In The Seven spiritual Laws of success: a practical guide to the fulfilment of your dream, Deepak Chopra outlines the seven laws and how you can use and apply these laws in your life to create whatever you desire. These laws are simplified for your reading pleasure below:
1. The law of pure potentiality
Take time to be silent, to just be. Mediate for 320 minutes, twice a day. Silently witness the intelligence within every living thing. Practice non-judgement.
2. The law of giving and receiving
Today bring whoever you encounter a gift; a compliment or a flower – it doesn’t need to be elaborate, just a simple pleasure. Gratefully receive gifts. Keep wealth circulating by giving and receiving care, affection, appreciation and love.
3. The law of karma
Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind. Choosing actions that bring happiness and success to others ensures the flow of happiness and success to you.
4. The law of least effort
Accept people, situations and events as they occur. Take responsibility for your situation and for all events seen as problems. Relinquish the need to defend your point of view.
5. The law of intention and desire
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfilment. Make a list of desires. Trust that when things don’t seem to go your way, there is a reason.
6. The law of detachment
Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. Do not force solutions – allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. Uncertainty is essential and your path to freedom.
7. The law of dharma
Seek your higher self. Discover your unique talents. Ask yourself how you are best suited to serve humanity. Using your unique talents and serving others brings unlimited bliss and abundance.
DEEPAK CHOPRA is the author of more than fifty books translated into over thirty-five languages, including numerous New York Times bestsellers in both the fiction and nonfiction categories.
In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra defines success as ‘The continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals.’ This definition is quite different to society’s rules for success which is almost always connected to material gain or external recognition. Although these things are often the result of success, it is by no means the cause or even the definition of success.
One of the most fundamental lessons in The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success is that true and lasting success is an internal process and that it has very little to do with what goes on outside of you. Living with an inner sense of peace every day of your life, having harmonious and joyous relationships, contributing to life and having energy, enthusiasm and eagerness towards life is what the Seven Spiritual Laws Of Success is all about.
Success is not something that is fixed at any given point in time. It is an ongoing process and it is not defined by definitive moments or events. As clichéd as it may sound, success is a journey and a process. Remember that the purpose of travelling is not to reach a destination, but to travel and to experience everything along the way with joy and appreciation.
As long as your success is limited to ‘things and stuff’ you will never be successful as you will always need more of it just to feel successful. When you draw your success and fulfilment from inside you, and when you realize that your spiritual need for success is what you are really aiming to satisfy, ironically, all the ‘things and stuff’ will start coming to you in amounts greater than you ever thought possible.
What so many people fail to grasp is that all the material wealth and success is the result of ‘what you are’ as a person. To be truly successful in all aspects of life, you first have to become a success before you can have what many perceive to be a definition of success.