The Trial of Man

THE TRIAL OF MAN not understand why this is prevalent. So, they continue to react negatively to situations and, by giving such a response, prove themselves—in the eyes of God —to be failures in the examination he has set for them. Stress is also a major problem faced by people everywhere. Many institutions have been established that claim to be able to eliminate stress. What these institutions do, in their endeavour to de-stress people, is to ask them to stop their thinking process, thus bringing on them a kind of temporary anaesthesia. This is, however, not a real solution to the problem of stress. There is only one true solution to this problem, and that is to adopt the correct attitude to stress—that of managing stress instead of trying to eliminate it or react negatively to it. In this way, we will pass our test. It has been generally observed that those who suffer in their lives engross themselves in social service thinking: “Let no other suffer what I have suffered.” Social service, although a praiseworthy task, is against the creation plan of God as it is impossible to free the world of suffering. Unpleasantness has been put into this world so that man can learn the right lessons from it. The true lesson taught by unpleasant experiences is that man remembers the next world of Paradise. His approach thus becomes: “Let me not suffer in the Hereafter what I have suffered in this world.” Seen in the light of this creation plan, the root of all human problems is that the unenlightened want to make their Paradise in this world prior to death, whereas under the natural laws, the situation here on Earth makes this impossible. According