What is the Memory
of Death?

Those who prepare for life after death will spend their lives in the hereafter in the atmosphere of happiness. Those who were not able to do so will live in eternal deprivation.

What does it mean to remember death? It actually means death-oriented planning. That is, making advance preparations so that we may face the situation after death. Thinking on the subject of death is just like thinking about life.

When a child is born, the planning of his life immediately begins. He is enrolled in such a course of education as will guarantee him a good job. This is true also of death. It is the demand of death, too, that man should prepare himself for it, so that he could achieve a good place for himself in the stage of life after his death.

Thinking about death means that man should reflect on the stage of life after death. He must train his mind based on this reality, he must develop qualities which are going to work for him in the life after death, he must develop such a personality as may lead to his success in the aftermath of death.

If a person cannot get a good education in the present life he is always full of regret for the rest of his life. He keeps thinking that if he had had a good education, he could have got a good job. This is the case on a larger scale of the post-death period.

Those who prepare for life after death will spend their lives in the hereafter in the atmosphere of happiness, and those who were not able to do this will always rue it. The regret of the world in comparison to the regret of the Hereafter will be unspeakably painful as compared to the regret of the present world.