As We Sow, So Shall We Reap

his desires in the post-death period. Paradise will be inhabited in the next world, but the paradisiacal man is being made in today’s world. What is Paradise? One can understand what Paradise is like by looking at the present world. The present world is, in a sense, an introduction to Paradise. It is a miniature model of Paradise. Paradise is the complete and perfect edition of the present world. All the blessings available in the present world are present in Paradise. The difference is that the present world is imperfect, while Paradise is perfect. The present world is not ideal, while the world of Paradise is ideal. The present world is temporary, while the world of Paradise is eternal. There is fear and sorrow, noise and din, and other challenges in the present world, but it is not so in Paradise. The present world has limitations and disadvantages, while Paradise is free from these. In Paradise, man will obtain eternal fulfilment, unlike in the present world, where no one gets lasting satisfaction. Hell is a place that is opposite of Paradise. In Hell, all those hardships will be gathered together, much more than we experience in the present world. The pre-death and post-death periods of man’s life are intimately connected. Their relationship is like that of sowing seeds and harvesting a crop. The pre-death period of life is the period for planting seeds, as it were, while the post-death period is like harvesting the crop. It is an eternal principle: As we sow, so shall we reap.