ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARADISE

Moreover, the human personality will also attain new heights of development. This for man will be the culmination: he will become the perfect man. He will find an eternal life in which old age, accidents, disease and death are absent. This will be the ideal world where man will be in a position to utilize the full potential of his personality, thus experiencing complete fulfillment. Paradise will be the pinnacle of the evolutionary process of human civilization. Paradise will be the dawning of the perfect and ideal world of which man has always dreamt. On reaching Paradise, man will be eternally free from all sorrows and hardship. Paradise will be the ideal realm of joy, peace and eternal happiness. It should be borne in mind though that Paradise is not a place of stagnation. In Paradise, man will make new discoveries all the time and this series of discoveries will be unending. For this reason there will be no boredom in Paradise, because boredom prevails only where new discoveries do not take place. To man, a fresh experience is the greatest source of happiness, and in Paradise, the doors of unlimited truth will continue to open every single day. The pure bliss of Paradise will therefore, not be fleeting in nature but truly eternal. The making of Paradise is just as possible as the making of the earth and the development of different civilizations on earth. In the ancient Stone Age, there lay hidden a developed Agricultural Age, which emerged in due course. Similarly, in the Agricultural Age, the far more developed Industrial Age was hidden, and it also emerged at the proper time. We can, by the same token, say that there lies hidden in this Industrial period a far more developed, refined and spiritual world, which will appear in time for all to see. The emergence of this spiritual, or heavenly period is in practical terms as much a possibility as that of previous periods of history. In the industrial period, the earth has been beautified. Its cities have been meticulously planned. Developments in science and technology have made the earth, a far better place to live in. Similarly, with the dawn of the final period — the Spiritual Age — the earth will be further improved and it will then become an ideal world. There are a number The pure bliss of Paradise will not be fleeting in nature but truly eternal.