Happiness

Principle 1. The more sources of joy you are able to awaken to life at the same time, the more powerful state you experience. The ingredients for happiness are two. They are equal — internal and external. There should not be a bias in one direction only, as in different schools with a lot of fixations — whether it is meditation from morning till evening, or concentration only on material well-being. In many ways the sign of intelligence, of wisdom, is measure and success. In life it depends on whether a person sees their components and whether these components are in perfect proportion, whether they give an ideal picture. Therefore, when walking along the Path of finding happiness, it is necessary to set accents correctly. It is not possible to get happiness by plunging headlong into meditation or self-realization only.

Internal sources. There is, for example, an inspired dream: “I want to achieve happiness in all its manifestations, in its entirety”. But for the state of happiness to visit a person, it is necessary to learn to manage oneself, to set goals and form aspirations for them, to awaken inner sources of energy.

External Sources. For a person to fully find happiness on Earth, he must become a master. If he rests — he fully enjoys, if he works — he creates, if he communicates — he communicates on the level of feelings, high ethics.

Wherever we come in contact with life, there are opportunities for happiness. Even when the situation is not the best — conflictual. To achieve a certain degree of wisdom is to know how to act and experience joy. In a conflict situation, you can go into a state of hysteria (a threat to your business), or you can turn it into a positive gain. The challenge is to learn how to minimize losses, how to save face.

Principle 2. Here are the sources of happiness as such, and the more they are, the more opportunities for happiness a person has. But in each particular situation there is a different answer — a different measure. Suppose that you are communicating with a person — for one a gentler treatment is suitable, and from the other it is necessary to demand more harshly, otherwise it will not work.

One of our tasks is to learn how to act in such a way that we do not lose the state, no matter what happens. For example, you need to fire a person or punish him. You do not like to do it, you know that he will take offense, lurk or get angry. You need to learn to do everything, even unpleasant for yourself, remaining calm, with fire in your heart, keeping joy, and at the same time so that it leads to the best result.

If a person needs to be told off, you tell him off, not because you don’t like him, but because you know it is the right thing to do (he deserves it) and it will bear fruit.

For example, your child has done something nasty — he has broken a bird’s head. You can pretend that you didn’t notice out of love for him, or you can punish him in such a way that he will remember for the rest of his life — you can’t hurt animals or people. When you punish him, it doesn’t mean you hate him. You love him and think how to make sure that this bad deed does not turn into a habit, that it does not affect his future fate. Therefore, keeping your love for the person, you do the best thing that will lead to the desired goal — punish. For life he will remember and will never offend anyone again. By punishing, you do not lose the fire in your heart.

It is the same in communicating with different people. The challenge is to learn, even when saying something unpleasant, to keep the fire inside, and to show on the outside what will give the maximum return. It’s not easy. Most people don’t know how to manage their state of mind: “I want to” — and light a fire inside, feelings, or purposefully change roles. Most people, if something good happens — not always, but rejoice, bad — get upset.

You have to learn to understand the different shades in the manifestations of the relationship. If you realize that this “good” is flattery, and the goal is the same — for you to reveal yourself, then you already know what will happen next.

You can, while remaining inwardly calm, outwardly take any role you like. If it’s a conflict, you are calm inside, and outwardly, as you see fit. There are specific answers for each situation. And the various sources of joy and pleasure should awaken the dignities and abilities of a person in a variety of variations and proportions. It is when you realize what needs to be awakened in each situation that you get the opportunity to be adequate. Ignoring something leads to one or another kind of trouble and punishment.

Levels of happiness

There are many levels of happiness, and when a person thinks that he has experienced everything and the best cannot happen in his life, he is mistaken. There are many levels of happiness, and as long as a person follows the Path of Development and becomes stronger, smarter, more perfect, happiness is constantly growing for him. Happiness is what you experience inside.

Strength — you are able to set a goal and get what you want in internal transformations of yourself or in your life (go and do). External manifestation of strength — to lead, to create a collective, a party, etc.

Perfection is conformity to an ideal. The closer you come to understanding what the gods want to see from a human being, the greater the payoff from your striving for the ideal.

The higher a person rises, the more he knows, knows how to do, appreciates, the more sources of fire, joy, pleasure he has. The higher a person rises in his development, the more powerful is his state of happiness. For an energetically weak person, all his manifestations will be weak. Love is a little bit, an impulse is a little bit. If there is no more energy, and there is only 12 volts in the batteries, then any manifestation cannot be more powerful. If it is a nuclear station, it is its potential, and if there is a possibility to press a button to make everything play, it can play.

The state of happiness has many levels. The higher the level of development, the more opportunities for happiness. But the level of development itself does not guarantee happiness. The level of development is determined by what you want (your aspirations). If you want bread and entertainment, this is the 1st level, you cannot get higher. If a person wants power, and in the material sphere to achieve perfection, sophistication, pleasure, this is the 2nd level.

If a person values personal qualities, he is not looking for people who are useful only from the economic point of view, but for worthy people, so that it would be pleasant to be near them, one could respect oneself, etc. Personal qualities in the inner world are the 3rd level. That is, what a person wants — this is the first; the second — who he is (qualities, abilities, realization in society), his level.

If a person reaches a certain level of development, it does not guarantee that he will be happy. It gives an opportunity to get so much happiness at this level, and then the situation is like this — each level has its own problems.

For example, if a person does not have a large firm, neither the prosecutor’s office will come to him, nor racketeers will come to him, he has smaller problems. If a person does not aspire to become an Olympic champion, whether he takes the first place or the second, this issue does not bother him much. And if he wants to become an Olympic champion, he may perceive second place as a defeat, although many people are afraid to even dream about it.

The relationship between level and state of happiness is simple. The opened level is the opportunity for happiness and pleasure that a person can get. And the feeling of happiness itself speaks about how much a person was able to realize these opportunities.

A person can be intelligent, even brilliant, but there are a mass of composers, artists, poets who suffered much more than they enjoyed. There are high abilities, but there are also a lot of unanswered questions on personal life, on faith, on attitude to oneself. If a person is stupid, it does not touch him at all, but if he has a heightened perception, the deeper he is deluded, the more painful he feels it all.

Each level has its own problems. And if a person has managed to cope with these problems, then at his level he has solved the necessary tasks. The state of happiness shows that he passes this level correctly. Happiness is a reward for a person who has answered correctly to the questions that fate, Higher Powers put before him: “You need to be here”. And a person has managed to realize all this.

There are many levels of happiness. The level itself (abilities, aspirations, goals) is an opportunity, and the state of happiness indicates whether you have managed to use this opportunity. A person can be happy at any level, no matter where he or she is. That is, the state of happiness does not depend on what stage of development a person is on, it depends on whether he/she answers the questions of his/her stage of development correctly. Therefore, one of the requirements for a person to be happy is to understand where he/she is, what values he/she needs to form inside himself/herself, what problems he/she needs to get rid of. Understand your potential and strive to form these values.

If you (no matter whether spiritually or at the level of external goals) want something that exceeds your real possibilities for the near future, you will not achieve them — you will suffer or work hard, but you will not achieve them anyway. If you try to build something below your level (there is a proverb of the first level: “For happiness you need to raise a child, build a house, plant a tree”), you have done both, and something is missing. And it will not be enough if your Soul demands much more.

For happiness, one must understand where one is. What is lower — he will be bored, what is higher — he will be bored, but still it will not be realized.

Our goal is to form a picture for ourselves by levels of happiness, to see: here people suffer or rejoice for some reason (what are the reasons), to see your place where you are. And when a person has understood: “I am here”, it is necessary to realize the issues of one’s level.

If a person says goodbye to most of the problems (let’s say, according to our program — by the end of the 4th stage of training), then further the state of happiness does not leave him, it is constantly growing. Then only calmness and relaxation are needed to pass into the state of happiness, pleasure. This means that you get power over your inner problems, by an effort of will you can turn them off. And when the state of calmness and relaxation becomes powerful, it is no longer possible to simply turn on the problem. On too big background of light energies small problems cannot be turned on. If the state is borderline, then any minor problem can switch a person off.

The first steps are calmness, deep relaxation. Next, a person should have a lot of energy, for this purpose the corresponding techniques are designed (basic state — Flow, fireball, cross). There is almost never a lot of energy. The more energy, the more opportunities for feelings, for abilities.

One must learn to ignite this energy — it is power. The basic state (to learn how to light fire) is what makes a person strong, brings him closer to God.

There are many components that keep a person in the flow of Light on the spiritual level: unquenchable fire, contentment. Whatever happens to you, you know: you are the Soul, God is with you, faith, love that gives joy in the heart. These are the things that constantly connect man with God and allow him to live in the streams of Light. Calmness and relaxation, practiced in meditation, we further learn to translate into life.

At a certain stage a person stops twitching, suffering, experiencing depressive and hysterical states. He becomes radiant. Every person has many good things, many good things happen to him. For example, joy. There is joy that needs a reason, it holds as long as that reason is there — for example, to talk to a new person. And there is joy that is held by itself. The goal is for joy to be held by itself. So that no matter what is going on (you are walking through town with friends or on a deserted road alone) you can see — there is a radiant person walking along. You don’t have to be smiling ear to ear, but you can see that radiance coming from you. You are not uptight, you have an easy smile in your eyes, you don’t even have to say anything. Some people are tense all the time, they are held back by fears, their emotions don’t turn off. Tension in the muscles — these are also subconsciously present emotions that are not turned off. They need to be turned off.

Chapter 2. The Path to Happiness

The right attitude

What is the right attitude? Finding happiness within yourself and in the world around you. Where does the search for happiness begin? First of all, it is necessary to determine what is the role of knowledge in its pure form for a person to get the state of happiness. In many sources (the classic is Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, other 150—160 books) the most commonly quoted is: “Ignorance, ignorance, misunderstanding are the source of all suffering.”

Right knowledge is the source of all wealth, happiness, enjoyment. Knowledge — you know something, and discernment is the ability to apply that knowledge, to see in what situation what knowledge works. Distinction is the ability to see: good or evil

Knowledge is not a book on the shelf that you buy and put on the shelf, it does not work by itself.

What works is the knowledge that is embedded at the level of beliefs, at the level of a person’s faith. “I know this is so, and I have 10 reasons, arguments why it is right.” What will work is what a person has already put into practice, he has formed the confidence that it is right.

The first thing to understand and accept is that knowledge is primary. Why is it primary? They form everything that is in a person. They determine decisions, decisions are followed by actions, actions are followed by everything you get in this life. Knowledge forms understanding, aspirations, goals, decisions in this or that situation. What is written in a person’s consciousness predetermines his choice (about 80%), his decision. There is also intuition — he does not know yet, but he already feels that the right thing to do will be like this. If he is attuned to what his spiritual heart says, he follows it. If he is not attuned, he does not follow it.

You make decisions — you need to get rid of something, to invest in something. These decisions are shaped by your knowledge. The results you get depend most of all on what you know, what you believe. That’s why the Bible says, “To each according to his faith.” It goes like this: what a person believes, that’s what he gets in this life, provided his faith is right. In the end, the indicator of whether your knowledge is correct or not is the end result, the practice. Whether you are a shining person, walking through life easily, freely, joyfully, or walking with a low head and a running gaze.

It depends on your choices, on your knowledge. What you achieve in life (successful career or only problems) depends on what you believe in, what beliefs, values you realize.

Attunement is what is embedded in your mind and how it works. The first is perception. When we look at this world, we perceive it either as a unique opportunity (something to look at and rejoice in) or as a threat. Something happens and the person makes a decision for themselves (whether to suffer, good or bad) or the subconscious mind makes the decision for them. Either way, the decision is made.

If you have made the decision, “I want to gain power over myself,” you need to say the right words to yourself to do so. As in a firm, the manager either leads or watches him get ruined. If he is quick to make decisions, he is active: he is a provocateur — fire him, a good person — reward him justly. Similarly within yourself — are you commanding or acting as an outsider.

You need to be a commander within yourself. Your thoughts and efforts are directed to the realization of your decisions — whether to suffer or you have made a final decision: “I want to go to happiness”. You have made a responsible decision, and it means that everything that is against you must be removed: “I don’t want to leave room in my Soul for suffering, claims, resentments and self-justifications”.

Suffering has arisen: “I am wrong”, go, breathe in and out, hands in namaste, stand, calm down and think why it happened to me, what I need to change to stop twitching. Someone’s words offended me — it means that I was not ready to hear nasty things, I should write it down in my consciousness: next time you can expect trouble from this person, especially when he is angry. And next time we behave differently.

The right attitude is formed by taking into account all details — in relation to yourself, to your Soul, to the world around you. Life is a unique opportunity. Thinking works, thoughts spin. Where you direct them, there they spin. If there are no clear goals, then they are running around like idlers. No boss, no assignments, where will the subordinates run to? Some to smoke, some to sunbathe, some to read magazines.

The right mindset: the world is an opportunity. “I want to set such and such goals and achieve them”. Goals, outcome, what I want to achieve. Understand where these opportunities are hiding; everything that leads to the goal — find, try, fits or not, what prevents them from being realized — remove, but do not miss opportunities. That which leads to the goal: “I must find, take”. And the next thing is: “How to do it right?” — non-violent techniques. Your state of happiness says that you are right here and now. If there is no joy in your heart, if you are not enjoying what is happening, then something is wrong here.

For example, the firm: whether people work with joy, with enthusiasm, or at gunpoint. Of course, it is better than lying on a bench, but it is even better to create with joy and enthusiasm. And if you have such a state, you are approaching mastery, if not, you are far away from correct understanding.

If you tune your heart correctly — to live here and now, to enjoy what is happening, to thank God, to say good words to yourself and to people — the Soul begins to sing. Actually, to get these states, not much is needed — about a thousand correct answers to the most important questions for a human being. They are different in complexity. For example, self-esteem — it is not easy to build it to close all the key points in the consciousness. Thought structures are like little people — they bring joy or threat to your safety. And it is necessary to program each “little man”, to say “do this” so that they know how to do it and do it correctly. Otherwise, they will act in a habitual way.

Example. A child is beaten, punished, he thinks: “When he grows up, I will not touch my child with my finger”. And then what happens: when he grows up and the same conflict situation arises, he does what he knows and knows how to do. And if there is no other recipe but to yell or beat, there is nowhere to go. They tried a word and it doesn’t work, the person is not trained in another way. He is forced to do what he knows, and he does it, but it still doesn’t work.

Finding happiness in yourself

Happiness is worth every effort to achieve it. It doesn’t lie on the road, you have to achieve it by your own labor. This bad thing is looking for a place to stick.

There are two sources of happiness — in the outside world and within the individual. The first is that which concerns you personally. A human being is an immortal Soul, indestructible, indestructible, light and pure in its nature. In the Soul of every human being there is a huge potential. What one can do, everyone can do, it is inherent in every human being.

Someone has risen higher on the Path of his Development (the Soul lives longer), someone has only recently started his Path, so as a child he can hardly stand on his feet and does a lot of foolish things in life. A human being is not a body that will die in so many years (otherwise there is no reason to try at all, you need to grab more here and now, and after us there will be a flood).

A human being is, first of all, a Soul, and there is a huge potential in it. Many people do not do anything in their life because they do not believe that they are capable of it. Everyone has these abilities. Only the ways to achieve them and the obstacles are different, the time is different. But everyone has tremendous potential. And all the abilities you have heard about, you have them, only someone reveals them earlier, and someone later.

But if a person does not believe in it and does not follow this path, he has no chance. It is his choice and his decision. The first decision to make is, “I want to learn to believe in this so that it fills my heart with joy”.

Attitude towards the other person. If you look at him as a body, then what can be done with that body — the answer is natural. If, however, it is a Soul, then what can be beautiful with that Soul? A huge number of possibilities — the Soul believes in something, strives for something.

Most people use their enormous potential to a few percent, nothing more: they do not follow their physical development and psycho-emotional state, they do not seriously work on their goals, they go with the flow, just like their parents. In order to change this situation, you need to set a goal — to change your life, to understand everything that is inherent in you, and to reveal it all: “I want to believe in this. I want to make it come true”.

The inner world is half of all the sources of joy, happiness, pleasure, and power that exist for man at all. The Path of Development and getting happiness are approximately the same thing. If you follow the Path of Development correctly, you get the state of happiness. In fact, it is an indicator of correct decision-making, and if your heart creaks (wrong decision!), but you have made it for some reason, it means that you believe in the wrong thing or there are unopened questions.

You have a choice — you want to be happy or you don’t want to be happy. Are you ready to decide, “I want my inner world to become perfect, strong, happy. This is my duty.” There is a Soul that feels something, suffers something, enjoys something. What do you want and can do for your Soul? This is your duty, your responsibility before yourself, before your destiny, before God.

You have received a body, you have been given an opportunity to be born in this life, you have been given a Soul, which is created element by element for 50 thousand years in the Subtle World. You have been given chakras, in which the memory of all lives is stored.