THE CONCEPT OF TOMORROW

analogy is the only possible means of elucidating an observation, it must necessarily be equated with academic proof: of that particular concept being the true one. That is, it is the correct scientific stand. Keeping these realities in view, when we explain human life, we have to portray the present world as a temporary abode, rather than as man’s eternal destination. Fulfilment is the deepest aspiration of the human being. But seldom does anyone attain this objective before he dies. The life span before death is like a training period, and the present world is, as it were, man’s training ground. Here, ideally, he should receive very thorough moral conditioning during what is only a temporary stay, and then move on to the next eternal world. Every man is necessarily faced with death. What is death? Death is, in fact, a bridge. It acts as a mode of transference from temporal life to eternal life. And it is in the Hereafter that he shall find an opportunity to utilize the full potential of his mind and achieve the happiness induced by total fulfilment. However, in the second stage of life, the true achievers will only be those who had been receptive to the necessary training in the first stage. Those who arrive there without such training will be deprived of any further opportunity to exploit their own potential. Their case, in the world of the Hereafter, will be identical to that of one who remained deprived of fulfilment in the world he left behind, because of his own unwillingness to subject himself to moral conditioning. This deprivation will be, without doubt, a punishment. A harsher punishment is difficult to imagine. If man lives only in his 'today' and dies in his 'today', it is as if he has lived and died the life of an animal. The real man is one who reaches his ‘tomorrow’ by living out his ‘today’ in a state of moral rectitude. He is one who, after having reached the limit of this worldly life span, dies after having made full preparation for his tomorrow. Indeed, it is only one such as he, who is worthy of being called a successful person.