Reflections on Life and Death

The Other Side of Death the happiness they are looking for, and so they are no different from the first category of people. After getting what they hankered after, they realize that these things do not give them true and lasting joy. And so, in this world those who obtain the objects of their worldly desire feel as deprived as those who do not. Yet, few people realize this. Human beings deprive themselves of what is truly worth having and delude themselves into imagining that the things of this world will give them lasting joy. Life is absolutely uncertain, yet people imagine it to be absolutely certain. People are all advancing in the direction of the unknown ‘tomorrow’, and yet they think that they are building a successful world in the known ‘today’. How unaware people are who think they know themselves! What failures are they who consider themselves to be the most successful of all!

The Other Side of Death T he Greek king Alexander conquered many lands, but when his time to leave this world arrived, he lamented: I wanted to conquer the world but Death has conquered