The Final Journey

worthless there as being worthless now, no matter how great a worldly price it may seem to command. He will give weight only to those things which will be of consequence in the next world, no matter how inconsequential they may seem in this world. In this world, a person may have command of impressive words which he uses to defy the truth; but in the next world he will find himself lost for words. He may wield his power unjustly, being content that his victims will never be able to avenge his wrongs; but in the next world he will be divested of all power. Beguiled by wealth, he may become proud in this world, but in the next world he will have nothing to be proud of; he will have left his wealth behind in this world. This is the basic difference between a man of true faith and a disbeliever. A disbeliever lives on earth as if he is going to stay here forever, while the hallmark of true faith is the belief that one is on the way to the next world. Basically, then, the distinction between belief and disbelief is a psychological one; but these two different attitudes to life make for vastly different practical lives–so different, in fact, that one leads to hell, while the other paves the way to the gardens of paradise. Showing One’s Mettle A n elderly couple, B.K. Rama Reddy aged 90, and his wife, Phula Bai aged 80, were sleeping peacefully in their home at Banjara Hills, Hyderabad on 21st September, 1981, when they were ruthlessly attacked and killed by their fifty-