THE CONCEPT OF THE AFTERLIFE AS AN IMPERATIVE

Argument for the Life Hereafter ~ 217 ~ technology. Why should we believe then that science and technology will ever succeed in creating that new world of peace and happiness after which man is eternally questing? Now let us consider this problem from a moral point of view. The sordid state of affairs prevailing in the present world makes it imperative that there should be a life hereafter. The whole history of man is rendered meaningless if this concept is subtracted from it. Human nature is such that we discriminate between good and evil, between justice and injustice. No other creature save man displays this moral sense. Yet, it is in this very world of man that we find this particular instinct being suppressed. Man exploits his fellow men, robs them, tortures them, in short, oppresses them in many different ways—even murders them. Whereas even the animals do not butcher their own species. Wolf does not eat wolf, but man has become a wolf to his own species. No doubt, the history of man shows occasional sparks of truth and justice, which are highly commendable, but the major part of human history tells heart-