: A rich, but tired and sick lawyer sold everything and left for India. The monks taught him to be responsible for his actions, to control himself and to lead a happy, orderly life, long staying young and healthy.

The original narration is on behalf of attorney John. The division of the retelling into chapters is conditional.

Awakening Sign

The brilliant lawyer Julian Mantle achieved everything: recognition, material stability and welfare.

At its disposal were a luxurious mansion, a villa on a tropical island, a private jet and a red Ferrari. Especially important for him was his Ferrari, a fierce car that came to life under his arms and made his heart fly.

However, Julian lost the taste of life: his marriage broke up, communication with his father came to naught, appeared overweight. Due to emotional, physical, and spiritual devastation, a fifty-three year old man looked like a seventy year old. Having received a heart attack in the workplace, he heard a warning from the doctor: either work or life. Julian stopped practicing law, sold his mansion, a plane, a Ferrari, and disappeared from the view of his friends.

Mysterious meeting

A few years later, Julian showed up in the office of his friend, once a young law student, and now a seasoned cynical lawyer, John.

Julian looked thirty-odd years old, was lean, muscular and full of energy.

How could this tired old man in just a few years gain such liveliness and energy? And can Julian’s knowledge help ... improve the quality of life and regain the ability to wonder the world.

It turns out that Julian traveled to India and became an Indian yogi. The newly made yogi told John about his personal odyssey - how he managed to stop wasting time chasing nonexistent pleasures and start living a spiritually rich and fulfilling life.

Julian told a friend about a meeting with Yogi Krishnan, who told him about the Great Sages living in the Himalayan village of Sivan, which became an oasis of insight. These monks have discovered eternal principles and techniques that can fully reveal the possibilities of the mind, soul and body of a person. But no one has ever seen them and does not know exactly where they live. Even experienced climbers were powerless against mountain landslides and avalanches.

However, Julian, thanks to his determination, found the head of the community and the oldest sage Yogi Raman, although he had to spend seven days on the trip.

The sage agreed to teach Julian the principles and traditions that ancestors passed on to them through the ages. But with only one condition: returning to the West, Julian will have to share this knowledge with everyone he meets on his way.

Julian began to teach John, as promised by Yoga Raman. He asked a friend to consistently apply this knowledge for one month. After all, they existed for a thousand years. They work.

The most unusual garden and the ancient art of self-guidance

Important ancient principles that everyone can apply to live longer and stay younger are responsibility for their actions and power over themselves.

The system of Sivana is based on seven fundamental virtues, which are set forth in the parable.

Imagine a magnificent garden full of unprecedented flowers. In the center of the garden is a red six-story lighthouse.Suddenly the door of the lighthouse opens and a sumo wrestler of three meters height and weighing half a ton comes out of it.

Heading towards the center of the garden, the wrestler finds a golden stopwatch that has been lying there for many years, picks it up, falls to the ground and loses consciousness. When it begins to seem that the wrestler is dead, he wakes up - he was awakened by the aroma of yellow roses growing nearby. With renewed vigor, the wrestler jumps to his feet and sees a long winding path, strewn with diamonds. The wounded wrestler steps on this path, and it leads him to the path of enduring joy and eternal bliss.

This strange parable teaches you to notice the beauty of the most ordinary things, feel deep peace and inner serenity, gain physical energy and spiritual strength, control your mind and get rid of unceasing anxieties. Each of its elements embodies the eternal principle of a full life.

Julian deciphered to a hospitable friend each of the elements of the parable.

Garden - a symbol of consciousness. Consciousness is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. To competently manage the mind, you need to learn concentration.

The first mind control technique, which is over 4000 years old, is called Rose Heart. Need a freshly cut rose and a quiet place. It is necessary to meditate on it daily.

The second method is Opposite Thinking. He teaches to replace depressing thoughts with positive ones.

Also exists Secret Lakewhich states that with the help of positive images we influence the consciousness that attracts everything we wish into life. The sages of Sivan got up at four in the morning and went to the lake with blue water. They looked deep into the still lake and imagined that their dreams were becoming reality.

The secret of happiness - find out what you really love to do, and give all your strength to this occupation. The source of happiness is achievement.

Life's main goal

Lighthouse - purpose of life (dharma) and heroic mission.

The purpose of life is life with purpose. When you realize your guiding lines and tasks, creative energy is released. Goals are meant not only financial and material, but also spiritual. The most important goals should be written down - so the mind understands that they are more important than all the others.

Throughout the story, John listened to his friend with pleasure and enthusiasm. He soon wanted to know about five-step method to achieve your goals from the Sages.

Yogi Julian talked about the method:

1. Clearly realize the end result.
2. Use positive pressure to your advantage. For example, a public promise.
3. Define a time frame for the goal.
4. Start a Book of Desires and write down your dreams, goals and desires in it. The most effective way is to divide the Book into spheres of life, and also put pictures of what you want there. It is important to look at it every day.
5. The "magic rule of twenty-one" is the replacement of bad habits with good ones. To fix new habits, you must consciously perform the necessary actions daily for the 21st day.

Then Julian told me that fighter symbolizes in the parable the kaizen method - the improvement of one’s consciousness, body and spirit. For John to understand, Julian explained that you need to identify your weaknesses and turn to face them; do what you fear.

The only boundaries in your life are those that you set for yourself.

To practice kaizen art, you need to use the Ten Sparkling Life Rituals:

1. The ritual of loneliness.
2. Ritual of Physical Perfection.
3. Healthy Food Ritual.
4. Knowledge Immersion Ritual. Read a minimum of 30 minimum daily.
5. Ritual of Self Imaging. In the evening, write your achievements.
6. Ritual of Early Awakening.
7. The ritual of music.
8. Ritual of the Spoken Word. Use mantras (affirmations).
9. Harmonious Character Ritual. Guided by the dictates of your heart.
10. The ritual of simplicity. Exemption from the race for the very best.

Julian said that pink cable on wrestler's hips - willpower. Without a disciplined daily repetition of rituals and techniques in John's life, nothing will change.

The eternal mystery of enduring happiness

Continuing to reveal the secrets of bliss, Julian told a friend about the last elements of the parable.

Golden stopwatch in the hands of a fighter - time. It equalizes everyone. John needs to stop acting like he has five hundred years to go. Time does not wait. There are times in life when other people want to “steal” time, and then it is important to prevent this. No need to postpone decisions and actions for later. And also you should never “kill time” - this is an irreplaceable resource.

Diamond-studded Road - This is the last virtue, the ability to live in the present moment. You need to "live in the present." Like today is the last day. Enjoy the smiles of your children and do not change your personal life to professional achievements.

However, the main element of the garden is fresh yellow roses - a contribution to the lives of other people. The monk who sold his Ferrari is convinced that we came to this world for one special reason - to fulfill our destiny. And the mission of all people without exception is to serve others. Because the only way you can come to a feeling of happiness, joy and bliss.

The retelling is based on the translation of K. Vronsky.