১২৩ তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিকা ४७ कङ, ७ छ: THE RELIGION OF LOVE INTENDED For ALL SECTS AND CHURCHES, By A Hindu. (Contiuued from page 241.) CHAPTER XIII. Of Hell and Heaven and the Life Eternal 1. Love is Heaven and hatred Hell. 2. All men are agreed on the point that there is a future life containing states of rewards and punishments but about what those states in particular are, all men are not agreed ; but of this thore can be no doubt that the state of reward for piety and virtue, or, in other words, Heaven, whatever that state in particular may be, must be a state of love, and joy and of light in the mind, and that the state of punishment for vice, or in other words, Hell, whatever that state may be in particular, must be a state of mutual hatred, mutual distrust, deep remorse for past deeds and constant mental gloom. There can be no sectarian diversity of opinion on this point. 3. 1s we ennoble our nature we shall attain a noblor state than that on carth. If we debase our nature, we shall do so an inferior ©Ꭰ Ꮛ. 4. All men are agreed on the point that the pious and virtuous shall attain a state of pure aud eternal happiness. The Bible, speaking of this state in one place, saith, “God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain” and in another plece,"The sun and moon shall no longer light them, but the Lord Himself shall be their light.” The Upanishad, the principal scripture of the Hindus, saith, “There is neither sun nor moon in the highest heaven. It shineth ofitself.** The Bhagabat Gita, or the Song Celestial, the favorite scripture of the Hindus, saith, “The pious man gaineth the station subject to no decay which the sun doth not light nor the moon nor fire and after gaining which a man doth not return. That is the great mansion of God.” The Hindi song representeth a lady as telling her companion: “Friend! I wish to go to that place of which there is no name or special locality, where there is not this heaven and ASA SSASAS SSAS SSAS SSAS where Rama, and Rahim are one, (i e where there are no sectarian distinctions) * where there is no Veda or Koran, where the sun or the moon doth not shine, where there are no sin and misery.” Quotations can be made from the religious books or songs of the followers of other religions to that effect. The state of pure and eternal happiness for which all men sigh is the Life Eternal. There must be a state of existence for the gratification of this deep and craving appetite for pure and gternal happiness. Nature must have made a provision for the gratification of this appetite as of other appetites. 5. Life eternal beginneth here on earth if a man be united to God, in spite of antagomitic environ ments. Those environments will be made better and better in better worlds as his nature becometh better and better suited for them until he he placed beyond the limitations of time and space, until God be his sole environment. The Being Eternal shall be his sole environment in the Life Eternal. He shall be his eternal environment. 6. For gaining Life Eternal, open correspondence will the Eternal Environment from this terrestrial condition by means of communion and the practice of virtue. The Life eternal or the kingdom of Heaven is within thee. It only wanteth developing. The development must commence from this state. 7. The All-merciful God’s punishment for sin is remcdial. He doth not punish for revenge. God's punishment is remedy for the soul. 8. By means of the above remody, sinful men will be cured wholly of sin, which is but spiritual disease and made fit for the state of Life Eternal. 9. All our misery proceedeth from want of power or want of knowledge. The Being, infinitely powerful and infinitety knowing, must enjoy perfect felicity, or more correctly, must be felicity itself. 10. From the Being who is felicity itself, these beings proceed; in the Being who is -
- Rama of the Hindus, is an incarnation of Vishnu or God in his capacity of Preserver of the world. Rahim or the Merciful, is
the name by which the Mahommedans ddore earth, where all religious doubts are dispelled, the One True God.
