The question of what happens after death is a practical one, and the person who wishes to answer that question before investing too much effort in the game of life, is a practical person. Many consider a person concerned with death to the point of that concern interfering with the joys of life, to be crazed. However, while the house is burning, few continue to watch television. Most are searching for a way out. Life is consuming us as well as any flame would; yet few are attempting to escape.
If life ends completely at death, then why bother with the strenuous attempts to ensure security by amassing wealth, accumulating possessions, and insuring it all via Colonial Mutual? Only an idiot would play a game without knowing the rules, or if there was a chance of winning. Of course, there are an increasing number of idiots who play games simply to have fun. Their mantra is: all that matters is the playing of the game. These people have no commons sense and no intuition. Their body rules the day.
Logic begs us to ask, “why, what, who, where, and when?” “Why are we here?” “What or who are we?” “Where did we come from, or where are we going?” “When will this stage play end?” These are not the questions of idle philosophers. These are eminently practical questions that any living, and soon to be dying, creature would want to know. What is the point of living in ignorance when the answers are waiting within us?
However, if one believes such questions are unanswerable, then the talk of mystics and philosophers seems a waste of time. These people chose to ignore the history of written testimonies, and succumb to the laziness and fear that keeps the majority in servitude to their disbelief in their abilities.
Man is capable of knowing the thought of the gods and grasping an answer that for all time assuages the restlessness that drives him. Either you will feel in your heart this is true, dismiss the notion outright, or mull over the possibility. Why some wait while others act, is one of the mysteries of the spiritual path.