Successful Life, Unsuccessful End

SUCCESSFUL LIFE, UNSUCCESSFUL END having reached the final stage of her life, she feels that she has failed to find what she wanted. In 2007, Lata Mangeshkar was interviewed by Ms. Sudeshna Chatterjee. This interview was published in the New Delhi edition of Times of India in its Supplement: Times Life, on September 30, 2007. According to this report, in spite of all her successes, Lata Mangeshkar lives in a state of dejection. This interview is titled “My dreams have never got fulfilled.” The interviewer asked Lata Mangeshkar if God were to ask her what would be her greatest desire at this stage of her life, what her reply would be? She promptly said: ‘I would like to leave this world.’ (Supplement: Times of India, New Delhi, September 30, 2007, p. 3) In this story of the failure of successful people is hidden a great lesson for all men and women. It is that the happy life, to achieve which they devote their whole lives, is not at all achievable in this world. The existence of desire, but the absence of the fulfilment of desire indicates a great and important reality. It is that what man wants to find in the pre-death period, has been placed by God in the post-death period. In such a case the greatest wisdom lies in man making himself deserving of success in the world after death. He should devote all his energy in this present temporary life to the preparation for his eternal life. Man by birth is an idealist. But in this present world everything is far from ideal. This is the actual reason for all