Daily Meditation: Sunday, November 14, 1999

When people are asked if they would like to live in heaven, …

11/14/1999

When people are asked if they would like to live in heaven, the majority will say : ‘Well yes, of course !' What they do not know is that you must prepare yourself if you want to live in heaven. You cannot live in the higher regions if you do not possess the means, otherwise you will be there for only a moment before running back to earth saying : ‘But they don't have cigarettes there – not even pubs, or clubs ! And I want to smoke. I want to drink. I want to kiss pretty women. I want to go back down.' If you wish to live in sublime regions, you should not have such crude needs. That is why not everybody is ready to live in heaven. Even if people are put there forcibly, they will soon leave complaining : ‘It's quite unbearable, you die here !' That is no reason, however, not to try to adapt to divine life. For millions of years humanity has evolved on earth and if you make the effort to practise meditation every day, putting to work cells in certain areas of your brain, you will go very far – so far, in fact, that eventually you will make your home in the divine world.