WHY THIS CONTRADICTION? — Endless Desires And Limited Fulfilment

limited capacity to enjoy them. It is this inability of Man that crops up between him and his object of enjoyment. Even after achieving everything, he continues to live with an acute sense of deprivation. Man’s physical weakness, the aging process, disease, calamities and, eventually, death, all continually go on refuting his desires. After having acquired the objects of his desire, he loses the capacity to enjoy them. If we do an in-depth study of this contradiction, we find that in actuality this is not a contradiction but the result of difference in chronology. The law of nature, prescribes that in his pre-death period Man will obtain just a preliminary introduction of the luxuries that he yearns for. Only in the post-death period will he be able to completely obtain and enjoy them. Man has been endowed with an unlimited sense of enjoyment; but the objects of his happiness have all been kept for him in the Hereafter. A farmer first sows seeds and then harvests them. Iron is first melted and then cast into steel. Likewise, everything in this world is accomplished on a step-by-step basis. Everything first passes through its preliminary stage and then reaches its final form. Nothing is an exception to this law. The same holds true for Man. Man has been endowed with an unlimited sense of enjoyment; but the objects of his happiness have all been kept for him in the Hereafter. In the present world Man discovers his sense of enjoyment, but he can fully attain the objects of his happiness only in the Hereafter. As per the creation plan of God, Man gets to see in this world a prototype of all possible joys and luxuries. In this way, God conveys to Man that if he wants to avail all of these joys eternally and completely, he has to qualify for it. What is this qualification? In one word, it is to make one self a purified soul. Man must keep himself away from all negative thoughts and tendencies, such as greed, selfishness, dishonesty, lying, anger, revenge, violence, hatred and so on. He should develop a totally positive personality, and in this way become worthy of entry into heaven. Man’s life is divided into two phases — the pre-death period and