The habit of tolerance prevents a man from wasting his time and talent on unnecessary friction.
The habit of tolerance prevents a man from wasting his time and talent on unnecessary friction.
Man’s trial rests on his discovery of God, Who is Unseen in this world. 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, love, and noble character prevail. Of the inhabitants of this world, only those will find a place in paradise, who have succeeded in maintaining a high moral character.
For one who has no concept of paradise, total fulfillment 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 he will have the pleasure of actually experiencing it. Today, he is blessed with peace of mind; tomorrow he will experience this peaceful life in his external world also. Today, he has the full satisfaction of conviction at the intellectual level; tomorrow he will find an opportunity to live in the pleasures and comforts of it in practical life. Today, he is living in a world of limitations; tomorrow he will find an unlimited world in which to live forever, in total freedom. Today he finds paradise in the intellectual sense; tomorrow he will find it in the practical sense. Indeed, there is nothing greater than this for man.