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Sara,
I’m not sure what you want to achieve.
For example I want to renovate my kitchen. The fastest way to get money is to steal it so I pray to the Creator to give me success in my robbery and I only want to steal from the bank and receive the money for His sake so that my home can be warm and updated.
It’s a joke, but I don’t understand what you mean that something didn’t work out. How are you judging that?
If you went to play the lottery and prayed the Creator would give you success and you have the “intention” that the Light can share in it and you don’t win the lottery, does that mean the Creator didn’t answer your prayer?Of course we want to have success in our work otherwise why get up in the morning, just to fail?
We are confusing ourselves in the work to think that we are not trying to be efficient and successful in our lives. The will to receive does not want to move unless she feels she will get some reward. On the other hand, above the animate degree where these actions take place we are also building a relationship with the Creator, which is a spiritual connection which is above time and space. Your prayer can travel across the world instantaneously and across time. So when you don’t see some newtonian physics reaction to your prayer, this is not a surprise. I pray for rain and it rains? But what about the network of billions upon billions of forces that need to be accounted for?
I can think of several fundamental points in kabbalah with your question and I want to answer what you’re asking, so help me understand what is the problem here.
Seth@KabULora,
This beautiful experience comes from above, from the surrounding light and this helps awaken us to rise above the animal level of our existence. These awakenings are given as a gift from above.
Some people have some experiences like this and circle around it all their lives dabbling in all kinds of different things. And then there are a few who find a method that was passed from teacher to student for thousands of years, a method that brings a person to reveal Godliness in our life.
You made it here. All of your instructors here in KabU are long time students of the kabbalist Rav Laitman. We will learn more about the method and how to work with all of these feelings.
There is the adventure of a lifetime ahead, all leading to a good life for everyone. It is a very ambitious goal, nevertheless this is where Nature/God is developing us to.
Later, after you learn some of the fundamentals we will start to work together with the friends on how to rise on the spiritual ladder along two lines, the left which is the revelation of the distance between us and the right line which we build as relations of love and between these two, a third line is built from above.
The difference in this work is that whereas now you are feeling the surrounding light shining as a gift, later we will build a structure and relations between us in order to draw greater and greater lights on top of the separations. Through our efforts we come to know and feel the qualities of the Creator.
Seth@KabUTom,
You are talking about very lofty things. We are taking a class trip to the World Cup and we see the best players in the world on the field and we understand that simply they are trying to get a small ball into an big net. Easy.
But to get on the field and run for 90 minutes with some of the best athletes in the world. Forget about soccer/football skill, just the lack cardio training would be enough to knock us out, coupled with skill at the sport, and game IQ and the pressure of millions of people watching.
So we are reading what the giant Kabbalist Baal HaSulam, the author of the Sulam commentary on Zohar wrote to us.
Don’t worry, we are not sinning, we are not doing mitzvot, we are like babies who are waking up. And we became little kids and we were taken to the big field and we are hearing about how the big Kabbalists do it.In the one hand you need to do everything in your power to reach the goal. And we’ll learn about this more, at the beginning of each day (day = spiritual state) “whatever is in your hand to do, do.” And at the end of the day, to behave as “there is none else besides You.” Meaning even if I sat on the couch all day and didn’t get up and work with all my might, I’d still receive the same reward.
between these two opposites we build a correct model of our inner world using the system that the Creator prepared for us in order to reach Him step by step.
Keep asking if this is not clear.Seth@KabU
Sara,
I can’t follow what you wrote.
Starting with 1. The purpose of creation the Thought of Creation is to create a creature and fill it with eternal delight. So how can you not receive?So 2. you feel bad today because you don’t feel eternal delight. Why? Because in order to feel your existence at all, you were placed opposite the Creator. By this you can feel yourself and not just be a spark in the sun as it were who has no sense of self.
Now slowly we realize who we are and where we are and what system we are in and how the forces operate in this system.
While we must receive in order to fulfill the thought of creation, in order for us not to feel eternally separate from the Creator, we need to make our quality like His. So we continue to receive as He made us, but all of our work is in the intention, to make our intention to bestow as His intention is to bestow. Then we become similar to Him in quality.
In spirituality, a place with no time and space (and place), closeness is measured by similarity of qualities. In our material life closeness is measured by physical proximity.
Now ask your question again, clearly in 1-3 sentences followed by a “?” And I’ll do my best to answer.Seth@KabU
