Part III
Morning Lesson February 19, 2022 Transcription
Transcription is made from simultaneous translation which leaves a possibility for differences in the audio
Everything is Obtained By the Power of Prayer - Selected Excerpts from the Sources. #11
Reading Item 11
1. R. (01:48) In other words the fact that we desiring that we have no desire to bestow is actually good, it's actually the Creator setting it up for us, so we can turn to him, by this we come into concert with him and in this way we advance and approach the real spiritual state. In other words a deficiency for the help of the Creator, a deficiency for having no ability to carry out any spiritual operation, these deficiencies are true and correct deficiencies because then they direct us to the Creator, they tie us to him.
2. S. (02:47) It says you can not feel any lack if you do not know what you're losing by not having the vessel called desire to bestow. This means that we need to know what we are losing and then we will have a lack. How do we know what we're losing, what we are missing?
R. How to know? We try to achieve connection between us and accordingly feel how deficient we are of connection and this is called a loss because the Creator has no form, shape. You cannot establish the form of the Creator that this is what I am deficient of, the Creator is a perfect connection between us to the extent that I can't imagine it. This is called the Creator, come and see, so if you approach in this way but genuinely then you have something to do. From relation to the friends you will be able to understand what you need in order to build your right plea, your right approach to the Creator in order to depict him, in order to make him. We are only building the right, the real connection between the broken vessels and this is what we were given to do.
3. S. (04:30) Recently the sorrow of the friends is more felt, their deficiencies. What to do with this feeling that fills me with difficulty and sorrow and not joyfulness?
R. This is a problem, this is a problem we are not happy with what is revealed to us we are at work and even in descents, we are not happy. We do not understand that these states are necessary states to go through in order to build the vessel for the spiritual sensation and if we go through them without gladness but we regret them and curse them, this is not called blessing the Creator every step of the way, where he turns to us, it is a problem.
S. It is clear that it is not the right work, it's just not clear how to do the right work?
R. By helping one another, here you can’t do anything but help each other and the problem in helping one another is why we can’t help one another. It is because each of us is in pride, each of us is proud, so it turns out that then we cannot help each other.
S. Is there some advice for perhaps how to take the next step?
R. What is the next step?
S. When you feel the friends, but like you said, still cursing at the friends how to make the next step?
R. Only to the Creator, nothing else.
Reading excerpt #12 (06:38)
4. R. (09:00) What does a person yearn for? To constantly be lacking, be deficient, to be tending to the Creator, leaning to the Creator, to bestow upon him, to do something good for him not that he carries out the act itself but to have a deficiency for it ,this should already fill him. Satisfy him.
5. S. (09:40) So he's talking about the feeling, he says the vessel is called a deficiency is a feeling that he is praying, he doesn't feel it and he prays for the light, for the Creator to give him the light, is this about the feeling of the lack?
R. We always talked about feelings.
S. We don’t have the deficiency of the lack, not the feeling of the deficiency, we have it in our minds what is missing.
R. I do not understand you, if you're talking about the deficiency it's a feeling it's not an intellectual thing.
S. It's a feeling that you lack?
R. If not, then you have no feeling, you have no deficiency.
S. Okay, I don't feel a lack, I understand in my mind it needs to be that way.
R. Feeling and understanding are two different things.
S. So how do I come to a feeling that he's talking about here?
R. You have to work on a feeling so it will be revealed in you.
S. So it takes a lot of time until I feel?
R. It is a problem, you need to work more with the friends, talk to them, be incorporated in them, by this you will develop a feeling and then this way you will discover what you really are lacking, lacking not in your understanding but in your feeling, all of the vessel of reception is a feeling.
S. So when I pray if there is no feeling the prayer is not accepted?
R. Of course, it's not accepted. You don't feel the deficiency so what are you praying for? You are just saying words, this is why that is the result.
6. S. (11:40) Who are we, what do we call Adam, man, does there have to be some support of a physical body or what?
R. For the time being we're talking about the person in this world who has to be like us in the group and yearning to attain from within the group such feelings that will depict to him the upper force and the upper world, the degrees in attaining the upper world and the upper force. It is all a matter of feeling. We are instruments of feeling, a desire, what is clarified in the desire is called a feeling. Okay?
S. Without a body at all, is it possible to correct something? What is the role of our physical body?
R. Our beast, our physical body exists for some time so that we will be able to get a chance, an opportunity to connect emotionally, truly with the upper degree, higher degree for the time being, in the meantime we have some sort of an imaginary impression from our existence. Then we play in an imaginary world just like babies and for the time being this is how we develop our vessels. Nothing more than that.
7. S. (13:44) You've told a friend to work in the ten, the question is is there anything else we're missing in the work that we're not doing?
R. Check it for yourselves so many things were written about the ten, you can check it if you're doing something or you are not doing anything.
8. S. (14:17) Recently in our ten we have a lot of scrutiny with regards to prayer, it is not clear how to turn the prayer of the ten to an effective prayer?
R. Look, what is written about the prayer, how each one is incorporated in the friends and to that extent he can turn to the Creator through them, if he is not incorporated in the friends he is not turning to the Creator, this is number one. Check it today and maybe tomorrow we can talk about it, start asking about it, about how you can connect to the Creator without being incorporated in the ten, I don't know it is impossible. So, you need to really search what more I can do with myself in order to incorporate in the ten, this is the most difficult thing and then I will be able to incorporate in the Creator and through incorporation with a Creator I continue the path. But each time I will need to be more and more incorporated in the ten in order to connect to the Creator more and more.
S. Many times we composed the prayer where each friend says his piece and together we compose the prayer. Does it mean incorporating or not yet?
R. If everything ends in building a common prayer and not just now putting together separate sentences from each and every one, then it is okay.
9. S. (16:20) It says that he will pray to the Creator to give him something that he doesn't lack, that he will lack it, so when we pray for connection and we want the ten to feel the connection we basically have to ask for the ten to feel that it lacks connection, that is the precision of the prayer?
R. Yes, it's called a prayer before the prayer, it is this concept the prayer before the prayer, give us a deficiency to pray and give us the topic itself what to pray for. Explain to us to whom we are praying and how we should connect in order to for this purpose and what to do, in short organize us correctly, we do not know anything.
S. So it just feels like on a certain day there is some connection or something in this world at least and then it disappears again, so each time we have to ask it anew. I don't want to say on autopilot but it should be like a schedule of a day or something?
R. Yes.
10. S. (17:47) It says an Item 11 that it is up to the person to scrutinize, what causes him not to have the desire to bestow, so they're asking what is it to introspect?
R. What have we got, as of today on our spiritual path. What we have, what we're lacking, what should we ask for and how to advance.
11. S. (18:19) Do we receive an impression of the lack that we need to ask from the examples of the friends in the ten?
R. This you have to ask yourself, how do I know if you're receiving an impression?
12. S. (18:37) Having the nature of reception, how can we come to a true lack, even if I pray for it it will not be a true prayer?
R. The Creator can do anything, even if we ask him untruthfully, the Creator can change it for us into a real deficiency.
13. S. (18:58) How can you be filled by the deficiency it is against our nature, we can't feel it as joy?
R. A deficiency can fill us, the fact that I am deficient of the Creator, in all of reality only the Creator is missing and only to him I yearn, this can fill my entire life.
14. S. (19:26) Is the feeling of deficiency personal work or is it a connected request of the friends or both?
R. Both, both.
15. S. (19:38) We work in the ten every day but I feel like I am in the boundaries inside myself, no feeling towards the friends. What can I do?
R. Keep going, keep asking, pour your heart out to the Creator to open your heart and so I will really be able to be impressed by the situation.
16. S. (20:16) You said that we need to build a mutual prayer and not just put together sentences, how to do it, how to build a common prayer?
R. A common prayer, try, try to do this in practice to scrutinize what we should ask for, what should be the purpose of our request. Let's do it this way and start scrutinizing by this the heart will grow closer, the thoughts too and you will begin to really awaken, the Creator awakens by us working together as when we work alone it is worthless, it is an outcry in the desert.
17. S. (21:09) Where do I get the desire to ask for something I do not lack?
R. It is written first by force and then willingly, this is how we need to work. Of course from our egoistic desire we will never want connection or correction or anything but we do it initially against our will and afterwards willingly.
18. S. (21:41) What does it help that we turn to the Creator more and more and he does not answer?
R. So I'm saying again, in the beginning we learn the people of Israel who were in Egypt, they did their work gladly, they served Pharaoh their ego and they had no problem. Then a new King came, a new King arose in Egypt and then it became a problem. This is how we need to work to advance and advance until we begin to feel that the Creator is getting closer to us and he makes us feel bad because it commits us to the quality of bestowal which we don't want. Then we come into work, work that no one would want but we have no choice because we are the last generation. We have to work in such a way that we will break the ego between us, connect together and reveal the Creator in the connection between us only. That's where he is and with this we conclude.