Question: How should we view the suffering of a person on the spiritual path? What does it bring him?

Answer: Suffering helps to eliminate its cause. If I suffer from something, it makes me start looking into the cause of suffering and how to escape it.

Question: There is an animal-level suffering when a person wants to organize his material life, and there is an opposite, spiritual suffering, when one has everything, but cannot find himself. What is the qualitative difference between these two types of suffering?

Answer: It depends on the degree of suffering and on the level you are at; there are four levels of nature inside us: inanimate, vegetative, animate, and human.

Question: You said that coming from the opposite, from feeling pain, you can feel pleasure much stronger.

Answer: Well, this is suffering of a different kind—suffering of love.

Question: Let’s say a person is on the path, and he actually realizes this is a difficult path that requires him to undergo certain things. What does the constant feeling of these waves give him?

Answer: Advancement, attainment, and the feeling of being at the very crest of life, at its very peak. He understands there is nothing else, this is the ultimate. He looks at everything around him, sees right through what is happening, and everything is clear and understandable to him. He wants to know, attain, and connect with the cause of everything that exists, and even to rise above this cause.

I don’t even know how to say it, but it doesn’t compare to anything. Kabbalah cannot be substituted with anything. Nothing! Any science or anything one is involved in this world is all inside this world: in the world of a meager consequence of the upper world.

Here you have a method of attainment, not just some story, but the attainment of the upper world.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Suffer, Derive Pleasure” 1/28/12

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