The Destiny of Man

moment of his short life arrives, and he departs from this world in utter frustration because he failed to acquire all he had wanted. Why is this so? In this vast Universe, man is the only creature who possesses innumerable desires. Will these desires never be fulfilled, and will every person be buried in the graveyard of their desires? Every person harbours dreams of a beautiful world. Does this world of dreams exist only to remain a mere dream and never come true? Every person nurtures a garden of hope in his breast, but no one is able to enter that beautiful garden. Why is there this contradiction in Nature? Besides man, nowhere is this contradiction present in the vast Universe. Minerals, plants, and animals—their worlds are entirely free of such a contradiction. So then, why is this contradiction found only in man’s life? This is because there is an essential difference between man and the rest of the Universe. The difference is that man’s life is marked by the pre-death and post-death stages. In contrast, all other things in the Universe have only one stage—i.e., they come into existence, and then one day, they get extinguished. So first, they take birth, then, after some time, they die and are eliminated forever. The fact is that the ideal things that man wants to obtain in the first stage of his life can be obtained only in the second stage. What has been destined for him in the second stage of life, no one can find in the first stage. In this case, a special law for man does not apply to other things and