Real Existence is God’s Alone
Robert H. Court was a businessman from Australia. In 1962, he started a small mill. His business made rapid progress so much so that it grew into a big commercial empire. Court’s assets reached the 1.1 billion dollar mark. But in 1978, his decline began, so much so that he lost half his wealth. In 1990, he suffered a heart attack and died. At the time of his death he was 53. Giving news of his death the TIME magazine (September 17, 1990) reported: “Once the country’s wealthiest man, he died second richest (after fellow entrepreneur Kerry Packer), with an estimated fortune of $650 million.”
In this world, this is the very same story with almost everyone else. Here, before his death, every person stands, in his own mind, as ‘first’—the centre of his own universe. But death makes everyone ‘second’. Death conveys this message: that here, no ‘I’ has any real existence and that no person is the centre of the universe, no matter what they would like to think. Death tells us that real existence is God’s alone.
Wise is the person who realizes this truth himself without death having to teach it to him. One who discovers this truth only when death strikes him is blind.
