Life Death and Beyond

he thought he was becoming very successful, he now begins to suspect that he is actually failing. Why is this so? A person’s basic fault here is that he has made this world his target. What he ought to have done instead was to make the Hereafter his target. A person should know that this world is simply a place to sow seeds. It isn’t the place to reap a harvest. The person who desires the world desires something that he is simply not going to obtain in the manner that he desires. Wise is he who becomes a seeker of the Hereafter, because it is the Hereafter which is real and it is that alone which one will obtain in the life after death. The most serious aspect of life is that one gets life only once. We have been given just one chance to engage in action. After this, there is only the eternal consequences of our actions and nothing else. This fact demands that we be very alert, serious and careful with regard to how we spend our life in this world and the direction in which we want to take it. Successful Life, Unsuccessful End A certain man wanted to make a lot of money. He thought that with this money he could obtain all the pleasures of the world. He earned a lot of wealth. He built a grand house. He accumulated all sorts of items of comfort and luxury. Yet, he did not obtain true joy. Then, he became old and bedridden. In the last phase of his life he wrote in his diary: “Now, I am