The Quality Of Life

All who live must die even the Universe itself lives and dies-and so to prolong life is not to insure it against the end. "Death comes when it will come," and even the greatest scientific genius cannot hold life longer than his due. Some years ago the foremost physicist of India died in a simple plane crash-and all the inventions of science (including the plane itself) proved of no avail to him.

So it is not to avoid death that we should work, but to instill into what life we have some real quality-to use this life well and wisely. Otherwise it is a living death, even at its best. According to the great Scriptures of the world-the Bible, Koran, Bhagavad-gita, and others-the highest perfection of human life is reached in confrontation with God, followed by submission, love, and eternal association. Eternal association means that, in awakening to the existence and love of God, the living being becomes freed from the entanglements and designations of the material world, of which the body and its attendant annihilation are primary.

It would seem a simple matter to recognize the fact that life without goals, life without quality, life without value-is quite like the life of a machine. It is robot life. And an educational system which is devoted to fitting the human mind for a specified place in the modern machine complex is a school for the living dead. And, as I will try to prove, the replacement of God by evolution in the modern school system, and thereby in the thinking processes of modern man, has produced only zombies. But with one flaw: human beings don't like to act the part of zombies, and the alternative is likely to be revolt, corruption, and the ruin of what civilization we have.