Questions for today:
If my Soul is an actual part of the Creator, how can my natural homing instinct be dulled? What can I do to unblock it?
Yesterday we spoke about two inner innate expressions of the soul; desire and pleasure.
We focused on a pleasureful love which is what happens when you 'have', and are one with, the Creator.
Today we're going to discuss about a love that's born out of desire.
We don't have to create this love. We all have it naturally because our soul is part of the Creator and has an innate yearning to reunite with its source.
However, we do have to work on this love. This is because that innate desire could be misdirected into all types of irrelevant things.
To overcome this, we have to consciously think how the Creator didn't just 'create' the world in the past. The creator 'actively creates' and animates the world, and the Creator 'is' the life that animates me.
This thought motivates a huge desire, a yearning, that all of my effort should be focused towards connecting to the Creator.
It also gives a tremendous push that anything that's distracting or selfish, that blocks my relationship to the Creator, should be removed from my consciousness.
276 56 Tanya Chitas thought for Elul 28 ~ m294 47 Elul 24
Tanya book 4, Essay 18, pt2
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