"Each
individual’s life offers a scope for ego-activity, and death is the first test
of the synthetic activity of the ego. Psychologically speaking, there are no
pleasure-giving and pain-giving acts; there are only ego-sustaining and
ego-dissolving acts. An individual’s deeds prepare his ego for dissolution, or
discipline him for a future career. The principle of the ego-sustaining deed is
respect for my ego as well as other egos. Personal immortality, then, is not
ours as of right; it is to be achieved by personal effort. Man is only a
candidate for it. The most depressing error of Materialism is the supposition
that finite consciousness exhausts its object. Philosophy and science are only
one way of approaching that object. There are other ways of approach open to
us; and death, if present action has sufficiently fortified the ego against the
shock that physical dissolution brings, is only a kind of passage to a new
state of consciousness characterized by a change in the ego’s attitude towards
time and space."
(SIR MUHAMMAD IQBAL)
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