When Death Will Expose Everything As False

People think that they are being very successful in trying to rationalize or explain away their misdeeds, while their success actually lies in openly acknowledging their misdeeds. They have been given the power of speech so that they can use it to praise God, but they employ it instead to shower praises on fellow human beings. Fine emotions such as fear and love have been placed in them so that they can devote these to God, but they have made created things the objects of their fear and love. They think accumulating wealth is the most important thing, whereas actually, the highest thing for them is to spend their wealth in God’s path. They should have consideration for the weak, but they ignore them and flatter the strong. They should devote themselves to searching for and discovering the meaningfulness of life, but they drown themselves in furious agitation instead. The secret of their true progress lies in engaging in constant introspection, but instead they are busy inspecting and criticizing others. They should consider worldly wealth and respect as unreal and have no attachment to them, but they begin thinking these to be the biggest thing! Today, people are obsessed with critiquing the oppression of others, taking this to be ‘bravery’. Imagine their condition when they will come to know that true bravery is to realize the oppression that they themselves are guilty of! People seek the support of some thing or being besides God, imagining it to be a powerful refuge. Imagine their condition when they will learn that besides God, there is no one who can be a refuge for anyone! People accumulate worldly wealth and fondly imagine that they have obtained what needs to be accumulated. Imagine their condition when death will expose everything of theirs to be false and when they will realize that they have acquired nothing at all!