Lesson on Russian literature "Jack London. Love of life" (7th grade). Why is love needed in a person's life?

Lesson Ext. Thurs. Jack London. "Love of life"

Target: image of strength human spirit, the infinity of possibilities in an extreme situation in D. London’s story “Love of Life”

Educational: to form knowledge about the life and work of D. London; using the example of D. London’s story “Love of Life” to show that a person must always remain a person, continue to fight for life to the last; analyze what you read; express impressions of the text, navigate

Educational: develop skills benchmarking and ability to work with text.

Educational: to raise a compassionate person, ready to help in difficult times.

Epigraph:
How much does a person overcome fear?
That's how human he is.
(Thomas Corleyle, English writer and historian)

During the classes

I . Organizing time

II . Getting to know the work of D. London

1. introduction teachers:
Guys! Today we have to reflect on the heroes of J. London. It will be necessary to find out: What are they? What motivates them? What is more valuable than anything in the world? What's happened real man? Jack London himself was an eyewitness to many of the events described in his works.

2. Biography story (accompanied by presentation)
Jack London (1876–1916), American writer[Slide 2].
Born January 12, 1876 in San Francisco. At birth he was given the name John Cheney, but eight months later, when his mother married, he became John Griffith London. His stepfather was a farmer who later went bankrupt. The family was poor, and Jack was only able to finish elementary school.
London's youth came at a time of economic depression and unemployment, and the family's financial situation became increasingly precarious. By the age of twenty-three, he had changed many occupations: he worked in factories, in a laundry, was arrested for vagrancy and speaking at socialist rallies.
In 1896, rich gold deposits were discovered in Alaska, and everyone flocked there, hoping to get rich. [Slide 3].
London also went there. He was a prospector in Alaska during the Gold Rush. But the young man stayed there for a year and returned the same poor man as when he left. But this year changed his life: he began to write.
Starting with short stories, soon conquered the East Coast literary market with tales of adventure in Alaska. [Slide 4].
Jack London became famous when he published his northern stories in 1900, including the story “Love of Life.” Their actions take place in Alaska.
In 1900, London published his first book, Son of the Wolf. For the next seventeen years, he published two or even three books a year.
London died in Glen Ellen (California) on November 22, 1916. [Slide 5].

We see that nothing broke London, because he was, in my opinion, a real person. I took the words as the epigraph for the lesson: [Slide 6].

III . Work on the story “Love of Life”

1. Teacher reading a story

2. Analysis of the story:
- Today we must follow the fate of one of the heroes of the story by J. London. Look at the beginning of the story. How does the author show us the heroes?
(The heroes of the story have been on the road for several days. They are very tired.
“tired and exhausted, faces expressed “patient humility”, “shoulders pulled heavy bales”, “they walked hunched over, heads bent low, without raising their eyes”, They say "indifferent" voice “sounds sluggish” ) .

It seems that at such a moment they should support each other, but what do we see? Why did Bill leave his friend? [Slide 7].

(One of them gets into trouble and the other one is Bill - leaves his comrade, afraid that he will be a burden for him, hoping that it is easier to save a life alone).

How do you evaluate Bill's behavior? Find words that characterize his behavior.

Bill has left, but the main thing is that for the remaining hero, Bill becomes a goal, a movement forward towards life, a hope of meeting Bill.(read)

(“... Bill didn’t abandon him, he’s waiting at the hiding place. He had to think so, otherwise there was no point in fighting further - all that was left was to lie down on the ground and die”).

Conclusion: And the man begins to fight for life, moving towards the hiding place, because there are “cartridges, hooks, and lines for fishing rods... And there is also flour and... a piece of bacon beans,” i.e.. there is meaning to live.

The hero finds himself in a difficult extreme situation.
- What is an extreme situation? [Slide 8].
- (from Latin extremus “extreme”) An extreme situation is a situation that is extremely tense, dangerous, requiring the highest level of mental and physical strength from a person.

The hero finds himself in a difficult situation.
- What is the difficulty of his situation? (Unknown; pain (sprained leg); hunger; loneliness).
-These difficulties give rise to a feeling of fear and despair. What, in your opinion, is the worst thing for a person?
- Loneliness - an unpleasant feeling.
Let's follow the text how our hero behaves when left alone:
(“anguish appeared in his eyes, like a wounded deer,” in his last cry “the desperate plea of ​​a man in trouble,” finally, a feeling complete loneliness not only on earth, but throughout the entire universe.)
- Description of nature back in to a greater extent helps to understand this feeling:(search)
(“Above the very horizon, the sun was shining dimly, barely visible through the fog, which lay in a thick veil, without visible boundaries or outlines...” “He looked south, realizing that somewhere there, behind these gloomy hills, lay the great Bear Lake and that in the same direction a terrible path runs across the Canadian plain Arctic Circle" And again: “He again looked around the circle of the universe in which he was now alone. The picture was sad. Low hills closed the monotonous horizon wavy line. No trees, no bushes, no grass - nothing but a boundless and terrible desert - and an expression of fear appeared in his eyes")
- The nature surrounding the hero does not bode well for him. “The picture was sad. Low hills closed the horizon with a monotonous wavy line. No trees, no bushes, no grass - nothing but a boundless and terrible desert - and an expression of fear appeared in his eyes.”
- In your opinion, for what purpose are the cognate words fear and terrible used?(To enhance a person’s sad state).
But a hero doesn't give up , strives for his goal, overcoming difficulties.
- Remember the episodes of the hero’s journey. What does the hero have to overcome? (find and read episodes)
The episode with the matches. “He unpacked the bale and first of all counted how many matches he had... When he had done all this, he suddenly became afraid; he unwrapped all three parcels and counted them again. There were still sixty-seven matches.” (Fighting fear).
Pain. “The ankle hurt a lot..., it was swollen, it became almost as thick as the knee,” “the joints were rusty, and it took a lot of willpower to bend or straighten each time,” “His leg became stiff, he began to limp even more, but this pain was nothing compared to the pain in my stomach. The pain gnawed and gnawed at him...” (Fighting pain).
The episode with the partridge, fishing, meeting with a deer, etc. “In despair, he sank to the wet ground and cried. At first he cried quietly, then he began to sob loudly, waking up the merciless desert... and for a long time he cried without tears, shaking with sobs.” “He was possessed by only one desire - to eat! He went crazy from hunger.” He dreams of feasts and dinner parties. (Fight against hunger).
But gradually the feeling of hunger weakens, but the person, “afraid of dying,” continues to move forward.(“The life in him did not want to die and drove him forward”)
- One test is replaced by another. He wants to find out who is stronger.

Retelling of the fragment “Victory of the wolf over man” »
- How are the wolf and the man shown?
- the fangs squeezed the hand, the wolf wants to sink its teeth into the prey;
- the man waits and squeezes the wolf’s jaw;
- the other hand grabs the wolf;
-the wolf is crushed under a man;
- the man pressed himself against the wolf’s neck, there was fur in his mouth.

- A man is trying to survive! Is it only human?
- The beast too.
The author shows a man and an animal (wolf) in the struggle for life side by side: who will win?What does the wolf symbolize?
(This symbol of death , which drags after life, by all indications a person must perish, die. This is where she, death, will take him. But look, it’s not for nothing that death is given in the guise of a sick wolf: life is stronger than death.)

We see that man and wolf are sick, weak, but still man wins. What helped man to defeat the animal? (Strength of mind).
- What is fortitude?
(Strength of mind - internal fire that elevates a person to nobility, selfless and courageous actions).
- We see that the person turned out to be stronger. But why?
Conclusion: thanks to the calculationfortitude , patience, endurance andlove of life man conquers fear.
- But there are moments in the text where a person reminds us of an animal? (prove it.)

Partridge hunting. “He threw a stone at them, but missed. Then, crawling like a cat sneaks up on sparrows, he began to sneak up on them. His pants were torn on sharp stones, a bloody trail stretched from his knees, but he did not feel pain - hunger drowned it out.” Having not caught a single bird, he began to loudly imitate their cry.
Meeting with a fox and a bear. “A black-brown fox with a partridge in its teeth came across him. He screamed.His scream was terrible …” . As we see, the tragedy of the situation is growing, the person is changing before our eyes, becoming like a beast.

Find the words of the author that directly call a person an animal?
“He threw off his luggage and crawled on all fours into the reeds, crunching and chomping like a ruminant.” He was possessed by only one desire: to eat!
The One with the Bones : “Soon he was squatting, holding the bone in his teeth and sucking out the last particles of life from it... The sweet taste of meat, barely audible, elusive, like a memory, drove him crazy. He clenched his teeth tighter and began to gnaw.” The last particles of life leave not only the gnawed bones, but also the person. It’s as if the thread that connected our hero with people is breaking.

And yet, what distinguishes a person from an animal? What episode, very important, helps us understand this?
(The episode with Bill). [Slide 9].

Fragment of a meeting with Bill's remains. Your opinions, judgments?
(Bill turned out to be weak, could not overcome his fear, he was afraid for his life and abandoned his comrade in trouble. Bill exchanged his life for gold).

Can the hero be considered a real person? What qualities do such people have? Support your words with fragments from the text.
(calculation (episode with matches, in food, in the fight with the wolf, with gold, the path to the ship: “He sat down and thought about the most urgent matters...” ;
patience (in the fight against the wolf, against hunger);
reason (“the stomach seems to have fallen asleep,” but our hero still continues to look for food for himself, what motivates him? - the mind: he must eat something so as not to die);
“At times his mind became clouded, and he continued to wander on, like an automaton,” “He walked, without discerning time, both night and day, resting where he fell, and trudged forward when the life that was fading in him flared up and flared up brighter. He's biggerI didn’t fight like people fight. This very life in him did not want to die and drove him forward.”
- Fearlessness;
-strength of will.

What (who) gave strength to a person’s spirit? (Target, target proximity : first it was Bill, then the ship).
- We see that the author does not call this creature a human, but compares it to a worm that moves forward, writhing and writhing. But not a trace remained of that “patient obedience” that we saw at the beginning of the story: even if it was twenty steps an hour, even if it was crawling, but man walking forward.

IV . Lesson summary

1. General questions :
- Why do you think the story is called “Love of Life”?
- Love of life helps the hero survive.(Love of life ) [Slide 11].
After all, such is life, vain and fleeting. Only life makes you suffer. It doesn't hurt to die. To die is to fall asleep. Death means the end, peace. Why then does he not want to die?”
- How do you understand these words?
(“He knew he couldn’t crawl half a mile.And yet he wanted to live. It would be stupid to die after everything he'd been through. Fate demanded too much from him. Even dying, he did not submit to death. It may have been pure madness, but in the clutches of death he defied it and fought it.”
He wanted to live, so “the man still ate marsh berries and minnows, drank boiling water and watched the sick wolf)

- Very often, in difficult times, people turned to the work of J. London. Why?
What lessons can be learned from this work?

2. Conclusion. [Slide 12].
"Love of Life" is a story about courageous man, who survived such terrible trials as loneliness, betrayal of a friend and struggle with the harsh northern nature. The most important thing is that I overcame myself, my fear, my pain.

V . Homework: A. de Saint-Exupery " A little prince"(read, retell)

What is life?

To the question "What is life?" no one can answer. Regardless of religion, we are children of materialism, and it will take a lot of time before the word “life” is directly identified in our consciousness with spiritual life. While we, with our eyes bulging, stare at matter as a primary substance, it will be forced to forcefully turn our head - well, if it doesn’t break our neck - to where, upon careful examination, we can see the meaning of life. This is how matter teaches us how to relate to life correctly. He teaches harshly. We may realize that there is more to life than our body, but by then vitality completely exhausted, and the body becomes decrepit. And then, perhaps, the question will arise: what is this force that set my body in motion, and where did it go? Having turned in the last mental anguish to this nameless beginning and with all our hearts praying for its return, we may well feel that prayer turned out to be the most effective means of allowing the body to regain strength. And, probably, we will understand that it was not someone who helped us, but ourselves.

There are a great many reasons why a person entrusts his life to others. The most banal thing is that he himself doesn’t know how to do something. There is an excuse for inability: I’m not an expert. And the person does not think or does not want to think about the fact that an outsider, perhaps, also cannot do it. The other one must be able to. If he doesn’t know how, it’s time to call him to account. However, no helper is able to penetrate the soul of a person in need of help. That is, he is not able to live his spiritual life for him, which is real life. Earthly life- that's just mirror reflection spiritual life.

Most of us lack understanding of our own nature. Because we have lost our conscious CONNECTION with our higher selves. What does it mean to lose CONNECTION? This means losing a sense of power and responsibility for your life. And somewhere inside us hides a feeling of helplessness, because we don’t know who we are or what. Like little lost children, we feel powerless to change anything. Not only in the world, but also in your life. This inner feeling of powerlessness drives us forward and forces us to make enormous efforts to assert ourselves. But we assert ourselves on the outside, but inside we remain just as helpless. And everything that you and I are doing here is aimed at discovering the CONNECTION and being READY to restore it.

We stubbornly attach our emotions to things and people outside of us, believing that our happiness depends on them. Remember that almost constant feeling that “something is missing” inside of us. And that means that carrot, that bow, that teacher... Remember this tension, anxiety and stress, eternal desperate attempts to fill the inner emptiness. Of course, it’s empty inside, because our “I” is not there, the owner of this entire economy is not there, and we can’t get in touch with him. Remember our attempts to manipulate outside world to get what we lack “for happiness.” Do you remember?

It is in this state that most of us set goals and try to achieve something in life. Unfortunately, at this level of consciousness this is impossible...
Or we create too many obstacles for ourselves and achieve nothing. Or we achieve our goal, but only to discover that this is not the toy that makes us happy. Vicious circle.

Everyone who has understood the secret of life understands that there is one life, but it exists in two aspects. Firstly, as immortal, all-encompassing and silent and, secondly, as mortal, active and manifesting itself in diversity. The soul essence, which belongs to the first aspect, is deceived, becomes helpless and is caught up in the experience of life when it comes into contact with the mind and body, which belongs to the second aspect. The gratification of the desires of the body and the caprices of the mind is not sufficient for the purposes of the soul, which must surely experience its own phenomena in the visible and the invisible; despite the fact that she tends to be herself and no one else. When delusion makes her feel helpless, mortal, and captive, she finds herself uncomfortable. This is the tragedy of life, which plunges the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor into disappointment, forcing them to constantly look for something that is unknown to them. As Iqbal says: “I wandered in pursuit of myself: I was the traveler and I was the destination.”
/Hazrat Inayat Khan. Path of Illumination./

Life gives you a free choice - whether to live in peace of mind or in mental anguish. If you are convinced - and conviction comes from the heart - that life begins with the person himself, then you make a choice in favor of love. If you don’t know how yet, then learn. It doesn’t matter how deeply you are stuck in the quagmire of life. Once you begin to help your soul spiritually, you will begin to help those who are trying to help your body to the best of their strength and abilities. In this way, the two facets of your life will be reunited. You will be grateful to yourself and those around you. After going through terrible trials, you will make an important discovery: you are surrounded by people. What happiness!

We realize that there is something more to life, and we begin to look for it. Such a search may take a long time, but in the end, a person will certainly, having filled his teeth and received a lot of unnecessary information, return to himself. We become ourselves, we realize that we ourselves are the creators of our lives. We are restoring our inner strength and fill the emptiness within us.

When we are READY, fate gives us a chance to restore CONNECTION with our “I”. It settles again in the Space of Love that we have so carefully prepared. When we come out of an empty, greedy, manipulative state of consciousness (when we believe that happiness can be found by acquiring another thing or conquering the will of another person), our first and the most important lesson becomes learning not to get attached. That is, relax, stop struggling, stop trying, stop manipulating events, things and people to achieve your goals. That is, stop doing so much and just BE for a while. As stated in famous book, “stop worrying and start living.”

This is not an easy task, so take your time. Just as it is impossible to become a yogi or an acrobat in one day, so one cannot give up one’s attachments in one moment. That is why they are attached to us, so that it is not easy to untie them. But try, first just imagine, then for a minute, two, three do not strive for anything external... Having done this, we suddenly discover that we really feel good, we feel great simply because we allow ourselves to be ourselves and do not try to change world. This is what it means to be “here and now.” What in Eastern philosophy is called “getting rid of attachments.” This is a feeling of extraordinary freedom, the main stage on any path of self-knowledge.

What's next? When this feeling arises in us more and more often, we gradually restore CONNECTION with ourselves, with our higher “I”. We suddenly discover with joy that life has many faces, that it is always kind, generous and interesting. That life is a mirror. What you show him is what he reflects. Desire, so desire, goal, so goal, dream, so dream... And then creative visualization and formula-statements become for us the most important tool for the further creativity of life. After all, what we do will be reflected, and what will be reflected is what we will get. And to form your desires and goals, affirmations and the power of imagination are simply irreplaceable.

Or you can imagine things a little differently. Imagine that life is a river. Most people cling to the shore in fear of rapid current. But everyone must be ready at some point to unclench their hands and surrender to it torrent. At this point we begin to understand the expression “go with the flow” and perhaps feel happy. When a person gets used to the movement of the river, he begins to look around. He learns to chart his own course, skirting boulders and snags, choosing channels and river channels, but at the same time constantly “moving with the flow.”
This comparison is metaphorical, but it shows how we can accept our life “here and now”, surrendering to its flow, and at the same time consciously achieve our goals, taking responsibility for our own lives.

Don't forget that creative representation is a tool that can be used in many ways, including spiritual development. With its help, each of us can imagine ourselves more an open person, surrendering to the flow of life, living “here and now” and always connected with their inner essence. Be blessed in all that your heart desires.

Inner life- the main lines of Fate, which we cannot change; this requires us to concentrate our efforts over a long period of time. The Buddhial body contains those internal attitudes of a person that gradually guide him along Buddhial plots - these are his life positions, general life philosophy, worldview and ways of perceiving the world.
Information encrypted in the Buddhial body manifests itself in two ways: in the form of basic storylines the fate of a person, on the one hand, and in his, as they say, “psychology,” on the other.
The plots of the Buddhial body are primarily the plots of the internal development of a person. Is it possible to change buddhic stories? In any case, it's difficult. In principle, an alternative is always possible: either this fragment of the plot is not final, and then after some time it will end and a new one will begin (however, it is not known whether people will like it more or less), or this is the final fragment, and nothing else subtle karma is no longer planned, at least in this incarnation. However, in any case, a person can influence his destiny by working with the Buddhial body, the first sign of which will not be a change in dense karma (that is, the specific circumstances of his life), but changes in psychology, that is, a change in worldview and life positions, even if not realized. How can you do this?
In principle, a person can work on each of his bodies, firstly, by himself, and secondly, by influencing it with other bodies. Moreover, each pair of his bodies is connected by some kind of connections, but the strongest connections are usually between neighboring bodies; V in this case these are Atmanic and Causal. The greatest (generally speaking) influence on each body is exerted by the subtler body adjacent to it; in this case it is Atmanic.
The development of the Buddhial body is a person’s work on himself in the sense of practical psychology, as well as practical philosophy and religion, that is, a change in life attitudes, ways of seeing that part of the surrounding world that is directly related to a person’s immediate life. This is the development of certain character traits, unlearning bad habits and acquiring good ones, that is, transferring oneself to higher energy flows; corresponding transformation of subconscious programs, etc.
However, all this has its limits, since most often it slightly cleans up and corrects the plot, but rarely finishes it and even less often takes it to a qualitatively different level (although this also happens). Much more strong impact the Buddhial body can be influenced by the Atmanic body, whose energy has a qualitatively different character, and where introspection and psychoanalysis reach a dead end, new spiritual channels or a change in life ideals are needed.
In general, the word "ideal" in Lately acquires a mental connotation that is unusual for it. In fact, the ideal is what inspires, or in other words, the symbol of a high Egregor, which is capable of giving a person energy at the level of his Atmanic body. However, when Egregor dies, the word “ideal” takes on the connotation of an obligation: an ideal is something to which one must strive, usually under pain of condemnation or other punishment. And although it may not be easy to find a true ideal for yourself, that is, a high Egregor inspiring the Atmanic body, insincerity here will lead to an energetic dead end on all bodies at once: there is nothing to replace the energy of the Atmanic body. You need to look for an ideal that is high enough (otherwise it’s pointless) and voluntarily serve it, and choose it so that it compensates with its (high) energy the lower energy of a person serving it. The mental ideal contained in the Atmanic body of the mental person, which is discussed below, never gives such energy, therefore serving what a person mentally, but not religiously considers higher, leads to the waste of all energies and existential frustration, that is, the complete triumph of the gray.
So, new turn The main plot of life is often provided by energy descending into the Buddhial body from the Atmanic: a person acquires a new ideal, which unusually inspires him, changes in its light his views on the life around him, the value system, rethinks himself, and his life takes a sharp turn.
However, sometimes for some reason this does not happen: new life as if it’s already out of the gate (in any case, I’m tired of the old one to death), but it won’t start. Here, a situation may well arise when in order to shift the plot or change it, the Buddhial body needs involtation, that is, some decisive action is required from a person, most often a certain sacrifice, the energy of which will finally remove a sliver from the wheel of subtle karma.
A specialist in the Atmanic body is, for example, a confessor or a preacher; a specialist in the Buddhial body is a psychologist or sage; A specialist in the causal body is a fortune teller, or a practical advisor.
Cm. .

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE- this is an increase in the level of knowledge and love, understanding and awareness of the necessary lessons.
Life is given to a person to work on himself.

MEANING OF EXISTENCE- fight to learn to be harmonious. First you need to know one thing in order to understand the other. DisHarmony is a valuable lesson designed to make a person understand and appreciate the nature of Harmony.

FRUIT OF LIFE- these are the lessons that the Soul learns from life. All life experience there is knowledge.

What is life?

To the question "What is life?" no one can answer. Regardless of religion, we are children of materialism, and it will take a lot of time before the word “life” is directly identified in our consciousness with spiritual life. While we, with our eyes bulging, stare at matter as a primary substance, it will be forced to forcefully turn our head - well, if it doesn’t break our neck - to where, upon careful examination, we can see the meaning of life. This is how matter teaches us how to relate to life correctly. He teaches harshly. Maybe we will understand that life is something more than our body, but by then the vital forces will completely dry up, and the body will become decrepit. And then, perhaps, the question will arise: what is this force that set my body in motion, and where did it go? Having turned in the last mental anguish to this nameless beginning and with all our hearts praying for its return, we may well feel that prayer turned out to be the most effective means of allowing the body to regain strength. And, probably, we will understand that it was not someone who helped us, but ourselves.

There are a great many reasons why a person entrusts his life to others. The most banal thing is that he himself doesn’t know how to do something. There is an excuse for inability: I’m not an expert. And the person does not think or does not want to think about the fact that an outsider, perhaps, also cannot do it. The other one must be able to. If he doesn’t know how, it’s time to call him to account. However, no helper is able to penetrate the soul of a person in need of help. That is, he is not able to live his spiritual life for him, which is real life. Earthly life is only a mirror reflection of spiritual life.

Most of us lack understanding of our own nature. Because we have lost our conscious CONNECTION with our higher selves. What does it mean to lose CONNECTION? This means losing a sense of power and responsibility for your life. And somewhere inside us hides a feeling of helplessness, because we don’t know who we are or what. Like little lost children, we feel powerless to change anything. Not only in the world, but also in your life. This inner feeling of powerlessness drives us forward and forces us to make enormous efforts to assert ourselves. But we assert ourselves on the outside, but inside we remain just as helpless. And everything that you and I are doing here is aimed at discovering the CONNECTION and being READY to restore it.

We stubbornly attach our emotions to things and people outside of us, believing that our happiness depends on them. Remember that almost constant feeling that “something is missing” inside of us. And that means that carrot, that bow, that teacher... Remember this tension, anxiety and stress, eternal desperate attempts to fill the inner emptiness. Of course, it’s empty inside, because our “I” is not there, the owner of this entire economy is not there, and we can’t get in touch with him. Remember our attempts to manipulate the outside world to obtain what we lack “for happiness.” Do you remember?

It is in this state that most of us set goals and try to achieve something in life. Unfortunately, at this level of consciousness this is impossible...
Or we create too many obstacles for ourselves and achieve nothing. Or we achieve our goal, but only to discover that this is not the toy that makes us happy. Vicious circle.

Everyone who has understood the secret of life understands that there is one life, but it exists in two aspects. Firstly, as immortal, all-encompassing and silent and, secondly, as mortal, active and manifesting itself in diversity. The soul essence, which belongs to the first aspect, is deceived, becomes helpless and is caught up in the experience of life when it comes into contact with the mind and body, which belongs to the second aspect. The gratification of the desires of the body and the caprices of the mind is not sufficient for the purposes of the soul, which must surely experience its own phenomena in the visible and the invisible; despite the fact that she tends to be herself and no one else. When delusion makes her feel helpless, mortal, and captive, she finds herself uncomfortable. This is the tragedy of life, which plunges the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor into disappointment, forcing them to constantly look for something that is unknown to them. As Iqbal says: “I wandered in pursuit of myself: I was the traveler and I was the destination.”
/Hazrat Inayat Khan. Path of Illumination./

Life gives you a free choice - whether to live in peace of mind or in mental torment. If you are convinced - and conviction comes from the heart - that life begins with the person himself, then you make a choice in favor of love. If you don’t know how yet, then learn. It doesn’t matter how deeply you are stuck in the quagmire of life. Once you begin to help your soul spiritually, you will begin to help those who are trying to help your body to the best of their strength and abilities. In this way, the two facets of your life will be reunited. You will be grateful to yourself and those around you. After going through terrible trials, you will make an important discovery: you are surrounded by people. What happiness!

We realize that there is something more to life, and we begin to look for it. Such a search may take a long time, but in the end, a person will certainly, having filled his teeth and received a lot of unnecessary information, return to himself. We become ourselves, we realize that we ourselves are the creators of our lives. We restore our inner strength and fill the emptiness within us.

When we are READY, fate gives us a chance to restore CONNECTION with our “I”. It settles again in the Space of Love that we have so carefully prepared. When we come out of an empty, greedy, manipulative state of consciousness (when we believe that happiness can be found by acquiring another thing or winning the will of another person), our first and most important lesson is to learn not to become attached. That is, relax, stop struggling, stop trying, stop manipulating events, things and people to achieve your goals. That is, stop doing so much and just BE for a while. As the famous book says, “stop worrying and start living.”

This is not an easy task, so take your time. Just as it is impossible to become a yogi or an acrobat in one day, so one cannot give up one’s attachments in one moment. That is why they are attached to us, so that it is not easy to untie them. But try, first just imagine, then for a minute, two, three do not strive for anything external... Having done this, we suddenly discover that we really feel good, we feel great simply because we allow ourselves to be ourselves and do not try to change world. This is what it means to be “here and now.” What in Eastern philosophy is called “getting rid of attachments.” This is a feeling of extraordinary freedom, the main stage on any path of self-knowledge.

What's next? When this feeling arises in us more and more often, we gradually restore CONNECTION with ourselves, with our higher “I”. We suddenly discover with joy that life has many faces, that it is always kind, generous and interesting. That life is a mirror. What you show him is what he reflects. Desire, so desire, goal, so goal, dream, so dream... And then creative visualization and formula-statements become for us the most important tool for the further creativity of life. After all, what we do will be reflected, and what will be reflected is what we will get. And to form your desires and goals, affirmations and the power of imagination are simply irreplaceable.

Or you can imagine things a little differently. Imagine that life is a river. Most people cling to the shore in fear of the strong current. But everyone must be ready at some point to unclench their hands and surrender to this stormy flow. At this point we begin to understand the expression “go with the flow” and perhaps feel happy. When a person gets used to the movement of the river, he begins to look around. He learns to chart his own course, skirting boulders and snags, choosing channels and river channels, but at the same time constantly “moving with the flow.”
This comparison is metaphorical, but it shows how we can accept our life “here and now”, surrendering to its flow, and at the same time consciously achieve our goals, taking responsibility for our own lives.

Don't forget that creative imagination is a tool that can be used in different ways, including for spiritual development. With its help, each of us can imagine ourselves as a more open person, surrendering to the flow of life, living “here and now” and always connected with our inner essence. Be blessed in all that your heart desires.

Inner life- the main lines of Fate, which we cannot change; this requires us to concentrate our efforts over a long period of time. The Buddhial body contains those internal attitudes of a person that gradually guide him along Buddhial plots - these are his life positions, general life philosophy, worldview and ways of perceiving the world.
The information encrypted in the Buddhial body manifests itself in two ways: in the form of the main storylines of a person’s fate, on the one hand, and in his, as they say, “psychology,” on the other.
The plots of the Buddhial body are primarily the plots of the internal development of a person. Is it possible to change buddhic stories? In any case, it's difficult. In principle, an alternative is always possible: either this fragment of the plot is not final, and then after some time it will end and a new one will begin (however, it is not known whether people will like it more or less), or this is the final fragment, and nothing else subtle karma is no longer planned, at least in this incarnation. However, in any case, a person can influence his destiny by working with the Buddhial body, the first sign of which will not be a change in dense karma (that is, the specific circumstances of his life), but changes in psychology, that is, a change in worldview and life positions, even if not conscious. How can you do this?
In principle, a person can work on each of his bodies, firstly, by himself, and secondly, by influencing it with other bodies. Moreover, each pair of his bodies is connected by some kind of connections, but the strongest connections are usually between neighboring bodies; in this case it is Atmanic and Causal. The greatest (generally speaking) influence on each body is exerted by the subtler body adjacent to it; in this case it is Atmanic.
The development of the Buddhial body is a person’s work on himself in the sense of practical psychology, as well as practical philosophy and religion, that is, a change in life attitudes, ways of seeing that part of the surrounding world that is directly related to a person’s immediate life. This is the development of certain character traits, unlearning bad habits and acquiring good ones, that is, transferring oneself to higher energy flows; corresponding transformation of subconscious programs, etc.
However, all this has its limits, since most often it slightly cleans up and corrects the plot, but rarely finishes it and even less often takes it to a qualitatively different level (although this also happens). A much stronger impact on the Buddhial body can be exerted by the Atmanic body, whose energy has a qualitatively different character, and where introspection and psychoanalysis reach a dead end, new spiritual channels or a change in life ideals are needed.
In general, the word “ideal” has recently acquired a mental connotation that is unusual for it. In fact, the ideal is what inspires, or in other words, the symbol of a high Egregor, which is capable of giving a person energy at the level of his Atmanic body. However, when Egregor dies, the word “ideal” takes on the connotation of an obligation: an ideal is something to which one must strive, usually under pain of condemnation or other punishment. And although it may not be easy to find a true ideal for yourself, that is, a high Egregor inspiring the Atmanic body, insincerity here will lead to an energetic dead end on all bodies at once: there is nothing to replace the energy of the Atmanic body. You need to look for an ideal that is high enough (otherwise it’s pointless) and voluntarily serve it, and choose it so that it compensates with its (high) energy the lower energy of a person serving it. The mental ideal contained in the Atmanic body of the mental person, which is discussed below, never gives such energy, therefore serving what a person mentally, but not religiously considers higher, leads to the waste of all energies and existential frustration, that is, the complete triumph of the gray.
So, a new turn in the main life plot is often provided by energy descending into the Buddhial body from the Atmanic: a person acquires a new ideal, which unusually inspires him, changes in its light his views on the life around him, the value system, rethinks himself, and his life takes a sharp turn.
However, sometimes for some reason this does not happen: a new life seems to be already outside the gates (in any case, the old one is mortally tired), but it will not begin. Here, a situation may well arise when in order to shift the plot or change it, the Buddhial body needs involtation, that is, some decisive action is required from a person, most often a certain sacrifice, the energy of which will finally remove a sliver from the wheel of subtle karma.
A specialist in the Atmanic body is, for example, a confessor or a preacher; a specialist in the Buddhial body is a psychologist or sage; A specialist in the causal body is a fortune teller, or a practical advisor.
See Buddhial body.

THE PURPOSE OF LIFE- this is an increase in the level of knowledge and love, understanding and awareness of the necessary lessons.
Life is given to a person to work on himself.

MEANING OF EXISTENCE- fight to learn to be harmonious. First you need to know one thing in order to understand the other. DisHarmony is a valuable lesson designed to make a person understand and appreciate the nature of Harmony.

FRUIT OF LIFE- these are the lessons that the Soul learns from life. All life experience is knowledge.

Love... Love is everything! And that's all we know about her.

They sing songs about love, write poems, and under its influence they make amazing discoveries. Love is a mystery, a riddle that cannot be clearly defined. So what is love?

In my opinion, love is a feeling of warmth, peace, tranquility and joy in the soul, a state when you are comfortable and you can be yourself. But love is different.

Firstly, it seems to me that we experience a feeling of love when we say the word Motherland. Love for your country, region, city in which you live. An example is Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Mikhailovich Pozharsky, who liberated their homeland from Polish invaders. My little Motherland is our village of Baranchinsky. The village is small, I know every street in it, my relatives, friends and acquaintances live here. When I go to study in another city, I will miss my home, which is associated with so many memories: walks with friends, the first time I skated, the Christmas tree lights and my first grade. Here I don't feel lonely.

Secondly, love for family and, above all, for parents. Our parents gave us life; our first words are “mom” and “dad”. They take care of us all our lives, surround us with love, affection and attention. Parents are the rays of the sun that illuminate us life path. For their sake, we are ready to do anything. In the fairy tale by Aksakov S.T. " The Scarlet Flower"tells about the love of a daughter for her father, who went to live with a monster instead of her father. I love my parents very much and am grateful to them for supporting me in everything and always being able to give me advice in difficult times.

Thirdly, this is love for friends. Friends are the people with whom you spend your time free time, you trust your secrets, you share your popcorn at the movies. Speaking about friendship, I remember the novel by A. Dumas “The Three Musketeers”. Athos, Porthos, Arimis and D'Artagnan are an example of true friendship, an example of men who are ready not only to save each other's lives, but also to defend the honor of a woman. There is a saying “Tell me who your friend is and I will tell you who you are.” But it’s true that most often our friends are very similar to us: we like the same books, films, music, hobbies and even ice cream. Friends are the fireworks of our lives. I love my friends because they can make me laugh, it’s never boring with them, and an ordinary walk with them turns out to be an adventure.

Fourthly, love for pets. And it is impossible not to recall the story of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev “Mumu”. Gerasim's love for Mumu, his only friend, did not leave me indifferent. Gerasim took care of the dog with love and tenderness, but the lady’s order separated the two friends. Nowadays, almost every house has some kind of cat, dog, parrot or hamster. Usually a person remembers when he first brought this little fluffy ball into his home and it seems to have made the house cozier. When you return home, a puppy will greet you at the threshold, wagging its tail. You can spend hours watching a hamster run amusingly in its wheel. A cat named Bucks has been living in my house for four years now. He is a rather capricious and finicky animal. I feed him special food every day, give him vitamins for cats in the morning, comb his thick fur, and walk him outside. In response to my caring for him, Bucks keeps me warm at night. I can't imagine a home without my beloved cat.

And finally, love between a man and a woman. The other half without whom you feel lonely. Love begins when you stop noticing a person’s shortcomings, when you see yourself in him. Your heart begins to beat faster in his presence, you change your outfit a hundred times and hide your hair before going on a date with him, when his soul touches yours and it feels like flying, it’s happiness for you to look into your beloved eyes, also glowing with love. Then an amazing, inexplicable feeling arises and you understand that it is not the force of gravity that holds you on Earth, but he. Being with him, you communicate with the entire Universe. Most shining example such love, in my opinion, is the love of Evgeny Onegin and Tatyana Larina. Their tender Love letters You can read it to each other many times. Although the story of these two lovers did not turn out to be happy, for me they will remain a symbol of pure and innocent love.

Love... This is what all living beings strive for, what they want to find more than anything in the world, what is no less important than air and water, without which our body cannot live. After all, we ourselves cannot live without love. As a result, life turns into torment and brings enormous suffering. When there is no love, we feel fear and pain, the world seems aggressive to us, and everyone in it becomes our enemy.

It is surprising that we are so eager to give our love to our neighbor, following the commandment of Jesus, but we do not last long. We can’t live like this every day and every moment. At some point, we break down and instead of love, we hurt people close and dear to us. Then we repent, but it is already too late: some of them have already left this world and their bodies.

It also happens that we give love, are in goodness, in an exalted state of spirit, but in response we hear insults. It hurts us, we stop, and after such frequent collisions happen, we close down. We close our hearts so that we no longer feel this pain and resentment.

Gradually our hearts become harder and harder. The world is becoming more and more aggressive, there is more and more pain and suffering in it.

What's the reason our love doesn't last long:

1. We have no love for ourselves. We are ready to embrace the whole world with love, to give everyone our care, but we do not do this to ourselves, we do not understand the importance of this. How then can we give others what we don’t have? This seems absurd. We have developed a feeling of guilt and shame for wishing happiness for ourselves, calling us selfish. But we ourselves are the same particles of one God, like the rest, and therefore we also deserve love and care. And only we ourselves know how much of it and when we need it.
2. There is basically no love in us, because we didn't get it as children. The husband raises the children, leads them along the path of Truth, and the mother gives her love at the same time, she teaches love. When women were sent to work, the opportunity to pursue their destiny was taken away from them. Their children, having received less mother's love in childhood, they gave it to their children even less. As a result, now everyone knows what lust is, but few understand what Love.
3. Our love is conditional. We often give love, expecting gratitude and praise addressed to us. Or, maybe, so that we would at least not be insulted. But this is also an expectation. We love, expecting reciprocal love. Moreover, we expect to receive it in the form that we give ourselves. But we are all different, and therefore everyone gives love in the way they know how.
4. We have no love for God. Our love is directed towards anything, but not towards God. But He is the Source of everything that exists, including love. We cannot give love to everyone without hurting someone. There will always be someone dissatisfied. And we will be hurt again. God is pleased with even our tiny particle of love for Him. We can give our love to God, who will then spread it throughout the world to all of us. This does not mean that we should forget about others. This means that we must remember others as parts of Him and love them as God.

God is the source of everything, but many religious movements at the same time divide the world, divide people into groups, often sowing enmity and inciting wars. After all All wars have a religious background. Srila Prabhupada in his book “Journey Into Yourself” wrote that true religion should teach people the love of God. But today almost all preachers claim that it is their God who is right. But He is alone. He is that same love. He pours it on us every moment, destroying our ignorance, our pain, our bitterness, filling our hearts again with love.

Those who manage to get into this flow unconditional love no longer experience any suffering. They are in peace and tranquility, giving their love to everyone and everything. They see everything as good that comes to us from God. It is impossible to insult or humiliate them because there is nothing more in their hearts but love.

Next to them, people find peace and warmth. They are drawn to them because they also want to learn how to live like this. They proclaim some of them as their teachers, mentors, guides. People follow them, but they themselves do not consider themselves great. They don’t even think that they understand what love is, that they have learned it. This is because they are very humble. After all, there is no love in the heart of a proud person. And these are humble, tolerant of everything, they always express their respect and do not expect anything in return. Their life becomes truly successful because they were able to achieve perfection, purifying your hearts, filling them with prema (unconditional love for God). They feel their oneness with Him. After all Love without unity is impossible, as well as in unity there is only love.

Jesus, coming to Earth, did not give any religion, he asked us to love each other as ourselves. He asked us to become one. Krishna, coming 5000 years ago in the Bhagavad Gita, addressing Arjuna, asked him to leave all religions and simply surrender to Him. The entire Quran is imbued with love. It talks about caring and respectful attitude towards each other and God.

Our hearts are outside of religions, and it is in them that the answers to all questions are found and love lives. It is important to learn to live in accordance with what the heart says, to learn to listen to it. Not the mind, but the heart. Some call it instinct. Let it be so, but how can an organ of the body think, give advice, love? Everything is very simple, because in the heart of every living being there is God in the form of the Supersoul. Not different God, but one, united. It is not without reason that many spiritual practices encourage us to see God in our hearts. This also explains why different people the same ideas and thoughts come to mind.

We must try to fill our hearts with love. And you need to start with yourself. You need to understand that each of us is equally worthy of love, understand that we are all one. By giving love to ourselves, realizing who we are, we can give love to our family and friends. By giving love to our family, we can give love to everyone who lives in our house, and then to the whole city, the whole country, the whole world, the whole Universe.

One of the subtle Laws of the Universe is The Law of Energy Exchange states that we can only receive something by giving something first.. By giving our love to others, we fill them with love at that moment. As a result, they already have something to give, including us. As a result, the whole world finds itself in a flow of unconditional love.

After all, love is not emotions or feelings. All emotions and feelings are temporary, constantly replacing each other. Therefore, love often gives way to hatred among people. But this is not love, this is lust in this case, the desire to possess the object of love. True love is the desire to give, the desire to do something for another, without expecting anything in return. And at the same time, not even be happy for others, but seeing that you managed to help someone, you will be inspired to continue to do so. This is pure unconditional love - selfless service.

How to develop love in ourselves if we were not given it since childhood, but were given a feeling of guilt and shame? There are several tools for this:

1. Psychology. To some extent, it helps to remove the programs embedded in us in childhood. Thanks to her, it will be easier to access the knowledge that is needed to discover love within yourself. But she plays a small role in this process and is only good for initial stage. These can be constellations, art therapy, dance movement therapy, affirmations, gestalt therapy and much more.
2. Meditative and spiritual practices. They play a big role in this process and can be used in parallel with psychotechnics. Thanks to them, a person begins to better understand himself and the surrounding space. His mind becomes calm, which helps the person begin to listen to his heart. The knowledge gained contributes better understanding what's happening. Contentment and gratitude appear in a person. Gradually his heart opens up.
3. Service to God and all living beings (bhakti yoga). Exactly this important condition to develop unconditional love in yourself. Without it, the heart can never fully open. After all, in order to settle in the heart pure love, the heart must be pure. The process of service contributes to this purification. Pride, envy, and greed go away forever. A person becomes humble and patient. He comes to understand that other living beings are as dear to God as he is. He does not strive to receive, it becomes important for him to give and not to be the first, but simply to serve out of love. This is what Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad did. Krishna taught this to Arjuna, saying that of all practices, bhakti yoga is considered the best.

Why is love needed at all? Just in order not to experience suffering, to remain in goodness? The fact is that love has one amazing property: by purifying our hearts, it gives us awareness of ourselves, this world and our place in this world. It is she who gives us Enlightenment and Awakening. It is love that binds us with strong ties to God. It is she who opens the doors to true happiness for us. After all, happiness is not a destination, but a route. This is the main purpose of love.