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[Alexandr Korol]

into indulgence, excess, and self-destructive habits. Why does this happen? Why, for most people, is there no self-awareness or discipline in either state? Why do they either get lost in spirituality, forgetting responsibilities, or fall into complete indulgence when they shift to material life? This is the pattern I’ve observed in so many people. Unlike my own experience, where both phases – spiritual and material – are lived with integrity, discipline, and purpose, I see others completely losing themselves in whichever phase takes over. So the question is, why do people allow themselves to be so unbalanced? This means that every person who enters either the spiritual or material world follows steps, a staircase of development, and naturally, some are on the lower steps. And those who are on these lower steps face problems – some feel uncomfortable in the spiritual world, some feel uncomfortable in the material world, or maybe they feel fine, but everything else starts to fall apart because they don’t know balance. I’ve also noticed this in people when it comes to the material world: someone shifts into the material world after being in spirituality – well, that’s fine, it’s great that they are no longer just reading books, sitting at home, and now they can go for a run and meet with their relatives once a week on the weekends. And now there is no internal resistance because the spiritual rhythm has ended, they are now in the material, and they are even happy about it, as if this is how they should be spending their material time. But what happens with people who are on the lower steps of material development? They immediately fall into excess: they have 20 meetings a day every day, they already have hangovers, they’re constantly at parties, they can’t stop posting on social media – not just glancing at it occasionally, but fully living in it. And just imagine how difficult it is for these people, who are constantly being tossed around, swinging back and forth between the spiritual and the material, plunging completely into one extreme and then the other, without knowing moderation. But there shouldn’t be extremes. The transition from spiritual to material and from material to spiritual should be so subtle that it’s barely noticeable. You need to keep what remains unchanged. More precisely, you need to recognize what is unchanging, what exists both in the spiritual and in the material world. And if you recognize and hold on only to that in your life, then there won’t be any of these wild swings.