HAPPINESS CONSCIOUSNESS
yoga guide
by Petro Ruh
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
Abdullah Bakur:
— Either you're good or you're not. Either you have education, understanding and abilities, or you don't. Either you're a thief or you're not, and there is no other.
Petro Ruh:
— Yoga is a method of turning a thief into an honest person, an evil person into a good one, greedy into honest, stupid into smart. That's what yoga is.
Abdullah Bakur:
— A person's genetics and culture matter in this. I was born in 1990. I grew up very poor and didn't always even have bread at home. However, I was born to feel the invisible wall between me and stealing. But my friends stole from the markets or asked to show a toy or candy there, grabbed and ran away. I just couldn't do it. I wasn't afraid, I just couldn't do it, because it's dishonest. I saw candy once a year, on New Year celebrations, and a gift for me was a sweater or some simple toy. I believe that man is either a thief or not, that it is genetics.
Petro Ruh:
— Well, but as for me, since my childhood I suffered from the feeling that there was a certain wall between me and life, between me and other people, between me and God, between me and happiness. I dreamed of finding a way to remove this wall. And I looked for an understanding of what kind of wall it is, what its nature is, how to remove it. And I learned that it's selfishness and that it can be removed by love. And I've been doing this for 30 years. I got what I wanted in about 20 years. But I continue, because the enlightened consciousness seeks even greater fullness of enlightenment, because in the absence of selfishness the quality of love develops to greater and greater fullness, and this is incredibly wonderful. And I want to share this with others. Because it's truly unspeakable happiness.
Abdullah Bakur:
— I believe that only a rich, at least being not on the verge of survival, society can afford to replace selfishness with love, and before that there must be respect.
Petro Ruh:
— I hope so. That's why I give so much energy, time and inspiration to support Mikheil Saakashvili and his cause. This is very important, of course. But I'm convinced that love and wisdom are more valuable than money. With love and wisdom a person is happy even without money. Life cares for him, such a person enjoys all the riches of life, all the riches of God. But without wisdom and love, even if you have billions, you won't be able to be happy. Love (and wisdom is one of the qualities of love) is the only thing that connects a person with life and happiness.
Abdullah Bakur:
— Society must have money, because it gives allies, allows it to buy what is lacking, and to create weapons. Look at Tibet: it has been absorbed by China, and China is now destroying their culture and spiritual practices. I don't want such a fate for Ukraine.
Petro Ruh:
— Yes. Definitely. Money is a resource that protects society. Money is the material basis of society. So society needs money. I just mean that it isn't the main thing a person needs, that it isn't the good in themselves. It's the good only if it's in the hands of good people. Billions in the hands of Ukrainian oligarchs are the evil, not the good.
Abdullah Bakur:
— Without money there is no science, medicine, weapons, normal life, health, recreation. I don't think it is necessary to determine what is primary and what is secondary. Material and spiritual are equivalent.
Petro Ruh:
— We should always set priorities. And love is the highest priority. Everything else — science, weapons, even medicine — will destroy life if it isn't based on love. All material things are useful in good hands and harmful in evil. Therefore, the priority here is clear and very important.
Abdullah Bakur:
— Apparently you didn't understand. I mean they both are important, they both have to be together. Money should not be a priority without spirituality, and neither should spirituality without money. There should be neither a soul without a body nor a body without a soul. Only both create a healthy whole.
Petro Ruh:
— Both. And how else?! I'm just saying that the quality of a person himself is more important than the quality of all clothes put on him, all that is in his bank account, and so on. Human quality is the most priority component of life.
Abdullah Bakur:
— Here I agree. But let him have something on his account. So better than if not.
Petro Ruh:
— Of course! Incredible prosperity and well-being must naturally be an integral attribute of an enlightened society. The desire to make people around us happy motivates us to create more and more good, useful thing, build, develop, implement, support, cultivate, share, unite, cooperate, but not steal, not fight, not separate, not spoil, not block opportunities, not interfere, not destroy, etc. An enlightened society is a society of all wealth fullness. Moreover, the wealth is not acquired by the exploitation of others, not created by the impoverishment of others (colonies, etc.), but the real wealth, which is naturally created in an enlightened society.
11.07.2021
Many of my readers often have questions about the difference between female and male nature, because I mention it in both the first part of this book and the second. The fact that there is such a difference is claimed also by psychologists, starting with Carl Jung. Therefore, it may seem that it would be enough for me to provide you with a link to the relevant common theses on psychology and so end my answer. But my vision is somewhat different from them. So I'll voice it. So, now we'll compare the nature of woman and man, that's, we'll consider the difference between how female consciousness is arranged and how male consciousness is arranged at the selfishness level, that's, in the unenlightened state, and then at the level of love — in the enlightened state.
In general, a woman is born much more sensitive than a man. She perceives reality much deeper and much more subtly than a man. That is why she acts much deeper and much more subtly than a man. Her selfishness allows many elements of love to be included in her consciousness. A woman is born much more connected to life than a man. And this causes her spontaneous tendency to selflessness, to service, because these are attributes of love, attributes of the high nature. But a man's selfishness separates him from life much more rigidly, so he perceives reality very superficially. Subtle, deep details and even whole spheres of life just remain completely beyond hes perception. Therefore, a man is obliged to practice yoga in order to become a real man, that's, one who is able to cope with all the tasks that naturally face him as a husband, as a father, as a responsible member of society. And through yoga practice, a man is able to develop even greater sensitivity, able to gain an even deeper and more subtle perception of reality than an unenlightened woman has, because in this way, that's, practicing yoga, he attains enlightenment. He is just obliged to attain enlightenment in order to conform to his natural roles in life.
The natural roles of a man are different from the natural roles of a woman. Why? Because the role of a woman as a creator of a new life, that's, as a mother, is in itself so majestic and incomparably more important than any other role, that this role alone is enough for a woman, playing it, to feel complete happiness, be able to realize all her potential and move towards enlightenment. Therefore, a man gets all the other areas: protection and provision of all components of life of family and society (material, emotional, spiritual). A man is not able to be a mother, so he provides his happiness, the realization of his potential, his movement to further enlightenment with his service to life in all other areas.
In order to cope perfectly with motherhood, a woman needs to not look aside at protecting herself and her children and providing herself and her children with everything they need. If all these go well, she is calm, peaceful and completely happy. Similarly, a man who practices yoga and is already at a certain level of enlightenment becomes calm, peaceful and completely happy through the successful fulfillment of all his natural roles in life.
04.08.2021