“A Human Being Is No Name for Thee”
Comment: Please comment on a verse by the ancient Persian poet Sa’adi. It is written in gold letters and adorns the pediment of the building of the UN headquarters in New York.
Sa’adi writes:
All human beings are members of one frame,
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When time afflicts a limb with pain,
The other limbs cannot at rest remain.
If thou feel not for other’s misery,
A human being is no name for thee.
It feels like he was a Kabbalist too.
My Response: Did you and I together visit a Sufi in England?
Comment: He made a serious impression then. Do you mean that he is an Iranian Sufi after all?
My Response: Yes.
Question: “All human beings are members of one frame,” what does this mean?
Answer: One frame is one person.
Question: The entire world?
Answer: The entire world, yes.
Question: Is it all like the organs of one person?
Answer: The Creator created a man, one man, Adam. This is how it is in reality. What we see is our egoism that separates us.
Question: So, is it all, in fact, a lie? Is the truth that we are all connected?
Answer: Yes.
Question: Then he writes: “Since all, at first, from the same essence came.” What does this mean? What kind of essence is this?
Answer: All was created from one single egoism. This is the essence.
Comment: That is, our nature is definitely the egoism of everyone.
“When time afflicts a limb with pain, The other limbs cannot at rest remain.”
My Response: Yes. Even if one part of our body is affected by egoism, our whole body, the whole person, is sick. This is like a cancer cell.
Comment: In fact, now the whole body is really affected.
My Response: Now all of humanity is affected. But this is good.
Question: What is good about it?
Answer: The good thing is that this is very close to the complete recognition of egoism. That is, if we recognize that we are all affected by this, let’s say, cancerous tumor, then we will look for a cure for it.
Question: But, in fact, it is written that at least some small part. Does it mean that we are not talking about some kind of cure for one part? It does not seem to be possible.
Answer: No, no, we are talking about the cure of all of humanity.
Question: Does it mean that one part cannot be cured? Should this be the cure for all of humanity?
Answer: Yes.
Comment: Then he writes: “If thou feel not for other’s misery, A human being is no name for thee.”
My Response: Yes. If you do not feel the other’s misery, then you are not human.
Question: Do you perceive this directly?
Answer: Yes. People will see, recognize, and understand that you are like that.
Question: It does not look easy either. Today, the earth is covered with misery by and large.
Answer: Yes, but what is happening now is not the end! I can see by the “holy people,” as they say, how far they are from all this.
Question: But they should carry only one thing, by and large. This is why you call them the “holy people.” What should they carry?
Answer: That the Creator is one.
Question: Is this the message that we need to spread around the world?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/30/23
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