The Road to Paradise
The Road to Paradise
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and water. We cannot think of any other form
which the grass or the trees could have. Nor can we
think of any other colour for the vegetation but
green. Even our greatest artists could not produce
any other model for the ants or the tiger, for the
deer or the elephant or the birds or the fishes, and
so on. It is a fact that everything in this world has
been cast in its final mould. We just cannot think of
a better model for anything that exists in this world
of nature.
However, there is only one aspect of this vast
world, which is an exception to this general rule,
and that is the recurrence of the many unpleasant
things in the human world. Here there is suffering,
old age, accidents and death. Life is marked with all
kinds of misery and fear. Even when there does not
appear to be any problem, there are boredom and
tension which in themselves are unbearable. Why is
there this contradiction? The answer to this is to be
found in the existence of the paradise of the next
world. The Creator of the universe made another
world besides the present one, one in accordance
with the desires of human beings, in that it is free of
all kinds of limitations and disadvantages,
