The Road to Paradise

This paradise has been brought into existence in the world after death. The stage before death is one of preparation, and the stage after death is that of reward commensurate with this preparation. What is man’s trial? It rests on man’s discovery of God, who is in the Unseen. Before seeing Him, man should voluntarily surrender himself before God. He should be so greatly desirous of paradise that this present world appears meaningless to him. He should adopt divine ethics without any external pressure on him to do so. He should develop his intellectual and spiritual being to such an extent that he produces in himself, the ability to inhabit the refined world of paradise. Paradise is a heavenly colony where peace and love, and noble character prevail. Of the inhabitants of this world, only those will find a place, who have succeeded in maintaining a high moral character. For one who has no concept of paradise, total satisfaction in this present world will turn out to be a lifelong quest, that has ended in failure. People expend all their energy in its pursuit, but they fail to construct this dream world for themselves. One who is able to discover paradise, begins his life in paradise from this world itself. Here, he will have the pleasure of its intellectual discovery; and after death