Two opposite forms of existence

Two forms of existence can be identified in life. One resembles hell and another one bliss. Neither of them are really hell or bliss, but they are instances of these ideal states. We tend to understand ideal states better especially when they are opposed to each other, hence our conceptualization of life in these ideal terms.

The general preference of life is towards bliss away from hell: pursue pleasure, avoid pain, appears to be the motto of organic life.

One may see the possibility of life eventually figuring out a way to end pain and live in perpetual pleasure. Bliss, therefore, is such state.

Religious stories tell us bliss is not futuristic state to be attained sometime in the future, but rather a state that has already been realized.

We just fall from it because, according to the Quran, Adam wished to have an eternal life and everlasting kingdom, and Iblis, Satan, suggested to him that he can have it if he eats the forbidden fruit. He did. Rather than gain what he wished, he lost what he had.

The moment is reincarnated every time someone tries to get what he desires in not so legitimate fashion: people lose what they had, for instance, they may lose their freedom and end up in prison.

At an individual level, similar events take place. You will come to notice if you pay attention to them.

We are currently then in the hellish world. The way to reverse the fall is not to become desire less, though admirable it is difficult to do, but to be watchful so that you may not be deceived again.

The hellish people, in an ideal world are not watchful, so that they are deceived again and again and again, and thus fall again and again.


The people of the bliss are watchful,l as stated, should need or desire arise they labor to satisfy it or they give it up. Doing so saves them from being deceived and hence the fall to the hellish world.

Because of the blame of the hellish world opposition is constant them, think of Newtonian world, where there is equal and opposite reaction force. To do anything in this world, one has to apply a greater force than supplied by opposing forces. If one is not watchful, or mindful, one inevitably engages in constant combat and then a game of winner and loser emerges. I am better then you and so forth, power dynamics kicks off.

Bliss folks are more kind and less combative because they know we are essentially the same, and science says so, the difference lies on the degree of watchfulness and works. Labor then is the differentiating force and each one gets what he has worked for.

Mindless work, it ought to be remembered, is the condition of the original fall, so it is not good unless one has done work mindfully long enough and then it became a habit, so that it is done mindlessly.

The inhabitants of both worlds labor and develop different habits and by implication different fates.

Both states are reversible at least in this world, so that hellish people become blissful and blissful becomes hellish and so on. It all depends on watchfulness and efforts. However, one can imagine the possibility of being delivered from possibility of fall and gain everlasting bliss.