AFTER LIFE, WHAT?

Following is a beautiful story in Malayalam, written by an author unknown. Since it is worth sharing, I translated it to English.

Two children in the womb of the mother started a conversation.

 The first one asked the other, “Do you believe that there is a life after delivery?”

The second one answered, “There should be continuity after this state. So I believe that there is a life after the delivery. May be, the changes that come in us is a preparation for the new life to come.”

“Foolishness!” quipped the first, “there is no life after the delivery. Even if there is, how shall it be?” The second one answered, “I don’t know how it shall be.  May be, it shall be more bright and we may be able to walk with our feet, eat with our mouth and shall be able to use all the parts of the body fully.”

“Mere stupidity! How is it possible to walk with our feet? How can we eat with our mouth? Are we not getting enough nutrients and vitamins through the umbilical cord? But its length is too short and we cannot move freely.  If we think logically, it is impossible to have a life after birth.”

The second one said, “I feel that the circumstance there shall be different from what we are having now. The umbilical cord itself may not be needed to live outside the womb.”

“Never!” the first one continued the argument, “may I ask you – let us assume that there is a life after this – then why no one returns? Birth is the end of everything. After that it shall be darkness, silence and frozenness! Nothing and nothing else.”

“I don’t know,” the second one said, “but I am sure that we shall see our mother and she shall protect us.”

The first one commented, “Mother? Do you really believe in mother? I feel like laughing when I think of your stupidity.  If mother is a reality, where is she now?”

“We are surrounded by her.” said the second, “We are part of her and we live in her.  If she is not there, our world also would not have been here.”

“But I can’t see the mother.  My reasoning does not permit me to believe what I cannot see,” said the first to which the second one replied, “at times, when we are silent and concentrate, we can feel her presence and hear her call us from the above.”