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Happiness is when something you have longed for with all your might, which you have suffered for, pursued, and built tremendous aspirations toward, suddenly begins to be fulfilled. It is like relief from pain, and we call this sensation “happiness.”
Of course, happiness has many levels. It depends on what we suffer from and what brings us joy. The highest happiness is when we feel ourselves approaching the Creator—the upper force of love, bestowal, and connection that created and sustains reality—clinging to Him as a child clings to its mother. That constant, gnawing desire finally finds fulfillment. You wanted it so badly, you even reached despair, and suddenly, the Creator appears and seemingly calls out to you, “Where are you? I have been looking for you!” And you want to answer, “It was I who was looking for You! Where were You?” Then you rush toward each other, without words, without barriers, simply merging in feeling. That is true happiness.
But this union is unlike anything in our world. It is not bodies that come together, each remaining separate. Here, it is sensations that penetrate one another, with no bodies or separation. A new state appears that words cannot describe.
Now you might ask, “But what about my sense of self? After all, it was I who desired this, I who longed for it.” And the truth is, I want my “I” to disappear! I do not need it. But if my “I” were to vanish completely, then the sense of the other—the Creator—would also disappear. That is why it is arranged in such a way that our sense of self remains.
Kabbalah explains this with the concept of Aviut, the coarseness of egoism. Egoism does not disappear. On the contrary, it grows more and more. But this is what lets us combine it with the quality of bestowal. The more egoism and the hatred and division encased within it rises, the more we can build love. The greater the hatred, the greater the love.
Such a concept is incomprehensible in our world. We think that it must be either hatred or love. But in the spiritual reality, they exist together, and one intensifies the other. This process continues until infinity—endless layers of hatred and love, one above the other, without limit.
It must be felt. Without sensation, the words mean nothing. But the path to reaching such perception is long. When it comes, however, it is eternity itself.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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