This Hell-Bound Caravan
Contemplating on man’s case I thought, ‘Everyone is in search of Heaven, yet everyone is searching for his Heaven in Hell.’ Thinking further on the issue I analyzed that ‘People are searching for flowers among thorns. They are reducing their lives to rubble, while imagining that very soon a big palace of their own is going to emerge!’
Everyone is busy trying to beautify his life. Someone is busy in the field of trade or employment. Someone else is busy in the field of politics, trying to glorify his name. Someone is a clever wordsmith, using his skill with words to attract crowds. Everyone carries with him a beautiful dream of his future, and is busy, day and night, trying to make this dream a reality. But if you closely examine them, you will realize that for this dream to be realized, the only asset they possess is a stock of wrong actions.
Ignoring their relatives’ rights, people want to build their children’s future. They trouble their neighbours and at the same time, think of bringing joy to people who live far away. They do not hesitate to use unjust means when it comes to their personal affairs, but in the outside world they turn into flag-bearers of justice. They will not tolerate even a word being said against them, but they think they can do whatsoever they like to others, imagining that they are God’s soldiers.
God has placed in this world everything that Man needs—in fact, even more than this. But the means to acquire every good thing in this world is good actions. God rewards those who fulfill the rights of others, who do not harm their neighbours, who deal justly with people, who lead their lives in devotion to God, rather than in devotion to themselves, who bow down before the Truth, even if it is against them, who surrender their egos to God and who agree to live their lives without egos in this world.
People think they are prancing among beautiful flowers, but actually they are leaping into the flames of Hell! They imagine that very soon they will enter the gardens of Heaven, while actually they are racing down the road leading to Hell-fire!
O! That caravan that bears no wealth other than empty fantasies!
O! The people who want to build in this world another world whose permission God has not granted!
