MAN

that his urge to find fulfillment is relative to tomorrow, that is, he sees his fulfillment as achievable in the future. The biological span of today is very brief, that is why nature has provided for human fulfillment in the lifespan 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 could be greatly extended, the conditions on earth are so full of constraints that man’s unlimited mind could never utilize its full potential. 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. 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 an eternal one. And it is in the Hereafter that he shall find the opportunity to utilize the full potential of his mind and achieve the happiness induced by total fulfillment. However, in the second stage of life, the true achievers will only be those who have 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 fulfillment 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 harder 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 the one who, after having reached the limit of this worldly lifespan, dies having made full preparation for his tomorrow. Indeed, it is only one such as he, who is worthy of being called a successful person. o