Some of you have developed the notion that the planet is a prison. This is a distorted view. It’s not like that. It’s simply that care is being taken for you, for your safety. Of course, inside the 'kindergarten' fence, you play strange games. And your caretakers do not interfere with this and carefully ensure that no one causes significant harm to another. Those who fall ill are moved to isolation, and so on—everything follows the same script.

But when someone among you begins to show understanding, they start being taught about what lies beyond the 'kindergarten' gates—explained what laws operate there, how to navigate, and what to beware of. Gradually, you are allowed to take walks in the outside world, but under the supervision of a caretaker. After all, you do the same with your own children, yet you don’t call it a prison. And believe me, sometimes they think so too. Some of you may find this comparison offensive; you don’t want to remain in a kindergarten. But believe me, there’s no condescension here. Only care.

But then, what about the seven Kumaras that Sanat Kumara created: the Kumara of Suffering, the Kumara of Pain, the Kumara of Death, the Kumara of Judgment, the Kumara of Greed, and so on? It is written in the TAO that these are his inventions. Why did he do this, as the leader of our 'kindergarten'?

He spoke to you. He believed that such training programs would prepare you better. And that was his choice. He went through all of this with you.

But let’s return to you. So, some of you are beginning to realize yourselves as independent and are learning new qualities, qualities of a new level. This is what you call the fourth level. It is the awareness of oneself as part of the Whole and existing as a part within the Whole, consciously. With each new level, your degree of freedom increases. Because freedom is, above all, responsibility for your choices. Freedom of choice is the freedom to choose the consequences of your choice. Understand this and remember it. It’s important.

Until you realize that with every step, with every thought, you are choosing this or that consequence, which manifests in your reality and the reality of all humanity, you won’t be let out of the 'kindergarten' gate, which is essentially a playground.

One question keeps bothering me. When I spoke with El Morya, he admitted that we are all now energetically intertwined and can ascend only together. But we can also choose our own path, purely magnetic, and ascend separately. Besides, the TAO says that all the higher essences of our world, except for Christ, have ascended and continue to ascend through the energy of worship, which they receive from us. How would you comment on this?

Teachers teach what they know and can do. The caretakers of the 'kindergarten' instill in the 'children' the skills they themselves have mastered. And, of course, in this process, there is an exchange of energies and symbiosis, and this is inevitable. If you remove your moral judgments, each person represents a configuration of the manifestation of their Divine energy, a configuration of its intertwining with other energies during interaction. Any interaction is the interaction and intertwining of energies. By learning proper communication, you learn to give and receive energy equally. In some of your current states, you give more energy than you receive; in others, it’s the opposite. For example, when someone is angry or upset, they take energy from another. And when someone worships someone else, they give their energy. All of this exists simultaneously. And you are learning to balance giving and receiving, which is what you call equilibrium, and this is what you are being urged toward. When you feel joy or anger, in both cases, there is an unequal exchange of energies. When you have inner peace and balance, it means the interaction is equalized.