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SPIRITUALITY FOR SUCCESS

Source Material :
1. Body is the Greatest Gadget, Mind is your own business
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Book by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

2. Various materials regarding spiritual sciences

Presented by

Vinodh Gopal Dhullipatti


IMBA Batch 11, NIDA

INDEX
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................................................1
MAIN FACTORS FOR SUCCESS ................................................................................................................................2
LOGICAL FACTORS FOR SUCCESS ...........................................................................................................................2
STEP 1 BEING HAPPY ...........................................................................................................................................3
STEP 2 100% INOLVEMENT IN ACTION ...............................................................................................................9
STEP 3 DISSOLVING ONES OWN PERSONALITY ................................................................................................11
STEP 4 ACTIVATING YOUR ENERGY CENTERS ...................................................................................................15
CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................................18

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INTRODUCTION

The world now has become an Economic engine and it is totally connected, it is aptly
called as GLOBAL VILLAGE. Businesses and Economic development has become a new
mantra where every country irrespective of race and religion are focusing on Economic
development as the main goal.
In this time where Businesses and Business leaders are going to rule the world, it is
highly essential to understand what makes a Business click or in other words what
makes a human click because humans are the ones who are eventually going to run
everything.
There is one big aspect which every human being carries, this aspect shapes the core of
who he is and the core of what he will become but this aspect has been completely
ignored by all academics and all education systems, it is the idea of GOD.
While Atheists, Theists and many other kinds of ists are still fighting over this idea at
many different levels, be it the street or a school or a science lab, one thing is sure,
unless this idea of GOD and the ways in which it is linked with Humans is looked upon
professionally without any preconceived notions, any prejudices, there will be no future
for the mankind.
In this effort, I invite the reader to read this paper professionally, with a business mind,
with an open mind, without any preconceived notions.
This paper is about the link between Spirituality and Materialism. It is about the ways
through which Spiritual way of living can be used for material gains (Business). It is to be
understood that when we talk about something as a Spiritual process, it should not be
mistaken as any ism or any religion.

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MAIN FACTORS FOR SUCCESS

Success is when the outside situations in your life is happening the way you want it,
there have been many number of books / pep talks / seminars on how to succeed.
Though some of them are logical, nowadays it is increasingly becoming illogical.
One example of such an illogical concept which is getting widely accepted is that the
way you think is the way you are. If you think positively all the time, have selfconfidence, visualize your goals, hypnotize yourself with auto-suggestions, the universe
or something will respond and manifest what you want.
The concept of believing in your God (Jesus or Allah or Shiva or whatever) and hoping
that your life will automatically become better is not different from the above
mentioned concept. Having said that, we cannot just ignore this concept outright as it
seemed to work for many people otherwise it would not have become so popular.
However, since this paper is for professionals, we would not get into anything illogical,
we will be as logical as possible and look at Spirituality. We will check where it leads us
and see if it can be useful for our everyday life.

LOGICAL FACTORS FOR SUCCESS

The womb in which a human being is born cannot be selected, this gives pole position
for few, leaves some in the middle, lots more outside the arena. No matter how hard we
try, we cannot change this at least for now; however our journey from where we are to
where we want to be has to be made.
For this journey to be made successfully there are External Factors which influence you
and there are Internal Factors which influence you.
Again, External Factors are beyond your complete control, no matter how hard you try
you cannot make everything external go your way, if you try, some factors will go your
way and some other factors will not go your way no matter how hard you try. So we will
just leave this out.

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Professionals who are serious about what they want to achieve should only look at their
Internal faculties and take charge of them, these faculties are as follows

Body

Mind

Emotion

Energy

STEP 1 BEING HAPPY

There was an Oscar winning movie called Peaceful Warrior which incorporated the
ideas of book Power of Now. This movie is an out and out spiritual movie for a person
who is aware of what is happening, for the unaware; it will be just another 2 hours of
Hollywood flick.
This movie follows a journey of an Athlete who will be having a perfect life that anyone
can dream of, money, looks, skill, girls, everything. He meets an Old man who could
make a jump much more than this Athlete normally does; impressed by this, he goes to
the Old man and asks him to teach him his technique. The Old man finally accepts and
the conversation goes as follows
Old Man:

There are lots you need to know before understanding how to make such
a high jump.

Athlete:

Go Ahead, Ask me something!! anything!!

Old Man:

ARE YOU HAPPY?

Athlete:

What does that got to do with anything?

Old Man:

EVERYTHING

That is the basic step towards becoming much more effective in whatever we do.
Unfortunately, it has been made up in the world that being happy or being peaceful is
the ultimate achievement in Life. Some people are convinced that they can become
peaceful and happy only after Death.
This is the first misconception which spiritual process breaks right away, a true spiritual
process teaches us that Happiness or Peacefulness is not the Z of life, it is the A of life.
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Only when a person is happy, he would be able to do whatever he wants to do in a more


effective way.
It is no wonder that Science is also saying the same thing, only when you are happy,
your mind and your body functions at its best capabilities, it wont function as
effectively if you are panicked, anxious, stressed, angry or depressed.
As a professional, kindly look into your life and answer the following question In all
these years of life, how many of you have spent one 24 hour segment, that is one single
day, absolutely joyfully, without even a single moment of irritation, frustration, anxiety,
stress. If your answer can be counted in fingertips, your Life is a disaster. If it does not
constitute even 50% of your life time so far, then you have a problem.
Solutions shall be discussed later but right now we need to identify our problems first,
Being happy is the most fundamental step, if this is not here, your life shall always
happen by chance, you may or may not achieve what you want, that is the grim reality.
Mechanics of Happiness
Most peoples happiness is on Push Start, it is not on Self Start. Only when external
things go their way, they are happy, if something falls apart, they also fall apart. In other
words, it is safe to say that they are Slaves to the External World.
Scientifically it is understood that every type of experience in a human being is nothing
but a chemical reaction / generation within, in other words, it is just a chemical soup,
some soup gives anxiety attack, some others gives a feeling of Love, some others gives
stress etc.,
When a human does not take charge of his internal faculties as mentioned above, he
does not have any control over what happens within himself, he will remain a slave to
the External situations forever.
He can hallucinate himself by thinking that he has a lots of self confidence / Self
Esteem, he can momentarily change the chemical soup with pumped up Motivational
talks but he will not be able to sustain the feeling continuously even for one single day.
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least have an illusion of control; many others are swallowing real chemical pills to
maintain their balance, thats even more disastrous way for a Human being to live.
It is very important to understand that if a Human Being has some control over his
Mind, Body, Emotions and Energy, he would keep himself happy and blissful all the
time. On the same note, if he has even more control, he would be able to use his Mind,
Body, Emotions and Energy on a much higher level than it is normally thought to be
possible.
Let us try to understand whether we have control over our Mind, Body and Emotions.
Current State of Human Mind
If you observe your mind closely for one day, you would know that your Mind is on an
endless rambling all day, all night, even during sleep it does not rest, it comes up with
dreams.
The minute you open your eyes in the morning, it thinks about the office work and gives
you a brief headache. When you are brushing your teeth, it goes and thinks up some
nonsense which happened 2 years ago with your friend / relative / enemy or whatever.
Suddenly it goes forward and thinks about 10 years in future, planning the exact day 10
years from now when you dont even know for sure whether you will live that long.
In short, Mind is mainly playing only in the Past or the Future, it is never really in the
present. In the present, there is no need for the Mind to function, what is here, its just
here, you dont have to use your mind to make it as something else.
If a certain distance is created between you and your mind, you would start using it
much more sensibly. When it is needed, you would use it, when it is not needed, you
learn to keep it aside. This way, it would function more effectively when you need it to
function.
Current State of Human Body
The will of Body is a little difficult to notice but if you pay close attention, you can easily
find out that it is your Body which determines most of your day to day activities. For eg.,
you wanted to exercise in the morning, you set the alarm at 05:00 AM and go to sleep,
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your mind is very clear that you want to exercise however when the alarm strikes, your
body is the first one to send a signal to your mind that it does not want to wake up. Your
body wants to curl up inside the blanket; your mind takes the cue and does the rest.
Eventually, you do not wake up, this happens day after day and not only for simple
things like waking up.
If you had noticed, during some days when you are at office, your body just would not
feel like doing anything, it has a will of its own, you and your mind clearly know that
there are lots of work to be done but your body would not even budge a little.
If you think logically, you can see that all life on this planet, including this Body should
have come from the planet, it did not land in here from somewhere else, it is all about
evolution. This body is just a part of this planet, prancing around now, soon it will go
back into this planet, there is something else within you which operates this Body but
right now, you are so identified with your body that you think, what your body feels like
is what you feel like. When you have such a strong identity, it is difficult to control or
bend your body at will.
If a certain distance is created between you and your body, you will blatantly start using
your body, you can work for long hours, you can do all your household chores, you can
play, do million other things, after all thats what body is for. You will be able to use your
body to such an extent that in the night when you want to go to sleep, before your head
hits the pillow, you will fall asleep.
Current State of Human Emotions
Whatever is the state of Human Body and Human Mind, it will be reflected in Human
Emotions. If both your body and mind are taking instructions from you, your emotions
will also start taking instructions from you.
Right now, it is a beautiful day outside, beautiful climate, everything in the cosmos is
going perfectly well, suddenly a nasty thought creeps in your mind and you miss
everything and you become depressed.

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Today someone told you how wonderful and how lovely you are, your emotions become
sweet and you start floating in the sky, you get back home floating and there your wife /
husband tells you who you are really are. Then, you crash head first.
This happens because you do not have any control over what your mind thinks, as a
result of which you will not have any control over your emotions either.
Remedy
If there is one thing which can be done for enabling yourself to take control of your
faculties, would you be interested or not? It is important to understand that gaining
control over these faculties cannot be just done through wishful thinking or will power,
it needs something different and this has to be done periodically so as to start gaining
mastery and sustaining it in the long run.
The Thai Year now is 2557 which means a person 2557 years ago gave this technique
and taught it to large groups of people which has been carried forward all these years.
This mans name is Gautama Siddartha The Buddha and the technique he taught is
meditation. Unfortunately, it is being largely ignored by the population simply because
somewhere down the line, the technique is lost and the religion is the only thing which
is remaining.
Spiritual process and Meditation is not for the people who lost everything and decided
to become a Monk, it is not for people who have nothing else to do, it is for people who
want to do whatever they are doing in a much more effective and inclusive way.
A simple proper meditation for 15 minutes everyday will naturally take you to a place
where your body, your mind, your emotions and your energy start taking instructions
from you. When this happens, you will be simply happy and blissful without any external
stimuli and now you would have taken the first step.
How Meditation helps
There has been countless number of research and the results are all well documented
about the fascinating effects of meditation on human system.

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Logically, if you look at it, you will first start gaining mastery over your body. Initially,
you would not be able to sit still for 5 minutes, you would feel like you are going mad
because your body needs some kind of action all the time, it would need at least a nose
picking action or minor stretching / shaking or whatever, when you deny this simple
comfort the body is taking all the time, you shall be sending a clear message that you
are in charge of what action needs to be done.
Slowly, the more you do meditation, easier it will become and keeping your body still for
15 minutes will not seem that difficult, this in itself is a huge achievement.
Eventually, you will be able to clearly control your body to the fullest extent, if you have
to wake up 05:00, your body will wake up, if you have to work till 01:00, your body will
support you. Is this not a big deal? Is this not a good advantage for professionals who
aspire to achieve something?
In the same manner, when you begin meditation, your mind will wander around so
many different things, it will think up utterly crazy things just to stop you from doing
meditation. For handling the mind, a different level of understanding and more
perseverance is needed. First of all, you cannot focus your mind on anything, if you try
so hard not to think of a Blue Elephant, blue elephant is the one which will always crop
up in your mind. This is where learning proper meditation comes into picture, not just
simply sitting and thinking that you are doing meditation. When you do proper
meditation, you would learn to ignore your mind, once you do this, your mind will
automatically settle. A point will come when for those 15 minutes, you would feel like
you did not have a single thought in your mind, that is when you can use your mind to
its fullest extent when it is needed.
Mind is like a Knife, once you do proper meditation, you are just sheathing the knife for
15 minutes a day, this will help you immensely because the minute you start using it,
you will be able to cut through things with much more ease than before because it has
been sheathed for some time. It would be best, if you become meditative throughout
the day and do your activity, this would need a lot more understanding and practice but
this is too much to ask for in the beginning. Learn to at least give everything a break for
15 minutes a day so that when you are really on the job, you would work more
effectively.
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Emotions will always follow once Body and Mind are in alignment. When you become
truly happy by your own nature, not because of someones praise, not because of this or
that, just simply happy, you would see that your emotions will naturally elevate to a
higher level and you will feel sweet all day, every day. Now you got the foundation set
and you can work on this further to develop your career in a beautiful way.

STEP 2 100% INOLVEMENT IN ACTION

There is a beautiful saying in the Indian Spiritual lore which goes like this
Do your duty, dont lay claim to the fruits
The above statement should not be understood literally as many people have; it would
only lead to outright rejection of the statement. How can a person ever do something
without laying claim on the fruit of his action. Can you work without laying claim to the
Salary? Of course not. Then what does this statement really mean.
Logically speaking, unless you are 100% involved in the work that you do, you cannot
really achieve that which you want. I guess everyone would agree with this.
How can this 100% involvement happen, will it happen if you get a feeling that you may
not get what you want. Answer is No, if you have a doubt that you may not get the
desired end result, for some people efforts will always be half-hearted, for some others
they tend to become too desperate that their efforts become distorted completely but
neither of them will have 100% involvement in the action that they perform because
they simply have too many things on their head.
Can this 100% involvement happen when you get a feeling that you will definitely get
what you want. Again the answer is No, if you get a feeling that you will definitely get
what you want, you would not even bother making your full effort and you will start
dreaming about the fruit of action right from day 1 without being 100% involved in your
current action.
The reality is just this your efforts may or may not bring the result that you desire.
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visualizing your goals technique, dreaming about your goals, etc., came into
prominence.
When you see the reality just the way it is YOUR EFFORTS MAY OR MAY NOT BRING
THE RESULT THAT YOU DESIRE, naturally you will understand that the only thing which
is in your hand is the effort that you take, everything else is out of your control. Your
only focus should be whether you are making the effort to the best of your abilities or
you are just giving half-hearted / distorted effort due to preconceived notions.
When you truly understand this reality, you will naturally drop the fruit of action, as it is
not in your hands anyway and you will concentrate only on the current action. This will
bring 100% involvement in you. Dont bother about the fruit of action, now is the time
for making the effort, let it be absolutely 100% of your best effort, this shall dramatically
increase your probability to succeed.
In Zen Meditation techniques, they teach the monks to do simple household chores
such as Gardening, Vegetable cutting, Cooking along with meditation techniques.
However, they will have a huge set of instruction for every action like Gardening,
Vegetable Cutting, Cooking etc., you cannot just cut the vegetables thinking about what
movie is going to get released next week, you have to cut the vegetables to a specific
size and shape. This is a practice to bring 100% involvement in you with whatever you
do.
Only when you are 100% involved with whatever you do, you will show the same level
of involvement in your work. Dont misunderstand that your involvement should only be
with your work and rest of the time you can be half alive / half dreaming and do stupid
things. No, it has to be 24 hours involvement, be it eating, drinking, sleeping, making
love and also working, then this would work beautifully.
Goal Setting and knowing the direction in which we are going is important but you
should not be a fool to live in your Goals without paying enough attention to the work
to be done for getting there. Once the Goal is set, thats it, there is nothing else to be
done with it, make your plan, start your action and drop the fruit of action then
naturally you will give 100%.

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STEP 3 DISSOLVING ONES OWN PERSONALITY

Personality The Basics


Let us try to understand what is Personality. This is something which people form to
make themselves suitable for a certain kind of situation or to achieve certain kind of
goal. For eg., if you decide to become an Army / Navy man, you should be absolutely
courageous, if you want to be an executive you should have a different personality, if
you want to be a Loving husband, you need a certain kind of personality.
When we were really young as kids, we did not have any kind of personality; nobody can
judge 100% how this kid will react in all kinds of situations. Same kid who seems so
reserved in one kind of situation will absolutely burst forth with lot of energy in another
kind of situation. Slowly, as we become older we looked at people around us and
thought that if we want to have a life like them, we should have that kind of personality;
this is how many people make adjustments to their personality all through their life
trying to be like someone else or something else. There are other conditions also which
is not in your control but it forms your personality Eg. race, religion, country, education
etc., All of these things join together to form a mix and you call that as your personality.
Another way of looking at this is, when you have a strong personality, you become very
rigid, you have a strong sense of what is right and wrong, you have a strong sense of
likes and dislikes etc., when a person develops a strong personality, he can push his way
through the physical sphere of life, some kind of physical success, socially relevant
success can be achieved by having a strong personality but it comes with disadvantages
too.
The Disadvantages of having a strong personality is you have a fixed way of reacting to
situations around you, if you are a person who is always active and always take the lead
in any kind of situation, you would get yourself into trouble if you dont let others take a
lead in certain other kind of situation. Its true, some situation you have to be the boss,
in some situations it would be better if you follow someone to get things done, in other
words instead of REACTING to situations around you according to your personality, you
should learn to ACT appropriately to the situations around you.

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Furthermore, if you have a strong personality you cannot stand anything different than
you and you will become uncomfortable working with people who think different, eat
different even dress different when compared to you. Mind you, those people are not
wrong, they are just different but since you have a strong personality, you will not be
able to work with them effectively as you cannot look past your likes and dislikes.
In this GLOBAL VILLAGE, where businesses are increasingly crossing borders, crossing
race, crossing language and religion, it is absolutely essential for a true professional to
set aside his likes and dislikes, rights and wrongs in order to be truly effective.
Personality & Spirituality
Fundamentally, all spiritual process in the world is about dissolving your personality
completely in order to merge with something as vast as the existence. Buddhism is an
excellent but a painful school for dissolving your personality, its fundamental teaching is
about identifying the things that adds to your personality and renounce it step by step.

If you think, your money forms a part of you, renounce that.

If you think, your family forms a part of you, renounce that.

If you think, your job forms a part of you, renounce that.

Step by Step, you renounce everything that adds to your personality or Ego, so that in
the end you become a nobody and only a very vague idea of I remains. Once you
dissolve even that I, you will be enlightened. Let us not go that far and think about
concepts such as renunciation and enlightenment.
I would like to introduce you to another spiritual process from Indian Ethos, while
Buddhism is a really effective way to achieve the ultimate, there are a few other models
in the Indian spiritual ethos which would be more suitable for todays world.
Krishna is one of the 33 million gods that Indian people worship, he is a man who lived
somewhere between 3000 3500 years ago and he is one of the main character in
Indian Epic MAHABHARAT. He is a person who displayed any and all kinds of the
personality in his life ranging from pure good and pure love to pure deceit and pure
treachery.
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It would be impossible for someone who has a strong moral background, who has a
strong sense of likes and dislikes to even think of Krishna as a God but many people did
and still do. It is said that Krishna is for the future of mankind, right now, mankind is not
evolved to fully understand Krishna but soon they will. It would be a silly attempt for an
amateur like me to even try to describe Krishna, however, I will just give you a small
excerpt of a talk from two of the renowned spiritual gurus of this time.
When we say Krishna, the essence of who he is, He is an irrepressible child, a terrible
prankster, an enchanting flute player, a graceful dancer, an irresistible lover, a truly valiant
warrior, a ruthless vanquisher of his foes, an astute statesman & kingmaker, a thorough
gentleman, a Yogi of the highest order, a man who left a broken heart in every home.
Krishna, to contain him in few books is an impossible challenge; at the most, we can
just have a glimpse of who he is. Krishna is seen and perceived and understood and
experienced in many different ways by different people Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
Krishna is what Buddha would be like had he lived another full life after
enlightenment. Where Buddha ends, Krishna begins Osho

Applications and Advantages of dissolving your personality


There is a management concept called ENDOWMENT EFFECT which means your ability
to make decisions gets hampered by your feelings / attachments to certain things, in
other words your personality affecting your decisions.
In the famous movie GODFATHER, Michael Corleone says to his prodigy Never hate
your enemies, it affects your judgment This again means your personality affects your
decisions. Though everything that Michael Corleone teaches in Godfather cannot be
taken as Management lesson, this one line can surely be taken as a good management
lesson.
When you truly dont have any likes or dislikes, sense of right or wrong, you would be
able to see things just the way it is with no added effects or illusions. You would have
made yourself more malleable and you can form yourself whichever way you want as
appropriate to the situation.
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Dont think of this as a negative thing as being manipulative, it is the reality in the world.
Everybody is making up their personality but they get so identified with it and they feel
its real. Once you dissolve your personality, you will clearly know that personality is
something you create for external situations and you would be able to create it much
more effectively because you are no longer identified with it. When this happens, you
would be able to involve yourself in any situation and do whatever action that you
consider best without any hesitation because you dont have any fear of getting
entangled and this keeps your judgment sharp.
Some alarm bells will be ringing, what if someone have no sense of right and wrong,
wouldnt that person go and hurt / kill everyone around him. Im saying just throw your
ideas of right and wrong out of your mind but it does not mean that you can start doing
stupid things in your life because everything has a cause and an effect.
Sooner or Later, the effect will catch up with you, one way or the other, if you are ready
to accept whatever effect that is going to come to you, do whatever action that you
want. If you do not prefer certain type of effects in your life, you dont do those things
which can bring those corresponding effects into your life. It is just a conscious choice
which humans have to make. Humanity is not in such a low level where they would just
behave like animals without any moral codes, everybody has their brains in place and
they can make decisions consciously.
If you just allow the humanity within you blossom, you will not need any moral support
to make your way through life.
For eg. India is a culture which dont have any moral codes or standards, there is no
THOU SHALL NOT in Indian spiritual ethos, they just found a way to make the
humanity blossom within themselves and this in turn made India as one of the most
loving countries in the planet which has not invaded anybody for any material wealth.
The entire Indian freedom struggle of Non-Violence stands as a shining example to
show the character of people who lived in this country.
Strategically, though it is a bad move, being too soft for comfort, still it might serve as an
example for this generation on how humans can behave lovingly even in the worst
circumstances. Had they truly understood teachings of Krishna, Indian colonization

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would not have happened, they dropped the ball just on that aspect but thats a
different story.

STEP 4 ACTIVATING YOUR ENERGY CENTERS

So far in this paper, all the writings are for Body, Mind and Emotions only. There is
another aspect which empowers all these three things which is the basic. That is what
we refer to as Energy otherwise called as Prana in Indian spiritual ethos and as Chi in
Zen spiritual practices.
Primitive thinkers will naturally tend to think that the Food that we eat as the Energy, it
is not so. While food forms the most basic and most easily available source of Energy,
what truly moves people is something else. For eg., Lets say that you have not eaten for
a whole day and you are starving, just when you think about eating your food, a call
comes mentioning that someone very close to you has met with an accident and they
need you at the hospital immediately. Will you stop on the way to McDonalds for a
Burger to go, No; you would simply run to the hospital not caring about Food at all.
At that time, your body will also support you through some miracle and supply you with
the necessary energy for your journey. So it has to be understood that Energy is not only
in the Food that you eat, it is stored in vast amounts within your system, if you learn to
harness this energy, you wouldnt need this much food in the first place to keep your
system active.
The following paragraphs are going to take you to a place which is a little illogical but I
hope that the reader as a professional will read this with at least some openness so that
he may understand something. Besides, in this world where illogical thinking such as
Law of attraction, Visualization, Auto Suggestions are making the rounds, why not
give a shot for something which has been said a long back with so much detail, so here
goes.
Energy Centers in the Body
In Indian Spiritual Ethos, CHAKRAS & KARMA are the most widely used jargons. We will
leave Karma out for this study as it serves a different purpose. We will just look at
CHAKRAS.
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What are Chakras? These are the energy centers in your body through which the vital
energy or the PRANA moves, these were propagated by so many ancient seers & sages
with great detail so that it shall help the future of mankind.
There are totally 7 major energy centers in the body, the base chakra (Foundation) is
called Muladhara located at your perineum while the topmost chakra is called Sahsrar.
A central nadi (Passageway for energy) called Sushumna runs through the spinal column
from the base chakra to the Sahsrar.
In other words, Spiritual process also means moving your energy from Muladhara to
Sahsrar. Why the energies should move? It is because each chakra has a specific aspect
of life linked to it and as the energies move, different aspects of life comes into the fore,
these aspects are listed below
Muladhara
Food and Sleep will be the only dominating aspects of the life of person whose energy is
in Mooladhara. This Chakra is located in the Perineum.
Swadhisthana
Physical pleasure seeking such as Sex, Toxicants, etc., shall be the dominating aspect if
energy is in Swadhisthana. It is located a little above the Genital organs.
Manipuraka
Doer in the world, for these people lots of activity is needed in their life, it is all about
action, he maybe a businessman, politician etc., It is located a little below your navel
where your mothers maintenance pipe was connected to you when you were born.
Anahata
Creative person, for these people art, poetry, music etc., are the aspects of life which
create interest in them, This is located just below the point where your rib cages meet.
Vishuddhi
The word Vishuddhi literally means Filter, when your energies move into Vishuddhi, you
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active, you will become so powerful within you that nothing external has any influence
on you. This is located in the pit of the throat.
Agna
When energies movie into Agna, you are intellectually enlightened; This does not
concern with people who are looking to achieve something in the physical world, this is
for out and out spiritual kind, so we dont have to bother about it now.
Sahasrar
A wild jump into another dimension which will make a person incredibly ecstatic. Same
as Agna, this does not concern with people who are looking to achieve something in the
physical world, so we will leave this one out too.
As mentioned before, all your energies are waiting to be unleashed within you but most
human beings are completely oblivious of this fact. This is why, in Indian spiritual ethos
this energy or pran is referred to as Kundalini Symbolism of coiled snake. The
symbolism is because when the snake is still you cannot observe it at all, it is absolutely
still, you will think that it does not exist. When the snake moves, it moves in such a way
that you cannot miss it at all. This is why our Coiled up energy is symbolized with Coiled
snake. Are you ready to unleash the energy within you ? thats all the question is.

How to get our energies moving?


This is where YOGA from Indian spiritual ethos comes into the picture. Yoga literally
means Union, to experience union with self and everything around the self.
Unfortunately, people think YOGA is for physical well being, flexibility or whatever. All
those things are side effects of YOGA, people who do yoga for their health are similar to
people who have an airplane but without knowing that its an airplane, they are just
driving it like a huge bus.
KRIYA YOGA is a branch of Yoga which is specially focused on moving your energies into
a higher plane, it is time for people to look at it as a technology instead of thinking it as
some religion and ignoring it completely.

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CONCLUSION

I hope that as a reader you would have found some connections between the most
mysterious of all subjects in this world Spirituality and the most mundane subject in
this present world Materialism
I encourage the reader to try and see whether some of these techniques are sound with
a bit of openness.
However, the intention of this paper is not to create more effective human beings, it is
not to create more millionaires, more billionaires, more high achievers or anything. All
of these will anyway happen according to your capabilities if you learn how to apply the
techniques explained.
The true intention of this paper is to create a possibility of a more sensible, happy and
conscious being. These are the kinds of people the world is in dire need of, it has seen
enough of achievers, millionaires, billionaires and the world has paid a lot of price for
creating them.
It is time for more sensible and conscious beings to grace the surface of the planet so
that humans stop being the only problem on this planet and start becoming the most
fantastic life form ever.

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