In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna says, “ In the beginning, I established the evolutionary system in nature whereby beings evolve towards spiritual perfection. I then established four groups of people for the harmonious working of societies and the progress of the humankind. These classifications correspond to progressively higher levels of consciousness as moral and spiritual attainment. All societies have generally similar groups. The system sometimes unfortunately veers from its course, but know that the basic pattern is valid for the social harmony and clarity in all societies.”

The knowledge of the four energies is the knowledge about human nature, which will guide us to the Divine. Humanness has four aspects: the physical body, the intellect, the emotions, and discrimination. it is amazing to realise, as I did with time, how these aspects, as they evolve, create a program that is pre determined, conditions our patterns of behaviour, even before birth. The conditioned mind or the conditioned programming, controls whether we place importance on feeling, sensing, thinking or reasoning as we go about our daily activities.

As we feel something is more important to us, there’s higher value in it and so the qualities become strong and more identified with and these identifications contribute to a primary ego identity. We identify with these primary energies - and think that’s who we are. All of these programs are lingering in our subconsciousness and without being aware of it and its mechanisms - we are acting out these old patterns and seeing no progress in evolving as a spiritual, human beings.