Reflections on Life and Death

A Strange Deprivation you are doing it before God. It is to be concerned much more about the Hereafter than this world. A Strange Deprivation I f you give someone a one-rupee coin and tell him that somewhere ahead there is a heap of ten million such coins and that if he runs there quickly, he can obtain all that money, what do you think he might do with the one rupee that you gave him? He will forget it and run after the ten million rupees! The issue of this world and the Hereafter is somewhat similar. This world is an introduction to the Hereafter. Here, people obtain an initial recognition of those blessings and joys that God has arranged for in their full form in the Hereafter. This is in order that man can understand the whole from the part, that he can gauge the ocean from jut a drop. If someone truly realizes what this world is, for him it will seem like the one rupee coin mentioned above. He will leave aside this small joy and rush after a much bigger one. Forgetting this world, he will run towards the Hereafter. On the other hand, someone who does not understand the true nature of this world will take it to be everything. Forgetting the Hereafter, he will remain completely drowned in the things of this world. The sun exists in order to introduce to man the life