God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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that he had just allowed a passenger to alight and
that he was about to move on. The policeman
promptly took him to the traffic inspector in the
control room, where he was shown a film of all his
movements—his parking (no passenger to be
seen!), his strolling around, chatting to friends and
finally his conversation with the policeman to
whom he had put on such an air of outraged
innocence! Naturally, when he saw the film, he
had no defence left.
Cosmic recording is similar in effect, but it is no
sporadic affair. It is a round-the-clock process.
And it is as if not only our external personalities,
but reflections of our inner selves were being
regularly
pictorialised.
This
astonishing
phenomenon is explainable only as a means of
providing evidence for or against individuals, to
be used in the divine court on the Day of
Judgement. Now if even such a stark reality fails
to convince a man of his ineluctably being called
to account on that fateful day, it is impossible to
imagine what would, in the last analysis, cause
the scales to fall from his eyes.
