This life on earth is a halting place on the way to the achievement of the Goal of life. Earthly life is transitory, for it is seen that everything that is born dies. Death is not the end of life, since without a continuation of life therefrom the value of the deeds and experiences in this life would be rendered nugatory. There were births and deaths in the past, there will be births and deaths in the future, too, until Self-realisation is attained. Life is a long chain of which the recurring births, planetary lives and deaths are links.
Birth is caused by desires and actions, and birth becomes the cause of further desires and actions.
This present life is, therefore, meant to train the individual to qualify himself for a higher life. This life is not the goal or the end, even as the path is not the same as the destination. If earthly life were the final goal, none would have died here, there would not have been mutation, pain and sorrow, and there would be no sense of imperfection and no further urge or aspiration to transcend the present condition. The ever-changing world proves the existence of an unchanging imperishable Being. Remember that you came alone to this world and also you will pass away alone from this world.