Unity is achieved through love. The meaning of life is to learn to overcome the animal in itself (dependence on instincts), and to move towards unity with the whole universe. But it is possible to unite only through a feeling of love in the soul, which should not depend on anything.
No matter how talented a person may be, he cannot oppose the truth of life to the truth of another’s life. Because we as individuals, as part of this world, can judge the entire universe only from the standpoint of our experience, our accumulated knowledge. Our experience and knowledge are always limited and incomplete. Unification goes through the search for intersection points, through the similarity of positions. At the level of my ego, I always look for what separates and separates us.
Talented surgeon Sigurds believes that saving the lives of other people, his talent as a surgeon elevates him above ordinary people, gives him the right to consider his opinion the only correct one. He's right, and his bosses aren't. A violent conflict arises in which, instead of a contest of ideas, a war for its territory begins. Naturally, in such a fight, the one who has more rights, who has more leverage, is right. Sigurds starts drinking. A family is destroyed. He has to leave his job in Riga and move to a provincial hospital in his hometown. But here it all starts again. We are always healed from above until we realize the fallacy of our worldview. If the universe strives for unification, then humanity for centuries gravitates to unification processes. But civilizations perish if this association goes according to a selfish scenario: to please only a chosen clan of people or to please a chosen people.
Zigurds contrasts the activity of the whole organism with the hospital. A zigurd is a part of an organism that cannot exist if all the parts work separately and each for itself. Even if the whole body is sick, a healthy organ cannot survive on its own. In the body, all organs are interconnected, united by a common circulatory system. One player on a bad team won't make the whole game. One musician cannot make the whole orchestra play in unison. Therefore, the saints carried into the imperfect world the light of knowledge, preached divine commandments, so that people would cease to think only about their own selfish interests. The preachers even sacrificed their lives. Because they understood that their one life is nothing compared to saving the souls of millions.
Sigurds meets a girl who loves him. But I am ready to give up this love, because his ego is hurt by the head doctor of the hospital. He wants to give up everything again: an interesting favorite job, a favorite girl with whom he can start a family again. His friend tells him, “Life is complicated.” Either adapt or hold on. There are only two options. Everything else is self-deception or illusion. You're going to be a glimpse of the water. The breeze blew and you never happened.” Sigurds doesn't want to adapt. But does it want to be a “light on the water”?