Reflections on Life and Death

this present one, a world where human beings will find complete fulfilment of their wishes and hopes. There is another important aspect of this issue— and that is, that the desire for justice is inherent in, or intrinsic to, human nature. By nature, human beings want to be treated justly. They desire justice in this world. They want good people to be fully rewarded for their goodness and evildoers to be suitably punished. This is a basic demand of human nature. This demand, too, requires that there should be another world after this one, where justice finally prevails, because it is not possible for this to happen in this world. If you keep all this in mind, the concept of the Hereafter will become absolutely real and clear to you. With belief in the Hereafter you get a complete answer to every question. Everything falls into place. Time’s Up! A n examination was being held in a school. The students were bent over their desks, busily writing away, hurriedly answering their examination paper. Then, in a short while, the bell rang, announcing that the time allotted for the examination was over. The invigilator called out: “Stop writing! Time’s up!” The very same thing that happens in an examination hall in a school happens, on a wider scale, in every