The Final Future

The Final Future

1989 11 November 24 The Final Future (336) Each and everyone of us is going – broadly speaking – to meet the same fate as that of Mr. Bahuguna. Everyone living out that grand “45 year life-span” will find it coming abruptly to an end. Nothing will remain ahead but the gates of death and, beyond that, God’s court of divine judgement.

Mr. Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna, the well-known Indian political leader, breathed his last on March 17, 1989, at the age of seventy in a hospital in Cleaveland, U.S.A., where he had been under treatment. Mr. Bahuguna had achieved great political fame during the earlier part of his career, but in the last period of his life, his days were spent in comparative loneliness. The Times of India (March 18, 1989) writes: “One by one his friends left him, his political allies deserted him and, at the end of a political career spanning 45 years, he found himself in a near wilderness.”

Each and every one of us is going – broadly speaking – to meet the same fate as that of Mr. Bahuguna. Everyone living out that grand “45 year life-span” will find it coming abruptly to an end. Nothing will remain ahead but the gates of death and, beyond that, God’s court of divine judgement.

Everyone is granted his “45 years” in this world. But this period is not, as so many people seem to think, intended solely for the building of a brilliant political career. This period is granted to man only so that he may prepare himself for the life to come. Those who recognize this “45 years” as a preliminary stage of preparation and avail of it to the best advantage, will have every success in the permanent life of the hereafter. Conversely, those who regard this “45 years” as all in all will be in the position of those who expect a crop before they have planted the seeds. Nothing but eternal failure awaits such people in the world to come.

How brilliant man’s earthly career, but how lackluster his final future.