Life Death and Beyond

creation plan, we are not going to obtain in the world of today all that we desire. It is simply not possible. Exceptionally among all creatures, human beings have a concept of tomorrow. This is in the language of nature an answer to every person’s question. This fact tells us all that an individual desires can indeed be obtained in the phase of life of tomorrow—in the Hereafter, if he proves himself qualified for it. But for him to receive it in the phase of life of today, in this world, has not been decreed according to the law of nature. Will You be Alive Tomorrow? He who has died has died. This everyone knows. But there is another fact, which few people care to think about—that one day or the other they too will die. One day, you and me— all of us—will meet the same fate as has befallen hundreds of millions of people right from the dawn of human history. Every day we see or hear about people dying somewhere or the other but, strangely, in our minds we exempt ourselves from this experience, as if such exemption were really possible! It is as if people are announcing, “Others had to die, and so they have died. But I am never going to die!” This is a terribly dangerous delusion. It is like the proverbial ostrich burying its head in the sand. The fact is that whether one thinks about one’s death or not, death in any case is racing towards us! Death is like a personal earthquake. An earthquake strikes without making a prior announcement. Similarly, death arrives