It is important to consider the following fundemental assertions before going any furhter;

1. There is a better state of existence than what we now experience. 

2. That state of existence is the discarding by the mind/atma of its birth shell which are the body and the environment in which it is born.

3. THE MIND CANNOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING WITHOUT FIRST ATTEMPTING TO UNDERSTAND ITSELF.  ONCE IT UNDERSTANDS ITS OWN WORKING, EVERYTHING ELSE WILL FALL INTO PLACE.  THE DOMINANCE OF THE PERCEIVED WORLD OVER THE MIND WILL DISAPPEAR. THIS IS THE PROCESS OF SELF REALIZATION IN WHICH THE MIND DEVELOPS THE CAPABILITY TO INTERPRET ALL OBSERVED PHENOMENON AS NOTHING MORE THAN A REFLECTION OF ITS OWN INNER SELF.

4. BORN OUT OF THE FORCES OF CONFLICT (The Kurukshetram), the mind should attain permament peace and detachment from the observed world.  This is the major responsibility of every human being on the planet.

5, The Mind begins its journey in this existence with the experience of a fixed sequence of events known as its Karma. As the Mind is brought under control, and the forces of conflict are subdued, Karmic forces that were responsible for the birth of the intellect, begin to recede to the background.

6. The evolved intellect then recognizes its own fallibilities and overcomes them through understanding that the Truth and Reality are completely different from the world perceived through the senses.

7. The forces of Good and Evil, both have made their dwelling place, in the Human Mind. The battle between these opposing forces within the mind, constitutes the birth of Human Intelligence. 

8. All energy (including that which drives the mind) in the universe originates when the whole is seperated into opposites.  We need energy to seperate the whole into two opposites.  The process of remerging the opposites into the whole  again, releases the energy that was consumed in seperating the whole into the opposites.