Question: What is the purpose of being born?

Answer: The purpose of being born? In principle, is unclear to a person. And so one sees neither a beginning nor an end. People perceive themselves only on an animalistic level: the birth of the physical body, the suffering of the physical body, some pleasures of the physical body, and the death of the physical body. Nothing more.

If we cannot rise above this, then we do not understand the meaning.

Question: So if we cannot rise above it, then this is the entire history of humanity: people are born, suffer, and die. But if we can or want to rise higher, then what does the history of humanity become?

Answer: Then we must detach from the physical body, rise above it, and not live by its desires and aspirations. Only then do we begin to feel what our spiritual body demands of us.

Question: So what does this formula turn into? If being born means rising above egoism, then what does suffering turn into?

Answer: It becomes separation from egoism, an ascent above it, and a perception of reality in a different way through bestowal, love, connection, and mutuality. Not through reception, as in the physical body, but through bestowal, as in the spiritual body.

Comment: It is very bitter for me that our earthly formula is “born, suffer, and die.”

My Response: And without this, there would be no other one. We would not be able to reach an eternal form through our own efforts and capabilities.

Question: So there must be an initial formula for us to realize it and want to break free from?

Answer: Yes.

Comment: But this has been going on for millennia! Millennia upon millennia we write volumes of history!

My Response: These are souls! What are history and books in comparison? They are nothing!

Question: So in the end, a person is born to live eternally. Is that right?

Answer: Of course. I believe we are gradually coming to this realization.

Comment: You seem more optimistic today. Do you really see that we…

My Response: No, my optimism comes from absolute pessimism about our world. I believe humanity will awaken and realize that this life alone is not worth living for.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 10/5/23

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