Control of Destiny.

One terrible day in my life, I asked myself a simple question: “How do I live?”

Even if it had been a series of wonderful days, I still would have come to this question. I am constantly dissatisfied. Everything feels wrong, everything fails to meet my expectations. Naturally, from this question another arises: “If you don’t like it — change it.”

Now the task is to understand what exactly needs to be changed. Jumping ahead, yoga says to change your desires — or more precisely, to cancel them. No desires — no expectations. No expectations — no dissatisfaction with how something happened or didn’t happen.

Only recently I understood how meditation can give answers to personal questions. And since the world is one vast consciousness, we are always interacting with a living mind. Meditation simply gives form to a fragment of this universal awareness. In my life, this manifested as the spirit of a library. I still don’t know whether it is a real spirit or whether this wandering old lady is connected to any library at all. But the advice she gives is valuable.

Whenever I tried to explain to her the complexity of human incarnation and all the suffering within it, she responded with simple and clear phrases. Once I complained that I lacked motivation to do anything. She rolled her eyes and said: “Oh, you need motivation too? And why? Can’t you do anything in your human incarnation without motivation?”

Indeed, we breathe without motivation. To exist, motivation is not required. To wake up, we don’t need motivation. To get out of bed — sometimes yes — but not to wake up. You wake up, and that’s it. Some activities are interesting, others are not. Often we “must” do the uninteresting ones for the sake of something. And it’s these uninteresting tasks that force us to seek motivation, like a carrot dangling in front of a donkey. But has anyone tried living while simply not doing the uninteresting things? And if yes, then only for a very short time. Eventually, we return to a life full of motivation.

“I am not in resource” — that fashionable phrase, along with its opposite. But what does resource have to do with anything? Do we need “resource” in order to breathe? No. You breathe calmly, without motivation or concern about your resource state.

Give an exhausted, “out of resource” poor person unlimited finances, and he will immediately run to buy everything he ever desired. No resource is needed for that. Which means: if you need motivation to do something, then you definitely do not want to do it.

While studying desires, I discovered that they are managed from above. We are obedient little monkeys fooled by higher forces. Desires are constantly thrown at us, and we are constantly dissatisfied with their fulfillment — or worse, with their absence.

If at night we desire daylight — we’ll be disappointed. Even though today you can already order a satellite‑powered spotlight. Technology solved that one. But to create darkness in the middle of the day, technology is still powerless. To be satisfied, all we need is to desire light during the day and darkness at night. To want sun on a sunny day, and rain on a rainy day.

I didn’t write a book about astrology or symbolism. I showed how our desires are formed and how the grahas (planets) manipulate us. So that even without astrology, armed with this understanding, a person can see through the manipulation. And as everyone knows: when you understand how manipulation works — it stops working.

To control your destiny, you must first understand what destiny is. Understand how its mechanisms function. We don’t get behind the wheel of a car without at least some basic knowledge about wheels, fuel, and road signs. Yet almost everyone “drives” their destiny without a license, pulling into oncoming traffic and forgetting to refuel. This is the root of most problems.

As someone who not only wrote this book but also read it, I highly recommend looking at it from this perspective.