A User's Guide to Living: Part 2
Heartfulness eMagazine|February 2020
THE SCIENCE OF CREATING A DAILY MEDITATION PRACTICE
A User's Guide to Living: Part 2

DAAJI continues his series on daily living and human transformation. In this second article, he takes us through the essential aspects of a good self-development practice, and introduces us to the first principle of the user’s guide – the science of creating a good meditation practice.

It may surprise you to know that at the time Babuji wrote his book on the ten maxims in the 1940s, there were just a handful of books published in the area of self-help, including the hugely popular Self-Help by Samuel Smiles, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, As a Man Thinketh by James Allen, and How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie. Babuji was the first author in this era to give us a comprehensive guide to living by incorporating the five key elements of self-development: an effective practice, essential values, regulative behavior, leadership, and continuous improvement (see diagram 1). Within those five elements there are also ten principles. Even today, only a handful of books offer such a rich and all-encompassing road map to a fulfilling life.

THE FIVE ELEMENTS AND TEN PRINCIPLES OF SELFDEVELOPMENT

The ten principles for living follow a daily cycle and inherent sequence, which unfolds like a flowering. At the center of this unfolding is the practice. It is the practice that triggers the flowering of consciousness. And it is the first thing that we do in the morning, preparing us for the day, setting the tone, and centering us for what is to happen. As consciousness expands, and purity and simplicity emerge, we are able to peek into our essential nature and start relaxing into our inner being. Our thoughts and actions are then guided by the essential values of the heart.

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