The Fire We Come to Hell With
Comment: There is a Sufi parable about a fool who met the ruler of Baghdad. The ruler asked the fool, “Where are you coming from?”
He said, “I’m coming from hell. I wanted to be given a fire to light my pipe there.”
The ruler asked him, “Well, have you found the fire?”
He said, ‘The ruler of hell told me that they have no fire. I asked him “Why is there no fire? This is hell!”
The ruler of hell told me, “Everyone comes here with their own fire.”’
My Response: Yes. Otherwise, how else will you get to hell?
Question: With what kind of fire in us do we come to hell?
Answer: With an egoistic one. There are two types of fire: black fire and white fire. The black fire with which a person wants to burn everything in order to acquire everything for himself is the fire with which we come to hell. If we come, God forbid, it burns us.
Question: What does it take to extinguish this fire?
Answer: Do not give it a place in yourself or in your heart. Rather, show everyone that you have a fire, but it is white and does not burn in hell; it burns only in a good connection between people.
Question: So when it says “I am burning in hell,” does it mean that I am burning in my own fire?
Answer: In your own egoism.
Question: Is it still possible to extinguish this fire?
Answer: Only if there is a good connection between people. Only through this feeling.
Question: How is this extinguished? What kind of water is this?
Answer: It is not water. Water is also used, of course, because water is the quality of bestowal. But in principle, this is extinguished only by changing the relationship between people from evil to good. And then this black fire turns into white.
Question: Is this the main task? But the fire still exists?
Answer: Yes. Fire is the basis of life. It exists.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 12/15/22
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