God and the Life Hereafter
God and the Life Hereafter
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one hand, they are consumed by a limitless desire to
establish a dream world for themselves—a world
which is in keeping with their ideals and where
they may lead their lives in future—‘tomorrow’—
with all the sought-after pleasures and comforts.
But, on the other hand, they are faced with this
contradiction that, despite having apparently
surrounded themselves with all the material things
conceivable, they somehow fail to build their
pictured world. Boredom, loss, illness, accident, the
infirmities of old age and finally death within a
period of even less than 100 years—that is the story
of every individual born into this world.
Inherent in the psyche of all men and women there
is the concept of the ideal. But all are destined to die
before the realization of their beautiful wishes.
We can come to grips with this seeming paradox by
examining the clearly observable phenomenon of
the principle of pairs, which is universally operative
in this world. Everything here comes in pairs;
everything becomes complete only when it is along
with its pair—the negative and positive particles in
an atom, the male and female in animals and
