Isn’t your life and your experiences more painful than to be anything but yourself?
As I discussed in Part 2 of this manifesto and the Bhagavad Gita Chapter 3 Text 35 as spoken by Lord Krishna, this verse and text fundamentally states that “It is better to be bad at what you do than good at what is bad for you.”
If you have not read part 2 of this manifesto, I suggest you back and read it now before you continue as each part of this manifesto continues from the one before. This will also help you connect the dots.
This is the main reason so many of us today are riddled with anxiety, overwhelm and where dis-ease is rampant.
Life for many today is stressful, empty and filled with a numbness and void – even more with the advent of AI which has accelerated these for many of us.
We are unaware of our real destinies and no amount of money, wealth, food, leisure and entertainment in all its guises no matter how hard we try, can fill up our souls like finding our true purpose.
The Vedic tradition asks, “Why climb different mountains when it is difficult enough to find your own?” Helping people to find their purpose was a real necessity in ancient culture, and it is now a multibillion-dollar industry in today’s worldwide “merchant” society.
From self-help books, seminars, bootcamps and workshops both online and offline to religion (the original self-help system by the way), all the so called gurus and experts all seem to have different answers and or seem to rehash most of the same narrative.
They are just saying the same thing but in a different way.
But the truth is deceptively simple if you know where to look.
Love, money, wealth, prosperity and God are on your path: find that, and you find them all! We are constantly so busy looking for these things outside of ourselves that we total ignore the fact that all these coexist harmoniously right inside of us all.
Your job is to simply anchor yourself to your dharma typology (that which is inside of you) and everything else follows smoothly right after that.
Most people pray for what they think will make them happy like more money, a certain type of job or career or a certain type of romantic partner.
But ask yourself… how do we know that what you are praying for is actually good for your highest good?
And even if you get what you want, how much of your precious time is wasted desiring for things and people that do not relate to your highest destinies, or worse, that distract you from your real path?
When you find and follow your own dharma you can be rest assured not only of your own prosperity and abundance but the good of everyone around you. The more you follow your own purpose in the world, the more you inspire and lift up others in the process.
There is more than enough fulfilment to go around for everyone on this beautiful planet. Fulfilment is not a material resource like water but an unlimited side effect of dharma. The more spiritual treasure we give the more in return we get for ourselves.
Your own dharma typology states that everything you need is inherently already inside of you. Your dharma is wired in you just as the oak is present in the seed: it needs only to be watered and guided by the able hand of an experienced gardener while nature takes care of the rest.
You can now weigh a sigh of relief. You no longer need to step on others to get where you want to go. Competition will now arise to challenge, motivate and inspire you rather than you being dominated by it.
Now just imagine connecting with others without needing to get anything from them. You begin to relate to people not as obstacles but as allies, helping each other to get fulfilment.
Relationships are really the test and temper of the individual.
How you behave towards others reflects your evolution and refinement.
You may be great at balancing your chequebook or may have mastery of the latest self-improvement techniques but if in your daily life you cannot do something as simple as treating others as we treat ourselves which is the golden rule, then you really only compartmentalised being – not whole but even unholy.
Improving relationships with others begins by improving the relationship with ourselves. This involves understanding the Dharma of the individual self, and ultimately merging it with the larger self, the self of all.
Love begins when you know yourself, and compassion begins when you know the “Self of All.” When you’re “I am” becomes the “I AM of everyone” old conflicts will cease and misunderstandings will fade just like darkness before a torch.
Self-improvement in the Vedic sense is really self-realisation. The self is already perfect and cannot be approved upon. It is a question of realising that essence, which in reality has no distinctions – the silent, pure witness living in the present moment.
It simply is.
This manifesto offers specific instruction to help you find your true essence.
Aligning with your purpose makes it easier to be yourself. And being oneself translates into being-one-self. And that is the goal of all spirituality, no matter what faith you practise. All that changes is the words.
From the Georgia Baptists to Greek Orthodox Christians from the Theravada to tantric Buddhists and from Kashmir Shaktas to Krishna Bhaktas, the goal is the same: to know oneself, in turn knowing all things that can be known.
Once you begin to understand that the Self is the doer, and you are in fact do nothing, then what else is a left for you to do? The answer lies in doing your dharma, that which is required by virtue of your birth.
Every being that is born must act. From breathing, talking, and eating to moving and even thinking, action is a must for you and I as is natural law. These are general actions common to the species.
But there are actions specific to your individual nature that must be done; if you perform these you receive the maximum amount of desirable karma and minimise undesirable karma.
What these are and how they are to be performed is a subject of the Part 5 of this manifesto.
Click here to read about, “your search for home”.