Life on the Other Side

A human being is apparently perfect. But in actual fact he is a deficient or incomplete being. An individual has eyes, but without external light he cannot see. He has ears, but without air he cannot hear. He has legs, but without sufficient force of gravity he cannot walk. He has a mouth, but if he has no access to food, he cannot eat.

Now, imagine a situation where you are alive in this very body but all the external things that you require to function have been taken away from you. You have eyes, but there is no external light. You have a mouth, but there is nothing to eat. You have legs, but the force of gravity has disappeared, or the ground on which to walk on is missing. Moreover, you have become all alone. All your people have left you.

Sounds scary, isn’t it?

But this is no imaginary scenario. The fact is that every person will have to face this situation, one day or the other, when death arrives. Every single person who is alive today will die someday. And then he will find himself in a world as depicted above.

This momentous day that is bound to arrive is actually at this very moment racing towards us, rushing closer and closer by the second. And so, the very first thing that each one of us needs to do is to know about the reality of this impending event and then to make appropriate preparations for it. When death arrives, it will be a point of no return. After death, a person can only reap, not sow. He cannot return to the world in order to make the necessary preparations for the Hereafter that he ought to have made before.

As soon as we take birth in this present world our countdown begins. No one knows when this countdown will reach its final number.