Question: Often, elephants are simply tied to a post with a thin rope. They are not in cages or shackles, yet they do not run away. Elephant owners say, “When the elephants are tiny, we tie them with the same rope. At this age, it is enough to prevent elephants from running away. And when they grow up, they believe they can’t just run away and never try to get free.”
We are probably tied to this world with a thin “string” since childhood and do not try to escape. What kind of string is this?
Answer: Habit.
Question: Or do I know that I can’t escape?
Answer: And that, too.
Question: Which is the greater factor?
Answer: I think that I won’t be able to escape.
Question: So, this world suppresses us?
Answer: Yes, initially.
Question: Please tell me why we are afraid to take a step. We know there is freedom somewhere, but we are still afraid to take this step.
Answer: To do this, we need to overcome ourselves, that is, all our habits, our attitude toward the world, all of this must somehow be annulled.
Question: Are we afraid?
Answer: Yes, it is animal instinct, just like the elephants.
Comment: Here we have a house. We have sustenance, but who knows what will happen there? You are calling us to break out, to take this step.
My Response: It is not me who is calling, but the great sages of Kabbalah say that we need to break out of this magnetism and rise above it. And then we will see another world and ourselves differently, and in general, all of life, the entire universe.
Question: Have they taken this step?
Answer: Yes.
Question: How did they have the courage to take this step?
Answer: It is not their courage. It was given to them by nature.
It is given to certain people from above, from their inner state, their inner content. Everyone else can follow their advice and accumulate a certain amount of energy that allows them to break out of this attraction.
Comment: You try to break out of this magnetism, you follow the Kabbalists, you follow what they say, and it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work, it doesn’t work—for years!
My Response: It is accumulative. This is a process of accumulating the necessary energy and efforts that will ultimately allow us to go beyond the limits of gravity.
Question: How can you not despair because so much time has passed?
Answer: We have no other way to leave this post to which we are tied with a “string.”
Question: That is, despite the time, although despair has already set in, you continue to try to take this step?
Answer: Certainly.
Question: And still, the question is: How not to despair?
Answer: There is no other way out.
Question: Should you come to this thought that there is no other way out?
Answer: Yes, there is no other way. You will be lucky, so to speak; you will accumulate strength and break free, break the “rope,” and run like a little elephant across the field of life. And if you are unlucky, you will remain on a string until next time.
Question: Isn’t the word “lucky” offensive?
Answer: We don’t know all the world’s laws, and that’s why we say it.
Question: What will help you double or triple your strength?
Answer: That is what we are studying. This is our unification, the study of the laws of the upper world. As a result, we accumulate a certain amount of energy to break out into a free orbit.
Question: Is a group escape more remarkable than a solo escape?
Answer: Yes, most likely.
Question: But is the escape of one person also possible?
Answer: We see this in the ancient Kabbalists and even in recent times, like Baal HaSulam and others. They were able to escape from selfish, earthly gravity.
Question: Please tell me why we believe this is so. After all, we haven’t escaped yet.
Answer: Because otherwise the essence of earthly life loses all foundation.
Question: Does earthly life make sense only if we take this step?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And that is what it exists for?
Answer: Yes.
Question: So, you say the meaning of life is to take this step and break away from this “string”?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What is this space that we enter when we break away?
Answer: This is a free space in which we can act according to its laws, the laws of this free space.
Question: What are they?
Answer: This is freedom from gravity, from egoism.
Question: Is gravity egoistic?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And when I’m freed, what’s there?
Answer: Free actions, free life, free-floating. Indeed, like an elephant in the air.
Question: So now all my actions are egoistic, I am being led, and am not free here? And there?
Answer: And there you are free.
Question: I secretly want this, don’t I?
Answer: I don’t think that’s what we want.
Comment: Everyone talks about freedom and somehow imagines it.
My Response: I don’t know why he needs freedom. He doesn’t know. He just wants to get away from his “rope.” Why? Quite possibly from childish stupidity. We don’t know what’s next either.
Question: But freedom is freedom from egoism?
Answer: Yes.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 11/30/23
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