Striving Without Any Destination
In the present temporary life you will be provided with your need unilaterally, for the purpose of a trial. The principle governing the next life is: what you sow you will reap. No one will have the opportunity to compensate for not having done good deeds in this life.
Everyone has increased his needs exponentially. Everyone wants to fulfil his boundless desires. Everyone thinks that he should possess all things which add up to comfort and luxury for himself and his children. This means a mad rush after materialism. But what is the result? Everyone becomes very conscious that his desires have not been fulfilled. The fulfilment he yearned for was found to be unachievable. All men and women live with a feeling of deprivation. Their days and nights keep passing in this way, until finally their edifice of desires comes crashing down under the impact of circumstances. If circumstances do not cause this crash, death will certainly come at its appointed time and will compel everyone to accept its merciless decision, just as those who came before them accepted this decision willy-nilly.
People expend all their energy in acquiring the things of comfort in this temporary life before death, whereas the real need is to prepare oneself for the eternal life after death. The life before death is a life of trial. This being so it is God’s responsibility to provide everything for everyone, so that he may be put to the divine test. But so far as the matter of life after death is concerned, God does not take the responsibility for it. In the life after death, everything will depend upon man’s deeds in this world.
The principle that governs the present life is that even if you do not do anything, you will be provided with your need unilaterally. But what happens in the next life is totally different. The principle of the next life is that what you sow you will reap. It is very strange that people are striving to the utmost to improve their present lives but when it comes to the next life, they are totally oblivious of what needs to be done. In the present life, if we have not done something today, tomorrow, by doing more work, this gets compensated for. But in the next life, no man or woman will have the opportunity to compensate for not having done good deeds in their previous lives.
