The Reality of the Present World

The Reality of the Present World we know ourselves and others know us. Each of us is engaged throughout our life in efforts to build up our own ‘history’, the basis on which our sense of our identity rests. Yet, none of us gets to remain living in our ‘history’ for too long. Within a hundred years or so, death suddenly arrives and whisks us away. Death is a decision that cannot be revoked. It separates us from our predeath period and takes us into the post-death period of our lives. In this sense, death can be said to mark a ‘break’ in our ‘history’. In this world, we spend all our energies trying to build a little world of our own, a world of our many hopes and desires. All of us are living in these little worlds that we have ourselves constructed, till death carries us away. Death forces us to leave our worlds behind and takes us into a different world, a world for which we may not have made any preparations at all. Behind us is the world we have left for good, and in front of us is an endless world, which we may not have been at all prepared for. The pre-death period is for every one of us the opportunity to prepare for the eternal life that is to come after death. If you spend this opportunity simply on worldly pleasures and in accumulating material wealth, you will have to spend the post-death period of life in complete deprivation. Death is bound to separate you from your pre-death ‘history’—all the worldly things and name and fame that you had accumulated. How tragic it is that people are wasting the precious