Article of the Day December 19, 2010

 

Now, we can see based on our experience that an individual is incapable of thinking about the Creator all the time, he forgets this thought momentarily and even if he puts an alarm clock on or hires a guard to stand by his side and constantly remind him to do that, he still won’t be able to accomplish it. He will start thinking the first moment, and then everything will die out again, because he is totally opposite to that, it is similar to lighting a match in a dark hall in order to illuminate it. Could it really help? And, if yes, to what extent will it help? This is the reason it is said that the system itself all of which is made of individuals, that depends on those individuals completely, should gather around this idea, the one of bestowal to the Creator. And we need to think about that all the time. The feeling of mutual guarantee should be present there as well. It does not matter that we are using an artificial idea. Perhaps there is nothing there, neither the Creator, nor the bestowal, nothing, just my responsibility toward the group. This means that I must care that all of them think about this abstract idea instead of thinking about “pink elephant”. Do you remember this joke:”do not think of the pink elephant”? But I want this to happen to them. Every person should work with me now at this intention. How can that help us? It will help us all unite.

 

Besides, kabbalists say that if you work at this intention to unite altogether and keep everyone in the state of bestowal to the Creator, it means that you awaken the light that returns to the source. A reaction to such act is immediate, now you wish to bestow to the light and the light bestows to you. However, if you do not wish to bestow to the light, but just want to unite everyone together, you act the way Soviet communists used to act and then the light does not bestow to you and you receive a blow. But if you are engaged in a work involving the surrounding light, you will get worthy of the blessing only. These things are very simple and practical, you should just realize them.