Heaven and Hell, The Real Difference

by **Sarveswara** Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:15 am

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Heaven and Hell,The Real Difference

A man spoke with the Lord
about heaven and hell.

The Lord said to the man,
"Come, I will show you hell."

They entered a room where a group of
people sat around a huge pot of stew.
Everyone was famished,
desperate and starving.

Each held a spoon that reached the pot,
but each spoon had a handle so much
longer than their own arm that it could not
be used to get the stew into their own mouths.

The suffering was terrible.

"Come, now I will show you heaven,"
the Lord said after a while.

They entered another room, identical to the first -
the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons.
But there everyone was happy and well-nourished.

"I don't understand," said the man.
"Why are they happy here when they were miserable
in the other room and everything was the same?"

The Lord smiled.
"Ah, it is simple," he said. "Here they have learned to feed each other."

This is how our Ashram is ...
here we feed each other with our ...
love and support. ...
This is our heaven! ...

Heaven and Hell, The Real Difference Grouph10

Heaven and Hell, The Real Difference Daniel13

by Ann Landers
US Advice Columnist (1918-2002)

Artwork by Daniel Holman