THE PATH TO HEAVEN

 

 

What is heaven?  It is a state of spiritual development where one gets a continuous supply of pranic energy.  It is a state of peaceful contentment, of serene permanent happiness on Earth or beyond where one is attuned with the Universal Consciousness.  Heaven is like an FM station that sends out a every interesting program.  Your body is the radio that when tuned in to the correct station will enable you to listen to the program.  This is the minimum requirement.

 

 In other words, you have "gone to heaven."  But the enjoyment of the program depends on your level of Awareness.  At the minimum level of Awareness, you will be able to say, "I like the program."  The more advanced will say, "I love the program."  The most advanced will declare, "No other program can be better than this."  Thus, the most advanced in spiritual development will realize that he could not ask for more, that the happiness, the serene contentment, the worriless Utopia has been attained by him.

 

Heaven is pure happiness.  If you are discerning enough you would have glimpses of heaven.  Do you recall the time when you were a child full of innocence, when Santa Claus arrived while you were asleep and left you a toy you sincerely desired?  What happiness it brought you the following morning.  But in a day or two the happiness left you.  Do you recall the time he proposed to you and you felt his sincere love?   Or do you recall the time she said yes?  For both man and woman in love, this particular episode in their lives is a glimpse of heaven.  You will even remember the way you walked that day, as if you were very light, gliding across the ground.  You saw beauty in every flower.  You were not bothered by simple distractions.  You were in this state of ecstasy to prepare you to participate in God's creation, the coming into this world of another child --- a creation of God whose spirit is cleansed in heaven, and still untainted by sin.

 

That is why a little child is instinctively pleasing to everyone and to God.  And in this state of Love, while in the act of procreation, the couple are both rewarded by God with carnal pleasure as payment for the hardship and sacrifice they will undergo in raising a child to become an upright son of His.

 

But the Love and happiness showered them do not last long.  Somehow, they diminish little by little through the realities of married life.  The happiness that romance showered in is a glimpse of heaven, a glimpse because it does not last long.  For heaven is a state of permanent peaceful happiness.  If they say that when you are in love you attain a glimpse of heaven, then how can you make it permanent?

 

If you examine your life, from birth to the present, you will be faced with the conclusion that the most thrilling moments was when you were in love and your love was accepted and reciprocated.  It did not last.  It did not because you are not supposed to be in love with only one human being.  You are supposed to love every human being.  And when you truly love not just one, your spouse, not just your children, not just your parents, not just your relatives and friends, but each and every human being, each and every creature of God, and finally God, you attain perfect happiness.  You are in Heaven!  So the key to heaven is Love for your fellow men.  And the intensity of your Love is the corresponding intensity of your happiness in heaven.  You all might be in heaven but one's enjoyment depends on the intensity of his Love for others.

 

If heaven is the state of happiness when one is in love with humanity, what then is hell?  It is a state of love for oneself and oneself alone.  It is love for gratifying oneself with all his uncontrolled needs like food, carnal pleasure, vain glory, riches, power which makes oneself more important than others, and all material things that gratify one's needs even at the expense of others.  And to separate those in hell from those in heaven, God made Earth round during the Deluge and confined those in hell to the center or near the center of Earth.  They can only be freed from their love of selves by love for humanity.

 

When you pray you ask for pranic energy.  Pranic energy is the Love of God reaching out throughout His creations.  If you are tuned in, you will feel the Love of God flowing into your hearts.  You can divert the pranic energy earned by your prayers to other spirits like the angels, to living persons, to your children, parents, relatives and friends, or to humanity in general.  You can divert this pranic energy, more importantly, to the souls imprisoned by their love of selves and the gratification of their selfish desires and needs.  Did not Jesus Christ say that to be saved, to reach heaven, "Love thy neighbors"?  What he meant is: Love thy neighbors, living and dead, more than yourself.  When you do this you are happy.

 

Have you not noticed that glow in the face, the serene contentment, the sense of direction of people in apostolic work, of persons engaged in charitable endeavors?  They are experiencing heaven. They are at the doorstep of heaven.

 

What then is the shortcut path to heaven?

 

1.  PRAY.  PRAY THE LORD'S PRAYER.  Dedicate it daily to yourself and to your loved ones, living and dead, and to humanity in general.

 

2.  PRAY FOR YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL. Again, do this daily.  He helps you in your quest for heaven.  You have an efficient guide.

 

3.  MEDITATE.  Think of the Love of God.  Feel His Love.  Think of the goodness of man.  Feel the beauty of humanity.  The selfishness of man, reciprocate with Love.  Think of your destiny.  Think of the limited hours and minutes God gave you.  Imagine yourself before God and now making an accounting of how you spent those hours and minutes.  Yes, you have not much to show.  Time to cram.  Think of ways you can make up for your lapses. Act now. Tomorrow may not come.

 

4.  BE PURE IN THOUGHTS, WORDS, AND DEEDS.  Thoughts are “actions” of your spirit, while words and deeds are the actions of your body. For both, you have to follow strictly the dictates of your conscience --- the caretaker of the knowledge of good and evil.  Every action is recorded in your soul --- the clothes of your spirit.  At baptism, the soul is cleansed of any blemish.  Every act contrary to your conscience puts the corresponding black spot in your soul.  There is no escape.  Watch out for every action you make.  Black spots repel pranic energy.  Cleanse, therefore, your soul as often as possible.

 

5.  DETACH YOURSELF FROM THE PULL OF MATERIAL THINGS.  When you deny some of your desires, you reduce your affinity to material things.  When you reduce your affinity for material things, you lessen your love for yourself.  As exercise, fast for a day or two by not taking any solid food.  Then pray and ask for pranic energy so that God may reign in you heart.  Feel the Love of God in your heart.

 

6.  FAST FOR 40 DAYS AND NIGHTS.  This will finally liberate you from the prison of your love of self and attain the Love of humanity which is the freedom and pure happiness, as Love of humanity is Love of God.

 

7. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORS, LIVING AND DEAD.  If you do, Love of God will reign in your heart.  Pranic energy will enter your being and stay.  You will become the temple of God.  You are now in heaven and the level of your happiness depends on the intensity of your Love for humanity and God.

 

When Love of humanity reigns in your heart, Christ is in you because Christ is the Love of God for humanity.  Christ is the pranic energy constantly emanating from God trying to reach His every creation.  When you sin, you block this energy from reaching you.  But when it reaches you, you too try to reach others by helping them.  And when you help others, irrespective of the condition of soul, pranic energy enters and erases the dark spots in your soul.  The more you love your neighbor, the more dark spots are erased.  That is why Jesus. Christ said that for man to be saved, man must "love his neighbor."  This is the surest path to heaven.  Heaven is here and beyond. It is within your grasp. --- ###