Review — Reviews, continuation on the Intensive for Liberation from Addictions
Intensive for Liberation from Addiction
How to get rid of bad habits, addictions, beliefs, etc.
It has been more than a year since I raised the topic of overcoming addictions at the Mahapurna School.
And those who study diligently here have already realized that it is easier to haul a 16 kg kettlebell every day than to struggle with addictions
As for those who do not study diligently, they have not even realized that. Good luck on the path of ignorance and sweet dreams...
The most amazing thing is that the internet is full of all kinds of "teachers" who teach you to communicate with the Higher Powers, with the Soul, with God... yet they are overflowing with addictions.
I do not even know what you learn from them.
Do you learn how to accept their low vibrations?
But all right, let us continue.
At least now there are a few people who genuinely want to develop.
And it is not difficult for me to assume that nothing is working.
Yes, it is difficult!
But what I am going to tell you now is thousands of years old. I would even say tens of thousands of years old. In other words, imagine this: what you are about to read is something people have been doing for tens of thousands of years.
And it is intended specifically to purify our desires. Because all addictions are connected with our desires.
More precisely, what you call addictions and what I call addictions are the gross manifestation of our desires.
That is, if you go to ordinary people and tell them that eating is bad, they will not understand you. But they will understand when the subject is overeating or eating at night.
It is the same process—the act of eating. For many people, eating is normal, while overeating is bad. And this is connected with the same feeling, the same desire—the desire to eat.
And this excess, degradation, and perverted use of the same desire is what addiction is.
In mild form, it is normal; in excess, it becomes an addiction.
That is why the Vedas say that desires can and should be purified. And people have been doing this for tens of thousands of years. Of course, not all people, only those who know about it.
Or those who study at my School. Just kidding.
So how do we purify our desires so that they stop being called addictions?
I will continue with food. I think this is the clearest example for everyone.
I have probably already created hundreds of posts everywhere possible: on social networks, on the website, at my School, and anywhere else I could, informing people that eating meat is bad.
Bad primarily for them, not for the animals. Although the two are interconnected.
The Bhagavad Gita says that food exists in the three gunas of material nature: sattva, rajas, and tamas.
Tamas is the lowest state there is. This is, essentially, what ordinary people call addictions.
I think you already understand what needs to be done.
If you ate meat, start eating vegetables. Or beans, peas, rice, soy, or nuts. There is a huge variety of food besides meat.
People who eat meat understand this very well. They simply cannot give up these low vibrations; they are drawn to them.
And it is a cycle: a person eats meat, lowers their vibrations, and the lowered vibrations make the person eat meat.
That is precisely why people went on retreats: to enter spiritual life abruptly and free themselves from the influence of low vibrations. Then they simply continued the spiritual life they had entered with the help of the retreat.
The essence is very simple.
If you overeat at night and, for example, eat meat at night, start drinking milk at night. With honey, turmeric, and ginger—it is very tasty and even beneficial in some sense.
If you eat meat in general, start eating nuts and soy. There are excellent soy products. There is even soy sausage now—anything you like. There is even vegetarian fish and caviar.
Everything is available.
It looks exactly the same. Sometimes it even tastes better. It may be a little more expensive. But in fact, pure karma is more important than money.
At the Ashram, I told you long ago: if you watch hardcore porn, start watching softcore porn, then simply erotica, and afterward merely nude art...
And that is already normal. No one will blame you for appreciating beauty
Not even God.
And this applies to absolutely everything.
I am simply giving examples that are daily and ordinary for many people, and they cannot cope with them.
You can always step back.
Not give it up—step back.
If you drink vodka, start drinking beer. That is already one step back.
Yes, both are bad. But you are already purifying your desires; you are already on the way.
When you start drinking beer, the coarse energies of vodka weaken and release their hold on you.
Then you can move on, for example, to some expensive wine.
I do not mean that you will drink expensive wine by the bottle, but rather that an aesthetic form of alcohol use emerges: aesthetics, beauty, a large glass, a little wine.
It becomes beautiful.
You move toward something beautiful from something ugly and unpleasant—something that even makes you feel bad afterward, and that makes many people not want to live at all.
Do you understand?
At my Ashram. I have been talking about this for a long time.
If you are not yet in "My Ashram," be sure to join it. I provide very rapid development because I explain everything very simply.
If you go to some sect or some religion, they will simply take control of you, use you, and then spit you out.
I give you complete freedom in your studies.
And many who have completed it can already say—and do say, as you have repeatedly read both here and at the Ashram—that people make progress literally within a few months.
But many people prefer to study under all sorts of upstarts who simply want to make money from you.
They merely put on a staged expression in front of the mirror, pretending to be kind and happy and able to give you happiness too.
But this is only mirror practice and has nothing to do with genuine development.
Yes, sometimes—and sometimes frequently—I repeat certain things.
Because people are lazy.
And now I have repeated what I said many years ago.
At my Ashram.
You do not have to wait for me to repeat something someday; perhaps I will not repeat it.
Life will not wait for you.
It has a tendency to pass by.
is your right
A very interesting topic! It was difficult for me too to understand what my Body, my Soul, and my Mind wanted. And I felt that I had to break out of the vicious circle I had found myself in. And do you know what decision I made? 
Yes. Yes. A radical one for me... In the autumn of 2024, I went to live in the forest (in a cabin with a wood-burning stove). There was electricity 
, of course, but no internet. MTS, Beeline, and MegaFon signals did not reach my home. And why am I writing all this? I simply learned a lot of new things about myself. It was a revelation to me that I could live in a room where the temperature was +5 to +10°C. I absolutely could not stand the cold! I had always considered myself someone who loved warmth. And what happened to my body next? I fell in love with the cold! I fell in love with icy water! And now, in 2025, I think: how could I have lived without the cold? Of course, there had been attempts: pouring cold water over myself, immersing myself in a spring at +4°C, swimming on Epiphany. But my body still resisted it. The conclusion: there was no habit. It has to be created! Cultivated! Perhaps even endured! Accepted! Realized! 
WHAT? Today I am reading the words of the Teacher of the Mahapurna School: “Some people think they are the body, some the mind, and some the soul. What is it that you yourself want?”
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