RamaRaksha
Active Member
When i hear the concept of Heaven - endless days of joy and happiness, i think of the famous proverb - "if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is" - that describes heaven
Heaven is a fantasy. Heaven is a metaphor for the womb, childhood, the past, running back to the nest. Childhood, the womb was a wonderful time for us - we were cared for, protected, sheltered, fed, kept away from the problems of life - basically we lived in a bubble
Basically heaven is just that - a bubble.
I was watching a nature documentary the other day - this mouse like creature living in the Australian desert, a young thing - while its mother was out hunting, curious unlike its siblings, ventures out of the nest. It gets lost as it gets attacked by an owl - somehow learns to fend for itself by learning to catch and eat bugs - does that for a while and then suddenly one day it finds itself right back home! There is the little entrance to its former home, his mother and siblings waiting for him inside - safety and security at last! But then the creature stops, doesn't go inside! Instead it turns around and makes its way into the world!
That creature has learnt what its siblings will also one day, as we all have also - that we cannot be children all our lives, that our parents cannot provide and protect us forever - that we have to grow up sometime - become Adults, make a life for ourselves
That's the problem with heaven - it is a metaphor for running back to the safety of the nest, but why didn't the little creature not do that? Instead of safety, security and happiness it chose danger, having to stand on its own two feet - because the latter meant having a life! Choosing Heaven means saying goodbye to not having a life, choosing to stay a child forever, forever afraid to grow up
Heaven is a fantasy. Heaven is a metaphor for the womb, childhood, the past, running back to the nest. Childhood, the womb was a wonderful time for us - we were cared for, protected, sheltered, fed, kept away from the problems of life - basically we lived in a bubble
Basically heaven is just that - a bubble.
I was watching a nature documentary the other day - this mouse like creature living in the Australian desert, a young thing - while its mother was out hunting, curious unlike its siblings, ventures out of the nest. It gets lost as it gets attacked by an owl - somehow learns to fend for itself by learning to catch and eat bugs - does that for a while and then suddenly one day it finds itself right back home! There is the little entrance to its former home, his mother and siblings waiting for him inside - safety and security at last! But then the creature stops, doesn't go inside! Instead it turns around and makes its way into the world!
That creature has learnt what its siblings will also one day, as we all have also - that we cannot be children all our lives, that our parents cannot provide and protect us forever - that we have to grow up sometime - become Adults, make a life for ourselves
That's the problem with heaven - it is a metaphor for running back to the safety of the nest, but why didn't the little creature not do that? Instead of safety, security and happiness it chose danger, having to stand on its own two feet - because the latter meant having a life! Choosing Heaven means saying goodbye to not having a life, choosing to stay a child forever, forever afraid to grow up