reality can be seen. It is obvious that semi-reality is worse than a lie. Individuality is the biggest trap of our era’s way of thinking.

For that reason, anew spiritual approach is required to encompass the whole Türkmen nation and history. Of course such an attempt may not include all historical details. That is the duty of historians. As I said before, we need a measure to decide on unity inside. The spiritual analyses and descriptions of the content of the unrepeatable amount of the coincidences, similarities and differences of the history are needed. In this discourse, unifying and generalizing philosophies play a role.

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Ruhnama is the veil of the Türkmen people’s face and soul. It is the Türkmen’s first and basic reference book. It is the total of the Türkmen mind, customs and traditions, intentions, doings and ideals. It will be our legacy to the future after drawing lessons from the past! One part of Ruhnama is our past that the existing knowledge at present could not enlighten and the other part is our future! One part of Ruhnama is sky, the other part is earth.

We wrote the first pages of Ruhnama during the first ten years of our independent and permanently neutral Türkmenistan, while we improved our working places, established the infrastructure and changed our life.

In those ten years of Türkmenistan’s independence and permanent neutrality we wrote the Ruhnama for the soul and mind of Türkmens with enlightening words and with hope.

Where does the greatness of human beings come from? The greatness of the human being begins with his discovery of his own, that is, with his discovery of his inner world. It is