The Challenge of Man

THE CHALLENGE OF MAN this world. The most significant act, he thinks, is to make the world a problem-free place. However, this thinking is against nature’s creation plan, so it will never fructify here. Whenever someone faces an unpleasant experience, it is so that he should derive a lesson from it. He should remember that the present world is a world of test. Here, no one will ever obtain a life of total comfort. Therefore, man should learn lessons from the negative experiences of the world. He should awaken within himself the consciousness that he will never attain the ideal life of his dreams in this limited world. He should search for the perfect life he desires in the unlimited world of the next period of life, that is, in the Hereafter. In this situation, the true lesson one should derive from unpleasant experiences is that man should remember Paradise of the next world. He should awaken this thought: “Let me not suffer in the Hereafter that I have suffered in this world.” Prosperous is he who, while in the temporary world,