A LAST WORD

man, know theyself! ~ 33 ~ or we grow fruit. We grow weeds or we grow flowers. Whatever we do, the period of our preparation of this crop lasts until the day we die. The day of our death is harvest day. That is the day that we shall reap as we have sown. When our eyes close on this world, they will open on the after-life and there, before our eyes, will be the crop which we have been cultivating (or neglecting) all our lives. It is worth remembering that the person who does the farming is the one who does the harvesting, and that he will reap only the crop that he has sown. In the after-world, too, everyone will reap the harvest he had prepared for himself while he was still in the world of the living. Every farmer knows full well that he will take to the granary only as much grain as he has grown, and that the crop can never be other than what he had sowed. In the afterworld, man’s reward or punishment will be in direct proportion to the goodness or evil of his actions, to the goodness or evil of his intentions, and to the earnestness with which he courts good and shuns evil. Death puts a full stop to the period