Life Death and Beyond

There is precious learning lesson in this for us—that this world is only a world for effort, not for receiving all the fruits of our efforts. In Search of a Satisfactory Explanation of Human Life The famous American Christian preacher Billy Graham was once on tour when he got a message from a wealthy man. The man wanted Billy Graham to meet him immediately. Billy Graham changed his programme and went to meet him. When he got to the man’s house, the man told him, “You see, I am an old man. Life has lost all meaning. I am going to take a fateful leap into the unknown. Young man, can you give me a ray of hope?” This isn’t the story of just one rich American man. Rather, it’s the story of just about every human being. Almost every person, rich or poor, ‘big’ or ‘small’, is, towards the end of his life, afflicted with this feeling. Every person wants to build a world of his dreams for himself. He spends all his life for this purpose, until the last moment of this short life of his arrives and he departs from this world in the regret that he failed to obtain what he wanted to. Why is this so? In this vast universe, a human being is the only creature who nurses in his heart innumerable desires. Is it that we have these desires only that they shall never be fulfilled and that