“Only in the process of studying authentic Kabbalistic texts do you connect with the Upper World and evoke upon yourself the influence of the Upper Light, which can transport you from the perception of this world to the perception of the Upper World. There is no other method that can allow you to achieve such a transformation! Therefore, when the world and you are ready for it, Kabbalah becomes revealed and is offered to you as the method of correction.”
~ Dr. Michael Laitman, in “Why Is Studying Kabbalah Good for You.”
3 Questions about Kabbalah the Wise Seeker Wants Answered
- What is the essence of Kabbalah?
- Is the purpose of Kabbalah aimed at life in this world or in the future one?
- Who benefits from Kabbalah: the Creator or His creatures?
Read on to find the answers to these crucial questions…
The 2 Paths of Personal Development and Your Choice in Between Them
Two paths of development in the right direction are prepared for us:
- A path of suffering that compels us to escape it. We do not see the goal and are forced to run away from the pain. This path is called “unconscious evolution,” or “a path of pain.”
- The path of conscious, painless, and quick spiritual development by following the Kabbalistic method, which facilitates a quick attainment of the desirable result.
How Kabbalah Brings You to Self-Perfection, in a Nutshell
The purpose of all the laws of development using the method of Kabbalah is to recognize the good and evil within us, and develop recognition of evil (i.e. the recognition of the egoistic will to receive within us as the source of all pain). By observing the spiritual laws, we can rid ourselves of all evil. This is because the difference in one’s development creates either a deeper, or a more superficial, recognition of evil, and a more powerful or less powerful desire to be rid of it. The game of self-perfection is centered on intensifying the recognition of evil and also the desire to be free from it.
Discover the Source of All Evil and Why It Is Unbearable
The source of all evil is our egoism because it is opposite to the nature of the Creator, who wishes to bestow only good upon us. Since all that we perceive as pleasant comes from Him, proximity to the Creator is perceived as pleasure, and the degree of remoteness from Him is proportionally perceived as suffering. Since the Creator hates egoism, humans, too, abhor it, depending on the extent of their development. Attitudes towards egoism are wide-ranging, from acceptance of egoism as normal in a spiritually undeveloped person who uses it without restriction (down to stealing and murdering openly), to a more developed person’s feeling of shame because of open displays of egoism, to actual revulsion towards egoism in a spiritually developed individual.
Finally, Astounding Answers That Promise Self-Perfection
Thus, we find that the answers to the original questions are as follows:
- The essence of Kabbalah is in enabling a person to attain the ultimate level of development without suffering, and in a positive way.
- The purpose of Kabbalah is to attain the ultimate level, depending on the spiritual work that a person has done on him or herself in this world.
- Kabbalah was not given to the created beings for their well being; it was given as an instruction for self-perfection.
Transformation of one’s attitude toward a fellow human being from egoistic to altruistic elevates a person to a perception of another world. Correcting our nature will enable us to feel not what happens within us, but what happens outside of us, the complete nature. When we unite with it, we feel our existence the way nature exists—eternal and perfect. We sympathize with that sensation, it governs us, and in that state even when our body expires, we feel ourselves as continuing to exist in the eternal nature. In such a state, physical life and death do not affect our sensation of existence because the inner egoistic perception has been replaced with external, altruistic perception.
“If You Want to Attain Your Ultimate Development without Suffering, Kabbalah Has the Instructions” is based on the book, Basic Concepts in Kabbalah: Expanding Your Inner Vision by Dr. Michael Laitman.
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