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Satisfaction Guaranteed. Why You Should First Solve Yourself.

Dear Friend,

After your 'creature comforts' - your physical needs for warmth, shelter and food - are taken care of, according to Maslow's Hierarchy, you've got other needs.

These needs, including for love, belonging and recognition, can be stacked on top of each other to form an aspirational ladder that everyone is trying to climb.

And there lies the opportunity for dissatisfaction - because we're social creatures and compare ourselves to others.

However, right at the top of Maslow's Hierarchy is 'self-actualisation'. This could be described as a satisfaction with yourself. But who ever reaches there?

There's enough to be getting on with at the lower levels: more things to buy; more things to do. Self-actualisation can wait.

In the philosophy of Yoga, there's a slightly different take on human wanting.

These are captured in the 4 Purusharthas, which are: 1. Dharma (Job), 2. Artha (Money), 3. Kama (Love), 4. Moksha (Freedom).

The advantage of your Sahaja yoga practice is that it cuts to the chase: It takes you towards 'moksha', the 4th goal first.

The kundalini's aim is to make you 'jivan-mukti' (freedom or moksha while living).

What is discovered with this, is that all the other needs/wants are then automatically fulfilled with the progress in your kundalini meditation practice.

The self-realisation (kundalini awakening) becomes the 'self-actualisation' of Maslow's Hierarchy and everything below flows from that.

So, let your kundalini solve you (working out your different chakras) then your satisfaction is guaranteed. More below.

Also below: Why not plan a trip to Kolkata? And, how not to put a foot wrong in day-to-day matters.

Best wishes

P.
PS.
Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week: Mon. 23rd - Tues 24th Oct : Navaratri - Fierce Love (Days 9 & Final Day/ Day of Victory of 10-day celebration of Divine Feminine in India); Wed. 25th - Papankusha Ekadashi (breaker of bad habits); Sat. 28th - Kojagiri Purnima (Full Moon - Gaining wealth at night).

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