Four Ancient Pillars for the Human Soul

The Ancient Hindu’s define four Puruṣārtha’s or “purposes of the human soul.” These can also be seen as four pillars for a good life. These are Dharma, Kama, Artha, and Moksha. In cases of conflict, Dharma is considered more important than Artha or Kama in Hindu philosophy and Moksha is considered the ultimate goal of human life.

Dharma— Righteousness and Moral Values.

A behaviour is Dharmic if it is in alignment with rta (or the Tao in Taoism) meaning the order that makes life possible. It includes duties, rights, laws, virtues and can be described as the right way of living. We can roughly translate dharma to duty, and it is about one’s true purpose in life. It is about fulfilling what your soul came here to do, about adding something unique to the human collective experience, and about following the moral structure set up by the higher realms.

At 5D You, we help you realize this by getting you in touch with who you really are, what your soul’s purpose is, and by teaching you Totalizm. Totalizm (not to be confused with Totalism) is a new, scientific, practical moral philosophy that explains how the moral world works and how you can cultivate moral energy and get moral rewards and powers when you excecute them properly.

Kama — Pleasure, Love and Psychological Values

To balance dharma, we have kama. The purpose of life is not only to serve, but to also enjoy. However, when enjoying we want to still be dharmic, that is, we don’t want to go against the moral laws laid out or what the Universe wants. Nor do we want to go against the other pillars included here, namely Artha (Prosperity), and Moksha (Liberation). Kama signifies desire, passion, the emotions, the pleasure of the senses, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, and in general love — with or without lustful connotations. The famous (or infamous) “Kama Sutras” are a text that deals with cultivating this loving pleasure and affection in life — now best known for its treatment of sexual intercourse.

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At 5D You, we help you cultivate Kama with our Ecstatic Dance — The Way of Ecstasy — and Tantric workshops with our Light Club. Ecstatic Dance is a highly dharmic form of celebration because the energy and the experience is focused on getting in touch with yourself, life, and other people in a way that is respectful and doesn’t damage them or yourself. It is actually very healing and freeing to be able to let everything out in a safe and non-judgemental environment and to connect intimately without words. Our Tantric workshops achieve a similar goal. They teach one to connect with another in a pure way and to cultivate loving energy together.

Artha (Prosperity, Economic Values)

Artha signifies the “means” of life: activities and resources which we need to be in the state we want to be in. The word “economy” comes from the Greek “oikos-” (house) and “-nemein” (manage) meaning “to manage the house”. It is about what comes in and goes out, materially, physically, energetically, qua information, etc. For any living being this is important because it is about health — and therefore about life (or death).

How well are your different economies functioning? Are you getting the right information in? Are you getting your nutrients? Do you have the right environment around you? Do you get your excercise? Do you make enough money to buy the things you need and want? And are you doing this in accord with Dharma?

At 5D You we help you with Artha by getting you in touch with your life’s purpose via the concept of Ikigai and we find you a dharmic area of expression which you love, which the world needs, which you’re good at, and for which you can get paid so that your imput/output balance is good for your wellbeing and allows you to thrive.

Moksha (Liberation, Self-Realization)

Moksha (also known as “Liberation”, “Nirwana” in Buddhism, Enlightenment, Jivanmukti, or Self-Realization) is about freeing oneself from suffering and automatic reincarnation due to the identification with the egoic bodymind and its attachments to the earthly plane. This is often seen as the ultimate goal of human life due to the fact that it allows you to transcend beyond it.

Self-Realization can be achieved by slowly letting one’s attachments fall away one by one, or by dropping them altogether in one single moment as happened with Eckhart Tolle for example — he was so sick of the drama of his ego at some point on the heights of despair that he chose to drop it altogether. Meditation and letting the light and love of God — the One True Self that is at the core of each being — in is also a way to let the ego melt away and to be swimming in the sea of bliss of the oceanic consciousness that is the True Self (Atman).

At 5D You we help you reach Self-Realization by teaching you True Meditation, i.e. meditation that teaches you how to connect with your true Self, the Atman, your Godspark, or 5D You. So that you can experience that light and love of the Godself and feel it guide you, expand your consciousness, and transmute all lower frequency energies inside your system to eventually be fully swallowed by that level of your own consciousness — and reach enlightenment — if you are willing.

Conclusion

An ideal life has these four pillars well developed. Most lives nowadays miss one or more of these ingredients. Often, either — like modern Western society — it has a lot of Artha and Kama but little Dharma and Moksha or the opposite happens and there is a lot of Dharma and Moksha but little Artha and Kama. There are many other variants of distribution available. I believe that a balanced life leads to fulfillment because then it tailors to all our human needs.

In love,

Ruben

Cultivating the Ideal Life