Actually it does. Undoubtedly, it does. And I'm not speaking out of superstition or some other worldly or near-death experience. I'm actually saying it out of logic and understanding. To elaborate more on this, first we need to understand the difference between "this-world" and the "other-world".
"This world" can simply be defined as the world which can be perceived and experienced through the five senses via touch, smell, taste, hear and see. But the "Other world" can simply be defined as world beyond these five senses. Though there aren't much material evidences to prove the existence of the other-world as it transcends the realm of materialism and connects an individual to another realm called the "Realm of spirit" and the process of awakening and enlightenment towards this realm is called spirituality.
Now for a normal person to perceive, material comforts definitely account to heaven. Quite rightly. Suppose you are travelling in your car in the peak hours of an afternoon of the north Indian summer, you can experience heaven right away sitting in your air-conditioned car on a comfortable seat and you can see people travelling on two-wheeler burning in the heat of the summer. And somewhere inside your head you be thankful to god for the air-conditioned car (material comfort) that he has given you and somewhere you feel for a moment that you are happier than the person travelling on the two-wheeler.
Now, as soon as that moment passes away, you realize that you have a destination to reach in time and your presence over there is very critical and any flaw could be fatal for your life e.g. you have a pending court case and you have to turn up in front of the judge for hearing, and suddenly you get stuck in a traffic jam. You panic and many thoughts run across your mind like- What if I get late?? What if I lose the court-case?? What if the judge gets angry and tells me to get out of the court room ?? What if this traffic jam never clears?? And, you look at the other guy on the two-wheeler standing next to you in the traffic jam looking pretty relaxed, seemingly going back home from work and starts relishing an ice-candy from a nearby ice-candy hawker, patiently waiting for the traffic to clear and smiling on the hopeless Indian traffic conditions. After 4-5 minutes, the traffic gets cleared and you are on your way to the court and the other guys fades away from your sight.
Actually, what happened is that you experienced HELL for those 4-5 minutes and the guy on two-wheeler, somehow experienced HEAVEN for those 4-5 minutes despite having lesser material comforts than you. Heaven and Hell can be both this-worldy and the other-worldly. For those who advocate excessively on material comforts and consider them as the ultimate goal for the betterment of life, I would like to share a theory once I came across, about the existence of material part and the spatial part in the universe. The theory goes as: Let's assume the size of the entire universe to be that of a hollow 20-storeyed building with 20 rooms on each floor, and there's only one grain of sand in it, then the empty part of the building would be the space and that one grain of sand would be the material present in the universe i.e. all the heavenly bodies, galaxies, stars, constellations etc.
Hence, if we believe that universe sustains and nurtures life, then we must value spirituality as that is the only thing which can open our gateway to heaven.
"This world" can simply be defined as the world which can be perceived and experienced through the five senses via touch, smell, taste, hear and see. But the "Other world" can simply be defined as world beyond these five senses. Though there aren't much material evidences to prove the existence of the other-world as it transcends the realm of materialism and connects an individual to another realm called the "Realm of spirit" and the process of awakening and enlightenment towards this realm is called spirituality.
Now for a normal person to perceive, material comforts definitely account to heaven. Quite rightly. Suppose you are travelling in your car in the peak hours of an afternoon of the north Indian summer, you can experience heaven right away sitting in your air-conditioned car on a comfortable seat and you can see people travelling on two-wheeler burning in the heat of the summer. And somewhere inside your head you be thankful to god for the air-conditioned car (material comfort) that he has given you and somewhere you feel for a moment that you are happier than the person travelling on the two-wheeler.
Now, as soon as that moment passes away, you realize that you have a destination to reach in time and your presence over there is very critical and any flaw could be fatal for your life e.g. you have a pending court case and you have to turn up in front of the judge for hearing, and suddenly you get stuck in a traffic jam. You panic and many thoughts run across your mind like- What if I get late?? What if I lose the court-case?? What if the judge gets angry and tells me to get out of the court room ?? What if this traffic jam never clears?? And, you look at the other guy on the two-wheeler standing next to you in the traffic jam looking pretty relaxed, seemingly going back home from work and starts relishing an ice-candy from a nearby ice-candy hawker, patiently waiting for the traffic to clear and smiling on the hopeless Indian traffic conditions. After 4-5 minutes, the traffic gets cleared and you are on your way to the court and the other guys fades away from your sight.
Actually, what happened is that you experienced HELL for those 4-5 minutes and the guy on two-wheeler, somehow experienced HEAVEN for those 4-5 minutes despite having lesser material comforts than you. Heaven and Hell can be both this-worldy and the other-worldly. For those who advocate excessively on material comforts and consider them as the ultimate goal for the betterment of life, I would like to share a theory once I came across, about the existence of material part and the spatial part in the universe. The theory goes as: Let's assume the size of the entire universe to be that of a hollow 20-storeyed building with 20 rooms on each floor, and there's only one grain of sand in it, then the empty part of the building would be the space and that one grain of sand would be the material present in the universe i.e. all the heavenly bodies, galaxies, stars, constellations etc.
Hence, if we believe that universe sustains and nurtures life, then we must value spirituality as that is the only thing which can open our gateway to heaven.
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