World of Today, World of Tomorrow

WORLD OF TODAY, WORLD OF TOMORROW humans are born with vast potential, but experience tells us that almost every person dies with the regret that they could not achieve all they had wanted to in this world. Fulfilment is a deep desire in humans. However, nearly everyone dies without attaining this sense of fulfilment, making this tragedy the fate of most people in this world. There are various sorts of animals on earth. They are born and die like humans, but the sense mentioned above of lack of fulfilment is not a problem for them. There is a reason for this fundamental difference between humans and animals. Among all creatures, humans are unique in possessing the concept of ‘tomorrow’ or the future. It is as if an indelible part of human nature is to want to extend their ‘today’ into ‘tomorrow.’ Humans seek to obtain in their ‘tomorrow’ what they failed to achieve in their ‘today.’ The case of animals is different. Animals have no concept of ‘tomorrow.’ They live only in the present moment. They exist solely in ‘today’ and die in this same ‘today.’ So, even though some actions of certain animals may appear to be based on a concept of ‘tomorrow’—for example, ants collecting food for the next season—this behaviour is driven by instinctual demands, not by a consciousness of ‘tomorrow’ or the future. Human life consists of two stages—the pre-death and postdeath periods. The former is temporary, and the latter is eternal. This division exists so that whatever a person could not obtain in ‘today,’ the present world, they may be able to achieve in ‘tomorrow,’ the world of the Hereafter. As mentioned earlier, the human brain contains approximately