Returning Is Impossible
These days, when I see people laughing and enjoying themselves I sometimes have a strange feeling. A powerful emotion compels the hairs on my body to stand on end, as it were. I begin to think about the end-result they have to face one day but of which they are completely unaware. Very soon, they will encounter an enormously serious situation from which they will never be able to save themselves. Yet, they are totally unconscious of it. In the face of the immensity of the event they are going to confront, they ought to have fallen silent. But instead of this, they are sunk in fun and frolic and are laughing away uncontrollably.
What is that terrifying event that they are going to face? It is the event of death. Every person who takes birth here has to die. No one can save himself from death. Nor does anyone have the power to divest himself of life in the true sense of the term, since after being created, we have actually all become eternal. Every person has, come what may, to live forever, even after death.
After death, suddenly every person will find himself in a world from which return is impossible. An individual will arrive in this next world without any return ticket that can bring him back to the present world.
The present world is the world for action. There is no reward here. The next world will be the world of reward. There will be no opportunity for action for anyone there. This is the fate for all of us. None can change this.
While living in this present world the first thing we ought to do is to learn what the creation plan of the Creator is. Why did the Creator make this amazing world in the first place? And why did He settle therein a creature like a human being, whom He has gifted with such amazing abilities? People’s unawareness is on account of not knowing the creation plan of God, because of which many of them think that death is the end of life and that after that there is nothing at all. But if they come to know that we are travellers on a long journey, that passing through this present world and going beyond death we have to enter the eternal world of the Hereafter, the entire pattern of their life will change!
