God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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technology. Why should we believe then that
science and technology will ever succeed in creating
that new world of peace and happiness after which
man is eternally questing?
Now let us consider this problem from a moral
point of view. The sordid state of affairs prevailing
in the present world makes it imperative that there
should be a life hereafter. The whole history of man
is rendered meaningless if this concept is subtracted
from it.
Human nature is such that we discriminate between
good and evil, between justice and injustice. No
other creature save man displays this moral sense.
Yet, it is in this very world of man that we find this
particular instinct being suppressed. Man exploits
his fellow men, robs them, tortures them, in short,
oppresses them in many different ways—even
murders them. Whereas even the animals do not
butcher their own species. Wolf does not eat wolf,
but man has become a wolf to his own species. No
doubt, the history of man shows occasional sparks
of truth and justice, which are highly commendable,
but the major part of human history tells heart-
