Man's Destination - Life after death

Man is a perfectionist by birth. By nature, he wants a perfect existence, an eternal life, unlimited happiness, no obstacles, etc. he wants a world, which is the realization of human dreams. A world that is free from all contradictions. A world where man may lead his life with a sense of total fulfillment. He wants a perfect world, but despite all his efforts, he is fated to realize that finding a perfect world is an impossibility.

This apparently intractable issue becomes fully resolved when the study of man is made in the light of the divine scheme of things. That is to say, when efforts are made to understand the will or plan of the creator along with an understanding of the creation. This is the only possible scientific method that is of any relevance. When we approach matters from this angle, we realize that this problem confronts us only because we attempt to understand man without keeping in mind the creation plan of God.

Man is a creation; he is not the creator. Just as a machine is made by an engineer, it is not its own maker. This being so, if we want to know the reality of man, we have to learn about the creation plan of the creator. Just as without the knowledge of the engineer’s plan, we cannot explain the machine, similarly, without knowledge of the creation plan of the creator, it is impossible to explain man. This is why, without keeping this creation plan in view, the meaning of man’s life escapes us; whereas when we keep this creation plan firmly in view, everything becomes fully comprehensible. Everything falls into place.

 

What is God’s Creation Plan?

Like everything else in the world , god created this world as one half of a pair. This world, in which we pass our lives after birth, is the first half and the other world where we will live after death is the other half. The creator of man has thus created him as an eternal creature and has divided his life into two stages- the pre-death period or the limited life in this world and the post death period or the eternal life after death. The pre-death world is designed as a ‘testing’ ground, while the post death world is designed to be a world of ‘reward’ or ‘punishment’. The mistake made by philosophers and thinkers is that they seek the human destination in the present world, whereas it does not exist in this world at all.

Since the present world is made to serve the purpose of man’s test, everyone here has been granted complete freedom to make his or her own moral choices, it is as if the present world were a kind of examination hall where all the provisions have been made that are needed for this test. But the perfect, ideal things needed for building a happy life do not exist here.

 

How should we live in this world?

Who then are these men and women who measure up to the divine standard? They are the ones who, by using their intellectual capabilities, attain the realization of God. They are those who discover the truth by tearing asunder the veil of mental confusion, who abandon all forms of worship in favor of the worship of the one true god and who then lead a divinely disciplined life. These are the criteria for earning paradise according to the divine creation plan. Such men and women as come up to this standard will be ushered into the eternal world of paradise after death, while those who fail to do so will be cast into eternal hellfire, where they will have nothing in store for them but eternal deprivation and frustration.

So, take stock of your life to see if you are availing this divine opportunity. Make sure that you avail of your opportunity in this world in order that you may attain eternal peace in the next.

Blessed are those who are held deserving of choicest blessings of the lord – that is , eternal paradise – the final destination of a believing man.