ON THE THRESHOLD OF PARADISE

The pure bliss of Paradise will not be fleeting in nature but truly eternal. From the scientific and academic standpoint, the above-mentioned facts make the ideal age of the future—the ‘spiritual civilization’— understandable in terms of being a Super-Industrial age. This fourth phase of civilization is yet to reach realisation, but it is in this phase that the ideal world—in religious terms, Paradise—will most probably take shape. The present transitional period is a condition which may be called ‘Paradise-in-the-making’. Paradise is the final journey of civilization. By the laws of nature, such a world will definitely come into existence in due course. Therein, all limitations and disadvantages will come to an end; there will be no fear or grief, nor hurt or pain. All those potentialities which have been integral to man from the beginning of time, will be fulfilled in the world of Paradise. Human personality will attain new heights of development. This, will be the culmination: he will become the perfect man. He will find eternal life where old age, accidents, disease and death are absent. This will be the ideal world, where man will be in a position to use the full potential of his personality and experience complete fulfilment. Paradise will be the pinnacle of the evolutionary process of human civilization. It will be the dawning of the perfect and ideal world of which man has always dreamt. Paradise will be the ideal realm of joy, peace and eternal happiness. Paradise will not be a place of stagnation. In Paradise, man will make unending discoveries. There will be no boredom in Paradise, because boredom prevails only where new discoveries do not take place. Fresh experience is the greatest source of happiness, and in Paradise, the doors of unlimited truth are ever open. The pure bliss of Paradise will 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 civilizations. In ancient Stone Age lay hidden an Agricultural Age, which emerged in due course. Similarly, in the Agricultural Age, the hidden more developed Industrial Age emerged at the proper time. By the same token, we can 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.