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• November 04, 2019

All types of religions and philosophies talk about God, Soul and Matter

"The world is ruled by ideas!" (Plato)

Control over People Means Control over Their Aspirations.

All types of religions and philosophies talk about God, Soul and Matter.

If one takes time to contemplate on this, you will reach the conclusion that there is nothing else that exists outside of these three categories. Materialists talk only about the material subjects. Spiritual teachings say that we are a soul, which are stuck with our consciousness in the material word and we need to elevate our consciousness to the level of the non-material nature and God. Attention is energy, Depending on the direction of one’s attention (to which one out of the three categories one channels his attention), where he is looking for the source of happiness, he will develop three “tastes” to enjoy life. This would create the related type of influence (and control) over the person, which turn into the three types of power, and respectively, three types of politics.

Depending where a person is directing his attention, he is experiencing three types of happiness:

• happiness from the communion with God;
• happiness from relation and communication with living beings;
• happiness from ownership of dead material things.

When a soul is looking for happiness in consumerism (buying more of non-living objects) this soul is developing taste for necrophilia - love for all dead – this is how a well known Psychotherapist Eric Fromm named it.

Ancient Vedic texts call the enjoyment from ownership of non-living matter “parthiva rasa” (Sanskrit) - the lowest taste, the lowest level of the idea of happiness. This are the “happiness” and pleasures which a human being obtains through possession of a bank account, a car, house, prestige social status and other things which money can buy, and especially with a purpose of causing envy in others. Here the pleasure from eating (the tongue touches tasty food), and sex in its pure form. Sex without love is also the lower taste, as it is a pleasure of enjoyment of someone else’s body, including by force, against the will of the soul. All these are the pleasures derived from the sense organs of the body, including the mind, with the sense objects.

There are five sense organs in the physical body: sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing. The mind is also made of a fine material energy, and thus it is called the “sixth sense”. Developing the sensitivity of the mind to the refined material events a person may develop extrasensory abilities: becoming a mystic or psychic. These abilities also fall into lower taste, parthiva-rasa. Lower taste also includes the possession of others: slaves, peasants, servants, subjects - all those over whom one may execute some form or command and control, including animals.

One important point is: all pleasures that we perceive through material body, are those that money can buy.

A taste that a human develops through directing his attention on the development of relationships with others is called swargia-rasa in ancient Vedic texts, the “heavenly life taste”. This is the happiness from friendship, love, all that we feel through our soul-body, non-material senses. This is the happiness that money cannot buy. How much should a person pay you, if he is a crook and a criminal, for you to start trusting him unconditionally? Or to become your friend? Or for you to love him?

We all understand it too well that money cannot buy. trust, faith, devotion, friendship and love. They depend not on money but on those qualities which a person develops in accordance to his inner level of purity and aspirations.

The more exalted the person is the more selfless he is, the more people trust him, more of true friends will be around him, and accordingly he will have more love in his life. The opposite is also true: the more attachments to material things a person has, the more egotism and self-interest a person has, the less people will trust him.
A desire for a gain is the focus on a personal well-being. Love is the concentration on the benefit for others. The more self-interest is there, the bigger the ego is, and the higher degree of fear of death. For the sake of saving his life (or for pleasures or for the money) he is ready to kill everyone around him. And the opposite: the more love a person has, the easier it is for him to sacrifice his life for others, as he is much closer to realizing his eternal spiritual, non-material nature. The less the lucre, the lower is the ego; the less a person identifies himself with the body, and values trust, friendship and love – the non-material values - to a higher degree.

We cannot buy love or friendship for money. Thus we value them the most. Unlike non-living objects, a living being may respond to our warmth and love, and we call it relationships (we relate on the soul level to another living being). We cannot expect feelings from our car, no matter how much we invest, care or pet it. Each of us understands that without elevated relationships with others, parents, children, friends, relatives, colleagues, loved ones, without manifestation of pure and selfless emotions our life will be tasteless, empty and stale. Love and friendship are the relations we value the most, which gives us complete, fulfilling, heavenly pleasure in life, and following this taste, developing and perfecting relationships with others human being is transferred to the higher spheres of the Universe, Svarga loka (how it is known among Hindus and Slavic people).

Many economically developed countries today have high suicide rates. This happens mostly because of the desire to obtain a good position in the society, in order to gain more material possessions, people sacrifice happiness and love. Yet without elevated relationships with others people they go crazy and lose touch with interest for living. Why? This happens because we are non material creatures, we are created by God for personal relationships, communication in the form of pure elevated love. And none of material possessions will ever give us happiness, which are created for living personal communication. Thus, impression of happiness for each person is tightly connected to the friendship and love. Thus happiness, which a Soul derives from relationship with others is called “svargiya-rasa” - “heavenly happiness”. None of the wealth will bring happiness to those who don’t have friends, loved ones, those of whom a person wants to take care. Everything that we do makes sense only when there is someone whom we can make happy.
Each of us are living particles of God, We value the most communication with those who can respond to our feelings. A person cannot live without communication. We need some living being, be it even a bird, cat to dog. Non-living substance is of lower quality than a living soul. In human society it was always frowned upon when someone for the sake of material comforts or sex would cheat, steal, lie, betray or brake his promises - as all these actions destroy relationships of higher level.

Happiness comes from the awareness of own non-material nature, being the eternal, never-dying part of the Creator, can be obtained through the service to the Creator. Happiness of connection with each soul on the pure, selfless, non-material foundation - love in its pure form - is called vaikuntha-rasa in Sanskrit , is the most exalted taste, taste of the spiritual world. It is pure, eternal and infinite happiness, , this is the level of relationships when there is no more suffering due to the opposing interests.
“Vaikuntha” is the name of the spiritual world in general. (“vai” = no, “kuntha” suffering (Sanskrit)) Material and “spiritual” worlds are the spheres of various levels of perspective about who we are, and thus how we relate to one another. At the level of God-consciousness the soul recognizes itself as part of God an stops opposing its own wellbeing or wellbeing of those close to us (could be at the level of state or a nation, apart from loved ones) to the wellbeing of others The God -conscious level is the level of the Universal harmony when a person recognizes that his wellbeing is dependent on the wellbeing of others, same as health of one organ is dependent on the health of all other bodily organs. Love is the energy which connects all parts of God together.

The extreme degree of lucre and egocentrism is when a person thinks only about himself and never about others. At this level only material objects are valued. Egocentrism is taking care only of itself but spiritual perception of life gives way to caring of everyone’s welfare.

The essence of all spiritual teachings is the transformation of egocentrism and profit motivation into love. Spiritual progress - is the progress in relationships. The difference between heavenly and spiritual relationships is in the difference of perceptions of life. Heavenly relationships are relationships which exist outside of the material construct (“I am my body”). At this level people care about those they love, primarily about temporary material bodies. Relationships of spiritual level are manifested when the person understands that each of us is immortal and eternal, we are souls that have existed and will exist forever. Relationships with all and everyone in the creation of God are free of shortcomings. If we act to bring happiness to God, taking care of each particle of God and when we make just one small step towards God, He manifests Himself and allows us to feel the response, to feel He is there for us. We get the responses within and without, in such a way we get inspired to continue on the path to the higher harmony, deepening our relationships with Him even further.

Focusing on different things influences us in so many different ways. For instance, focusing on:

1. our eternal nature, our relationship with God,
2. relationships with other people
3. inanimate things

This is important to understand. What we value the most has the greatest impact on us. The things that have no value to us don’t particularly influence us. The more of the lucre there is a in a person, the deeper is his concentration on the material objects and objects that are received through sensory perceptions, the stronger is the identification with the material body, the stronger is the fear of death, the more “mortal” he is. In contrast : the more love there is in a person, the more care he does for others, the closer he is to the awareness of his true immaterial nature, the closer he is to the immortality. Egocentric people, who are only concerned about themselves, are afraid of death, they are ready to cause pain to others, and even kill others. On the opposite side of the scale are those who will easily give away their life for others. Saintly person, people who are healthy in spiritual terms, are ready to give their life for just about anyone.

The three types of power

Each person is striving for happiness. And depending on our perception of happiness, depending on our taste of life, we find happiness - in God, in others or in material objects, a person falls under the influence of a type of power.

1. Focusing on material things (parthiva-rasa), people fall under the power of money, animal instincts, fear of material loss, and fear of death.
2. Focusing on improving relationships with others (swarga-rasa), people come to be influenced by the power of the higher ideas of justice and honor.
3. Bringing one’s relationship with the Almighty to perfection (vaikuntha-rasa), a person comes under the influence of the power of love that connects us, as we are all parts of the Almighty Himself. Our connection to God becomes, therefore, the highest value, higher even than justice or lofty ideas. For example, someone may justly deserve to be punished for some action, yet if you experience the bond of love with him, because of your love, he will correct himself, without that punishment.

The Holy Fathers say, “The farther you are from God the more rules there are; angels have but one commandment.”*

* That commandment is love to God.

To the larger degree a person is focused on what is sold for money, the more he suffers and to a larger extent he is bringing suffering to others. Then to a larger extent he is destroying the source of his own happiness: for the sake of objects he is destroying his relationships with people. Unhappy people want to make others unhappy. Happy people what to make other happy, as in happiness and a blissful state, in a healthy consciousness a person is filled with healthy energies of positive feeling, love. Saintly persons say that “the further you are from God, the more rules there are. Angels have only one rule.”

At the level of Vaikuntha, there is but one commandment: to please God. Throughout one's life. Most of all God delights in the improvement of our relationships with others on a spiritual platform, perceiving all living beings as our brothers, inalienable and eternal parts of God. This is called a healthy metabolism, homeostasis*. All of us are parts of the Almighty, the very cells of his body. A healthy relationship between us means a healthy metabolism, whether for the societal body or His body - the cosmic body.

Communism had a familiar formula: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." This, too, is the formula of the spiritual world, the formula of a healthy body, where every cell, every organ performs an important function to meet God, one body, guided by pure, unending, selfless love. Selfless love means that the person doesn’t think about himself, and while in a state of love, considers only the welfare of others. This condition, in which a person thinks not of himself but only of others, is a pure state of being, the spiritual world. It's a level of awareness of one's eternal, imperishable nature.

One may think: “how is this possible - not think about oneself at all? We need to think about ourselves at least a little bit”. Yet if you are immortal, indestructible, eternal and complete, you do not need food, and you are not prone to the influence of cold or heat - why would you think about yourself?

What do the eternal beings derive pleasure from? From relationships! They only think: how can I make others happy to the greater extent? Thus, in the material world to elevate to the spiritual platform we must take care of ourselves to the extent that we need to serve others better, make others happy with our appearance, words, deeds with all that we can.

Only at the level of pure and unconditional love is a person that which He has made us to be, what a person is fated to be, taking for himself just what is necessary for life and health, passing on the rest to others with love, who themselves use it for their own good. This is the way healthy cells in our body behave: of the nutrients that they receive and the enzymes that they create, they only keep what’s necessary for their life now. The rest is transmitted to other cells. This is the Communism – a healthy homeostasis.

But the principle of communism only works at the level of love – at the level of spiritual taste. At this level, everyone uses all their talents in service to others, not taking for themselves more than is necessary for life. It's just as a loving mother is fully committed to taking care of her children, enjoying this concern and not thinking about herself. Communism is established in the community in a natural way, on its own, when people reach a level of pure and unconditional love, because only while one has love to give can a person feel joy; it's not when one receives love but when one gives it. On the spiritual level, it means when a person has freed himself from the desire to acquire or keep purchasing something for himself in this world. A man at the Vaikuntha level is like a river bed or a healthy cell, through which the life-giving power of the benefit of the whole organism flows.

* Homeostasis - the ability of an open system to maintain the constancy of its internal state through coordinated responses aimed at maintaining the dynamic equilibrium, restoring the system's lost balance.

The Communism arrives ON ITS OWN, and only when the members of a society are united by one goal – to please God, treating each as a part of it. Such a condition is awareness, super-consciousness. All other actions are actions in a selfish, painful, lower, disharmonious consciousness. From a spiritual point of view, you could call it an unconscious state. That’s why when a person wakes up to a higher reality, all their past joys and sorrows are perceived as a dream. Saints – spiritually healthy, ‘awakened’ persons, those who are helping us to wake up – rid themselves of selfishness. I once read that a famous scientist and Nobel laureate asked that his tombstone read: "I was born, lived, and died without regaining consciousness". He realized that he’d never woken up to the Supreme Reality and had lived his life in vain and not learned the sublime pure love.

Vaikuntha-rasa, the supreme taste of life, can only be achieved through God-centeredness. It’s in this we find the Communist deception. In this we can also see Mahatma Gandhi’s error. Gandhi wanted people to find satisfaction in a simple life. But having satisfaction in a simple life without perceiving eternity through our connection with the Almighty is impossible. Communists, too, wanted people to act as if they were on a spiritual plane (which is achieved by focusing on God), yet while rejecting God, the supreme unifying principle. People were made to focus solely on earthly relationships and material things. This is not how it works. And that is why the communism was never achieved. There were no aspirations for God. One cannot act without a higher taste like there is one. Having an appreciation for the higher matters in life is a healthy homeostasis in the social organism, controlled by one, supreme rule: to have a positive association of consciousness with the supreme principle, with its primary source, the Supreme personality, God, which we are parts of.

Theorists of the Communism, claimed that for an all-round, good life to be achieved, it was necessary to create a strong financial base, so that when everyone had everything, human greed and the competition between human beings would disappear. Jacque Fresco, utopian, author of "Venus," says the same thing. Few realize that he’s posing the same communist concept and that it’s similarly based on a Godless material platform. He wants to build a prosperous society in which there’s no competition between people, yet at the same time, people are to be focused on material things. The title of his project is very symbolic because in astrology, Venus is associated with Shukracarya, spiritual master of the demons, who kept trying to build the kingdom of God without God himself.

But the Communists and Jacque Fresco face one unsolvable problem: how to create the material abundance, which, in their view, is a necessary platform upon which to build communism. Therefore, there will be a transition from consumer capitalism to a general, societal well-being that some of them see in socialism. After they’ve gone through the dictatorship of the proletariat and they’ve balanced everyone’s rights, people will work together as a large community to create a common, public, material base. Dictators of a different order, such as Hitler, try to bring material prosperity to society by force. What distinguishes all of these regimes is the suppression of the individual in favor of a system that should lead society to material prosperity. But communism isn’t a consequence of material abundance but the blossoming of human relationships as a result of spiritual self-development and self-actualization.

In reality the material progress already has reached the level which is required that each person on the planet has everything required for life at the minimal cost. Material-technical foundation which was required for building communism has been built, and even rebuilt. If it was not for the purposeful distortion of life’s values in the consciousness of people, all people on this pant would live in abundance.

According to the scientists calculations, the technology level that was achieved by 1960’s is sufficient for production of the necessities for humanity, and the production would require only an hour a day to support the humanity. The balance of the time people work for oligarchs, bankers, and perpetual buying knowingly short-lived goods, expensive fashionable status items, and for the defiance development Yet if the Roman Law was to be abolished in all countries around the world, and there would be no oligarchs, the money spend on state defense and arms would go down in millions of times.

The situation on the planet is such that greedy people stimulate the greed in others artificially, to manipulate them. Capitalism is a society of the consumers, based on stimulus of endless material desires in the people, knowing that Earth has limited resources. Today the consumerism is a status quo. People buy not what they need, but what will allow them to maintain a status by conforming with expectations of others, not to feel like losers.. Thus capitalism is leading towards inevitable ecological crisis. As an opposition to this, Holy scriptures teach us to limit our material desires, and to find happiness not in consumerism (buying stuff) but in the awareness of our own eternal nature. The largest stimulus of greed is atheism, which calls people to “try everything while you are alive!” When a person realizes that he is immortal by nature, life is never-ending, he starts living here and how,, in harmony with environment, working of perfecting his relationship with the Almighty. This is called asceticism, one of the religious aspects, when a person is not getting more than he needs. The spiritual progress of the society is an enemy of the financiers, the priests of the monetary religion.

Those who have power, took land away from peasants, to make them work in the factories and fabrics. During the agricultural living, peasants did not depend on anyone for the livelihood. Living in the city, people depend on the media of exchange, money - they need an employer, service, and any other artificial factors. The capitalists were improving the production technologies with purpose of the increasing profits through lowering the cost of production. This is how the overproduction came around.

The technologies today are perfected to the extent that more goods are being produced, beyond what people can buy. The production surplus has surpassed the demand. In order not to decrease the production levels, not to close or halt the manufactures, the capitalists invented artificial demand and lowered the resource and technical characteristics of the produces goods. The goods are made with short-lived lifespan and decreased durability. New schemes for the bulk sales has been invented, along with ways to manipulate people to keep buying more and more. In USSR the quality of the cars “Pobeda” was to allow for these cars to last 50-60 years. Now cars are created so they become obsolete in 6-10 years, while the available technology allows to create cars that will last over 100 years. Same can be said about the household appliances. Millions of unsold cars are just stored for decay on the hectares of parking lots. Today people pay for two cars when buying one - a car he buys and for the one that was never sold.

Same story is with the food products. The governments of the developed countries put much effort into programs that farms would not produce extra produce. Thousands of tos of vegetables, fruits and grains are thrown away annually just for the sake of not making their prices drop (artificially keeping the supply low, and price high).

With the short-lived goods, hiding the advanced technology, sources of free energy, stimulating sales is linked to the fashion streams, with stimulation of unhealthy ambitions and the feelings of superiority and prestige. People are stimulated and brainwashed to buy more of new things, to replace old, not fashionable ones.

All this creates a huge impact on the Mother Nature: people take out too many resources, turning them into waste. And creators of the finance system found their own solution to this. In the condition of the natural economy, without the production of goods that will not last long or would never be bought the planet Earth can provide everyone with what is needed for living, without stimulus for greed. Yet in the distorted capitalistic consummations needs of the society the need in the resources is increased manifold. Bankers solve it with a call to action to decrease the population of the Earth, not the consumption rates! The wars bring lots of profit to those in power.

If before people were pushed away from their lands, to fill fabrics and manufactures, now cities have another issue - employment. The governments of the cities are proud if they manage to create some workplaces. Yet in the upcoming 10-20 years the robots would be able to do some 60% of jobs in the cities. The technology progress is leading to unemployment in cities in near future. The employment question can be solved only if people were sent back to the land and making life of ecological farmers profitable.

Today when labor of people in manufactures is replaced with robots, goods can be made most durable, and economy turned into agrarian. Contemporary technologies allow for inexpensive life on the land with all the contemporary urban amenities. This will include gas, which may be derived from the compost (mixed cow dung and water). On land, in a mode of goodness, without artificial stimulation of fashion and greed, a person will produce minimum of waste, which will be utilized on this very land, burned or composted. There will be a relief for Earth and Nature, in contract to the impact the large cities produce: canalization that exceed the capacity of land and water bodies, millions of tons of waste that goes into landfill and air pollution.

The foundation of capitalistic consumerism society has a sense of dissatisfaction engrained in psychology, and not the pursuit of peace and happiness. Feeling pushed by the need of manipulation of legislation against private farms, and desiring good education for kids, people migrate from villages into towns. No matter where people go, they are still unhappy, because the social structure is now focused not on relationship development, but money. Happiness formula is in the natural agriculture economy, simple life and high thinking. In the meantime the industrial consumerism society is very difficult, and the level of people’s aspirations and their thoughts are quite primitive.

Economy of capitalistic counties is based on artificial greed, competition and fallacy: “There is not enough for everyone!” The natural economy has a philosophy of abundance of Creation. This harmony is violated with ignorance of the masses, which is maintained with their perpetual business. The primary needs of the human being are the need of nutrients, clothing, shelter and other necessary goods. When these needs are fulfilled, a human must have enough time and resources to raise children, self-development and improvement of the society. Most effective duration of workday should not be beyond 4 hours a day. Life on earth provides us with such opportunity. Working 8-12 hours a day, spending 1.5-3 hours in transit or traffic to work, many people can afford taking only 2 to 4 weeks of vacation a year. Agrarian lifestyle is such that a person works on average 5 month a year, and 7 months a year he is free, when he provided for himself all necessities for life.

Natural, Divine way of life for a human is based not he agriculture. Life of most people depends on food, gifted by nature: fruits, vegetables, milk, berries, greens and grains and seeds. Person cannot eat plastics, no matter how much scientists try to invest to do so through biochemistry. Economy in goodness, without crises, is the agrarian economy, when people eat from the table of God, not putting much effort into maintenance of life.

In the cities people must work just for 25-30 years. Living on land, man can build a house in couple of years from wood, stone, hay and clay. Back in old times in Russia (and many other countries too) people would build homes as a community in a few weeks. Spiritual progress is the progress of relationships. Living on land people naturally depend on relationship with each other, and their mutual help is much higher.

To exclude the competition in the societal governance, so that society cannot turn to high ideals and love, and was ruled by finance, contemporary slave owners, the financial elite do everything that an average human being did not have times for self-education or for raising children. To make sure that people were always busy and did not achieve the life purpose (purpose of this lifetime, why person was born this time around), the money priests organize the life of the society in a way that

1. long workdays, and they are not to be shortened;
2. not allowing the buying capacity of a monetary unit;
3. maintaining in society degrading and parasitic needs, to keep dormant the creative spiritual potential of people;
4. to eliminate “unwelcome and harmful” societal elements.

In early XXI century all counties are now indebted to international bankers. When money is being extracted from the population, bankers return into the flow only as much money as they see fit, without the consideration for the needs of the production sector. When this algorithm reaches food and shelter, society is cleaned through economico-financial genocide. Due to mortgage and credit system, and production of virtual, paper money that are not backed by any true value, the purchasing ability is being degraded, and all wealth goes into bankers hands. Inflation is conditioned by the banking credit rates, and production of paper money. During the times when money was backed by silver or gold in the country there were no financial crises.

To oppress the creative potential of people they need to be busy and disconnected with what is happening in real life. They would use money they earn, including for alcohol, drugs and other substances. Virtual reality is also playing a huge role in the computer games, music, TV channels, and fictions that allow people to “kill time”, fill their heads with useless and harmful information. Personal gadgets make it even much easier to fill the minds with this. People are losing the ability to discern own thoughts from the thoughts that are superimposed from outside. When people waste time that is supposed to be spent on communion with God or serving others, and spread their attention thin for unimportant or unnecessary things and entertainment, they stop feeling happiness from life, stop being creative, and they start running away from reality, and look for ways to “kill time” In the meantime those who are free from these addictions, they do not have enough time to fulfill all their ideas, self-development, raising children, which makes their life interesting, fulfilled and valuable.

Without freeing up time for the close circle and personal growth, a person is doomed to survive, without realizing his destiny, no matter how far the technological progress may go. Stalin, in his book “Economic problems of socialism in the USSR”, is answering the question on conditions of the cultural progress of the society: “It is wrong to think that people can achieve serious progress in cultural development without considerable changes in the labor structure. We need to shorten the workday to 6, and then to 5 hours a day. This is needed that all society members could have enough of free time needed to obtain well-rounded education”.

Technological progress for a long time now could have liberated women from work and to shorten workdays. Simply technologically we could have achieved this during communism if it was not for the lowering of the quality of life, along with taking away the spiritual knowledge: the knowledge of the High (Universal, God’s) order.

Being a tangible expansion (material manifestation) of God, the world has prospered and always thrives of its own accord. To understand this, we need only to look at nature. Yet, what’s preventing prosperity in human society? It’s just the absence of elevated relationships due to people aspiring merely to acquire things. Depriving people of spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of their true, intangible nature, the communists tried to establish good relationships between people using sublime lies – propaganda about lofty, materialistic ideas on our future prosperity, equality, and fraternity.

But relationships at the material (physical) level, no matter how lofty they may be, are very unstable. Why? As long as an individual's perception of happiness is associated with material things, whether for himself or for his loved ones, he’ll continue to think in terms of "I ", "me", and "mine", and always hesitate in choosing between selflessness and selfishness. Therefore, relationships at the level of Swarga are governed by a code of honor, a sense of justice, conscience, and adherence to social agreements (the law).

Тhe more you move away from the commitment and sublime relationship of love towards parthiva-rasa, consumer attitudes to life, the less sensitive you become to the people around you, the more you look for ways to live at the expense of others, and the more necessary becomes legislation governing relationships between people and their relationship to the outside world. The farther people are from God and from realizing His eternal nature, the farther they are from having a sublime relationship with each other. Likewise, the more laws they need, the more they must receive the commandments in the scriptures. Laws and religious precepts are like ‘artificial limbs’ for those in whom there’s as yet little love, but who want to live in peace with other people.

At the lowest level (parthiva-rasa or consumer), relationships are governed mainly by money and power. Sociopath-demons respect only force and money, and for this they’re ready to break the law and all norms of morality, not to mention forsaking sublime, pure love. They’re unfamiliar with these because they’re under the influence of another power. Those who are at the level of parthiva-rasa, who aspire to acquire inanimate things, submit to the authority of physical force and money. To get others to submit to their influence, they try to set them on the same level as they are, and get them used to the same material outlook and consumer lifestyle as theirs.

People who’ve developed a higher taste of life flock to those in whom there is more love, because these latter have already moved to the ‘jurisdiction’ of the power of love.

Those who’ve developed good qualities in themselves pursue those who’re more fair and honest because they’re influenced by the power of lofty ideas.

Those living the consumer life aspire to those holding high positions in society and from whom they can get more money, because they’re under the spell of inanimate objects.

That’s why those who want to control the world with money and power use all possible means to destroy relationships between people – ties of family, friendship, trust, selflessness, duty, higher love. They distort religion, the essence of spiritual teachings, and relegate humanity to sensations at the consumer level, converting spiritual-level feelings, "I am a soul in a body" to "I am a body". Feeling that you’re merely a body reinforces egotism, and such an increase in selfishness increases the bodily concept of life.

All prophets and spiritual teachers teach humanity to act at the level of vaikuntha-rasa – spiritual love – which is fully possible only when a person realizes that he’s immaterial, immortal, and a part of the One God. The greater the love, the more a person feels the immortality.

This expresses the essence of spiritual knowledge, which takes on varied forms of religions and spiritual philosophies from different planets or different cultures. Their essence is simple: to raise the soul from lower levels of taste to the highest level (from parthiva-rasa to vaikuntha-rasa; from the sense of being separated from others to a feeling of oneness with the Supreme; from a person identifying mainly with the body to being conscious of his eternal nature).

Awareness of oneself as part of the Almighty, the True Self in one’s soul imparts a sense of eternity. While in his True Self, a person starts living in the present, drawing his main pleasure from being in Unity with the Almighty that it pleases Him that their affairs are in their current situation without thinking too much about tomorrow. This is just like children being passionate about what they're playing right now, rather than pushing the game off to the future. Holy people call living in the present moment to be communion with the Living God.

Ego is the perception of oneself as an individual personality. The True Ego - is the awareness of oneself as part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The False Ego is the identification of oneself with the temporary body in which we dwell. Egotism is the personality cult, extreme concentration on own persona. God takes care of each of us. Same way we need to take care of each and every living being.

Those who are imperfect in their aspirations, imperfect souls, act on the basis of a false opposition to others (false ego), which increases their identification of self with the body and leads them to a material (distorted) sense of space and time (which also is one of the manifestations of the Almighty). While believing in the bodily concept of life (under the influence of the False Ego), the soul (embodied in the body), begins to forget the realization of its eternal nature and starts living in the past and the future and under all sorts of illusions. It reruns memories of past events and dreams about material resources in the future (instead of living in blessed communion with God NOW).

At different times, different types of rulers have focused people's minds on various things, so that different types of civilizations and cultures arose, differing by their goodness, passion, or ignorance.

An example of a culture expressing good qualities is the Vedic civilization, whose rulers based their work on maintaining the Brahman (spiritual) culture. That is, they strove to keep society aware of the eternal, non-material nature of people, to keep alive the understanding that we are all Brahman, that is, spirits, a part of the Supreme Spirit, the Supreme Brahman, the God. And that in this world we – all together and individually – are learning sublime relationships by which to climb to the higher realms, to return to a state of eternity.

The Brahmanic culture (God-centrism) is aimed at perfecting people’s internal world by restoring their relationship with God, through the perception of all beings as manifestations of Him, and awareness of Unity in diversity. This is called enlightenment, the expansion of consciousness.

The basis of a spiritual culture is reverence for people who proclaim that receiving the love of God is the supreme value of life and who teach everyone around an awareness of their eternal immortal nature. When a person realizes his eternal non-material nature, he enters a state of supreme harmony with the world and acts only on behalf of others, because he derives pleasure in his eternal spiritual nature and in his actions, and not in the possession of inanimate matter.

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Partha, when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense gratification, which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness.." (Bhagavad-Gita , 2.55). We can recognize a man who has divine consciousness from the way he behaves in different situations. He is the one who has gotten rid of selfishness and always behaves correctly and morally under any circumstances.

In a socialist society, for example, the Soviet Union, the same principles of selflessness and morality were advocated. But instead of having people realize their eternal nature in loving service to God, people were oriented about service to the Communist Party and toward society’s economic development, thus spiritual enlightenment did not reach the people. Instead of priests, people of pure hearts, political workers played a leading role in socialist society. Each enterprise had a Party Committee, whose chairman played an even more important role than the company's director.

The chairman of the Municipal Committee or the Regional Committee (the urban or regional committee of the Communist Party) in its influence held a higher position than the head of administration of the city or region. The head of the country was the chief ideologist of the country, the General Secretary of the CPSU* Central Committee Politburo. The media, Prime Minister, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (which corresponds to the presidency) were all subject to him. The Prime Minister was only one of the 19-member Politburo. That is, the president and the government under its influence were three steps below him. Why? Because people and the world are ruled by ideas, the administration of which plays a secondary function.
* Communist Party of the Soviet Union

In any society, the purveyors of ideas occupy the highest position. Kings (Kshatriyas) in India occupied a subordinate position in relation to the Vaisnavas and Brahmins, the spiritual masters of society. In Vedic Rus, princes (knights) were subordinate to the wise men of council. This submission was natural because the Vaisnavas and the wise men taught the whole society about the supreme love that would elevate the people, eliminate crime, unite the whole of society, and make management easier.

The hierarchy we have naturally imprinted in our minds tells us that the highest positions in society, higher even than rulers, are held by those individuals who are more likely to have that which we appreciate. A person must have particular qualities to have a particular societal position. This is the foundation of the Vaishnava-dharma, the ancient scientific organizational system or the social institutes and society as a whole. In the contemporary states this is not taken into consideration.

The divine hierarchy, reflected in Vedic society, was founded on love: the more love and selflessness a person had, the higher the position he occupied in society. The highest position in society was occupied by spiritual teachers who cared about the welfare of everyone. Following were kshatriyas, knights, for whom the restoration of justice in society was the priority, and who were ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of their subjects and their own children. Rulers were appreciated for carrying out the advice of the Brahmans and upholding justice that is, supporting a healthy metabolism in society.

Kshatriyas saw to it that no one would try to live at the expense of others without bringing benefits in return, for instance, making sure that traders didn’t scam others by unduly inflating prices or that businesses didn’t engage in pointless hoarding. Many oligarchs, though, in this very way disrupt the metabolism in the body of the Almighty. The kshatriyas tried to make sure that these people would use the results of their wealth in the service of others and be socially responsible.

Nobody envied the special-class status of the Vaishnava and Brahmins, because they served the public without hidden agendas, selflessly, without receiving any assigned fees for that, and lived only on alms. They would keep, from what people gave them, only as much as was needed to get through the day, and gave away to others anything that remained.

When a society could live without worrying about the future meant that the ‘metabolism’ of the public body was healthy. This, to them, meant that they had correctly performed their duties and supported society in a correct orientation. There was a rule in the Indian Vedic culture: before a homeowner ate, he was to go out and at least three times loudly call, "If anyone is hungry, please come to my house and eat!" Any traveler could freely enter any mango orchard and satisfy his hunger with the fruit (though not taking any with him). This was the secret to happiness for householders in the Vedic society, this simple formula: to act as a healthy cell of the universe, of God, to live for the sake of others, and feed those who are hungry before you eat.

If representatives of the parliament, who give the president advice on how to manage society, lived on alms that they collected going from door to door, keeping no more for themselves (and their families) than they needed for the day, no one would envy them and they would give wiser advice to the president.

People who are aware of the connection each of us has with the Almighty are guided by an unconditional love for all, so their advice is always impartial. A man filled with love is fearless. Everybody knows that the most fearless person is a mother protecting her beloved children. Conversely, the more selfish people are, the more they fear, the easier it is to manipulate them, and the less they are objective and reliable. Therefore, by not having material interests and fears, led by the spirit of service to God, Magi kings gave the sagest advice.

"Wise men do not mighty rulers fear
Nor princely gifts need they still;
‘Truth and freedom’ – their prophetic words we hear,
And good friends are they with heavenly will” (Pushkin)

Magi princes were only labeled as such and allowed to take leadership in society after the candidate princes received spiritual knowledge. The way that the Indian sages, the Brahmins, enthroned a worthy king, followed a similar method. In the Soviet Union, the President, who was the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, affirmed the members of the politburo who, in an atheistic society, played the role of sages.

In Vedic society, a child was given an understanding from infancy of God, harmony, and eternal life. In socialist society, citizens are oriented to serve society at all levels of life, from kindergarten on. The politburo banned religion, and thus limited the spiritual growth of citizens to a certain range, while at the same time carrying out a powerful, persuasive social campaign, if not in a spiritual vein, nevertheless, with the very lofty, materialistic, moral values of the Swarg: "Man to man, be a friend, comrade and brother," "You may die, but save your comrade!"

Already in the first or second grade, a child was encouraged to become an ‘October child’.* My friends and I took some special responsibilities in our kindergarten, showing other kids there slides and filmstrips in our spare time, since we already knew how to read. In the third or fourth grade, I was a pioneer, then a Komsomol member. We were told that each of these levels – October child, Pioneer, Komsomol, and Communist** – meant new, higher levels of responsible, proper behavior in society, serving the cause of the Party, the people.
* Hearkening back to the October revolution, a child could be an ‘Octobryonok’, or a child living in the vision of the socialist revolution, and then a ‘Pioneer’ (a Soviet version of scouting), then a Komsomol member. ** While the first three were accessible to virtually all children, only a small minority became Communist Party members, unlike how many people in the West understand this.

Lenin had replaced God, knowledge of the nature of the soul, and the saints with the Code of the Builder of Communism. Although the party proclaimed high ideals, over time - especially after Stalin's death - instead of serving the public, its members increasingly began to use their power for personal reasons. The Soviet Union broke up. As the saying goes, "a fish rots from the head." Without an aspiration for God, without spiritual knowledge, maintaining oneself at the level of Swarg-rasa is very, very difficult. Swarg is a sublime relationship between people, a transitional stage from consumerism (parthiva-rasa) to pure, spiritual love. The Communists tried to keep people between higher aspirations (depriving them of the knowledge of God, the nature of the soul, the meaning of life) and lower ones - condemning greed and private property. Religious propaganda was punishable by imprisonment in the Soviet Union. But if a society has no spiritual knowledge or awareness of God, people are prone to degradation.

Healthy relationships between people (Svarga-rasa) can exist with stability only if a society is moving towards the realization of its own divine immaterial nature, to Vaikuntha-rasa. If the latter is lacking, people, especially if they reach some material prosperity, will tend to remain focused on the material level and drop down to parthiva-rasa and become sociopathic demons.

Maintaining elevated human relations can be compared to maintaining your balance on a bicycle. While it’s moving, it’s easy to keep your balance; you don’t even need to think about it. But if the bike stops, you have to make a huge effort to maintain your balance, and pretty soon you’ll fall to one side. When a person is one with God, it’s natural for him to maintain good relationships with others; but if he ceases to perceive others as a part of the Almighty, if he doesn’t make his highest goal to be the awakening of the love of God in himself, he’ll have to make a lot more effort to maintain healthy relationships with others. By having a materialistic and egocentric conception of life, relationships will be affected.

That's exactly what happened in socialist societies like the USSR. The path to enlightenment was closed to people. The party had to make great efforts to promote high ideals, but without aspirations to live in God’s light, leaders of society became corrupt officials, began to plunder public property (especially after the death of Stalin when thieves had been punished severely). The system rotted from within and the Soviet Union collapsed.

But I consider myself lucky to have lived during the Soviet period. I remember that people for the most part had high ideals and dreams; they were honest and romantic and so the level of crime and corruption was very low. People didn’t set themselves up in opposition to the state. Instead, they worked selflessly for it, for the common good, with voluntary overtime. This was perceived as the norm. Greed was condemned, and it was a healthy enough social environment for keeping fraud and deceptions from flourishing. At school we heard: "The family is the social unit of society,” and strong families were associated with a strong future society. If anyone had problems in the family, party workers found friends among their work collective who could help them solve this problem. Well-being in people’s individual, personal lives was considered part of the well-being of the whole work collective.

All my classmates were raised in two-parent families - they had a natural mom and dad. It was out of the question for a man and woman to live together before marriage. That’s why people were happier than they are now. Some 67% of Russians now believe that Soviet times were better, although it was a time of total deficit when people stood for hours in line for necessary goods. Why do they feel this way? It is because people are social beings. We’re created for love. A good relationship for us is still more important than material wealth. When people live in an atmosphere of mutual help and support, any difficulties can be overcome more easily.

The concern that party leaders had in the health of the social organism manifested itself in taking care of the family institution, of the elderly, children, and providing the highest level of social protection and health care. All medical care for anyone going to the hospital was absolutely free, including the most complex operations. It was all done at the expense of the state. Trade union committees distributed free trips to resorts and sanatoriums to its employee members. All primary and secondary education was free. Unemployment was unheard of; everyone was employed. All students got a stipend if their grades were C or above*. After several years of work at a company, people got an apartment for free.

To avoid people having irresponsible attitudes to society, every pubescent girl and all young men by age 25 had to marry. (The only exception made was for men who took a lifelong vow of monasticism.) It’s curious that a similar approach was taken in socialist society: all unmarried young men and women started to pay a "bachelor" tax on childlessness one year after completing study at the institute, or one year after serving in the army. The state made every effort to keep the family strong, not to let it decay, to have children raised by their own parents, in love; that the younger generation have a healthy moral compass and healthy notions of family. In spiritually oriented cultures, teenagers were protected from any sexual activity before the wedding. The Soviet Union took the same approach.

To channel the energy of teenagers in a positive direction, in a socialist society a lot of attention was given to the way a healthy child would spend his leisure time. All children's clubs were free. A child had his choice to go to any of them in his free time after school. Personally, I tried judo, swimming, puppet and theater circles, learned to play the accordion, but I stopped changing around when I got to boating. There was free table tennis, billiards, and animal study at various clubs. Children got free tickets to summer camps. In the stores, of course, was a very simple choice of products, but they were all healthy: no chemicals, no GMOs. The government made sure that people only got healthy food. Manufacturers of many products that are now sold in supermarkets would’ve been sent to jail in Soviet times for causing harm to people's health.

The socialist system proclaimed its supreme value to be people and their health. That’s why all the influence of the media’s information was aimed at improving relationships between people, strengthening the institution of the family, and supporting friendship among the nations of the Earth. All this gave a sense of security and confidence in the future. This also explains why all Soviet films about the future were positive and joyful.
* Soviet grades were 5, 4, 3, 2 instead of the American system’s A, B, C, D.

In Soviet times, the government worked to ensure that everything that people saw on the big screen, the small screen, and in general on all kinds of art, was aimed at improving relationships between people. The main hero of all the movies and TV shows was a hard-working person. The government familiarized us with people from all kinds of different professions, working honestly for the sake of the common good. And everyone knew that if you wanted to be famous you had to benefit society! Heroes of labor were our heroes. As in Vedic society, the Soviet media spread only good, kind news, following the ancient spiritual wisdom of the Vedas, "Bad news comes all on its own; you don’t need to distribute it." Why do people need to know that on the other side of the world someone has killed someone else or some "pop star" got divorced? This doesn’t teach any good. It’s better for people to learn how people at the other end of the world have helped each other, changing the world for the better.

People are social beings. That explains why people copy into their lives what they see on the screen or read in the media. If the media constantly gives reports on divorce and infidelity, stable families are rare. When people have the slightest problems in relationships, they think, “Everyone is getting divorced, and I am too. This is normal!" But when the media puts out good, positive news, and movies teach us to save relationships and love, then family problems and divorce become a rarity.

The world of information, created by the media and the arts, is like a tuning fork, resonating the consciousness of people for a certain ‘wave’ of life. When people's minds are focused on good, positive examples of life, they become agents of positive change in society. But if people's minds are focused on the negative, they become agents of destructive tendencies. Singapore is probably the only place on the planet right now where the government, as it had been during the times of Vedic society or the Soviet Union, prohibits distributing negative information in the media. Not surprisingly, the level of relationships between people, as well as the standard of living there, is the highest in the world.

North American Indians have an allegory.

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy: “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”

To evolve spiritually one must deprive of food the evil one, and feed the good one. The food for these wolves is our attention. The media are feeding the wolves, the mass consciousness through the particular types of content.

In spiritual cultures, the consciousness of people was focused on their immortal nature, and the highest value was declared to be awareness of their connection with the Almighty. The most respected people were those who unselfishly served society, who developed more exalted qualities, and in whom there was more sublime, pure love. Everything was given for the education of these people in society: education, politics, arts, and culture.

The highest value in a socialist society was the person and the well-being of society; this was based on the glorification of human labor to strengthen the institution of the family and improve the relationship between people and nations.

In a consumer society, the main value is material well-being. The criterion for success is the ability to buy whatever you want. The most respected are those who have more money and more sex. People from the entertainment industry create celebrities: pop and sex stars, comedians, athletes, and movie actors.

In spiritual communities, saints (holy people) direct the leaders of the society’s officials and administrators; in a socialist society, it’s the party. But in a consumer society, bankers’ policy regulates life.

Saints guide politicians so that the people will serve through love; party workers, so that everyone in the community would be subject to higher ideas, ethics, and morality; businessmen run the government so that society as a whole is ruled by money alone. In accord to this the positions pass on the laws that announce the power of God, or protect interests of people or protect the financiers’ interests only.

Brahmins bring to power the honorable and exalted personalities. Bankers bring to power the corrupt leaders, which are ruled by money and egotism.
A person in the power of love is subject to the Supreme Laws of the Universe, which are supported by legislation aimed at society’s spiritual development. What’s holy is not subject to laws that are contrary to universal love – laws that permit abortion, pollution, destruction of nature, and the killing of animals. What’s more, he’s not guided by self-interest.
A man for whom honesty and good social relationships with those around him are the highest value cannot be manipulated by money, even if he hasn’t yet risen to the level of pure love. The level of crime is dependent on the level of morality. The higher the morality - the lower the crime rates are.

Those who focus on sex and material things can be manipulated by money. Those dependent on money and who for money’s sake betray others violates all laws and morality. The crime rate depends on the level of morality. Therefore, those who want to control humanity through money try to further the sociopathic, demonic principle in the media and politics: "the main thing is money!" "Money at any cost!" The man may be a scoundrel, a criminal, a thief, but if he has money - he respects! "If you have money, you’re the one who’s right!", "Whoever has more money – no matter how he got it – has more respect."

While Kshatriya-politicians obey spiritual or moral principles, they can control and direct businessmen into a productive directions, not allowing them to oppose their interests in society. But when politicians put their own self-interest at the forefront, it means that control of society has devolved to financial movers and shakers. They would use legislative branch to achieve their own goals, create and promote corruption, and also target fully decrease of the education and cultural level of the masses.

Paul Krugman (an American economist, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) said: “In our country (USA), learned ignorance is on the rise.”

In the parliamentary meeting in Russia one of the famous Russian mathematician scientists, V.I. Arnold, PhD, stated: “To the extent I understand the plans of the bureaucrats from the education system in Russia, they are aimed at the degradation of our education to American standards. Just to remind you, few years back California passed a requirement for high-school students to enter university must be able to divide 111 by 3 without a computer. While this primitive test (for Russian pupils) turned out to be a failure for American counterparts, and the Federal power demanded to abolish this “anti-constitutional” and “racist” standards. One of the senators promised that he will never allow for anyone to be taught something that he does not understand himself (for example division of 111 by 3). Another senator declared that the purpose of California standards is a racist discrimination against Afro-Americans who may not be able to comprehend some of the subjects. There are almost no decimal division used in school (except for simple ones). After this kind of education the population cannot think independently, and turn into the masses that can be easily manipulated by the criminals or political frauds, and the population will remain in ignorance of the causes and consequences of such influence.

American colleagues explained to me that the low level of general culture and school education in the United States is a conscious achievement without the purpose of attaining economic goals. When a population is striving for culture (e.g. reading books) this influences their purchasing ability considerably (in the consumerism, egocentric society - author). Cultural and educated person becomes a bad consumer. Instead of buying new and unnecessary items, citizens, spoiled by the culture start caring for the planetary resources, the welfare of future generations, have interests in arts, music, and they do not participate in creation of welfare for the society owners. They buy less of the washing machines, cars. Thus, the consumerism economy suffers and income of those in power too, therefore their goal is not to allow for education and culture of people, making it easier to manipulate them. This is their goal for Russia , while Russia has very different traditions. Our school pupils want scientific knowledge and truth, without which a human remains a slave.”

Three types of psychics.

Speaking of politics on different levels of aspirations that prevail in different nations, one must note that the West, in majority, lives according to laws detached from God; Russia still lives according to some morals that are beyond the law. These morals are connected to the deep mystical feelings of spirituality. Spirituality is the conscious of the interconnectedness of all created beings within Godhead, and acting for the benefit of all. It is very useful to connect the spiritual condition of Russia with East and west, along with Vedic psychology and astrology. When an astrologer looks at the compatibility of a couple, they first of all they look at gana, the personality psychotype of a potential groom and bride. Gana is a type of mind of a human at the moment of his/her birth, with gained experience from past lives. When a person chooses a path of devotional service to God, he can achieve sainthood in any gana. But until the person has material desires, a psychotype must be taken into consideration.

When a person is looking for happiness in possession of material objects, when he is associating the happiness with the quality of money he is developing the demonic phychotype (rakshasa-gana). When a person is looking for happiness in relationship with other people, he is developing the human psychotype (manushya-gana). And those who look for communion with God have the divine psychotype (devata-gana).

In the book “HIgher taste: Exit from material game” I talked about that material world is an educational system made for perfecting the soul. It is made from holographically connected three energo-informational systems (kshetras), three bodies: 1) physical, material body which we see in the mirror, 2) social body (the societal organism), 3) the body of the Universe (Virat-rupa, the material manifestation of God).

All these levels are connected with each other through holographic principle: same laws act in all of them, aimed at the perfection of the soul, and perfection of personal relationships. Spiritual progress is a progress of relationships. This is the main training on the planet Earth happens in the social context. All that destroys relationships or impedes evolution of exalted relationships with others - leads to the diseases of the body and mind, as well as severe impact on the Nature. Thus God is teaching us through the body and the whole world around us.

If you stop to think a little to become aware that everything that destroys relationships of spiritual beings (bound by bodies) also destroys their psychics and bodies, and causes diseases. Alcohol is destroying relationships the fastest. 90% of families fall apart because of alcohol. 90% of crime and abuse are done under the influence of substances (alcohol or drugs). Both drugs and alcohol destroy the health of the society as one united organism. The energy and physical bodies get destroyed. Cigarettes also fall into this category. Consuming dead animal flesh is destroying the relationship of a human being with the world of animals and other living entities. Meat is the cause of the wars and diseases. Not only what we consume, inject and pour into our bodies, but also the negative thoughts and feeling, which we let enter our hearts, destroy our physical health. Contemporary science confirms that minimum of 90% of diseases have psychosomatic causes. These are the diseases that derive from our thoughts that destroy our relationships.

The three types of bodies are linked to the evolutionary progress of a soul, and form the three psychotypes. Demonic, lower psychic type is developing when a manifested soul is concerned only with satisfaction of the senses of the gross material body, with which it is tightly connected. The human psychotype is developed when the sphere of interests lies within the welfare of other human beings (the social body), when he or she is working towards the interests of the social system, honestly fulfilling their duty, and own responsibilities for the benefit of others. The divine psychotype is awaken when a person is expanding his consciousness from focus on the gross material body or social structure to the Universal body, to the awareness of all creation as manifestation of God, to the awareness that God is the highest “Self” of all living and created beings.

People with demoniac type of mind are only thinking how to use others for personal sense gratification. People with human type think of how to bring happiness and avail to others, be of service to society. People with divine type develop their relationship with God, take care of the welfare of all, perceiving them as parts of the Divine.

Demons, representatives of demonic philosophy, care only about satisfaction of their own senses, they do not care what others feel. a person with human psychotype is concerned about the feelings of others. People with Divine aspirations care about the feeling of the Creator, and aim to bring satisfy God with their life and deeds.

Demoniac people seek shelter in money; human type - in selfless relationships with each other; and divinely aspired people - in service to God.

Demons attempt to enslave others to their will, the human type takes others into consideration, and those who aim for spiritual perfection attune to the desires of the Creator.

The legislation of God-centric societies (that are aimed towards the spiritual development of people) declares that the surrounding world is the holy property of the Creator, which must be utilized for the care of all living beings, in the spirit of service to God.

The legislation of socialistic societies declare that all natural resources belong to the humanity, and must be used for the benefit of all people in equal degree.

Capitalistic society is based on the Roman law, which declares that all natural resources belong to one or more person, which may be used as they see fit, for their own profit or benefit, without any regard of other humans or living beings that live on the planet. The fact that people agree with this postulate, Aristotle called cowardice. Cowardice is when each is interested only about his own self, and this disease is well rooted in the Roman law, which is demonic by nature.

The Roman Law is the foundation of Capitalistic Societies. It did not exist in God-centered and socialistic societies.. And until people accept the Roman Law, the society cannot evolve spiritually. Spiritual development and love towards God manifest according to how we follow God’s instruction on how to conduct our personal, family and societal lives, as well as our relationship with Nature.

Often due to the changes in the conceptual basis (to whom does this world belong?) a correction of definitions takes place in the social institutes. In God-centered societies the purpose of all businessmen was serving God according to their dharma (nature). In the economic institutes of socialistic mode students were taught that the purpose of business is serving the community. In the capitalistic societies students are being taught that the purpose of business is profit.

Obviously, no profit means no business. The purpose of God-centered societies is serving God. In socialistic societies the main goal is people, and in capitalistic societies the mere profit is the cause in itself.

My grandfather was a merchant in the Tsar’s Russia, and belonged to the fourth guild. Merchants (businessmen) in Russia in those times would belong to a particular guild not by the amount of their wealth, but rather the amount of resources they spent for the social welfare. Merchants would be very proud of the good deeds they do for others. Merchants would evaluate each other based on the honesty of their business, and their deeds. Those who got rich fast would not have much respect, as often “fast” money are linked to higher pricing, and not with serving people, but rather of using people to make money - the strategy used in capitalistic society the rule. Nowadays, businessmen in capitalistic society don't measure up to the number of good deeds but rather the place in Forbes list, which shows the amount of funds they managed to accumulate in various ways.

Two recent examples: First - Taking advantage of the sanctions of the European Union against Russia in winter 2015, many supermarket owners increased the prices on many goods twice-fold, while the purchasing prices remained the same or even decreased. Their thinking was: consumers now are under the influence of the USA, the European Union installed sanctions against Russia, and being patriots, consumers will patiently and tolerantly accept the price increase, assuming that this is the effect of the sanctions. In reality the price increase was due only to the greed of the owners of the supermarket chains, and their desire for increased super-profit, using this situation.

The second example: European bankers affecting the bankruptcy of the farm-based African nations through the future market, and investments on the financial and food commodity markets. The press-secretary of Deuthscen Bank said that those countries are at fault that Europe has to ravage them, it is their fault that million are dying of famine in Somali, as corrupt governments of these countries juts offer us such an opportunity. Even if Deuthscen Bank would stop speculating with agricultural resources there is no guarantee that other bans won't take its place. The result of banking speculations on the food markets is that tens of thousands of people flee to Europe from famine-ridden countries that European bankers helped to ravage.

All this is the consequences for business that stopped being socially responsible, as a result of the spoofing of concepts and targeted disorientation of the purpose of business: to create welfare and benefit for others. Whereas today it is “using every opportunity to create profit at others’ expense”. Thus those who have money become even more rich, and those who are poor become poorer. The rich are becoming obnoxiously wealthy and place burden on all other layers of society. For the public body to be healthy there should be no too rich or too poor. The goal of the responsible businessmen is to increase the amount of people who are living in abundance. The rulers must watch for public body to be healthy and evolve in a balanced way. This can be achieved through maintenance of social institutes, which have healthy and correct guidelines, definitions and values.

When educational system, media and art consciousness of people is being used for evolution of the spiritual perfection, the public body works well. Yet when consciousness of people is focused on material wealth, everything that can go wrong, does go wrong (breakdown in the processes).

Capitalism if based on the instilling of the Roman law into the legislative systems, which basically grants a right to a small group of people to live at the expense of others, taking ownership over natural and other type of resources. Why do people concur to this? One of the reasons is that people absorbed the viewpoint imposed by the media of the consumeristic lifestyle, and they just take an opportunity to have such life.

There is an old saying that each nation has the government which it deserves. So, the nations with strong spiritual traditions, oriented towards relationships, would not be ruled by the finances. And those who are profit-oriented are not ruled by the higher values or desire to bring serve and make God happy with their whole being: thought, word and deed.

Love is the energy which unites all parts of Creation. At the human level the relationships of the spiritual world – to serve each other in unconditional love - are manifested in the mutual help.

The mutual aid is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the human psychotype. A country with a high level of mutual aid and selflessness - is invincible. In the Soviet era the Russians were taught selflessness and mutual support. To make a state stronger and to resist the negative influences, governments need to revive the moral values and to restore the spirit of mutual aid. Mutual aid and good relationships between people are maintained by the feeling of trust. And in Russia today, to undermine the trust all leading TV channels show the court cases. This is done to destroy trust, and to engrain in the subconscious mind a thought that none can be trusted out there, and even family members may do harm. This is the influence of the “fifth column”, which is ruling in the market economy, and the media channels print, show and broadcast only the content that has been paid for, paid by those who print these very money. No one is concerned with what is good for the society.

Divine psychotype is supported by the God-centered state, where the education, media culture and arts teach and support the notion that all of us are the eternal souls and direct us towards the spiritual perfection. The human psychotype is supported by the focus of consciousness, on wellbeing of the society, supporting the family institute, preserving the national and cultural traditions. (Sidenote: in Russia all types of governments protected and preserved various sub-cultures of nations that live on its territory. The Soviet power was adamant in supporting local national cultural centers, regional museums, national writers, amateur folk ensembles, sub-national folk arts, songs and dances. This is how many sub-nations in Russia managed to remain intact over the millennia with all their peculiarities and values, while in many other states these smaller nations have dissolved and disappeared.)

Those who want to control the society with the help of money, now try to devalue the society to the level of demoniac sociopaths, which recognize only power and money. They destroy the spirituality by distorting the core of the authentic spiritual teachings, taking away the inner connection with God. They also destroy the culture that is preserved in the national traditions, family and morality - annihilating elevated relationships between people, so that without shelter of friendship and love people would seek shelter only in money.

Astrologers state that the strongest marriages are between people of same gana - devatas, manushya or rakshas. For example: manyshya and devata or manushya and rakshas. E.g. a manushya, a person with human type can understand both devata (a Divine type) or rakshas (demonic type). But a marriage between rickshas and devata is not auspicious, not because one is better or worse but because they perceive this world differently: one is seeking material comforts, and mother in spiritual, which cannot be perceived by physical senses.

On the level of aspiration and psychics of the masses which are focused on the material well-being, West can be allocated to the rakshas-gana, demonic aspirations. Russia can be considered manushya-gana as it is aimed at the preservation and protection of the family values, honor and righteousness, perfection of relationships between people, and degree of aspiration towards spirituality. India and East that still has preserved spirituality can be considered devata-gana.

Russian writers, like Dostoevkyi, Pushkin, Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy and Gogol can be understood by readers both in the East and in the West. In Russians, the human mode is universal: it is adaptable to both spiritual and material happiness. And even in worldly relations he/she is ready to give more than to receive. Thus an English scientist-geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, who travelled all over Russia, during his Hyde Park speech in opposition of English involvement into the Crimean war of 1853 said:

“Even if Russia is increasing its territory at the expense of neighboring lands, unlike other colonial empires Russia is sharing with these new territories more than it takes. It is done not because Russia is motivated by some philanthropy or like it. While the original aspirations of all empires differ little, but where a Russian man comes, everything receives a whole new direction. Eastern Slavic nations even from pre-Christian times have a set of moral values which do not allow a Russian national to abuse other people’s consciousness and to encroach on other’s property, that does not belong to them.
More often than not, Russians are willing to give their last property (e.g. a shirt) than to take by force it from someone. Thus, no matter how victorious are Russian weapons, a Russian is always loses in the economic sense. Countries which were won or taken under protection by Russia, in the end win in the larger sense, preserving their lifestyle and spiritual institutes, despite their lack of fulfillment for progress (one can come to same conclusion if they take time to study these in detail). The countries under the protection of Russia always end up multiplying their wealth and progressing along civilization path. Two outstanding examples are Eastland (*contemporary Estonia) and Caucasus, which were trampled on and abused by their neighbors, but after Russia’s involvement took an honorable place among nations and attained prosperity. Yet there was no benefit for Russians due to the addition of these nations to the Russian territory. We may see this as a paradox, but this is the reality, with the originating cause founded in the peculiarities of Russian morality”.

Half of Europe and part of Asia received the sovereignty from the hands of the USSR.

• Finland in 1802 and 1918. Until 1802 Finland never had its own state
• Latvia in 1918 (never has a separate state until then)
• Estonia (1918 (ibid)
• Lithuania established its sovereignty with help of Russia in 1918.
• Poland got sovereignty in 1918 and 1944 with Russia’s assistance.
• Romania gained sovereignty in 1877-1878
• Moldavia was established a s separate state within the USSR
• Bulgaria and Serbia
• Azerbaijan was formed as a state within USSR
• Armenia was preserved and was physically reestablishes as a state within the USSR. Same is applicable too Turkemia, Kirgizia, Kazahstan, Mongolia.
• Belorussia and Ukraine gained sovereignty as a result of the Great October revolution as part of the USSR. They gained complete independence in 1991.
• Russia took part is reestablishing of sovereignty of the following states: China, Viet Nam, India, Algiers, Korea, Cuba, Israel, Angola, Mozambique and so on. In 1821 Russia won Greece from the Turks.
• All this is a very strange aggression from Russia towards all these countries...
• Switzerland independence was won from France with help of Suvorov 217 years ago, and since then Switzerland was never in a war. We can also add here the freeing of Chekhoslovakia, Austria from the Third Reikh in 1945. Position of Katherine The Great in 1780 with creation of a Ligue of the Armed Neutrality and the support of the North American states was also a factor that helped USA to gain independence from England.
• The position of Gorbachev allowed Germany to reunite in 1990.
• Egypt would not be able to gain independence from Israel, Britain and France in 1956-57, and in 1967 the involvement of the USSR stopped the war between Israel and Egypt, and factually saved the Arabs from defeat in two wars 1967-74.
• Angola got independence by 1975 only due to the help from the USSR.
• Most colonies of Western Europe gained independence due to decolonization after the WWII, where the USSR played important role.

All history of Russia proves that it was very consistent with support from national independence and assistance of national self-determination, and it assisted with creation on multi-polar world in any epoch. Often Russia sacrificed its own interests, in the form of the state and the population. If Russian politics was analogous to the British one, a half of the world would have been part of the Russian Empire.

The fundamental difference between the two is that a Russian always took care of construction and investment in culture, unlike the USA which is destroying the cultures and economies of countries, which it enters. Spiritually healthy people perceive well being of others as their own. Psychically not healthy people attempt to oppress others.

Materialism and individualism of Western countries is based on the false impression of separateness from each other, which is also increasing the feeling of being distanced from God. People should be connected to God and to each other through service with awareness that each of us is part of God.

A person starts living by the laws that are disconnected from the Divine will and awareness when he is living in the parthiva-rasa, in the lucre and egotism, which is well reflected in the Roman Law that does not recognize God as the Supreme owner of all and everything.

Russians have an understanding that part of a body cannot take possession over the resources and not use them for the benefit of the whole body. “The Russian way is the way of the heart”, wrote Ilyin, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.

After the breakdown of the USSR Russians feel cheated with the destruction of the socialistic ideology and instillation of the Roman Law into Constitution. They feel deceived but cannot pinpoint how or where. The answer is simple. This is the priority of selfless relationships over anything else. Socialistic or God-centered mode serve for relationship development, while capitalism serves for their degradation.

Many attempt to define “Universal Ideology for All Humanity”. In reality, such idea is engrained in all spiritual books: to preserve spirit of selfless service in the human society, thus declaring by the mere mode of living that relationships are superior to the materialistic things. All spiritual teachings teach us these principles. The priority of relationships is the Universal Ideology for All Humanity.

Definition of spirituality

Spirituality and religion are different terms. Today many people consider themselves religious. Yet the world suffers from lack of spirituality, and this crisis is most prominent among those who are a part of a religion. Today is the time to share spirituality in its pure form, without any dogmas that separate us.

Spirituality is the state of unity, inner feeling of unity of oneself with other people, with everything that surrounds us, with the whole of existence, with God. Only then a person starts seeing other people’s interests as his own. We all are parts of Unity, the Almighty.

Happiness is not a thing, it is a state of consciousness, state of a soul, when a soul’s activity brings welfare to all. Being a part of the whole, a part of the Creator, living in harmony with Him like a healthy cell is in unity with the whole body.

While is the USSR religion was prohibited, people were more spiritual, and more healthy psychologically and more happy than they are today. Now they are more religious, but less spiritual, because the sense of inner unity and connectedness with each other is way less. They became more unhappy while their material welfare improved. During the recent poll, 67% of respondents said that they felt happier in times of the USSR as people genuinely cared for each other. When the improvement of relationships is the goal of a culture - the society flourishes. Morality is an indicator of the soul’s health, and proper perception of oneself in the world.

Spiritual progress is the progress of relationships. The higher the morality, the better are relationships between people, the lower the crime, corruption and other social problems. The happier are the citizens. Corruption and social shocks of various types are the consequence of the lower level of spirituality in society. This is due to the religious people who don't progress spiritually, lose their spirituality (the sense of unity with each other), oppose interests between each other on the basis of political, racial. economic, religious and social platforms. This can be compared to a liver, kidneys and stomach that stop cooperation with each other, because they have different religious affiliations. Spirituality in the unity and cooperation of all parts of God as a whole.

The social body gets sick and weak when some parts oppose their interests to other parts. The society becomes healthy and strong when there is a high spiritual level, when each is caring for interests of another, as of his own. Psychological health of parts of the body is when they understand that their welfare depend on the welfare of other bodily parts and body systems. Spirituality s a state of inner unity of a human with his environment, the feeling (or at least the awareness) of the interconnectedness of all created living beings as children and parts of the Almighty, the Unified Whole. Spirituality gives a feeling of Happiness. When there is no harmony there is an endless multitude of problems and diseases. Spiritual/soul health is the foundation of the physical, psychological and social health.

A happy person wants to make others happy. A miserable person wants other to be miserable as well. Happiness is interlinked with selflessness in love. Difficulties come when person leaves the state of happiness, when he starts caring for himself only (or his little group, including religious group), losing the connection with others. It is like a sick bodily part, which receives the body’s energy but does not serve the body. When this unity is interrupted - psychological diseases manifest on the physical level as diseases, and also problem in relationships with others come up. The society of consumers is the society of unhappy people. Yes, a miserable person helps sales go up, but this brings disharmony into the society.

The body is being destroyed, when the nutrient exchange is disturbed. The nutrient/energy exchange in the social body is the relationship between people. A person may be shot with a gun, but if his body has good nutrient flow, high tissue regeneration, he will survive and recover fast. If he is sick even a small scratch can become a mortal wound for him.

Same is with the state: to kill a state spirituality is being annihilated, the inner connectedness of people. This is done with ideological viruses, forcing people to oppose one another on the foundation of ideological, political, economic, religious and social platforms.

A country (state) is invincible when there are good relationships between its citizens. This is the duty of psychologists, psychotherapists, spiritual people, and spiritual politics, all of them play a role of the immune system in a social body: to make each person happy, by restoring healthy relationships of people with the environment . Happiness is a healthy state of the Soul. A country with happy people is invincible It is our duty: to make each person happy, restoring healthy relationships of each individual with the world.

Unity with Creation can be active or passive. When a person acts in disharmony with the world, it leads to various conflicts and stresses. It is necessary to spend some time alone, ideally in the nature, to meditate – to stop inner dialogue and thoughts, establish passive unity with the world. Active unity with the world is known as actions in pure and selfless love.

Some Western psychologists (who did not study well enough to study the Holy Scriptures), follow impersonalistic theories and declare: “All problems arise from ego”. This is not so. Only love arises from ego.

Ego is a sense of own individuality. It is an awareness of being a Personality. Egocentrism, egotism is the “personality cult”, when someone thinks he is the “center of the Universe”, thinking he or she is the most important in Creation, opposing self-interests to others. So, one must discern between these two concepts: ego and egocentrism (egotism).

Ego is a sense of being a Personality. Love is an inner UNION with someone who is so different from us. With another Personality. Love exists only in the discernment of the observer from the love object. And it is the unity in diversity. Love cannot exist without diversity. And the wider the diversity, the more diverse is the manifestation of love.

In the absence of variety there is no love. There is a rest in the monotony. Those who want to manifest their nature as Personalities, will not be happy in nirvana, the eternal rest. We are created by God as individual personalities, to communicate with God and with each other, in a state of love.

Today many people say that thoughts are material. The reality is that there is no physical matter. Everything is spiritual. All that surrounds us is the living energy which by choice may remain active or passive. Particles of God can manifest as individual personalities, or not, at their choice. Those who choose a rest, nirvana, stop feeling anything except for peace and eternity. They stop perceiving themselves as personalities, becoming a part of the radiant, impersonal energy of God. This can be compared to the hair and nails on the body -, which are body parts, but they do not experience feelings.

Non-living objects of the material world consist of this impersonal, "dormant" state of the God’s energy. All that surrounds us is God's energy, and His parts at free will choose (or not) to manifest themselves as individual personalities. Only the impulse from within, or the impulse of love from other souls may awaken the soul from this dormant state of nirvana. Thus, on some occasions, saintly mystics and God's avatars demonstrate the ability to "enliven" the objects of material world.

In the ancient Holy scriptures it is said that God has manifested particles of His living energy with individual consciousness (ego). He did it to enjoy love and pleasure from communication with us. He awakens us like a husband who wakes up his wife to enjoy her love. Just for that enjoyment of love God has granted us with individual consciousness, ego, and complete freedom to receive pleasure. Spiritual world is one of endless variety of manifestations in Love. We are being educated in this subject of love, the unity of different particles of the Almighty.

God has awakened us from nirvana for action, not that we could return to nirvana. He wants us to leave the world where we play with His dormant energy. He wants us to start a personalized relationship with Him. He desires for us to enter His own world of magic, where all wishes come true.

The variety in the unity with the world is the variety of manifestations of love. Thus the variety without unity with each other just brings suffering. Those who don't have love do their best to avoid suffering through limiting the variety. They abolish all those who think and act differently (e.g. of different belief system etc.).

1. lack of unit in variety
2. unity in inaction
3. unity in Love (may be compared with a thermometer where the negative scale is action of subjects in disharmony, without sense of unity with each other; zero is the static condition; and above zero is unity in Love, bliss from action). Love cannot be inactive. Love is an interaction on the subject and object of love. And the purpose of spiritual healing is to help people transfer from the negative scale to the positive scale.

The purpose of the spiritual life is simple: learning to love unconditionally. If this system of ideas about happiness and about ourselves is distorted, it is very difficult to start loving oneself. Therefore psychiatrists, psychologists, must at least have correct understanding about the nature of the soul. In this way they would be able to help people restore healthy perception of self and removing the problem that arose as a result of unhealthy relationships with others.

To heal and to cure are different terms. To heal is to eliminate the source of a spiritual disease and to cure is to remove pain or a symptom. Psychology is a science of the soul. Therefore a true psychologist is a realized spiritual Personality, who knows well what the soul is, who is God and how a soul can unite with God.

Alexander Usanin: usanin.info usanin.com