You Create Heaven and Hell Here

"If you want to live in this world peacefully and happily, allow others to live peacefully and happily too, so that you can make this world worthy of life." Unless and until you adjust yourself to live according to these noble principles, you cannot expect happiness and peace in this world. You cannot expect to get happiness and peace from the heaven simply by praying.

If you act according to moral principles by upholding human dignity, you can create your own heaven right here in this world. You can also create the hell-fire on this earth itself if you abuse valuable human life. By not knowing how to live according to this universal cosmic law, we often stumble. If each man tries to lead a harmless and respectable life, people can enjoy real heavenly bliss better than the kind that some people hope to gain after death.

It is superfluous to create a heaven elsewhere to reward virtues, or a hell to punish vice. Virtues and evils have inevitable results in this world itself regardless of religious faith. Compassion for all beings is the only way to create heaven. We can have this irresistible, luminous ideal for the good of society and mankind, by cultivating tolerance, compassion and concern for others' progress and happiness. We have progressed to this stage as a human race because illustrious individuals have shown us the way. By helping others morally, you help yourself and by helping yourself morally, you help others.