MATERIAL PURSUIT

Material Pursuit ~ 107 ~ But man is not usually able to be consistently responsible. The lure of material things and his own never-ending greed cause him to pursue worldly ends unceasingly and with the utmost concentration. In this way he passes his days until the time comes for him to depart from this world. At that time he leaves all his life’s earnings behind him. In the next world he finds himself all of a sudden in a state of total deprivation, having nothing with him to stand by him in the next stage of his life. Man craves for more and more money, for gathering around him more and more material comforts. He thinks incessantly of this world until his call to leave for the next world comes. Only then does the realisation dawn on him that all his savings will be of no avail in that world where he has to live for all eternity. That is, he has saved nothing for the world to come. The accumulation of material things only adds to man’s accountability. But man in his sheer ignorance continues to think, blissfully indeed, that his success is being crowned with more and more laurels.