Sefer Gilgulim ספר גילגולים |
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The True Purpose of Life Reb Chaim Vital explains that each individual has their own unique and individual purpose in life, however ALL reincarnated souls have 3 specific purposes in life. In this chapter we shall explain the purpose of reincarnation for ALL reincarnated souls. (1) All reincarnated souls need to learn to FORGIVE. (2) All reincarnated souls need to learn to be COMPASSIONATE to everyone. (3) All reincarnated souls need to learn to LOVE. Life versus Death; Love versus Hate ובחרת בחיים Choose Life & Love The reason our souls have reincarnated in this life is because we have made mistakes in previous lifetimes that need correcting; events and situations occurred in prior lifetimes that have created negative ties, when our souls left the prior lifetime we had created DEATH and now we need to cancel out the "DEATH" from prior lifetime and convert this to "LIFE" in this lifetime for all of eternity. "DEATH" is anything that isn't life; "DEATH" includes hatred, jealousy, bitterness, un forgiven arguments, resentment and a greedy selfish physical attachment to this physical earth. "LIFE" is love; "LIFE" energy brings happiness, contentment, peace of mind, trust in GOD and an optimistic outlook on life, eager to live every moment of life. "LIFE" has the power to create more "LIFE" and hence choosing the pathway of "LIFE" means choosing to be part of a continuity of life. Once a person chooses continuity of life then a person has broken the dead-end cycle of death and reincarnation. Ones soul is now spiritually enlightened and FREE from "death" for eternity. The freewill choice is ours LIFE versus DEATH, LOVE versus HATE - Be wise and choose life וּבחרת בחיים. (1) The Need to Learn to FORGIVE. The first purpose for all reincarnated souls is the URGENT need to learn to FORGIVE, this is the single most important key to successfully break the cycle of reincarnation; the success of ones life will be judged in the ability to forgive. Reb Chaim Vital explains that it is totally unimportant whatever anyone has done to you, the IMPORTANT factor is to FORGIVE them completely. If one has been hurt in this life by anyone it is quite possible that one did this to them in a prior lifetime. The ONLY way to break the cycle of reincarnation is to FORGIVE them completely. This is so imperatively important that Reb Chaim Vital says that this is the whole purpose of living a reincarnated life - to learn to FORGIVE. FORGIVE AND FORGET COMPLETELY The sign that you have successfully forgiven another person, is that when you think of them, you no longer have any hatred feelings. In fact you should have NO FEELINGS towards them at all. They mean NOTHING at all, not to you or your life anymore as you have disconnected yourself from their soul through your forgiveness to them you have set yourself free from them. If you still feel some element of hatred or any emotions towards them, this is a sign that you have NOT disconnected from them and their evil ways, and THIS WILL HURT, POISON AND DESTROY YOUR LIFE AND SOUL. So simply forgive them in your mind thoughts, forget about them, don't even mention their name, and detach yourself from them completely. The Jewish prayer said every night before going to sleep, is the same prayer said on a person's death bed in the final preparation as the soul leaves this physical world and according to Reb Chaim Vital is the prayer one should say every time someone upsets you. Reb Chaim Vital states that one should say this several times every day during the day to cleanse ones soul, especially at any moment when someone has upset you or made you feel angry and hurt, as these are people that for some reason have come into your life to upset you for a specific reason to heal the negative energy in your soul , so learn to FORGIVE them and FORGIVE everyone who has done you harm in this lifetime and prior lifetimes.
Translated :- "Ribbono Shel Olam - Master of the Universe - I forgive everyone who has angered and upset me, or sinned against me, whether they did this physically, materialistically or disrespectfully. And whether they did this by accident or intentionally, with horrible evil thoughts or without thinking, whether they said the words or with actions, whether in this life or in previous lifetimes ...... i forgive them... and please GOD do not punish or hurt them, do not bring any illness or anything bad against them as i forgive them completely ....... I FORGIVE EVERYONE through the power of my prayer and my speech". See the "Bigger Picture" and Forgive them ! It is so easy in life to hold resentment against people who have done you unjustly wrong in life, there maybe many legitimate reasons why one should logically continue "fighting" them, with all the negative hateful and destructive energy that one can create, however, this just continues a cycle of destruction and negativity. Try breaking the cycle and simply FORGIVE them; even if one is in the middle of a court case, in the middle of a very destructive argument with them, simply listen to the spiritual teachings of Reb Chaim Vital and Sefer Gilgulim and FORGIVE everyone. Say the "forgiveness" prayer and repeat that you FORGIVE them, and you will be surprise at the changes that will occur. Reb Chaim Vital explains that everything that happens in this physical world has it's source in the spiritual world, therefore one can heal and change the physical situation of ones life by changing the spiritual situation. Learning to genuinely FORGIVE anyone and everyone will actually FREE your soul from them, and will you life and soul will grow and rise to higher levels of spiritual enlightenment. Reb Chaim Vital explains that one doesn't have to have contact with these people in order to forgive them, simply forgive them in your heart, thoughts, mind and soul. Everytime one genuinely FORGIVES someone one is healing ones soul and rectifying the reason one's soul reincarnated into this life. סליחה Forgiveness Reb Chaim Vital explains the hebrew word for forgiveness is סליחה Selicha; the first letter is closed letter ס teaching that without forgiveness one will just go around-and-around in circles in life, accomplishing nothing and dying miserable, bitter and resentful. FORGIVENESS has the power to break all reincarnations setting a persons soul FREE and enabling one to live a life of happiness and love in this world and for eternity for ones soul. This is the most important purpose ones soul has reincarnated to FORGIVE and become FREE from that negative connection. "I FORGIVE EVERYONE"! Keep Saying the Words I Forgive ... Reb Chaim Vital explains that if one has any uncomfortable feelings about anyone, any dislikes or anyone that one feels any kind of hatred from, then one should say the word "I forgive ...(the name of the person)... for the hurt they have done me". Keep repeating this many times until one feels that there is complete forgiveness from you in your mind and you actually feel good, relieved, disconnected and released from them. This is the purpose you are alive in order to FORGIVE everyone and everything that happens in your life, past present and future, FORGIVE everyone ! Only when one has forgiven then one can start to cancel out any "loss by transference" that has occurred in ones life. Then ASK GOD for Forgiveness Once a person has broken all the negative aspects of reincarnation, by forgiving all the people whom have hurt, angered, destroyed or damaged ones life, one is now able to ASK GOD to be forgiven. Simply say:- "Please GOD Forgive Me For Everything I Have Done Wrong In My Life & In Prior Lifetimes, I Have Made Many Silly Mistakes Which I Truly Regret, Please Forgive Me". The spiritual law applies that since one has forgiven all those people whom have done wrong and hurt against you, so too you will be forgiven. This is the Key to breaking the cycle of death and the cycle of reincarnation. (2) The Need to Learn to be COMPASSIONATE All reincarnated souls need to learn to be COMPASSIONATE to everyone, which means NEVER hurt anyone and never gossip nor slander anyone. Use the power of speech wisely. Reb Chaim Vital explains that having compassion for other people is having respect for them, the Spiritual Law of Compassion explains that all humans are created with a unique soul by GOD, everyone has a unique purpose, and everyone deserves respect for their specific role they have in life, even if we have differing opinions, different ways of doing things and different beliefs & perceptions of life. Compassion means understanding that anger is a result of arguments and disagreements when people are intolerant towards others and lack compassion for other human beings, the meaning of "humility" and the ways of a humble person is the key to having compassion for everyone and the key for "spiritual" elevation of ones soul, as explained fully on "Life of Compassion" . When a person has compassion for another person, one will instinctively have respect for them and will NOT gossip nor slander them. מי האיש החפץ חיים אוהב ימים לראות טוב מה אמנותו של אדם בעולם הזה ...ישים עצמו כאלם What is a persons purpose in this life? To keep quiet as much as possible ! The Talmud explains that the reason why most people fail to elevate their souls and find themselves reincarnating again and again is because they have failed to use the power of speech correctly. The only reason why a person slanders and gossips against another person is because a person is resentful, bitter and uncompassionate. All these factors are negative and will cause a person to be reincarnated, these are DEATH energies. Therefore one should learn to be extremely careful with the power of ones speech, the only way one will have life is by using ones speech that creates LIFE energy. NEVER criticize anyone, NEVER shout or destroy anyone's life through the power of speech otherwise one will be locked into a cycle of reincarnation. If someone asks your opinion of someone then "teach yourself to say - i don't know" למד לשונך לומר ...איני יודע. Respect and be compassionate to others as you expect others to respect and be compassionate to you. (3) The Need to Learn to LOVE. All reincarnated souls need to learn to LOVE, the most important purpose of life is to LOVE. The famous Rabbi Hillel said that the essence of the whole Torah is "Love thy neighbor" and everything else is simply an explanation of how to LOVE. Learning to LOVE is the key of life, when one chooses to LOVE one chooses life, when one hates one chooses death. Reb Chaim Vital explains that once a person has corrected the 3 keys of reincarnation especially the 1st Key of always being grateful and happy with everything in one's life, the next stage to ensuring a corrected and perfect reincarnation is to LOVE everything and everyone. Learn to continually think loving thoughts and live a wholesome "LIFE OF LOVE". Naturally, this can be challenge because there maybe situations or people that may "make you" feel that you don't want to be loving towards them. However, the challenge to ALL reincarnated souls is to NEVER think hateful, angry, bitter, jealous or negative thoughts. Each time a person thinks a negative thought it creates an energy of DEATH, whereas everytime a person thinks of a positive loving happy thought one creates energy of LIFE. The pain of reincarnation means that there are going to be situations and people whom one will be inclined to be hateful, angry, bitter or negative towards, this is because ones soul has carried over from a prior lifetime this negative DEATH energy, that's why a person has reincarnated, if one had indeed succeeded in a previous lifetime to have only LOVING and LIFE energy then ones soul would not have needed to reincarnate in this lifetime. Therefore one must HEAL ones soul and correct all of ones thoughts to ONLY be positive and LOVING thoughts. 3 Aspects Vitally Important Purposes of Life for All Reincarnated Souls (1) The need to learn to FORGIVE. (2) The need to learn to be COMPASSIONATE to everyone. (3) The need to learn to LOVE. Reb Chaim Vital guarantees that if one focuses on these 3 aspects each and everyday one will find ones soul becoming healed and corrected from all the mistakes from prior lifetimes. This is the whole purpose of ones life, everything else is to "keep oneself busy" whilst correcting these 3 aspects. It can take a whole lifetime but that indeed is the purpose of life. FORGIVE, LOVE and be COMPASSIONATE. Only when one has forgiven, compassionate and is full of love then one can start to cancel out any "loss by transference" that has occurred in ones life, which is the final step in living the destined life one has been destined to live.
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