Limitations of
the Present World

This world of God is limitlessly meaningful. However, it becomes limitlessly meaningless when the Hereafter is not joined with it. Therefore, one who can sacrifice this present world for the world Hereafter will enter that heavenly world in life after death.

It was a beautiful July morning. The sun had not yet risen, but streaks of light in the vast expanse of the sky announced that it was about to make its appearance. The sun’s rays peeped out from behind the clouds bunched up on the horizon, brilliantly painting the sky. The verdant green of the trees, the chattering of the birds, and the delicate morning breeze added to the beauty of the moment, and I found myself uttering these words:

“This world is amazingly delightful, but its delights do not remain for more than a few moments. The world is stunningly beautiful, but the eyes that see its beauty very soon lose their light and sight. People desperately crave respect and happiness in this world, but they have not fully acquired these when the law of degeneration comes into play. This world has everything people want, but they cannot get all this here, even for the person who seems to have everything.”

A human being is a perfect creation, but his tragedy is that, along with this, he is a victim of various types of limitations. Various unfavourable conditions surround him. Human life, despite being perfect, remains meaningless until a person enters a world free from every type of limitation and unfavourable condition.

God has made this perfect and eternal world in the form of Heaven. However, no one can gain entrance into the world of Heaven just like that. This present, imperfect world is the price of that perfect world to come. One who can sacrifice this present world for the world to come alone will enter that heavenly world in life after death. One unwilling to make this sacrifice will also enter a world after death—not Heaven’s joyous and delightful world, but a world of eternal misery and despair.