Question: If a student did not cross the Machsom (Barrier) during the teacher’s lifetime, what are the chances of crossing it later? Should he do it during the teacher’s lifetime?

Answer: Of course it is desirable. But this can be done only through similarity of qualities, which means dedication to the path, “adhesion” to the teacher, following all his advice, and on how much the teacher is more important in his eyes than he is himself. In other words, it is just a training relative to the Creator.

There are many students who are very capable, very eager to attain spirituality, but for them the importance of something of their own prevails over the importance of what the teacher requires or what would be necessary for the teacher.

Let’s say if someone wrote something unpleasant about you and about the teacher, what will you perceive with more pain? Will you defend his honor or yours? How will you perform, with what diligence?

Comment: But it depends on the different stages of a person’s development.

My Response: Undoubtedly, of course! But you are asking if it is possible to cross the Machsom before the death of the teacher. I do not know. This is a student’s problem. In any case, after death it takes much longer.

Question: But then who will take him across the Machsom if not the teacher?

Answer: The same teacher, only in a different form. If the student could not take advantage of his immediate presence next to him, he will have to look for him in a different form around him. Just as he looks for the Creator.

Question: Can there be anyone else besides the teacher?

Answer: No, nobody! Not something that is materialized. The same teacher, only in a different form, and not a person.

Comment: But if there is, as you say, a chain, you go after Rabash…

My Response: Then it must be a person who has already passed the upper path. How can you put someone who is at the same level as the students? To put one of them above them? On what basis?

Question: You are the degree we have to hold on to. But if you are gone, in what form can we do it?

Answer: If you do not discover this form, then, of course, it is bad. Then you will move forward in a very long way, using the “trial and error” method.

If a student has not entered the spiritual world for fifteen or twenty years while being with me, then he will need the same number of years more in order to enter it without me.

Question: How was it with you and Rabash?

Answer: I took everything I needed from Rabash. I was relying only on the fact that I was next to him. Then there was a lengthy method of going deeper into the same mutual connections that we had established before his death.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Spirituality During the Lifetime of the Teacher” 7/8/13

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