Eligibility For Paradise

one who cultivates paradisiacal attributes will, after death, be declared eligible for entry into Paradise. Entry into Paradise will not occur through any recommendation, connection to a revered personality, or through mysterious spiritual solutions. Instead, admission into Paradise is entirely based on a known reality—that the person who, in the present world, becomes and lives like a paradisiacal person will be granted admission into Paradise in the Hereafter. Paradise is for those who have purified themselves. Purification means abandoning a life of heedlessness and adopting a life of awareness. One must be strong enough to overcome desires that hinder the achievement of this goal. They must save themselves from anything that can deviate them from the Truth. If faced with a matter of expediency, they should ignore it. If pride or resentment arises, they should bury it within themselves. Who Are the People of Paradise? The people of Paradise are those who discover the Higher Being, that is, God, and who are able to turn their natural potential to good account. They awaken their spirituality to such a high degree that they can experience the realization of the Hereafter in the present world itself. While living in this world, they become inhabitants of the world of Paradise on the conscious plane. Physically, they are in this world, but psychologically, they are in the Hereafter. When this paradisiacal personality develops in human beings, the present world becomes meaningless in their eyes. Their intellectual plane reaches such heights that material things lose all significance. They find no fulfilment in the material