Why This Heedlessness of Death?

Why This Heedlessness of Death? test and who doesn’t. Those who pass the test of life will be chosen and settled in Paradise. And those who fail the test will be branded as a rejected lot, separated from the others. Death is actually a midway station in an eternal journey. It is part of the continuity of life. None of us knows when death will come to us. The time of our death is known only to God. It is because of this that rarely, if ever, do we think about our death. We remain unaware of this reality until death suddenly whisks us away to another realm. Every person has been made as an eternal being. No one can destroy this eternalness of a human being. However, when God sees that the period of someone’s test in this world is over, He decides to put a stop to his stay on Earth and arranges for him to be taken from this world and brought into the next, eternal world. This transfer period is called death. In reality, death is simply about being transferred from one place or plane to another. It is definitely not the end of life. This fact tells us that for success in this life, each of us should develop a special ability, and that is, ‘anti-programming thinking’. This sort of thinking is, as it were, thinking against oneself. Only in this way can we truly understand the issue of our own death, by thinking against our programmed heedlessness about it. Only then can we properly plan our life in such a way that we may gain true success, in this world and in the world after death. Under the influence of programming, which causes him to be heedless of the fact of his death, a person seeks to build Heaven on earth, in this present world, for himself. But this is the height of stupidity because it is to mistake the journey (i.e. our temporary passage through this world) for the final destination itself—Paradise in the Hereafter—and that is something that is doomed to fail. All the things we may put ourselves to in accumulating here on Earth will suddenly be taken away from us the moment we die. We will leave all of it behind and go to the next world completely empty-handed.