Racing to Nowhere!

If you look around you, you will find people hyper-active, very busy trying to fulfil their seemingly never-ending desires. They are engaged in a frantic race to obtain all sorts of things for themselves and their families. This is the mad rat-race that is impelled by the ideology of materialism. But what is the end result of this madness? It is simply that everyone still lives in the feeling that his desires have yet to be fulfilled!

Almost everyone lives in a feeling of deprivation. Their days, nights and years pass by this way, until one day, their huge mansion of desires is suddenly struck by the storm of circumstances and collapses into smithereens. And if circumstances do not demolish it, death arrives at its appointed hour and compels everyone to accept its merciless decision.

People are obsessed in trying to obtain all sorts of things for this temporary life before death whereas the real thing to do is to prepare for the eternal life after death. The life before death is the life of test, an examination. It is God’s responsibility to provide for every person those things through which he can appear in the examination of life in this world. But as far as the issue of the life after death is concerned, God has not taken its responsibility. In the life after death, the entire matter depends on an individual’s actions in the life before death.

The principle of the present world is that even if you don’t do anything, the things that you need will be given to you. But in the next world the matter is very different. The principle that operates in the next world is that you reap as you have sown. Yet, strangely, people make big efforts for this present world but completely ignore or forget the next world. In the present life, today’s deficiency can be made up for by additional action tomorrow. But in the next life, no one will have the opportunity to come back to the life before death and make up for one’s negligence.