That one can imagine an eternal life which, through the fulfilment of certain moral conditions, one can appropriate after physical death, cannot justify the injustice that physical existence evinces towards living beings. There are people who are born in such circumstances that it would be impossible for them to fulfil the conditions that are demanded in order to attain this eternal happy life after death. They must thus pass into complete damnation, into eternal torment, a hell from which there is no escape whatsoever. How can this be justified? A life that has begun can never become eternal. It will always be a temporal life since it, at any point in time, must always represent the limited space of time extending from its beginning to any given point in time in this, its so-called "eternal life". It will thus at any moment represent a particular age, be, for example, a certain number of years old, precisely because it has had a beginning. An eternal life can no more have a beginning than it can have an end. An eternal reality cannot be created; it must have existed eternally. If the opposite were the case it would not be eternal, but could, on the contrary, constitute only a temporary, and thereby perishable, phenomenon. The promise of an eternal existence beginning only after death cannot have any root in reality itself. It cannot therefore justify the apparently unjust difference there is between the fates of living beings. An entirely different explanation, a perfectly logical analysis capable of providing a complete revelation of divine justice and love amidst apparent injustice, must be given.
      If it really were true that people could be damned and could enter an eternal hell from which they could never return, a hell where they must eternally sigh and groan in terrible suffering, how could a God who actually creates such an existence for living beings be the all-loving father that he, in the humane world religions, is claimed to be? How can a Godhead with such a sadistic and illogical tendency towards punishment be the divine basis for life for all the people in the world and unite them in radiantly all-pervading neighbourly love, wisdom, art, beauty and joy?
      No, there is only one possibility for justice in the world for living beings, and this one possibility is this – that they are immortal. If one perceives these beings as immortal, one can demonstrate that the universe constitutes an all-embracing justice that is so finely drawn that not even a speck of dust can fall by chance. Everything is bound by law. Is there any possibility that one can demonstrate immortality? Yes, there certainly is. If we observe all Nature's processes of creation we see, as already mentioned above, that every one of them without exception is a joy and a blessing for living beings. It is true that there are many cases where it does not seem to be so. Animals murder and kill. People murder and kill; quite apart from all the unfortunate states we know of as illness, need and misery that occur among living beings in the sphere of the Earth. Here it is evident that this state is not the goal for the Godhead's creation; these dismal situations are all expressions of unfinished states in God's process of creation. They all constitute states that will gradually be changed through evolution so that living beings, in harmony with God, will come to experience the solution of the mystery of life and see it in its true radiating perfection of light and love. If people today cannot see it, it is because they are not fully evolved. They are all without exception on their way to reaching this perfection. But in order to understand this we must return again to the necessity of understanding the immortality of the living being.