RAMAKRISHNA ANANDA

Instincts and the Five Drives

Find lasting happiness by fulfilling life’s five main drives

Learn the five main drives which power our instincts and actions. Identify the drives behind your actions and find positive ways to fulfill them.

Yoga Perspectives, Afflictions / Kleshas, Karma, Fulfillment

Call in the Higher Power

How well do you know yourself? Call in the higher power! The more you know yourself as soul, as Spirit, the finer your life will become. The Spirit within empowers you to manifest truth — truth about yourself, truth about the life you’re leading on the material plane. That truth involves applying your five drives to living a beautiful, wonderful life.

When we deal with primal forces well we live in harmony; when we don’t, we’re self-destructive and often become an obstacle to others
Find out what yogis learn as they seek the original cause behind an effect. They ask, “What is the cause of this cause?”
Discover the five drives behind your instincts

The drives must be acknowledged and fulfilled in some way to avoid misery and conflict
To deal with frustration, examine whether a drive is being blocked and learn how to satisfy that drive in a constructive way
In examining the drives, we discover we’re spiritual beings expressing through a body; our own spiritual nature is in back of these drives