Question: You have spent your whole life studying the meaning of life. But isn’t the meaning of life different for each person? After all, our entire life depends on our upbringing and environment, and therefore, our decisions and thoughts depend on our lived experience. If altruistic goals were initially embedded in us, how would we live, and what would that give us?

Answer: First of all, the meaning of life is not to live, then find its meaning, and then die. The meaning of life must be understood already at the beginning of life.

Question: So is the meaning of life still different for everyone?

Answer: Everyone has their own meaning of life even if it is common to all. We are all like small animals with very similar qualities. There is nothing special in anyone or anything.

There is one nature that truly has the meaning of life, which is to correctly bring itself to the next state, to rise to the next level, and to raise us there as well.

We must understand where our evolution is heading in order to rise to this level and not cross into it the way it usually happens in nature, through various cataclysms that we are facing now.

Let us ensure that this transition does not occur in such extreme, abrupt, dramatic situations. We are in a crisis, standing before a wall in science, in the arts, in human society, in communication with one another, between generations, everywhere.

Question: Is it precisely now, before this wall that the question of the meaning of life arises?

Answer: Yes, and it must be clarified. This is very important. This is what the science of Kabbalah deals with. That is why it is being revealed to everyone and is offering itself to humanity.

Question: So the meaning of nature’s life is to bring us to this question, and the meaning of human life is to clarify this question. What, then, is the meaning of life?

Answer: The meaning of life is to rise by oneself to the next evolutionary level. Just as we have always ascended automatically at the levels of inanimate, vegetative, and animate nature, now, being at the human level, we must rise to the next, higher level.

Call it spiritual, although it has nothing to do with religions. It is existence in the spirit, in the inner meaning of a person, when one reveals the upper world within oneself.

If we can rise above the nature that exists within us, we will begin to sense a completely different world.

Question: Does this mean that until today we were led by our egoism, which has now reached its limit, and now we must live not egoistically?

Answer: We must rise to the next level but no longer by means of egoism. We must do so with the help of a special force of nature called the light, which we must draw upon ourselves. It corrects us, changes us, and makes us similar to the next, higher level.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 12/14/2017

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