Keeping one’s Mind on Tomorrow

Keeping one’s Mind on Tomorrow

1985 8 August 10 Keeping one’s Mind on Tomorrow (421) In 1898 Lord Curzon was appointed Viceroy of India. He had two daughters. When Lady Curzon was expecting their third child, both she and her husband were hoping that it would be a boy. Their hopes were dashed, however, when in March 1904, another baby girl was born to them. The couple was staying in Naldara at the time of the birth, and they named their daughter Alexandra Naldara Curzon after the place. Later on Lady Curzon returned to London. In one of the letters that Lord Curzon wrote to her from the summer capital Simla, he consoled her with these words:

“After all what does sex matter after we both of us are gone.”

May be these words just signified an attempt on Lord Curzon’s part to hide his frustration. But the reality that he expressed is one that will solve most of life’s problems, if one becomes really conscious of it.

Man desires money, offspring and power more than anything in this world. He does all he can to acquire them. But if one thinks about it, finally one is going to leave all these things behind. What is the good of having something which one is bound to lose? If people were only to realize this, they would 'become content with what they have. The oppression and cruelty that is perpetrated in the world because of greed would stop.

There is not much difference between finding and losing in this world for no value is attached to finding something when one is only going to lose it. How much effort man puts into acquiring wealth in this world: yet the inevitable result of his efforts is that he leaves everything behind. Every life eventually ends in death. When death comes, it tears one away from the things one was most attached to on earth.

People are living for the present; they have completely forgotten about the future. They think they can build a happy life for themselves by bringing destruction upon others. They do not realize that they themselves are bound for the grave. They seek to ruin others financially by bringing suits against them in human courts. But it is they themselves who are heading for ruin; it is they who will be brought up in the divine court to be judged. They ignore others and take delight in their own glory, ignorant of the fact that soon their vainglory will vanish into thin air, and they will be exposed for the helpless creatures that they are.