PREPARING FOR DEATH

PREPARING FOR DEATH The Ultimate Destination M AN comes to this world equipped with an excellent mind and an excellent body. Therefore, the first thing one must think of is how he came into being. The world in which he finds himself is an exceptionally favourable one for survival. Here he finds an earth where he can live in comfort. There is the sun which continuously gives light and energy to him. Here is fertile soil in which all kinds of crops can grow. There is abundant water, which is essential for sustaining life. Here there is air which unceasingly provides him with oxygen to breathe. This planet Earth inhabited by man supports him in numerous ways. Here is a life-support system of a very high order. Without this it could have been impossible for man to survive or make progress. Man has been granted so many blessings that it is impossible to count them all. Only some of these blessings have been discovered by science. These too are so immense in number that even if someone studied them all his life, he would not be able to learn about all of them. This situation poses a great question which no person can overlook. Man’s own astonishing existence and the beautiful world around him compel him to ponder upon how all this came about. We have to ask these questions: Who made me? Who created this world? Who created this most meaningful life-support system and pressed it into my service? Everything in this world is a great blessing and everything is silently giving a call and inviting us to ponder over this matter and discover who the provider of all these blessings is! There is another very grave matter linked to this question and that is the ephemerality of human existence. Man is born with the most precious faculties. He possesses a miraculous mind. He wishes to achieve limitless progress by making use of his extraordinary talents. Human life appears to have an eternal character but, within less than a hundred years, while man is still on his life’s journey, some unknown power intervenes and takes him away and sends him to another world. We have to ask these questions: Who made me? Who created this world? Who created this most meaningful life-support system and pressed it into my service?