{"id":276,"date":"2019-02-28T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2021-02-28T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T15:34:15","slug":"the-sky-and-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilav.com\/?p=276","title":{"rendered":"The sky and the earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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What keeps up on the Earth? Gravity.<\/strong> Had it not been for gravity, we would have shot up towards the sky. This possibility is equally available to everyone. The way to the sky is open to all in the same manner at any time and at any point of the earth. It is true that we cannot overcome gravity<\/strong> by our bodies, but is that also true for what\u2019s inside our bodies? And what happens with it when the bodies die? Does it also die?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some time ago I watched a science-fiction film in\nwhich people found a way to escape from the deadly conditions of life on the\nearth by setting up stations for survivors in another galaxy where everything\nwas the same as the earth except that there was no sky and there was artificial\nlight. The possibility of flying up into the sky was not available there and\nthis was clearly seen in the life of the main heroine who had discovered the\nformula for the salvation of mankind from the ecological catastrophe but died\nat the end of the film. She had found a\nway to preserve life, but had not found a way to avoid death.<\/strong> And although\nshe hadn\u2019t died at 10 or 20, she died at about 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a way, it doesn\u2019t matter much whether one dies at\n10 or 20 or even at 100: one does die! It would matter if one didn\u2019t die \u2015\never!  Nobody likes death and nobody\nlives with the expectation that he is going to die \u2015 so much so that we do not\neven believe that will happen. Any time I have been close to death because of\nan accident or an illness and I have got away with it, I felt immense relief.\nBut any time that has happened I have also known, and I know now that there\nwill come a time when I will not get away with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t mean that we should constantly live with\nthe fear of death. But it does mean that we should not live as if we would\nnever die. We should live as truthfully\nto reality<\/strong> as we can. We are born without wanting it and we die without\nwanting it, but we live to a different extent the way we want it. The fact that\nwe are born and die without being asked, but in between we can live as we like,\nspeaks more in favor of our having to bear the consequences for the way we have\nlived than not having to bear any consequences at all, the more so as we\nconstantly bear some of the consequences of our choices even now, like the\neffects of the food we eat every day or the effects of our moral preferences\nlike being honest or dishonest or being loyal or disloyal. The question is: Does\nthis freedom bear upon what happens with us after death? And does anything\nhappen at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us suppose that nothing happens.<\/strong> One dies and this is the end. What happens to the\nvisible person, the body, happens also to the invisible person, the soul: Both\nstop to exist. The end of the one who has lived as an angel and the end of the\none who has lived as a villain is the same: Both vanish into nothingness. Well,\nif I were a villain, I would profit from that hypothesis. I can live as badly\nas I like (lying, stealing and killing) and have as much pleasure as I want,\nand I will never bear any consequences for the evil things I\u2019ve done both\nbefore and after my death. But if I were an angel, I would not profit at all: I\nwould suffer all kinds of evil like violence, exploitation, persecution, pain\nand even death, but I would not receive any reward or compensation \u2015 only loss.\nHaving said this, it is not surprising why so many people choose to live as villains\n\u2015 being a hero is senseless and useless. It is surprising however why some\npeople choose to live as angels.  Of\ncourse, real life is much more complex and most people have different degrees\nof the villain and the angel in them but this is a topic for another\ndiscussion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us suppose now that man\u2019s existence does not end with death.<\/strong> The question in that case\nis: What happens after that?<\/strong> The\nanswers to it are many and they often contradict each other. So, which of them\nis the right one? Well, there is only one sky and only one earth here and we\nhave only one choice: the purity and endlessness of the skies or the mud and\nthe limitations of the earth. Any particle of evil in the soul is like the mud\nof the earth which \u2015 if there is no water \u2015 dries up and hardens as those parts\nof the earth that make up a wasteland. The more the mud and the less the water\nto dilute it or wash it away, the larger and barer the wasteland. I believe\nthis is the future of the one who lives like a villain now after he dies. He\nwill continue to walk along the road he has chosen to walk now, and this will\nmake him be like those parts of the earth that illustrate the state of things\nlacking water here. Unlike the angel who, having tasted the purity of the sky\nnow, will continue to ascend and partake of other spheres of infinity then,\nprompted and shown by the galaxies here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we<\/strong> get rid of mud?<\/strong> The\nanswers to this question are also many and contradictory, but all of them are\nverifiable. The bad thing is that if one tests the wrong one, one will have to\npay the price of testing it. The good thing is that one can give up testing it,\nhaving paid the price. The problem is that one may like the wrong answer and\nnever get to the right one, but the good news is that the opportunity to try\nagain is always here, the way the sky is always here and equally accessible for\nall who are still alive. The truth is as\nclose and obvious as the sky. We only have to acknowledge it and accept it. It\nwill do the job it is meant to do. <\/strong>The same is true for the lie. It will\nalso do the job it is meant to do. It\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lil<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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