Deprived of Meeting with Each Other

DEPRIVED OF MEETING WITH EACH OTHER God on the one hand, created man with unlimited desires, and on the other hand, placed all the objects for the fulfilment of his desires in eternal Paradise. To fulfil one’s desires one has to prove oneself eligible for entry into Paradise. The river has two banks which can never come together. This parallels the lives of human beings in the sense that God on the one hand, created man with unlimited desires, and on the other hand, gave him all the objects for the fulfilment of his desires, yet no one is able to fulfil his desires in this world. It is as though, on the one hand, there is the world of pleasure, on which it is written ‘no takers’, while, on the other hand, there is the human world which is saying sotto voce: “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner) This contradictory situation has gone on for thousands of years. Everyone, consciously or unconsciously, wants to know the answer to this conundrum, but no one has been able to find the answer. One such expression of it is that every popular novel is a tragedy. The novel is an expression of human experience. And in the present situation it is only tragedy that addresses the human mind, not comedy. This situation confirms what religious faiths say about the Hereafter. The explanation of this situation is that, “the two shores” which cannot be brought together in the pre-death