Poor life decisions are often attributable to fear, greed, or sensuality – in other words, a lack of wisdom. In retrospect, our bad decisions have almost always been justified by one of these three things. Therefore, to optimize decision-making, one should simply invest in their own wisdom.
Fortune Favors the Enlightened Sage
It’s often said that chance favors the prepared mind. In reality, true luck favors the wise because they are minds prepared for the best. This is why sometimes we might think someone missed an opportunity when, in fact, if that person is wise, they were right to let that apparent opportunity pass. A sage is someone who has realized divine truth, what we might call light. Everything they do afterward is either seeking to find light externally or trying to consecrate places and spaces to fill them with divine light.
Investing in the Spiritual Path
The spiritual path aims to progressively remove these three evils that hinder your progress. We don’t all start from the same point; some will have more work to do than others. This is due to our past experiences and lives. Moreover, this same karma can directly impact your birthplace and the conditions in which you were raised (spiritual level of your close ones, environment favorable or unfavorable to spirituality, etc.).
Overcoming Fear
Courage is acting despite fear. Wisdom is losing the notion of fear altogether. How can one free themselves from fear when it’s an emotion that has accompanied us throughout our lives? A first step toward fearlessness would be to overcome fear through the diligent practice of courage. Courage doesn’t completely eliminate fear, but it dominates it and ultimately renders it insignificant.
The Path of Non-Fear
To go beyond overcoming fear, courage alone is not enough. One must immerse themselves in harmony. This must permeate your heart, your soul, your entire being so that fear can no longer touch you. Harmony can be found in nature or near sages who have already realized harmony within themselves. The absence of fear implies having realized certain truths because fear primarily finds its source in ignorance.
Losing Greed
The world has enough for everyone’s needs, but not enough for everyone’s greed. Mahatma Gandhi
Greed is a bottomless pit that can only be filled through wisdom. Greed is the attitude of putting things and money above life and humanity. It’s the plague of our world and finds its solution only in the habit of giving without expecting anything in return from the person to whom we give, at most from Providence. We begin to have enough when our heart is sufficiently full that we can begin to give. It’s by learning to give that we learn to fight greed. Therefore, it’s not at all necessary to be rich to lose greed; it’s simply through a generous and daily attitude that we manage to rid ourselves of this bad trait. It’s actually the most humble people who can demonstrate great generosity.
Breaking Free from Sensuality
Our world is lascivious. Sensual desires are primarily aroused because they help sell and thus manipulate us. Overcoming sensuality implies a certain withdrawal or even a form of asceticism. This may involve isolation, solitude, fasting practice, or avoiding exposure to ideas or content that evoke sensuality in us.
How to Rise Spiritually?
You were born with spiritual potential, but depending on where you grow up, you might ignore this dimension for part of your life. The luckiest people will be born into a spiritual family, meaning a family that makes room for cultivating the divine light present in each of us. If a person doesn’t have this chance, they will have to realize this dimension later in life.
Setting Out in Search of Your Spiritual Dimension
There is a process for elevating your spiritual dimension. It happens in stages and initially involves getting closer to people or places with a high pranic level, then learning to sanctify the spaces you enter, and finally practicing this sanctification wherever you go.
Seek Places with a High Degree of Prana
In your initiatory journey, you will need to get closer to places and people with a high energetic level, what is called prana in Sanskrit. Prana is spiritual energy and is unevenly distributed across the globe. It depends on several factors, the first being natural (geology of the place, types of stones present, telluric and atmospheric activity, presence of vegetation and animals, etc.), the second being human and spiritual (presence of enlightened people who have traveled through these places, presence of a community of people with a high degree of spiritual practice, presence of temples, etc.). Once a place has been identified as spiritually high, you should stay there long enough to immerse yourself in its energy so that it permeates your entire being. It’s the same thing that happens when you stay outside in the rain; you end up getting soaked. In terms of prana, you must do the same thing to be completely energetically transformed.
Learn to Sanctify
The second step involves learning to sanctify under an enlightened master. Meeting such a person might correspond to the previous step. Learning purification is longer and requires techniques that one couldn’t invent alone unless they were already initiated in a past life. It is in itself an initiatory journey in which you will perform deliberate practice under the direction of a sage who has already realized this sanctification competency. The process can be long, and you will need to show patience and perseverance to acquire this new capacity.
And Consecrate the Places Where You Are
Once your apprenticeship is complete, you will become a sanctification relay that will require you to travel and find a space where you will concentrate your mystical energy. This may involve people following you in this project and becoming your apprentices in sanctification.
