Be Seeker of the Hereafter

In the present world people constantly run after pleasure. But here, not all our desires for pleasure can be fulfilled.  Here, one races towards one’s desired destination, but few people finally arrive there.

A person enters the struggle of life. He spends all his time and energy in the hope of what he regards as a successful life. But despite having obtained many of the things that he desired, his feeling of deprivation doesn’t end. If someone strongly desired a good job or a new house or the latest sort of car and he gets what he wants, after a while he finds that he still has many unfulfilled desires. After some time, life for him becomes simply a sort of burdensome duty. While once he thought he was becoming very successful, he now begins to suspect that he is actually failing.

Why is this so?

A person’s basic fault here is that he has made this world his target. What he ought to have done instead was to make the Hereafter his target. A person should know that this world is simply a place to sow seeds. It isn’t the place to reap a harvest. The person who desires the world desires something that he is simply not going to obtain in the manner that he desires.

Wise is he who becomes a seeker of the Hereafter, because it is the Hereafter which is real and it is that alone which one will obtain in the life after death.

The most serious aspect of life is that one gets life only once. We have been given just one chance to engage in action. After this, there is only the eternal consequences of our actions and nothing else. This fact demands that we be very alert, serious and careful with regard to how we spend our life in this world and the direction in which we want to take it.