Mirage of Material Progress

the fore in different forms. For instance, some years ago, a young woman put a noose around her neck and committed suicide, even though she had become a very successful model. The following words apply to her: “Being famous is like living in a bubble that can burst at any moment.” In another case, some years ago, an interview with one of India’s ‘biggest’ industrialists was published in a newspaper. Although he was one of India’s ‘richest’ persons, wealth did not give him joy. Despite possessing much material wealth, he was leading an utterly non-peaceful life. Many other people have money, fame, and power but are unhappy. Unfortunately, these things cannot give you lasting happiness. In their mind, every person has a beautiful image of a joyfilled world—Paradise. So, spending all their energies and time, they try to accumulate as much money as possible to construct the world of their dreams. However, after attaining all the material things they hankered after while living in this world, they realise their failure to find real peace in the ‘paradise’ they made for themselves. It is the condition of almost every person. Nearly every man is buried in the beautiful graveyard that he has built. Their desired ideal world is a world of unlimited comforts, and such a world cannot be made in the present limited world. It can be built only in the world that comes after death. This next world is unlimited, as well as eternal. In this world, if any person wants to build a successful life for himself, the first thing that he ought to know is God’s