The Vedas analysis of our current condition within matter is a useful resource.
What have we got , what should we do with it .
We have a body with senses , mind ,and intelligence, atoms , elements, and compounds surround us , but we are also feeling and willing utalising the mind and intelligence which is made up of ethereal energies, these energies, especially intelligence is situated closest to the consciousness itself which is alien to all the coverings .
The working senses and the knowledge acquiring senses are engaged in various substances, causing the mind and intelligence to function and engage in numerous ways , that are centred on , in the material world , acquiring happiness and avoiding distress. These calculations are causing all the parts of our body, including the mind and senses, to engage themselves. Every single species of life is doing the same thing , some relatively successfully some relatively unsuccessfully .Another element that the Vedas introduces is karmic synchronicities, how is it that individuals find themselves in particular circumstances. The Vedas indicates that the human form of life is either a great asset or a huge liability. Its a great asset when used correctly to further one’s interests and its a great liability when it’s used incorrectly then good fortune can be lost and a decline in assets begins , the human form can be a slippery slope towards the animal kingdoms, even when in a human form , the subtle consciousness begins to calculate like an animals.
All in all, it behoves one to understand how good fortune is transformed into the greatest of fortune . Knowledge is essential for the power and insights that reveal and separate all kinds of matter , including ethereal substances from the very essence of life , the consciousness , the symptoms of the soul are consciousness.
The Vedas demonstrate the therapeutic method for tranformations of matter into spirit , both these energies can interlink in positive ways causing one to act like the other .
When you put cold iron in fire after a while it acts like fire , someone may say , no its iron , we say touch it , it burns like fire .The spiritual person has all his assets connected to spiritual energies by the various yogic processes , each yogic process suits a particular person at a particular time , karma yoga, jnana yoga, niskarma karma yoga , and levels of Bhakti yoga brings the living beings into direct contact with God , the Supreme Personality of Godhead the origins of all the incarnations of various forms of God and the origins of all the Demigods is Krishna.
In Bhagavad Gita as it is Lord Krishna explains all . Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada explains in detail what spiritual and material life is and how to link them together. Yoga means to link with God .