Prepare for the Eternal Future

Given this, then, we need to plan our life in such a way that our abilities are used for the sake of building our eternal future in the life after death. We should understand our potentials and use them in such a manner that we can derive beneficial results from them in the eternal life after death. We must save ourselves from a tragic fate in the Hereafter, where all we might be able to say is: “I was a case of missed opportunities.” The right way to plan one’s life is that in the life before death one must remain content with only those material things that one needs and use the major portion of one’s time and abilities in such a way that one enters the life after death with a purified personality, being ushered into the perfect world in the life after death to lead a blessed life. There is just one principle for success in both the life before death and the life after death. And that is, to make oneself a ‘prepared personality’. A ‘prepared personality’ in the materialistic sense is a means for materialistic progress in the world before death. In contrast, a prepared personality in the spiritual sense is one that will be useful in that phase of life that comes after death and that lasts forever. Someone who has ‘prepared personality’ in the materialistic sense may have acquired many professional qualifications. Maybe he has got smart business skills. He is popular among people. He hankers after immediate gains. And so on. But the sort of prepared personality that is required for success in the post-death period of life is one that