People speak of heaven and hell as if they exist somewhere after death. The Bible says: “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), and yet people look outside, to clouds, to graves, to somewhere beyond. The Qur’an says: “He will burn in hell who dies with arrogance and ego in his heart” (4:37, 21:98). And still, religions present heaven and hell as distant, as afterlife. Because the mind refuses to take truth seriously while alive. This is the secret of religion: heaven and hell are promised after death to awaken you, to scare you, to inspire surrender. The mind is lazy, the ego clings to power, to importance, to illusions. So religion says, “Do this now, or burn later; be good, or be rewarded later.” But listen carefully: there is no afterlife. Only now exists. Only this life exists. If you die with ego, the Qur’an says you burn, not because God punishes you, not because someone outside is angry, but because ego itself cannot survive the fire of reality. Ego is combustible, fragile, illusory. At the moment of physical death, the body and mind fall away, and ego meets the ultimate truth: it is nothing. It combusts, it vanishes. You burn only because of you, your clinging, your separateness. God is not the executioner; God is silent, ever-present, always free. Heaven and hell are states of consciousness, not places somewhere else. Anger, greed, fear, control, statues, that is hell. Love, awareness, surrender, that is heaven. Both are happening now. Look at your body. Look at your hands, your eyes, your lungs, your heartbeat. Once nothing, now a miracle. From nothing, you are alive, aware, conscious. Do you see it? Every breath is heaven. Every fear is hell. Heaven and hell are words, stories, warnings, not geography. Life itself is the teacher, and every moment is the lesson. The Bible points to the same secret: “What you have done to the least of these, you have done to me” (Matthew 25:40). Look inward: what you do, how you love, how you hate, heaven and hell are here, not after death. The Qur’an says: “We are closer to you than your jugular vein” (50:16). The Self, the Being, is closer than thought, closer than ego. Yet you run, you hope, you plan, you fear. Drop the ego. Drop fear. Drop the illusion of importance. Dance! Laugh! Play! Life is happening through you, not by you. From nothing, you arose. From nothing, a hand, a heart, a mind, what a miracle. And yet you worry about afterlife? No! The first and the last life is now. Burn in awareness while alive. Love while alive. The real fire is within, the real paradise is within. Heaven and hell are stories told for awakening. The moment you drop ego, heaven is here, hell vanishes, and the miracle of Being shines. Silence. Laughter. Freedom. This is life. This is the first. This is the last. Best Regards,