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to think from every nook and comer, but he couldn't get it, because the puzzle was THERE. If he says Yes, then there is a problem. If he says No, then too there is a problem.
On the seventh day he came to the church one hour before his sermon; he went to the terrace, was brooding there, closed his eyes -- the whole of the previous night he could not sleep because he was thinking and thinking and thinking -- and again he fell into sleep, and he had a dream.
In dream he saw himself going in a train somewhere. He asked: Where is this train going? and people said: We are going to heaven. He said: This is good. This is the right thing. I will ask where those people are who are virtuous, for example Socrates -- good, virtuous, but he never believed in God; where are they? So he went into heaven. But he didn't like the look of the place. It looked a little ruinuous, no happiness, a little boring, no excitement -- of course, silent -- but it looked dead. He could not believe that this was heaven.
Then he asked: When does the train leave for hell? The train was ready, so he entered. He went to hell. He could not believe his eyes again because things were really beautiful. Beautiful trees, greenery, flowers, birds singing, and everybody was happy. He said, There is something wrong! THIS seems to be like heaven.
He went into the town. He asked people: Is Socrates here? They said, Yes, he is working in the fields. So he went to Socrates and he said: Are you here? You, good and virtuous, but you didn't believe in God? So you have been thrown in hell? He said: I don't know about hell at all, but since we came here we have turned it into heaven.
SHOCKED, his eyes opened.
Edmund Burke was waiting downstairs. He came there and he said: I don't know now exactly, but a dream I had I will tell you. In the dream I came to realize that people who are goo-d and virtuous, wherever they go -- that place becomes heaven. People who are not virtuous and good, even if they believe in God, wherever they go -- that place becomes a hell. This is how it has been revealed to me in my dream.
The world has become a hell because nobody trusts himself.
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