way they speak. Speech identifies personality.

You can only Reach your Goal if You Envisage it

Several thousand years ago the great sage Patanjali said:
“When you are inspired by an exalted goal or some extraordinary idea, all your thoughts begin to tear the shackles which confine them. Your mind exceeds its limits, your conscience pushes away the boundaries of your abilities in all directions and you begin living in a new large and beautiful world. Dormant powers, capabilities 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 one asks oneself: “Who am I? What is the meaning of my life? What do I live for?” Until then a human being merely leads the life of a refined animal; worrying only about eating, sleeping, copulating and self-defending.