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“No doubt the world will be paradise but for that we have to work hard”
The topic of the present seminar is from the message of the Master ―Love Him who loves all‖ and it reads that ―No doubt the world will be paradise but for that we have to work hard.‖ The word ―paradise‖ has many connotations and every religion has its own version of the paradise. I have tried to portray the nature of paradise or heaven as I could understand from my meditational experiences and the knowledge that I otherwise gathered in my book ―PAM and After life.‖ It may be taken to mean broadly a world where our wishes and aspirations get fulfilled automatically. The word I think may be taken to mean in this context a world of peace, harmony, prosperity and happiness.
But prosperity that we understand usually is an illusion of prosperity that our debt laden society provides. It has not led us to have more leisure time, as was the forecast a generation ago, nor has it
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