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less milk, and hence your progress will be slower. What counts is the
amount of milk and yoghurt that you have.
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CHAPTER 14: YOUR SPOUSE
Well, some men have a boss, the wife, and some do not.
If love develops between you, the spiritual energies of your selves merge.
You still have your self plus the wife's, but they have a common goal.
They are not in conflict. There is no argument.
You love her and she loves you and that is about all that one can say
except that it is wonderful. Until this happens, if it ever does, you have an
emotional or economic or convenience or legal tie.
Of course, many men have many ties, but this is all the fault of his boss.
There are two states for a self: doing what it wants to do and not doing
what it wants to do. In other words, when it comes to important matters,
the chips are down, and you want to go left and the wife wants to go right,
what do you do? Do you turn right or do you follow your instinct and turn
right? Decisions for men are very difficult. Wives are instinctive beings
and you need to follow them. Unless you want to be a man.
Here is what you cannot do:
love two people.
You love at most one person, other than yourself. These days, when
someone says to you „I love you‟ it means if you are lucky that they are
fond of you, and have an emotional (and possibly *******ual) tie. The days are
long gone when you could find someone other than God who actually
loves you. You stop giving the person who says he/she loves you the
things that he/she wants and he/she will be gone. Children, wives,
husbands, God are all the same in this regard.
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CHAPTER 15: YOUR MIND
Much nonsense is talk about the mind. A book with 1000 or so pages is
just one that I have seen called "The Mind".
The science of the mind is really computer science. For those of you are
interested in computer science, you can read any one of perhaps 10,000
books on this subject. My deep suspicion is that having read one of these
books you will be no wiser, but this is a criticism of the authors, not of
you.
Well, I could talk about zeros and ones and how these are the true
language of minds and
computers but I propose not to do so. I leave this to computer geeks. It
was a useful subject fifty years ago but has no relevance in the world
today.
The following are the essentials of what you need to know and understand
about the mind.
What is the mind? It is a calculating machine for you, the self:
you press a button and say "mind, calculate". Suppose God says
ok.
He then allows data in the form of sense impressions (from the
ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose) to be observed
in addition, He feeds it data, about your self‟s preferences
in addition, He gives it selected memories of past data
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it then calculates (that is, analyzes) this data set according to the
decision input that you, the self, wants. This process of analysis is
called "thinking"
it then feeds one single recommended decision to you, the self.
Later, you the self, decide whether or not you want to act on this
recommendation. There may or may not be subsequent analytical work to
be effected, but these are handled in exactly the same way.
This is simply the normal wakeful state that all of us are familiar with.
Obviously, there are many conditions. Your mind will be influenced by
the following factors:
your *******ual energy sphere: if this is not satisfied
your physical energy sphere: for example if you have had an
accident and are in pain or if you have a disease and your vitality
is low
your emotional energy sphere: there are 45 emotions and each of
these prevents your mind from functioning perfectly.
Every mind in the world is built in exactly the same way.
These are therefore the three factors that impinge on the functioning of the
mind. There are no others. Let us look at each of these in turn.
*******ual energy sphere satisfaction
Many people these days have a low ******* drive and therefore do not need
much satisfaction. This energy sphere does not then have much impact on
your mental condition. Your ******* drive declines if you do not think about
*******, or if you are busy. It will start off low if your mother did not breast
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feed you with natural milk for a long time. ******* drives too have declined
dramatically over the last 50 years as a result of modern pollution. In the
old days, if you had an unsatisfied drive, it meant that you did not get
enough *******ual activity compared with your drive. Nowadays, it just means
that instead of noticing the information you need to do your duties in life,
you dream about people of the opposite *******. This is of course a useless
activity, as discussed in the section about imagination. Also, you get
distracted whilst thinking.
There are no specific ill effects on your mind as a result of being *******ually
unsatisfied, except for the effects noted in Chapter 22, about imagination.
*******ual energy creates creativity. Most people today are happy with their
lives. They go to work, have parties, watch movies, listen to music and
talk to friends. The need for creativity is low, and the need for *******ual
activity is also low. As the creative instinct in man declined, his ******* drive
has declined also. The wife is too busy at work or has a headache. The
man is thinking about his work also and has physical limitations caused by
sitting at an office all day. Only (male) movie stars are like Tarzan.
Physical energy sphere condition
If you are in pain or your vitality is low, you cannot concentrate properly.
You do not use your brain enough. Brain cells die through lack of activity.
But, this depends on whether you try and work or not. If you do, your
brain cells may become more active than usual, in order to overcome the
lack of concentration ability.
Assuming that you use your brain reasonably, there is no adverse impact
on your mind. If pain or low vitality persists for too long, it takes great
discipline to keep using your brain reasonably.
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Your body is a potential source of great knowledge and experience for
you. This is the purpose of yoga practice, it is also the purpose of sleep
and *******ual activity.
These days, however, this source of knowledge is largely ignored.
Mankind is more focused on front brain activity, going to work, studying
and so forth. Hence, the experiences that the self could get from this
source are largely unavailable for modern man. For example, one „does‟
******* or „does‟ yoga and then 5 minutes later the mind is re-engaged with its
more important life issues (work or marriage problems, for example).
Only a very limited data set (the same as can be found readily on the
interent) is used as input to your decisions. Rapidly, everybody in the
world is starting to use the same type of data: words, formulae and
pictures.
Emotional energy sphere issues
The emotional energy sphere also has a direct impact on your mind.
If you are angry, you cannot think straight. You cannot absorb
information properly, you cannot make correct decisions. In my book
"Perfecting Your Emotional Energy Sphere", I described all of the 45
emotions that impact man as set out in the ancient Indian texts on dance. If
you remember from your days at school, Indian dancers have thousands of
different specific graceful movements all depicting different
circumstances and emotions.
It is the most beautiful and graceful and at the same time meaningful
dance in the world.
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At the same time, holding actual specific dance positions can also solve
the core 45 emotional energy sphere difficulties.
In this day, emotions are frowned upon. They give the onlooker
information about what might be happening inside of you. You wish to
adopt a traditional Chinese/Japanese attitude of inscrutability. No one is in
love and therefore no one is confident in sharing private information with
another person.
You are trained from early birth not to show anger, not to cry, to control
yourself. Even otherwise, emotion is not necessary if your focus is on
front brain activity - studying, talking, listening etc.
Your emotions were given to you by God for a reason. They are part of
making you human: not just a thinking machine, but one that feels. The
less you use them, the more you hide them, the more you focus on other
activities, the more like a thinking machine you become.
Mental capabilities
It is possible to improve your mental capability:
By using your brain, not sitting idle, not meditating, not imagining
things, and not thinking things over and over again.
Just using your brain makes it better.
It is also possible to damage your capabilities. For example, by going to a
doctor and taking drugs or having surgery, injuring or banging your head,
telling lies and so forth.
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Of course, you can also damage your abilities by sitting idle and
meditating. I discuss how this happens in my book „Yoga‟.
One should not think that, just because we have atom bombs and
computers and mobile phones, that modern man has a greater degree of
intelligence than mankind in ancient days.
You any need to read any history book to see how modern scholars view
the state of society, for example, in England before the Romans came.
You need to read my book „People with No Clothes‟ to understand why
specific circumstances led to a low level of intellect in Europe in the years
before 0 A.D. In stark contrast there was huge creativity and intelligence
in most of the rest of the world.
But just because one group of peoples had specific life circumstances that
damaged their
Intelligence, does not mean that you should believe that, for example,
people in England in those days without a different environment could not
have been as intelligent as or more intelligent than people today. Rather,
one should learn what it was about European circumstances of the time
that were so damaging.
The decline in the belief in God has accelerated in the last 50 years.
Consequently, intelligence levels are on the decline. This trend is not yet
noticed. It takes time for the intelligence of a young person to decay. For a
person born in about 1990, the typical decay rate is 10 IQ points every 15
years. For a person born in around 1950, the decay rate was typically
about 3 IQ points every 15 years. Thus, whereas your parents if they had
an IQ of about 100 (say) kept most of this until old age, an average young
person today does not. If he today has an IQ of 90, in 15 years‟ time it will
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If you are always thinking of *******ual activity or *******, this chakra will be
vibrant and strong. It will not absorb much kinetic energy, this energy will
bounce away and impact more the other energy spheres. You have
negative *******ual energy and need satisfaction.
If you are focused on other activities, work or exercise etc., this chakra
will be relaxed and will absorb a lot of *******ual energy. You will be
satisfied easily.
Correspondingly, if the chakra is vibrant and strong, the *******ual activity
you have has a big impact on your other energy centres. You can gain a
lot from *******ual activity. But, mostly, because you are focussed on *******ual
activity, you do not gain much: the energy you gain for your other energy
spheres: the ability to have new ideas and so forth is wasted.
If the chakra is dull and relaxed, *******ual activity does not have much
impact on regenerating freshness in your physical, emotional, love, mental
and spiritual energy spheres. The core problem you have is lack of *******ual
focus. Hence even though you need *******ual activity you are not focussed
on it: you are more interested in making money etc.
Hence your *******ual energy wanes and your manhood and womanhood
declines rapidly.
By the time you are 30 you have lost a huge amount of vitality and your
other energy spheres stagnate.
A word about kundalini is in order. Kundalini is your spiritual energy. On
the creation of a fetus, it is given a stock of kundalini energy. This
remains at a more or less constant level in almost everybody. In India,
kundalini is said to "rest". The heat from *******ual activity has the potential
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to allow kundalini to rise and impact the various chakras in your body. In
a religious journey, it rises to meet God and unites with Him. This is the
ultimate end of all true religious endeavour.
Kundalini is "awakened" by the heat generated from religious practice.
This practice is known in India as "tapas".
The conclusions of this science are that:
Those people whose minds are focused on *******ual activity need
*******ual activity to help them develop their physical, emotional,
love, mental and spiritual well-being.
Those people, that is everyone else, whose minds are not focused
on *******ual activity, need *******ual activity to generate health in the
*******ual energy sphere. This energy sphere is the most basic, the
most fundamental, the primary energy in all living beings. Without
it, nothing in mankind works well.
Specifically, for the person who is searching for God, this search
will not be fruitful without *******ual activity.
However, you need to practice the discipline of non-injury to living beings
before this energy field can be perfected. It would be an unfair world if
you could break the five principles of ethics set out in yoga philosophy -
non-violence, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non acquisitiveness
- and still be *******ually satisfied. This does not happen.
To state the obvious, for *******ual energy sphere satisfaction, you need
*******ual activity. Otherwise, your energy stagnates, and creates disease in
your body and mind.
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CHAPTER 11: HUMAN INTERACTION
Physicists classify the main four forces that drive the world into weak,
semi strong, strong and super strong. These forces are not always ordered
in this way. It depends on distance.
Something may be super strong when very close but weak when distant.
The force has maximum strength, in relative terms, at a specific physical
distance.
In the case of a man and woman, there are also four forces that drive them
together.
These four are also weak, semi strong, strong or super strong, depending
on distance.
Distance here is not centimeters or kilometers, but is measured in terms of
love and affection. Affection can be negative, which means that you
dislike somebody, it can be zero which means that you are indifferent to
him or her (for example, you might not know him or her), it can be
modest and it can be large. When your affection for your spouse exceeds
your affection for yourself, it turns into love. So, this is the measure of
distance between a man and a woman.
The force that drives two people together when the distance is negative is
called greed. It is in yoga philosophy known as breaking the fifth of the
principles of ethics, aparigraha (non acceptance of gifts). You should not
believe that just because a man and a woman live together as man and
wife they have positive affection for each other. In a typical marriage after
about four years, affection has turned negative. Because the mind is
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involved, neither the man nor the woman knows the true status of their
heart. Hence, they will not know whether they have positive or negative
affection for their partner. This is all to do with Western education:
focusing on mental activity. Obviously, the greater is their dislike of each
other, the greater is their greed, if they are together.
Just as an appropriately designed test can measure the dislike that you
have of another person, one can also determine greediness. You will find
that there is a 1 to 1 correspondence. As dislike turns to like and the
distance between the two people becomes small, greediness (between
them) becomes small also. It disappears completely only when your love
for your partner becomes infinitely more than your love for yourself.
This then is the first law of human interaction.
Now let us turn to the second law of human interaction. Again,
classification into weak or strong etc. cannot be made, just as it cannot be
made for the four physical forces. The classification is best made based on
distance. So, since we have started with a classification of forces which
are strong when the distance is large, let us move to the next force which
is strongest, which is dominant, when the distance is about zero. At this
distance, you are indifferent to your partner or acquaintance. There is a
business relationship. The relationship is about trade. In other words, it is
about self-interest.
The second law of human interaction is to do with self-interest. Every
human being when they meet someone to whom they are indifferent
operates on the basis of self-interest.
There may be other forces as well, but this is the second force underlying
human interactions. Self-interest drives the deal, drives what happens
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whenever the two people interact more than any other of the four forces.
As the distance becomes further (dislike) or closer (affection and love)
self-interest becomes less of a driving motive.
The third law of human interaction takes over when the distance is getting
small. In other words, it reaches a maximum when affection for your
partner is at the point of becoming love. You are close to each other. At
least, you are close to him or her. At this distance, the driving motive
behind your interaction with him or her is *******. Nowadays, very few
people have large affection for their partners. Hence, they are preoccupied
with their business and work affairs, with quarreling and so forth. ******* is
low down on their priorities. When you reach the point, or rather if you
ever reached the point where you love your spouse as much as you love
yourself, then your desire for him or her is enormous. You can reach just
thinking or looking at him or her. You need him or her amazingly.
One should not think that ******* desire is small at other distances. ******* is the
most basic human and animal driving force. An animal does not have
greed. It has self-interest and *******. *******ual desire in an animal happens even
though it does not love, cannot love.
Similarly, with a human, *******ual desire becomes enormously strong as the
distance to orgasm approaches. These are the two factors that govern the
strength of *******ual desire for human beings. However, nowadays *******ual
desire is becoming weaker and weaker even when these two measures of
distance are fixed. If these two measures of distance are large then *******ual
desire is small.
Let us now turn to the final driving force behind all human interaction.
This is the wish to help other people. As your affection or your love
increases for a person, your desire to help him or her increases. In the case
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of God, there are those who wish to come close to Him. His love for such
a person is infinite. His desire to help that person is correspondingly
infinite. It cannot be measured. In the case of a human, it can be
measured. It never reaches infinity. A man may say or a woman may say I
love you with all of my heart. But this does not mean that they have
infinitely more love for you than they have for themselves.
I have a scale in the work that I do that measures, approximately, the love
or affection or dislike that you have for another person. At the point where
affection turns into love, my "love percentage" is 40 percent. Infinite love
is on this scale 100 percent. It cannot exceed 100 percent. So, when my
love percentage is less than zero percent, greed increasingly is the force
that keeps a couple together. When the love percentage is about zero
percent, they are together because of self-interest. In the zone of the love
percentage being between zero percent and 40 percent, the three main
factors that operate are self-interest, ******* and a wish to help the partner.
When the percentage reaches 40 percent, self-interest is only a small
factor. The dominant factor is either ******* or the desire to help your partner.
When the percentage reaches about 95 percent, you surrender your, body
mind and soul to your partner. In India, this is called Ishvara Pranidhana:
surrender to God. At this stage, ******* is nice.
But by far and away the dominant factor is desire to help your partner. It
is not possible for a human being to exceed this 95 percent love
percentage.
This is the complete science of human interaction.
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CHAPTER 12: EMOTIONS
Emotions stem from your surya chakra. Surya is a Sanskrit word for sun.
It is not possible to directly control the sun. It is too hot to touch. It is not
meant to be touched.
Emotions are powerful. Only the moon chakra, the soma chakra in the
centre of your brain can control the sun.
And, the moon chakra is directly under the control of your self. You are
not in contact with your self let alone able to control it. Only God can
control, does control, you.
First of all, when you are under the influence of an emotion, you have lost
control. Your mind has been taken over. Consequently, only harm comes
to you if you even attempt, which you mostly cannot, influencing the state
of your abdomen when under the influence of emotion. The difficulty we
have is that it is difficult to relax and pacify your abdominal region.
Usually what happens is that an attempt to do this makes the abdomen
hard and therefore aggravates the problem. But, trying to relax the
abdomen involves effort elsewhere. The medicine is more harmful than
the disease.
Emotions, too, are natural. If someone does something bad to you, it is
natural to get angry. The sign of progress is that you stay angry for a
shorter time than you used to. Just as ******* and love are a part of your basic
life force, so too is emotion. It should not disappear.
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Often emotional difficulties have deep seated origins in childhood. They
have been there for many years and are therefore difficult to cure, for this
reason also.
There are 45 emotions that may trouble you. I discuss these and set out
what each of them mean in my book "Perfecting Your Emotional Energy
Sphere". These emotions mean that your emotional energy sphere is
disturbed. However, the type of emotion that you may suffer from
depends on your character. The following table sets out the
correspondence and also the emotion number that I have specified in my
detailed book:
Your Character Emotional Difficulty Emotion Number
Satvic Tranquil 1
Satvic Love 29
Satvic Calmness 37
Satvic Wrath 14
Satvic Ethereal 22
Satvic Peaceful emotions 28
Rajasic Sensuous 2
Rajasic Furious 5
Rajasic Terrible 6
Rajasic Serenity 10
Rajasic Valour 16
Rajasic Disgust 17
Rajasic Ridicule 26
Rajasic Pathetic thoughts 27
Rajasic Anger 32
Rajasic Courage 34
Rajasic Unbearable attitude 45
Rajasic Grotesquenes 7
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Rajasic Ferocity 9
Rajasic Erotic 11
Rajasic Compassion 13
Rajasic Amorous 23
Rajasic Creative 25
Rajasic Mirth 30
Rajasic Aversion 35
Rajasic Heroism 44
Tamasic Pathetic behaviour 4
Tamasic Contempt 21
Tamasic Sorrow 31
Tamasic Wonder 36
Tamasic Smile 38
Tamasic Glad 39
Tamasic Quivering 42
Tamasic Humorous 3
Tamasic Pathetic emotion 8
Tamasic Comic 12
Tamasic Fear (of oneself) 15
Tamasic Marvellous 18
Tamasic Devotional 19
Tamasic Fascinating 20
Tamasic Peaceful thinking 24
Tamasic Fear (of God) 33
Tamasic Indifference 40
Tamasic Grief 41
Tamasic Fright 43
The table is useful because with Western education, people are not in
touch with their bodies and energies. Hence, you may not know what
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emotion is troubling you. The table helps you to narrow down what your
problem is.
With the table, everyone should be able to easily identify their emotional
difficulty. The remaining part of my "Perfecting Your Emotional Energy
Sphere" book then sets out the methodology to solve any emotional
difficulty.
To summarise, there is one fundamental cure that works for everyone.
This is, to develop love and friendship with your colleagues and friends
and to look after your children and parents.
Satisfaction with your emotional energy field increases only as a result of
love transfer (really affection) from other people.
There are six other temporary rather than fundamental approaches to
healing your emotional energy sphere. These six are:
Solution
Number Description of remedy
Chapter reference in
my book on
emotions
1 Color Chapter 4
2 Counteracting emotion Chapter 5
3 Music Chapter 6
4 Physical contact Chapter 7
5 Water Chapter 8
6 Indian dance Chapter 9
The first five of these secondary approaches operate depending on the
characteristics of your body and mind (rather than your self: see the
chapter of this book, Humanology, relating to the science of the body).
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