Life's struggle. The Philosophy of Eternal Life vs. Darwin
The fireball was getting closer. It all consisted of lava lakes surrounded by some dark rocky formations. Bright splashes shot up every now and then, only to collapse later and connect the lava lakes with thin channels. At a still considerable distance from the flying ball, a planet slowly floated. A very beautiful planet. It looked as if an incompetent artist had put a few green blots on a light blue background and then tried to cover them up with brown. It was immediately clear that there was life on the planet... And related life, because there were no huge research stations nearby, space terminals, in general, everything inherent to the Aliens. People clearly lived on it. It’s just that they don’t have long to live peacefully, not suspecting that death is inevitable and so close. Soon death will not wait for the owners' invitation; she will be forced to come without asking, to become an unexpected and unwelcome guest. She will immediately feel like a mistress and will kick you out not only from the house, but also from life.
The distance was rapidly shrinking, the last hopes disappeared of their own accord. There was no longer any doubt: the planet would unwittingly get in the way of the ball.
The final stages have already been completed, it seems: now!
The explosion actually happened. But not upon contact with the surface, but much earlier. And somehow he was not scary, but kind, if that’s how we can even talk about explosions.
He seemed to be just a flash of color, followed by lifeless light.
The teacher ordered the work to be remade, he gave the student a blank sheet.
Ivan hardly opened his eyes. The room was quite dark, very quiet, nothing disturbed the peace of his fear. The vision turned out to be surprisingly realistic, well, almost nothing personal. The rules specifically stipulated such dreams, and three bold red lines nestled under the words “report immediately.” However, he did not at all like to do this. Firstly, his words will be taken very seriously, and Vanya himself, to be honest, did not fully trust this method of predicting the future, as, indeed, everyone else known. And secondly, they will certainly be sent for a comprehensive psychological examination followed by forced rest. Perhaps for some this would have been a gift of fate, but he clearly was not one of those people. If only because he loved to work, and work was a pleasure for him, and separation from it was an ordeal.
And yet, it was possible to call Ivan a workaholic only with some significant amendments. He didn’t like any kind of work, but preferably one that required extreme accuracy and maximum concentration of all internal forces. He loved to unravel complex problems and get out of various sticky situations, but only when it did not require communicating with people he disliked. The circle of the latter was very wide: from the head of their VirusLida department to the saleswoman who had recently tried to deceive him. Moreover, he did not love them equally. Sometimes there were critical moments when he could no longer restrain himself and became rude, shouting indiscriminately at everyone who was nearby. This is why his career has been so varied. He worked in many ways: as a cybervirus journalist, as a critic, and even as a player himself... Well, now his life’s path has led him to a place in the elite forecasting department of VirusLida. And, as always, disagreements were not long in coming.
Now one of them, in the person of Jerome, was walking straight towards him. Ivan managed to notice him in time and even made an attempt to turn into the nearest room. But it was not there! Jerome ran up to him, energetically shook his hand and barked: “Well, well done!” After which he instantly lost all interest in Ivan and rushed somewhere into the depths of the labyrinth of corridors and dead ends.
Ivan shrugged. Such people always surprised him. He was often tormented by the question: “Well, don’t they understand that they disgust me?!” I must say that over time this problem resolved itself. The former “comrade” who had just been insulted certainly wanted to take revenge, and those who were not vindictive avoided him or simply ignored him.
That's why he reached the boss's reception room almost without talking. Ash's face helpfully surfaced from the depths of consciousness, and now eloquently reminded that the worst was yet to come.
The boss’s secretary didn’t want to talk to Ivan, so he went into the office without any fuss. The chief was sitting in a chair, studying the latest issue of Virus News and drinking coffee. Ash clearly did not want to tear himself away from reading. As Ivan thought contemptuously: “It’s as if he’s not the head of this magazine.” But he was only partly right - their hostility was simply mutual.
Ivan felt uncomfortable, hesitantly sat down on the edge of his chair, leaning towards the table, demonstrating his readiness to work with his entire appearance.
- Well, sir? – Ash asked meanwhile. - What's up?
“Okay, boss... Here’s the thing...” Vanya hesitated.
“Well, well,” the boss encouraged him.
– In general, today I saw the death of the planet.
“We need to watch fewer horror films at night... And don’t disturb busy people,” he muttered.
“No, what are you... This vision was part of the fear that the virus reproduced... So, according to the instructions, I am informing you about this,” Ivan tried to dissuade him.
Oh, this was his moment of triumph. Ash choked on the noble drink and went into a prolonged coughing fit. Then, in a changed voice, he demanded:
- Repeat.
Ivan fulfilled the request.
The boss sighed heavily:
– Vanya, do you even understand what this means? - After waiting until he shook his head, he continued: - So I don’t understand. But believe me: planets do not die every day... By the way, was it completely destroyed?
- No... I’m telling you, an incomprehensible light spread across its entire area, very soon it all glowed white.
For some reason, the boss, upon hearing this, perked up somewhat, although Ivan saw no reason for joy.
- You know, this is none of our business...
- Shut up. It is ours only if this planet, God forbid, turns out to be the Earth... In all other cases, let the Supreme Council sort it out.
– Do you really not care about millions of lives?
“Yes,” Ash confirmed. “They’re not mine anyway.”
Kate jumped out of bed. Half past eight! This is the fifth time I've been late. For complete happiness, one more thing is missing, and then a quarter of the salary will have to be sadly handed over with a pen and greeted by an emergency meeting due to the low discipline of employees.
It took place every month on the same day, and it remained a mystery to Kate why it had such a name.
In principle, it could have long ago done away with all this bureaucracy, traditionally inherent in state-owned or out-of-scale private enterprises. I could, but then I would have lost the cybervirus games. And they were her hobby, love and, most interestingly, work at the same time. It was not possible to find a position anywhere else directly related to them. Because the huge VirusLid corporation has captured this entire industry into its tenacious hands.
So, willy-nilly, she had to call a taxi and rush to work.
The bustling morning Moscow flashed by. It was very strange to watch her from behind thick soundproof glass. Like watching TV with the sound off. Kate knew that Moscow lived; she had absorbed its frantic rhythm since birth. Moreover, the visual analyzers were sharing information with all their might: a tall black jeep was overtaking and decided that everything was allowed to it, there was someone with a diplomat in his hands crossing the road at risk, there were late passengers catching up with the departing bus... The auditory analyzers were meaningfully silent.
Readers ask me to give more real-life examples, which is what I try to do. And even if I write an article on the topic of the next seminar, I try to give several practical examples for independent mastery.
But you probably noticed that most of the masters who conduct seminars do not reveal their secrets before the seminar. And even when some of them retell in their scientific words my theoretical research on energy psychology, published in print almost a dozen years ago, I welcome it.
For example, the replacement of negative thinking with positive thinking that I propose as the basis for the growth of spirituality is now called an increase in vibrations, which is the same thing, except that the cause is still more important than the effect, albeit a positive one. And positive thinking has many other important consequences.
Unfortunately, no practical recommendations are given for raising vibrations. And this gives the impression that a person cannot do anything on his own, without the help of a teacher. At the same time, a person’s self-doubt is aggravated, i.e., in fact, his vibrations decrease. As a result, the teacher may have helped the dozens who attended the seminar to raise their vibrations. But thousands of readers will be downgraded and will think that they have done a good deed.
And yet: the more authors begin to talk about evolution as the goal of life, the closer this noble goal will be.
But, in turn, I would like to ask the readers a question: “Why are you so interested in other people’s lives? Isn’t it more useful to watch your own?” I think it's better to be happy when everything is good and grateful when it's bad. After all, it is in difficulties that we grow spiritually, and in rest we gain new strength to overcome them.
In this article, I wanted you to also reflect with me on this important topic, and not mindlessly swallow someone else’s mental food. Maybe at this very moment someone will think, wake up from everyday life and decide to radically change their life. It is then that it will become Life, when it begins to flow in a stormy, creative stream.
And when you read the title, I am sure that everyone chose one credo, with the majority choosing “struggle.” And this is not surprising, because that’s how we were taught. Now let's learn for ourselves.
But first, let’s read the scientific definition of life. This is "metabolism". And more recently, scientists who recognized the energetic nature of life gave an additional definition as “energy-information exchange.”
However, this applies only to the biological and mental life of a person. And sociologists give their definition of the life of society, state, civilization as the relationship between its members. It turns out that a person’s life is divided and depends on two factors: internal and external. And the external side of his life depends on the rules called “public morality”, and the internal side - “individual morality”.
Ethics is the science that studies morality and ethics. In other words, morality and morality are forms, and ethics are their content. To make it clearer, I will give one example.
Everyone knows the saying: “A real man must do three things in his life: build a house, plant a tree and give birth to a son.” Just from the fact that men do not give birth, at least two conclusions can be drawn. That this saying applies to all people and that, like parables, it is allegorical and gives only one form, without revealing the content that people should think about for themselves.
I thought about it and got this answer. A home is a fortress, it is integrity, which can be provided by the ethics of family relationships, built on the respectful subordination of the younger to the elder (the law of hierarchy). The New Testament puts it this way: “The husband should listen to God, the wife to her husband, the children to their parents.” We see how the sin of disrespect for parents is now affecting today’s youth. It is rare to find happy couples who got married without parental blessing.
A tree is an individual morality that helps a person’s spiritual growth. Children are the fruits, the results of life activity, built on the morality of social relationships. Besides, a son is an extension of life.
In addition, these three things mean the three main values in life. A house means happiness, a tree means health, and a son means success.
Life is a struggle
Let's first figure out what gives us the call to constant struggle, and, in fact, to survival in constant difficulties and suffering. There is another understanding of life as movement, and this is precisely its purpose. But at the same time, the meaning of life is happiness. Will it be in constant tension? After all, we feel it only at rest.
Fighting most often presupposes the absence of rules, and even if they exist, they are immoral. Remember what we were taught: “The end justifies the means”? The majority still live this way, although a different formation has already arrived.
The purpose of morality as the rules of living according to conscience is to preserve and not destroy the state. And remember the “Moral Code of the Builder of Communism.” Of his 12 points, 4 demanded intransigence and intolerance. Is this not the reason why such a powerful-looking state collapsed?
Even positive morality is destructive if it is only declared but not implemented. Lies, manifested in discrepancies between words and deeds, corrode society with mistrust, killing relationships between its members. Stagnation in the economy is just a consequence, and the reason is the lack of morality and ethics in relationships. The first capitalists in Russia did not draw up any contracts. The word of honor was above all, and they prospered without drowning each other, and even giving “tithes” to charity. But now we have neither law nor morality, which is why politicians are so striving for a rule of law state. But this rule of law state is still based on violence.
“For every action there is a reaction”
This is Newton's 3rd Law, known to us from school. It’s a pity that at school they narrow it down to the level of technology and don’t expand it to relationships between people. Although I did not teach physics, I often showed its action in practice. “Hit the wall,” I say, “with your fist. Did you feel the wall hit you with the same force? Hit harder and she will hit you even harder. It’s the same between people, and not only physically and verbally, but even mentally.” But this was even before the discoveries of scientists about the influence of the power of thought.
In sociology, Newton's 3rd Law is observed as the principle of correspondence. If on the physical level it is absolutely clear to everyone that after compressing the spring, it will certainly straighten out, then on the social level many people believe that the injustices they commit will go unpunished. But the fact of the matter is that the opposite effect is inevitable.
The situation is exactly the same with the Law of Equilibrium: “If it increases in one, then it decreases in the other.” In social terms, it goes something like this: “If you take one, you lose another.” And a person does not notice that for the pleasures he so strives for, he subsequently pays with suffering. This Law in the East is also called the Law of Debt or Karma. And it also has the opposite effect: “if you give one thing, you get another.” For example, if you sacrifice material goods, you receive moral satisfaction in the form of joy, happiness and health. And vice versa - if you sacrifice attention, compassion, time, then you will not vegetate in poverty. Kindness is more valuable than material goods.
Law of Rhythm
Speaking about life, it is impossible not to pay attention to one of its basic laws - the Law of rhythm, which roots opposites in our consciousness, or, as it is now customary to say in esotericism, “duality”, and in exotericism - “dichotomy”. In other words, the habit of dividing everything into black and white, not leaving the right of life to the existence of its color scheme, but in fact, depriving a person of the right to happiness and enjoy life.
But now even exoteric sciences have recognized not only the biorhythms of the physical body, but also the emotional and mental. They have cycles of different lengths. Physical - 23 days (half of them are for decline in physical strength, half for recovery), emotional - 28 days and mental - 33 days. Accordingly, when a particular sinusoid is rising, a person feels good (not only in mood, but also in terms of creative success), but when it is falling, it is much worse, which confirms my theory of total energy potential (GEP). And the lower the OEP, the more acutely and sensitively a person experiences certain ebbs of energy.
That is why I constantly talk about self-improvement, first of all, as the accumulation of EEP. Our health, happiness and success - the main values of life - depend on it. And it’s not enough to know about it, you have to earn it all through physical, mental and mental labor. How? You can’t talk about this in one article. I have written an entire book on this topic, “Yoga of Life, or Psychomental Culture.” This is what I teach in my seminars.
Since our life is dual, in order to live fully, we must accept it as a whole, and not divide it into good and bad periods. Moreover, the “bad” periods we call turn out to be the most productive in our lives, and the “good” ones, if we get used to them, lead to stagnation. A person, like an electric machine, must periodically work, expending energy, and periodically rest to recharge. In this way, the integrity and fullness of life will be ensured, i.e. both of its periods will be beneficial, not harmful. To do this, you need to observe a sense of proportion so as not to stagnate in any of them.
Life is a game
According to esotericism, a person comes to Earth to fulfill his mission, i.e. play a certain role. Throughout his life, he plays many roles: everyday, official, not to mention artists who, not having time to leave one role, switch to another. And an ordinary person also often moves from one life role to another. Now he is a seller, now a buyer, now a driver, now a pedestrian, and each time he condemns and takes offense at other people in the opposite role, experiencing stress and losing his mental energy. Isn't this stupid?
Directors often encourage actors to live rather than play on stage, and such actors are called “actors from God.” At the same time, it is noticed that they live a short life, unlike those who play, burning too much energy and not having time to recover. In addition, they become so fixated on their role that they identify themselves with the personality of the hero. As a result, their fate is similar to the character, right up to the tragic ending.
Above we talked about the laws of life. Essentially, these are the rules of life. And if we consider life a game, then to be successful in it, you need to know the rules of the game. After all, in any game, ignorance of its rules dooms you to lose. Following the rules makes you be aware, and this is the most important thing in life. Awareness is the key to success. It eliminates nonsense by helping you prioritize by importance, and most importantly, constantly be in the present time.
Just now I was listening to Vaenga’s concert and laughing at one of her comic songs. I'll paraphrase it in my own words:
My husband is good to everyone and loves me, but there is one drawback - he does not close the tube with toothpaste. Well, how can you love and immediately crap at the same time? And I went to a neighbor. Although he has dentures, the tube is always closed.
It’s funny, but how many lives are broken because of such stupid little things, elevated to the rank of important.
Of course, this is not a reason, but a reason for a breakup. And the reason most often lies in the struggle for power, i.e. in selfishness leading to resentment. Resentment, in turn, leads from the present to the past, i.e. from reality into illusion. I have already written about one woman who complained about her husband, with whom she separated, as it later turned out, twenty years ago. And we commit a great many such stupid things in life, which can be avoided if we live consciously.
Life is a teacher
If we accept the esoteric hypothesis that a person comes to Earth to study as an axiom, then by carefully observing the events in one’s life, one can foresee impending problems. And not only avoid them, but also attract favorable situations. To do this, you need to observe the Law of Balance, which I have already spoken about. Those. do not create debts, but pay in advance. How? The work of self-improvement. When any problems, losses, illnesses begin, this is a clear sign of debt. This is the main reason. And it is useless to fight these consequences, which is what the majority does. The reasons need to be removed, otherwise the problems will get worse. They act as an alarm clock. And if we don't wake up, they start to bother us even more.
Therefore, thank the diseases, forgive the offenders. Love life as it is. Everything that is done is for the better!
The fight against life: population reduction technologies
In addition to drugs, weapons used to wage modern total war include: population reduction technologies. That is, technologies that achieve the same goals as drugs, the same goals as conventional weapons. Therefore, we have the right to call these technologies weapons. Ultimately, all these types of weapons are aimed at the destruction of life as such - the most important target against which modern war is waged. To destroy life in man and humanity in all its manifestations - spiritual, physical and intellectual - this is what the collective global aggressor wants.
The war in the demographic subspace is aimed primarily at the destruction of physical life. However, in this way a double blow is dealt to both the spiritual and mental space. Indeed, along with population decline, not only the physical, but also the spiritual and intellectual potential of society is reduced. A people weakened in this way ceases to be able to defend their country, their faith, and ceases to realize the need for such protection.
I would like to emphasize that the deep meaning of modern war is the confrontation between forces committed to life and forces committed to death - the forces of vitacracy (life power) and the forces of thanatocracy (death power). The worship of the cult of death and its spread is what underlies the new world order, for the creation of which the global clique is waging war, waging in all ways that sow death in the body, soul and consciousness of a person, peoples, humanity.
We said above that the use of drugs as a weapon to achieve the goals of modern warfare gives it a narcotic dimension. In connection with the use of population reduction technologies, we have the right to introduce the term “medical and biological dimension of war.” In this war, as well as in the anti-state, everything is exactly the opposite, everything is perverted - medicine from a servant of life turns into a distributor of all possible and most sophisticated forms of death.
We will talk about how population reduction technologies are used and how this medical and biological dimension of war manifests itself in this chapter.
This will be a difficult conversation. War is war. And evil is great and insidious. But in order to resist him, we must know his methods, the weapons that our enemy uses. Coming into contact with darkness in this analysis, we must have and keep light in our souls, we must cling even more closely to life. Because life is God, and He is the best Warrior. Trusting in Him, keeping faith in our souls, we will overcome the enemy. And with a feeling of bright hope we begin the story.
Russia has long been the target of a demographic attack. The World Bank projects in the field of health, or, as they were also called, health care, which we were so generously given with loans, included obvious measures to reduce the birth rate and population. The World Bank, as a body of world government, generally specializes in such matters. They do this under the slogan of family planning, maternal and child health. They issue tied (that is, against what they themselves specify) loans, for example, for health care reform, in some regions of the country, and there, as a condition for receiving this loan, all sorts of vile demands are written down. In particular, purchase laparoscopes, which are used to sterilize the population. Another part of this project was the distribution of free contraceptives among girls from 15 years of age and women with low incomes (and they are the vast majority). So the state itself, on a tip from the World Bank, had to finance the reduction of its own population, simultaneously corrupting schoolchildren through lessons in so-called sex education, also imposed by foreign “benefactors.” The particulars of the World Bank project do not end there. They want more. They provide for the closure of maternity hospitals. And, really, why have them if the birth rate is not provided for. Well, one more detail that struck the bank planners’ heads was to organize, as an experiment, assistance to patients with sexually transmitted diseases in antenatal clinics. That is, where healthy pregnant women are served, “as an experiment” (remember fascist experiments), an infection is introduced that can lead to illness in the expectant mother and child, causing changes leading to possible death or genetic pathology.
Do you think I am writing abstract facts? Not at all. All this was included in the World Bank project to reform the health care of the Tver and Kaluga regions. The loan was taken, and the corresponding government resolution regarding the implementation of this World Bank project was adopted in 1996.
Drugs are easier to deal with. There are international organizations that are declared criminal because they will distribute means leading to disease and death, ultimately to population reduction. The World Bank achieves the same goals, just through different means. So what is the difference between him and international criminal organizations? “By their fruits you will know them” (Matthew 7:16).
Alas, VB is not alone in these criminal acts. There are still other organizations pursuing the same goals and together forming the forces of what can be called biomedical NATO, which is understood as a collective meta-aggressor that introduces and distributes medical and biological means of destruction, reduction and prevention of the emergence of human life.
One of the members of the biomedical NATO (this is similar to the Gestapo) is the international eugenics organization Community Relations (CLO), headquartered in Washington. Founded in 1968, the organization was called Zero Population Growth. In 2002, it changed its name, but the essence remained the same.
It is known that the CRS seeks to “stabilize” world population growth through the use of tools such as “family planning (also known as birth control), educating women (i.e. persuading them not to have children), and exercising the right to personal reproductive choice (i.e. abortion and sterilization)"
Given what they do, its motto is tongue-in-cheek: “Education and action for a better world.”
All this eugenic brew is being spread under the guise of fighting global warming. It is known that the best remedy for headaches is the guillotine. Moreover, the organization does not even question whether people are really the cause of global warming.
Professor Paul Reiter, one of the UN's experts on climate control, said: “We imagine that we live in the age of reason, and the alarm about global warming is presented as a kind of science. But this is not science. This is propaganda... I have often heard that there is a consensus of thousands of scientists on the problem of global warming. And that humans are causing catastrophic changes in the climate system. So I am that one scientist, and there are many more of us who believe that this is simply not true.”
By the way, activists of the organization cite Russia with its dynamics of a significant reduction in population as a positive example that all other countries should follow. In what - in what, and in this they praise us vigorously.
At a meeting between the organization's staff and this very population, one of those present asked a question about the compliance of the population control policy with the constitution and received a puzzling answer: “We are not engaged in population control, we are engaged in population stabilization.” One might think that this very stabilization does not imply control.
The slyness in this answer also lay in the fact that one of the founders of the organization, Paul Ehrlich, which, let me remind you, was originally called “Zero Population Growth,” literally said the following: “We must control the population not only through a system of rewards and punishments, but and through coercion, if voluntary methods do not have an effect.”
As part of the family planning program, tens of thousands of Russian women were sterilized in the first years of its implementation. Voluntary methods under conditions of “shock therapy” had an effect here.
At that presentation, where the organization's employees were asked uncomfortable questions, it was shown how African women are sterilized using vaccines. Activists are in favor of adopting a law that would provide for the introduction of “sex education” as a compulsory subject in schools, which, as practice shows, is actually the corruption of children and youth. The sex education textbook, which was developed for the second grade of Russian schools, was called “Your Friend, the Condom.” I'm not kidding. That's what it was called. As part of this program, “lessons on relieving shame” were provided to older schoolchildren. And the questionnaire “What do you know about sex,” distributed among teenage schoolchildren by uncles who compiled the family planning program, was banned by the Prosecutor General’s Office for its corruptive nature. One of these uncles, by the way, was the owner of a peep show, and the other was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Prize for protecting the rights of sexual minorities.
It is known from sexopathology that early sexual intercourse quickly leads to the decline of reproductive functions.
In the mid-90s, the Federal target program “Family Planning”, which provided for what the organization “Connection with the Population” does, was financed from the federal budget, and almost in full, in contrast to such targeted programs as “Disabled Children” " and "Orphans", which were catastrophically underfunded.
At that time, before the adoption of the next federal budget, which provided for the extension of funding for the Family Planning program, a collection of signatures was organized through the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church and a number of Muslim organizations against funding the program. And the State Duma, before adopting the budget, was literally inundated with letters, telegrams, and huge stacks of signatures from all over Russia. It was a powerful popular campaign, unprecedented in its organization, concentration and manifestation of the strength of the people's spirit and its capabilities.
And the Duma, literally dumbfounded by this flow of protest, despite the active attempts of all sorts of radical liberals and democrats to break through the funding of the program, voted against it. It was truly a people's victory, and it was a victory of the Russian Orthodox Church, which carried out colossal explanatory work and managed to organize the people. It is precisely for these opportunities that Russia’s enemies hate the Russian Orthodox Church so fiercely, calling it enemy number one, trying in every possible way to denigrate it and tear it away from the people.
Waking up in the morning, people barely open their eyes, and then go for a bath... After that, they have something waiting for them: school, work, or something else, but, as a rule, already planned. It’s trivial, but not often does anyone think about the fact that every day a person goes overboard with himself because he has no choice.
I lead to a simple thought: our whole life is a daily struggle with ourselves. Surprisingly, we probably like fighting. Whether we want it or not, this struggle consumes us more and more every day. Be that as it may, every day we look at the world a little differently, not like yesterday.
Just think, today you were kicked out of the university, your girlfriend unexpectedly left you, and nothing is working out with your part-time job. With what eyes will you look at this world? Everything you had vanished in an instant. The world seems so unfair that there is nothing left to do but sit down and cry. But this is today... Then tomorrow comes, or a week passes, or maybe a month, and everything changes dramatically. The essence of a person is something like this - to always fight.
If you were in this guy’s shoes, sooner or later you would think: “To hell with him! Everything that is not done is for the better! I have friends, and friends are connections, maybe someone can help with work. University is not the most important thing in life; if I want, I will enroll again. Well, I didn’t die!” And the process begins, the same one, the struggle for survival, the struggle with oneself. It’s just something that’s been ingrained in our heads since birth, some kind of “correct option.” We don’t want to be homeless or “worse than my workmate.” But there are simple things that we don’t even think about, and unfortunately, this is very bad. Because often, this struggle develops into paranoia or prevents us from doing what we really want!
From the beginning of the existence of people on this planet, we are always obliged to fight for something or for someone. At first there were wars for caves, which are warm and safe, and for food, without which we simply cannot survive. Then power. Land, status, ideas, discoveries, recognition. What’s remarkable is that the only thing that has changed since ancient times is the comfort zones for which we fight. Previously caves or shacks, but now apartments or houses. And money appeared - a specific “resource” that can give us these benefits.
Have you ever wondered how amazing people are? We have forced ourselves to develop so much that we are completely absorbed in the “evolution” above us. It is wrong to be lazy, to always lie down and do nothing. After all, in this case we will have nothing. A person overcame his laziness and “stupidity” in the process of struggling with himself, first of all. But is everything so rosy? Is this really the meaning of our existence? I'm not going to philosophize about why we came into this world. In no case. It’s just that, as I already mentioned, this struggle can hinder us.
We often hear: “Money spoils and changes people...”, naturally, because such a resource gives us almost everything we want, but how valuable? A person can overcome his laziness and make incredible discoveries that will be useful for all humanity. And another may go crazy, this is also a struggle, you see, when people are ready to kill “others,” “little people” in order to become richer. Create artificial wars, epidemics, myths about the “end of the world”, and anything else just to make money.
Fighting the heart. Yes, I'm sure everyone goes through this. A person loves very little with his heart, because it is difficult in our time to find someone sincere and pure. Someone said: “People love with their hearts for five minutes, and then their brain turns on,” and begins to analyze everything that surrounds us. For example, how can a teacher date a student? How so? This is immoral. Moreover, she is older. The only problem is, who said it was immoral? Did those around us instill this in us? At such moments, the fight with your heart appears. There are a lot of situations: age difference, working together, difference in status, same-sex relationships, experience that prevents you from moving on, fear of starting all over again after an unsuccessful episode, and so on.
What's all this for? Yes, to the point that you need to fight, but don’t forget to sometimes step away from this fight. Never mind, forget about everything sometimes and learn to relax. You can't live in constant tension. You need to go towards your goal, but in such a way that you won’t feel ashamed later. Although, as they say: “In war, all methods are good,” you see... I still write the way “Mir” instills in us, and there is no escape from this.
Life in the world is one long struggle, and a person who does not know the struggle of life represents either an immature soul or a soul that has risen above the life of this world. The goal of a human being in this world is to achieve the perfection of humanity and therefore it is necessary that a person go through what we call the struggle of life.
There are two different attitudes that people exhibit when participating in the struggle of life. One fights bravely, the other becomes frustrated, his heart breaks even before he reaches his goal. As soon as a man gives up courage while he is fighting the battle of life, the burden of the whole world will fall on his head. But he, fighting the battle of life as he goes, is the only one who makes his way. The one whose patience is exhausted, the one who fell in this struggle, will be trampled by those who walk through life. Even courage and bravery are not enough to go through the battle of life, something else has to be studied and understood: one has to explore the nature of life, he has to understand the psychology of such a battle.
In order to understand this struggle, one must see how many sides are inherent in it. There are three sides: the fight with yourself, the fight with others and the fight with circumstances. One person may be able to fight himself, but this is not enough. Another is able to fight with other people, but this is not enough. And the third meets the requirements of the circumstances, but even this is not enough. All three sides must be studied and known; a person must be able to fight in all three directions.
The question now becomes: where should we start and where should we end? In general, a person begins by fighting with others, he fights all his life and never comes to an end. If a person is wise, he fights against circumstances, and maybe things get a little better. But the one who fights with himself turns out to be the wisest of all, for as soon as he enters into a fight with himself, which is the most difficult thing, all other battles become easy for him. Fighting with yourself is like singing without accompaniment. Fighting with others is the definition of war. Fighting with yourself is the definition of peace. In the beginning and from the outside it may seem cruel to fight with oneself, especially when one is in the right, but one who has penetrated deeper into life will find that fighting with oneself turns out to be most beneficial in the long run.
Moving on to the question of the nature of struggle with oneself: there are three aspects to it. The first is to bring our thought, word and action into conformity with the demands of our ideal, while giving expression to all the impulses and desires that exist within the limits of our natural being. The next aspect of the struggle with oneself is to adapt to others, to their various ideas, to their various demands. By adapting to them, we become as narrow or as broad as their established requirements for us are - this is very subtle, difficult for everyone to understand and put into practice. The third aspect of the struggle with yourself is to give space - big or small, depending on the need - to others in your own life, in your own heart.
When we consider the issue of fighting with others, there are also three things to think about. The first is how to control and manage people and activities, which, by the will of fate, are our duty, our responsibilities. Another aspect is to what extent we allow ourselves to be used by others in different situations and positions in life, where we should set the limit beyond which we should not allow others to use our time, our energy, our work, our patience - where to draw the line. And the third aspect is to adapt to the different concepts that other people have who have reached different levels of development.
As for the third aspect of the struggle - the struggle with circumstances, there are circumstances that can be changed, and there are circumstances that cannot be changed, before which a person is powerless. Again, there are circumstances that can be changed, and yet, a person does not consider himself capable, does not find the strength and means to change them. If one explores these questions of life, thinks about them and meditates so that inspiration and light can be shed on them, then one can understand how to struggle in life, then one will surely find help. Of course, a person can come to such a state when he sees that his life has become easier.
In addition to what I have already said, I would like to note how a Sufi looks at this issue, how a Sufi would approach such work. The Sufi looks at struggle as inevitable, as a struggle through which one must go. From a mystical point of view, he sees that the more he pays attention to the struggle, the wider the struggle will spread; the less he pays attention to it, the better he will get through it. When he looks at the world, what does he see? He sees that everyone, with his head in his hands, is busy only with his own struggle, and it is no wider than the palm of his hand. He thinks: “Will I sit like this, looking at my own struggle? This doesn't answer the question." So his job is to be involved in the struggles of others, to console them, to strengthen them, to give them a helping hand. By doing this, he neutralizes his own struggle, this frees him to move forward.
Now the question is: how does a Sufi fight? He fights with strength, with understanding, with open eyes and armed with patience. He does not look at losses: what is lost is lost. He does not think about the pain of yesterday, yesterday has passed for him. Yes, if there is a pleasant memory, then he keeps it in front of him, it helps along the way. He accepts both admiration and hatred from those around him with a smile, he only thinks that both make up a rhythm, similar to the rhythm of musical measures. There is “one and two” and – strong, accented and weak stress. Praise cannot do without blasphemy, and blasphemy cannot do without praise.
He does not allow himself to be led blindly by force; he holds the torch of wisdom before him, for he believes that the present is an echo of the past, and that the future will be a reflection of the present. A man is only fit to think about one moment, but he must think about where he comes from and where he will go. Every thought that comes to his mind, every impulse, every word that he utters is for him like a grain - a grain that falls into this soil of life and takes root. Thus, he discovers that nothing is lost, every good deed, every small act of kindness, love, no matter who it is directed at, someday sprouts and bears fruit.
The Sufi does not look at life separately from work, but sees how real work can be achieved. The symbol of the Chinese mystics is a branch hung with fruits, which they hold in their hands. What does this mean? This means that the goal of life is to reach a stage where every moment becomes fruitful. What is fruitful? Does this mean bearing fruit for oneself? No, trees do not bear fruit for themselves, but for others. The true benefit is not in a person doing something for himself, the true benefit is in what he does for others. Achieving whatever he wants to achieve, whether on earth or in heaven, what result follows from this? The result is this: so that a person can present to others everything that he has achieved, everything that he has gained on earth or in heaven. Propkar - in the language of Vedanta means work for the benefit of others, the only fruit of life.
As long as the baby is innocent, he is happy, he knows nothing of the struggle of life. I remember these lines written by the late Nizam of Hyderabad, the great mystic:
Oh, what a time it was when my eyes did not see sadness,
When the heart knew no desires, and life was devoid of suffering!
This is the first stage. From here we move on to the maturity of the mind. A person sees that no one can be trusted: neither a friend, nor a relative, no one can withstand the time of trials, everyone lies, there is nothing true around. At first he thinks that all this is directed directly against him. One dervish once wrote the following lines on the wall of the mosque near which he spent the night:
The world believes in God as an ideal,
Not knowing whether He is friend or foe.
So the waves keep rushing onto the shore,
And the atom thinks that they are playing for him.
He thinks: " The wave lifts me, this is favorable for me, the wave falls, this is unfavorable for me.” A person thinks: “My friend - is he good for me or is he harmful?”, but then he realizes that this is the nature of the world. There is nafs - ego - in all of us, and each ego fights against the other. In each hand is a sword, in the hand of a friend, as well as in the hand of an enemy. A friend will hit you after a kiss - there is no other difference.
And then a person realizes that there is nothing to expect from the world. The great Indian poet Tulsidas said: “Everyone does and says as much as he understands.” Why would we blame another for what he could not understand? If he doesn't have more understanding, where will this poor man get it from? As far as he understands, he does. After this, the person understands that everything that happens should be accepted calmly. If he receives an insult, he takes it calmly, if a kind word comes, he accepts it with great gratitude, if a bad word comes, he accepts it calmly and is grateful. If it's just a bad word, he's grateful it's not a blow. If it's a blow, he's grateful it's not something worse. He is ready to give his time, his service to everyone, both worthy and unworthy alike, because he sees the manifestation of God in everything. he sees God in every form, both the highest and the lowest, the most beautiful, the most insignificant.
Sufi says: “ If God is separate from the Universe, then I would rather worship the God who can be seen, who can be heard, who can be tasted, who can be felt in the heart and perceived by the soul" He worships God who is in front of him, he sees God who is present in everything.
Christ said: “ You will see me that I am like He who sent me" This does not mean that Christ declared his own divinity. This is what the dervishes call hamin ost - everything is He and He is everything. There is not a single atom in the Universe that He is not. We must recognize Him, we must respect Him in every face, even in the face of our enemy, even in the most insignificant. Our piety, our spirituality is worthless if we don't do it.
It is not enough to read a few books on philosophy and know that everything is God. Reading a religious book and feeling that we are pious is not enough. Going to some religious place and being happy with how religious we are is not enough. Giving alms while convinced that we are doing something great is not enough. We must give our service and our time to the deserving and the undeserving alike, for this is the only way to give. This life lasts only a few days, and we will never again have the opportunity to give, to serve another, to do something for another. We should be grateful to God for making us capable of giving, capable of serving others.
