What is the 'divine heavenly state' and how is it different from the heaven people typically imagine?

📖 Chapter 37

Chapter 37 distinguishes between two concepts of heaven. The common idea of heaven is a place of enjoyment attained through good deeds, which the text dismisses as temporary. The true 'divine heavenly state' is described not as a place, but as a state of being—the Virat (Cosmic) Self-form, which is free from mental grief. This state is defined by the absence of disease, worry, sorrow, hunger, thirst, and the fear of death. In this true heavenly state, the soul 'moves about completely fearless.' One enters this state not through penance or charity for a reward, but by crossing over the 'nooses of death,' which are identified as unrighteousness, ignorance, anger, and hatred.


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