Travelling to Participate in a Victory Rally

Gopinath Munde was an Indian politician. He had been appointed as a Central Minister in the new Indian Government. He was to take up his post on 4th June 2014 in New Delhi. But just a day before that, he died in a road accident. At that time, he was just 64 years old.

This isn’t the story of just one man, though. Every person who takes birth in this world, no matter how big a position he acquires, gets only a very limited period of time to live here. Symbolically, you could call it ‘just 64 years’. But, strangely, no one is consciously aware of this reality.

The day Mr. Munde died, he was going to participate in a victory rally. But before this, the last moment of his life arrived. The same is true for everyone else in this world. Everyone is, according to their own understanding, travelling to participate in some ‘victory rally’ or the other. But before arriving at their desired destination death takes over and they are suddenly made to appear in the world of the Hereafter, and that too without having made any preparations for this.

It is estimated that every day around 100,000 people die throughout the world. Each dying person leaves behind a silent message to those who are still live: “O you who are still alive, prepare for your death! O you who are so busy with the affairs of the world, make efforts to build your Hereafter! O you who are living in heedlessness, wake up! O you who are hankering after status in this world, make yourself worthy of Paradise in the Hereafter! This is how you should spend your life before it is too late.”