Comment: I have heard about a certain kind of enlightenment in a person’s development, but I do not understand what it is or how to attain it. Please help me understand.

My Response: I can only direct you to the path that leads to enlightenment.

Enlightenment is a ray of the upper light that comes to you, illuminates all your inner desires and thoughts, gathers them together, and enables you to evaluate and feel the world you exist in, to see it and enter into it. Then you truly begin to perceive the world, the universe, and its perfection.

Question: Does a person that they are not actually in this world?

Answer: Each of us exists in our own world. Since at present our perceptions are more or less similar, we call them “our world.” But one must go beyond its boundaries and discover that there are other states as well.

Question: What will a person see?

Answer: Governance. The governance over him. And the world that is depicted within him, he will see as an illusion. That is enlightenment.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/28/25

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Question: A person should turn to the Creator in any state. But there are different states, right?

Answer: The states the Creator sends to a person are not different from each other. They are all very simple and create a simple light that fills the entire reality. The states only seem different to you because the light has created a Kli containing many different properties.

And then, under the pressure of the simple light, as you move toward a simple goal, you feel as if you are experiencing different states: good and bad, coming in various forms, contradicting each other, opposite in essence and meaning. However, this is not true. All states come with only one purpose and according to the Creator’s plan—to delight the creation, and with only one intention—to push you toward the source.

The fact that you perceive it in various forms and cannot draw a connecting thread between separate situations while under the pressure of simple light, means that you have not yet reached a certain threshold. A specific trigger has not yet been activated in you; the right button has not yet been pressed that would allow you will see only one thing in each state.

On the contrary, if you start to delve into each state, dissecting it and questioning how it arrives and what it does, you only move further away from the correct action. The correct action is to see the Creator in each state, and remind you that here, in this place, as it is written: “In every place where I mention My Name, I will come to you and bless you.”

You should not overanalyze the state, it suffices to reveal that it was sent by the Creator. Once you have attained this realization—that is it, do not dig into the small details because this will only plunge you into the swamp of egoism. It is enough that you are in contact with the Creator, regardless of how you perceive this contact at the moment, whether in a positive or negative form.

To resolve this state, you need to connect it to the Creator. If you start complicating things, all your other actions will be mere speculation, devoid of spiritual value. The next state may be more profound in its essence, quality, and depth of scrutiny. But as soon as the right trigger mechanism activates in you, and you connect the new state to the Creator and ask to unite with Him—it will be on a higher degree.

That is, you can delve into the state only based on how the Creator illuminates and presents it to you. You cannot make decisions yourself. You cannot say: “Now I will delve deep into the state, into the left line.” You would lose the correct contact with the Creator that way. This is a Klipa (an evil force) that says, “No, you have to suffer to get into the depths of your egoism, and to see how bad you are.”

By no means. You only need this evil to turn to the Creator. You can do it now, immediately.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/26, Rabash, “What Is the Importance of the Groom, that His Iniquities Are Forgiven?”

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What are ascents and descents? It is when I have done the utmost I was capable of. I tried to apply all my strength, knowledge, time, and energy. I squeezed everything I could out of myself.

At the moment I exert this effort, I am filled with self-confidence, pride, drive to move forward, and certainty that I will surely succeed. But at the very peak of my inspiration and enthusiasm, a descent suddenly befalls me.

This descent is meant to reveal to me that even at the utmost limit of my effort and inspiration, I am still very far from the goal. Each time, the more strength I exert and the harder I try to break through and move forward, seemingly succeeding and achieving something, the more I discover that I am actually drifting further and further from the goal. Each time, my state is shown to me in a truer light, and the truth is revealed to me more and more.

It turns out that, in this way, I develop two things within myself. First, the awareness that I am farther and farther from the goal. Second, the goal itself is becoming increasingly important to me. Therefore, I have no choice since it is absolutely necessary for me to attain this goal, and I understand that I am completely incapable of achieving it by my own strength. Then disappointment and despair come to me.

But I am not disappointed either in the goal itself, or in my desire to attain it. I am disappointed only in my own strength. I am fully determined to reach it, I am ready to invest all my energy for that purpose, but I simply do not know by what means it can be achieved.

Then I come to a state where I understand that I must go above reason, against human logic; that there must be some “unnatural” solution here, something above our nature. Only then is this solution, which does not belong to our nature, revealed to me.

It must come from the combination of two opposites: the importance of the goal and the lack of my own strength to attain it. Both of these poles must be present here. I see that my strength is at zero, and that there is nothing that can help me. And from above, no new possibilities are revealed to me that I could still try, do, or add.

I have completely exhausted my potential, exhausted myself, tried everything, and failed in all my attempts. There is nothing left for me. And this is a sign that I have reached a state in which I have examined all my strengths and seen that they are utterly insignificant and worth nothing. Yet with every new disappointment in myself, I received a greater desire to attain the goal. This is the meaning of ascents and descents.

Every impulse upward or downward produces two results: disappointment in one’s own strength and the importance of the goal. One versus the other. With every new descent or ascent, with every such impulse, this contradiction grows sharper and sharper and these two poles move farther and farther apart, until a person reaches a certain critical point.

Each person has their own measure they must traverse. But, as Rabash says, the hero here is only the one who has patience, who tries again and again, and does not ease the pressure. He always says: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?” There is no other method here. One must always speak to oneself in this way. And when one sees an unsuccessful result and feels that they have not succeeded, one should say: “There is none else besides Him,” and understand that in this way He is revealing one’s true state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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We cannot initiate a single action, even now, in the preparatory period and our most egoistic state (Lo Lishma), unless we intend to attain faith, bestowal, and an altruistic intention through that action. It all begins with rising above our desire in order to connect with another person. Otherwise, I will never establish contact with them and will remain locked inside myself.

To come out of oneself and connect with a friend means to separate from one’s ego, to raise oneself above it; only then will I be able to come into contact with others. Otherwise, nothing will work out, and I will remain walled up inside myself like in a shell.

All our actions must be directed toward coming out of our ego and connecting with a friend outside of it. As it is written: “The righteous will live by his faith.”

If for now only a small egoism is revealed to me, then it is relatively easy to come out of myself and begin to draw closer to others. But as soon as I achieve the first successes, the ego begins to grow more and more. And again, I must apply efforts in order to tear myself away from it.

This is how it is on all 125 degrees until the desire to enjoy expands to its full volume and I nevertheless remain above it. This will mean that I have risen to the degree of Lishma, the degree of Bina.

And then I will already be able to return to my ego and begin to receive within that sphere for the sake of bestowal, first in the thinnest “peel,” and then expanding it more and more, and so on until the very end, until I have engaged the entire desire.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/28/11, Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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