We live on this planet for short span of life, and then meet death. In despair, we say sometimes if the death is the end, then what is the use of living and all achievement. Then we begin to ask what death is, and what life is. We neither understand full meaning of life nor of death and imagine that there must be life beyond death. There must be a God who will give me peace, who will give me hope, a God of comfort, is called religion. Throughout the ages man has always clung to a belief in something beyond this life, because he has not known how to live happily, intelligently, and he has not understood that extraordinary thing called death. In ancient civilisations, when kings and other important people died, their jewels, their vessels, and sometimes even their slaves were buried with them, because they believed they would need their possessions in the next world.
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