The Real Destination

The Real Destination post-death period. The ideal world that a person desires has been kept in the post-death period of his life. The status of the pre-death period of his life is that of a testing-ground or selection- ground. Only someone who in the pre-death period proves himself to be suitably qualified will be declared to be eligible to be settled in the ideal world called Paradise in the post-death period. Events like natural disasters that occur every now and then serve as a warning—to tell us that it is simply impossible to make Heaven on earth, to build Paradise here. Although Planet Earth is very beautiful, it is also very vulnerable. Here, there are so many limitations that it simply cannot become the abode of Paradise. Earth is only a preliminary introduction to Paradise, not Paradise itself. For Paradise, another world is required, a world that is unlimited and that is free of every sort of fear. Paradise requires a perfect world in every sense, whereas the present world is in every sense less than perfect. A perfect Paradise cannot be built in an imperfect world. By nature, a human being is a seeker of Paradise. But this Paradise cannot be had in this world. It can be had only in the post-death phase of one’s life. Those who know this fact and lead a Hereafter-oriented life can, with God’s grace, enter that Paradise after death. And as for those whose only concern is enjoyment in the world of today, there can be nothing in store for them after death but abject failure.