But after ten days...

But after ten days, when we see that five of these trees are missing, the query that comes in the mind as to why be these five trees missing? We don't ask ourselves as to why are the remaining forty-five trees still surviving. We search for answers for the former question and come to know that these five trees are missing because they dried up or were cut down, or they were not watered properly, or some children have uprooted it, and so on and so forth.

The same law applies for animals and for humans. For example, in a maternity home, fifty infants are born. On seeing them, the question that arises in our minds is that how long will they continue to live? In reply to this question, we shall say that if the demands of their lives are provided for and the obstacles done away with, then they shall continue to live and we have no proof for their non-existence because they have already come into existence. After ten days, two infants die.

Now the question will be asked as to why these two failed to survive? It is due to this law of continuity of existence that whenever we hear of somebody's death, we ask for the reasons for his death and never question a person that why is he continuing to live? 2. Longevity: A Scientific Perspective From the scientific aspect, the statement that man is like a car is baseless because man is not a car. For, the day it comes out of the factory, a car is subject to deterioration and wear and tear.

But man, from the first day of his birth, constantly craves for perfection. Body cells are not like nuts and bolts or like parts of machine. In the human body, the process of renewal and discarding of the old cells is a never-ending process till they attain a certain degree of perfection. Hence, to strike a similarity between a newborn child on par with a just- produced factory car is absurd because on the whole, a living being differs vastly from a car.

You may recite a thousand elegies in front of a car and yet it will not budge. But if you inflict just a single spiritual tragedy on man, it will reduce his age to half. Similarly, it does not make any difference to a car whether it is being used for carrying a bride to her groom's home or is being used as a hearse. But it does matter to man as to how he is being used. Thus, from both material and spiritual aspects, man varies vastly from stones as well as vegetation.