The Immortality of Living Beings
The article: The Immortality of Living Beings
Chapter 4
How ignorance has created the superstition that living beings are "mortal"
Evolution has thus led living beings forward to being on the look-out for justice in the very processes of Nature, life's own processes.
But here people's capacities are still somewhat inadequate.
To a great extent they in reality come to find that there is no justice in Nature itself.
Here everything is apparently fortuitous.
And since they too still do not have the ability to apprehend the cosmic structure of the living being, the psychic or spiritual side of the same being, and must therefore be guided by the purely physical side, so millions of like-minded people live with the idea that living beings are "mortal".
This in turn means that they are born, they come into existence, and they perish again.
And here we have arrived at one of mankind's very greatest questions.
As long as the human being believes in this mortality it will be impossible for him to find any meaning whatsoever in existence and thereby in his perception of life.
If the living being were a mortal being who really had only a certain limited space of time in which to live in order then to be annihilated, true justice in life would, as previously mentioned, be a total impossibility.
All living beings on the Earth would then live under a single, all-embracing, glaring injustice.
Do we not see how, from the very birth of the living beings, there is an absolutely brutal difference between some beings' fate and that of others?
Why should some children be born wretched and infirm, be ill their entire lives, while others are born with tremendous chances for survival and with great potentiality for life?
Why should some children be born to cruel parents who are both unloving and primitive, while other children are born to parents who are loving beyond measure and fulfil their duties towards them?
Why do millions of people die of hunger and poverty, while other people live in enormous wealth and luxury?
If living beings had only their present physical life there would be absolutely no justice whatsoever in existence.