Question: Essentially, Kabbalists describe the system of souls. But the Creator is described as an inanimate system, a force that governs everything. Ultimately all souls are supposed to reach similarity with this force. But if it is inanimate, does that mean the souls will also become inanimate?
Answer: I do not know what you mean by “inanimate.”
Comment: I mean, it is not a mind, which can change, but just a force.
My Response: What do you mean “not a mind”? We are the ones who are mindless. I understand only one thing: there is desire and next to it is a mind that fulfills what the desire wants. That is all. There is nothing else in the world. The greater the desire, the more it develops the mind needed to fulfill it.
Comment: But the Creator is the ultimate desire we must achieve.
My Response: That is how we perceive Him within ourselves. In our greatest desire, when we feel the true quality of the Creator called the quality of bestowal and love, we call that “the Creator.”
Question: Let’s take an example of a force, like a traffic light. There is no point arguing with a traffic light because it is an unchanging mechanism. So if we become similar to the Creator, do we turn into that same kind of unchanging mechanism?
Answer: If we become similar to the Creator, then all of our internal and external movements become absolutely correct, altruistic, and based on bestowal and love. We would not experience a single doubt about what to do or how to act.
So you are asking: “Does that mean we turn into robots who flawlessly execute their internal program?”
Right now, we carry it out incorrectly and therefore we introduce all sorts of errors and interferences into it. As a result, those interferences force us to come to the correct program of behavior.
So you are suggesting that as long as we are not corrected and do not really know what to do, we feel free: “I could do this or I could do that.” But once we know for sure what we should do, then we will stop feeling free, we will just be like animals.
Comment: Yes, you are speaking about merging with this force and becoming like it. A person as if becomes the Creator, similar to Him.
My Response: Do you think I would feel bad if at every moment I felt that I am doing something, exposing the next desires within myself, finding ways to resolve them in an absolutely correct manner, realizing them, and thus constantly advancing in such a spiritually correct, perhaps even error-free growth? What is so bad about finding an absolutely correct algorithm of behavior?
Question: Let’s say you have a mechanism, like a precisely working clock. Are you saying we become like this clock? But what mind does a clock have?
Answer: So what is the problem? What I see is that today you are a mechanism that does not understand how it works. It does everything it needs to do, but it thinks it is acting freely, like a small child. But I see you from the outside; you perform all actions absolutely correctly, without any mistakes. You do everything exactly right because nature compels you to do so.
The difference lies in how you see yourself. Do you see yourself in your true form from the level where you correctly observe and evaluate everything within you? Or do you not see this and are in concealment, unaware that the Creator is completely controlling you now, that even now you are entirely carrying out His program?
In other words, you are saying: “I want to remain in concealment; it gives me the illusion of freedom.” But I say: “No, you do not need that!” Because when I feel that I am moving in unison with the Creator, I experience even greater pleasure. At the same time, I do not lose the sense of freedom, I do not turn into a robot, although I know precisely that I am moving in harmony with Him. It gives me immense joy to search for the correct behavior in relation to Him.
It is like when you listen to music and it is somewhat familiar, you already know what the next chords, sounds, and transitions will be. Precisely that anticipation, that foreknowledge of what is coming, gives you far more enjoyment than an unfamiliar melody, because you do not have any developed, known desires, sensations, emotions, or expectations toward it.
Try to figure this out! And you will see how this does not rob you in any way; rather, it makes you far richer, more serious, more majestic when you suddenly begin to reveal a completely different level of your own behavior, of how you are governed, and of your participation in the common governance. These are things beyond imagination!
Why talk about this on an amateur level? Reveal it, and you will see! Then you will discover that your current state is the most pitiful and the most miserable.
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From KabTV’s “I Got A Call. Similarity to the Creator,” 9/16/10
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