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I observed my inner being appreciating nature at these levels – inanimate, vegetative, animate, human more than before.
I feel a sense of delight to realize from the lesson that these levels –  “inanimate”, vegetative and animate are in perfect balance with the forces of creation and they instinctively keep the law of equivalence of form human are struggling with to attain. However, this knowing struck a chord in my mind to think that the aforementioned levels may not be lower than human following that they are already in harmony with the forces of creation as well as existing in this world before human.
I would appreciate any input to further clarify the reason for which we as human think we are higher and other levels are lower. Because the only reason I can offer to my deeply enquiring self now is that “we” humans were taught so by our educational system to think that we are higher.
As I finished my lesson I behaved in a way quite far from any equivalence of form and the correction came hard and loud within a few hours. The thing is, as I was behaving that way, I KNEW I was not following a correct intention and my ego gave me a million reason why it was still ok. And it hurt, later. It physically hurt how much my body tried to fight against the correction. But I held my thoughts within the desire for unity and bestowal and the pain eventually subsided. Thank you all!
This time in the Knowledge Check, I kept getting one of the answers in Question 5 wrong…..this one: I didn’t tag “Identifying with the Will to Receive”. The reason why I didn’t choose this answer until my final attempt, was that in my eyes it would be counter productive to seek to rise above what’s your very nature. I mean, we are taught that we are created to receive, it is all we can do and all we will ever be able to do. While we can rise to identify with the Will to Bestow, we can never stop receiving, which means we can never rise above it.
This is the reason why I kept getting it wrong. I didn’t understand the question, and I probably still don’t understand it completely.
Normally I wouldn’t correct a wrong answer if I didn’t understand the correct answer first. But i9n this case I did correct it because I think I may see how it is that we can rise above identifying with the wish to receive: …
 While we cannot stop receiving, we can attain Equivalence of Form, which means we identify not only with ourselves as the Receiving Creature, we also identify with HaShem who Bestows, and in doing so we become more than the Creation who only lives to Achieve for our own, personal sake.
When we view it from this perspective, we don’t seek to become something we are not, in fact we are becoming our complete self, as close to One with the Creator as a creature can possibly get to his/her/their Creator.
I hope I’m making sense (and if not, what I wrote is probably not very important to begin with). 🙂
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