Keeping One’s Mind
on Tomorrow

People live for the present, entirely forgetting the future. They do not realize that they are bound for the grave, where they will be brought up in the Divine Court to be judged.

In 1898, Lord Curzon was appointed the Viceroy of India. He had two daughters. When Lady Curzon was expecting their third child, she and her husband hoped that it would be a boy. However, their hopes were dashed when in March 1904, another baby girl was born to them. The couple stayed in Naldara during her birth and named their daughter Alexandra Naldara Curzon after the place. Later on, Lady Curzon returned to London. In one of the letters that Lord Curzon wrote to her from the summer capital Simla, he consoled her with these words:

“After all, what does sex matter after we are gone?”

Maybe these words just signified an attempt on Lord Curzon’s part to hide his frustration. However, the reality he expressed will solve most of life’s problems if one becomes conscious.

Man desires money, offspring, and power more than anything else. He does all he can to acquire them. However, if a man thinks about it, finally, he will leave all these things behind. What is the good of having something which one is bound to lose? If people were only to realize this, they would become content with what they have. The oppression and cruelty perpetrated in the world because of greed would stop.

There is not much difference between finding and losing in this world, for no value is attached to finding something when one is only going to lose it. How much effort a man puts into acquiring wealth in this world: yet the inevitable result of his efforts is that he leaves everything behind. Every life eventually ends in death. When death comes, it tears a man away from the things he was most attached to on earth.

People live for the present; they entirely forget about the future. They think they can build a happy life for themselves by bringing destruction upon others. They do not realize that they are bound to the grave. They seek to ruin others financially by bringing suits against them in human courts. However, they are heading for ruin; it is they who will be brought up in the Divine Court to be judged. They ignore others and take delight in their glory, ignorant that soon their vainglory will vanish into thin air, and they will be exposed for the helpless creatures that they are.