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The Ant Culture

according to the law of nature and also a lesson that the
Creator wanted to impart to man. In unspoken words,
the Creator says: ‘O man! Adopt the ant culture.’
The ant follows this principle by instinct. For ants,
it is a natural compulsion. The ant does not know any
other way. But man has freedom and he does by his own
choice what animals do as a matter of instinct. Man
should, of his own, follow the ant culture. What for the
ant is a question of instinct, for man is a question of
exercising his freedom of choice. He must exercise his
intellect, realize the importance of the ant culture and
adopt this culture as his own.

According to the law of nature, our world is a mixture
of both negative and positive features. This culture is
not accidental; it is a direct product of the divine plan.
God Almighty wants to give man the credit which He
never destined for the ant.
It is the right exercise of freedom that makes one a
deserving candidate for paradise. Paradise is for those
selected persons who rightfully exercise their freedom of
choice and are able to maintain their positive thinking
although surrounded by a jungle of negativity.

It would be a very easy matter for a person to adopt
the ant culture. According to the law of nature, our
world will always be a mixture of the negative and the
positive, but by the same law of nature, negative features
will always be less than one per cent and positive
features will always be more than ninety-nine per cent.
Discover this fact of nature and you will gain a two-fold
benefit: this discovery will give you mental equilibrium

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