How to balance our needs 

A matter of defining and prioritizing our work-life balance 

As a human being we have different needs in order to sustain our existence and maintain ourselves. Human life entails the sustainment on several levels of existence. There are material needs on the gross bodily platform, e.g. eating, sleeping, mating and defending, as well as on a subtle level, e.g. emotional and intellectual needs etc.

But beyond that there are also our spiritual needs as an individual, conscious living entity; the latter constitute our very existence and comprise our inherent craving for factual existence, absolute knowledge and everlasting happiness.

This is in fact our true identity, which is described in Vedic terms as sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha.