Love of God

THE BLESSING OF OLD AGE FOR MAN testing ground is the real obstacle to man’s enjoying these pleasures to the full. Naturally, in spite of having the capacity for pleasure par excellence, no person in the present world is able to achieve fulfilment. According to religious faith, the place for this fulfilment is the world after death. Now the question is, who is that person, who will have the opportunity to experience fulfilment in the next world? If strict conditions of action were applied, no one would be able to meet this. No one will have it purely on the strength of having done good deeds. This means that in spite of being a pleasure-seeking animal, human beings will be eternally deprived of the enjoyment of pleasures. The answer is that Paradise will not be given to anyone purely on the basis of the quantum of his good deeds. It will be given, rather, by the mercy of God Almighty. The preferred ones are unique people who, despite having done every kind of good deed have actually attached no value to their actions and expect that it will only be when God’s mercy envelopes them that they will gain entry into Paradise. THE BLESSING OF OLD AGE FOR MAN When a man reaches old age and comes face to face with death, his thinking changes and he becomes cut to size. Old age gives man an opportunity to become a realist. There are two periods of life–youth and old age. Before reaching the stage of old age, a man has energy, and is