THE CONCEPT OF TOMORROW

they have no concept of tomorrow. They live only in 'their today' and also die in 'their today'. A number of animal activities which seem to be based on a certain consciousness of tomorrow—for instance, the gathering of food by ants for the future—are governed by an innately perceived threat of extinction, rather than by any consciousness of tomorrow or the future. When we ponder upon the unique quality of foresight in man, we find that his urge to find fulfilment is relative to tomorrow: that is, he sees his fulfilment as achievable in the future. The biological span of today is very brief. That is why nature has provided for human fulfilment in the life-span of tomorrow. There are two stages of human life, one pre-death and the other postdeath. The pre-death stage is temporary, while the post-death stage is eternal. This division has been purposefully made. Its objective is to enable man to find in the next stage of life—tomorrow—whatever he has not been able to find today. As mentioned above, the human brain has such an immense potential that man’s physical age—about 100 years—is totally inadequate for its realization. Even if our age were to be greatly extended, the conditions on earth are so full of constraints that man’s unlimited mind would never be able to utilize its full potential. The life span before death is like a training period, and the present world is, as it were, man’s training ground. When we look at this reality we are compelled to believe that man requires a far superior world and far greater longevity for his total fulfilment. In the present situation, the potential of the human mind must always fall short of being used to its fullest extent. To explain life in terms of this reality, let us draw a parallel between human life and an iceberg. We are aware of only the very tiny part of the iceberg which appears above the surface of the ocean, while the larger part lies hidden beneath the waters. In exactly the same way we are also aware of only that tiny part of life which occurs in the first stage before death, while the remainder—the infinitely extended part —lies hidden from us, in the ultimate stage of life after death. Without the element of belief, it is difficult to explain human life, and when an