Reflections on Life and Death

this world. Likewise, he will value those things that will prove to be of value in the Hereafter, no matter how inconsequential other people might think them to be. People use seemingly beautiful words in order to deny the truth. But in the Hereafter, they will realize that all that they had clung to in this world has abandoned them. Powerful people commit injustices and exult in the belief that the oppressed cannot harm them in the least. But in the Hereafter, they will see that all their power has been left behind in the world that they have abandoned. Man’s material possessions deceive him. They boost his ego and pride. But in the Hereafter, he will discover that all that he possessed is now far, far away from him. The difference between a person of deep faith and trust in God and somebody else is that the latter spends his life thinking that he has to live in this world, while a true believer leads his life in the awareness that he has to go till the Hereafter.

The Stage of Life O n the night of the 21st of September 1981, 90 year-old Mr. B.K. Rama Reddy and his 80 yearold wife Phulabai were in their house in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. There was only one more person in the house at that time—their 50 year-old employee Ramayya.