Валерий Синельников - Духовные чтения с Валерием Синельниковым. Часть 27 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

SPIRITUAL READINGS WITH VALERIY SINELNIKOV: "Leo Tolstoy on the Greatness of the Human Soul. The Path of Fire". Chapter - The Illusion of Personality. I and Not - I. The Mystery of Consciousness.

Dear friends, I continue to read the book "The Path of Fire" for you and reflect on the lines. Join us! Have a good day everyone! Spiritual conversations allow you to deeply and comprehensively understand various aspects of life, expand your horizons, and realize new knowledge. I continue reading the book The Path of Fire. Today we are talking about the importance of taking responsibility for yourself, about the fact that life is a great blessing! A blessing that our parents gave us!

A person is sometimes tormented, pleased by the vividly realized terrible opposition between something infinitely great and omnipotent, which he is aware of in himself, and something narrow and weak, which he feels in himself.

Man enters life with the consciousness of two "I's". (...) The first is like clouds that sometimes hide the sky, the second is like the sky with its sun, stars, which are visible through the clouds and behind, beyond which we can no longer see anything.

Happiness is the satisfaction of the demands of the being of man, living from birth to death only in this world; good is the satisfaction of the demands of the eternal essence living in man. The immortal soul cannot be satisfied with a mortal, finite deed; it needs an infinite and immortal deed, like itself.

It seems to man only through lack of thought that he desires good for himself. It only seems so: the desire for good is the voice of God living in man, and God desires good for everything; it seems to man that he desires good only for himself, for his body. There is no me, there is only that which is in me.

Individual, personal life is an illusion, there is no such life, there is only a function, an instrument of something. Life for oneself is torture (…) because you want to live for illusions, for something that does not exist and that cannot be, not only happily, but cannot be. It is the same as clothing and feeding a shadow.

That is why life seems absurd to us, because we take the illusion of the self for something real. The error in which we find ourselves, considering ourselves to be our separate being, is the same as the error in which a traveler would be, considering one station to be the whole journey, or a man one day to be his whole life.

…Recognizing one’s separate, bodily being when reason has awakened in man is an error similar to that in which a butterfly, having hatched from its chrysalis, would continue to recognize itself as its chrysalis, from which it has already separated. People put on a yoke that is not made for them, and harness themselves to a cart beyond their strength. A yoke that is not for themselves and a cart beyond their strength is life for the good of their body or for the bodily good of other people.

"Leo Tolstoy on the greatness of the human soul. The Path of Fire"

PART 27. SPIRITUAL READINGS. Leo Tolstoy on the greatness of the human soul.

Chapter - The Illusion of Personality. I and Not - I. The Mystery of Consciousness