Shaping the Souls for Eternal Paradise

If a man lives only in his ‘today’—wallowing in the pleasures of this world—and dies in his ‘today’ as well, he leads an animal-like life and dies an animal-like death. But, on the other hand, a truly successful man leads the life of ‘today’ in such a way that his ‘tomorrow’—the eternal phase of life after death, is full of joy. Only such a man can be called a truly successful man. PARADISE: MAN’S DESTINATION Those who develop themselves according to the divine standards in the present world will be settled in the ideal world of Paradise in the Hereafter. Dr Alexis Carrel was born in France in 1873. After his higher studies, he spent most of his career in the USA. In 1912, he won the Nobel Prize for Medicine. In 1935, he published a book titled Man, The Unknown. This book became very popular and was translated into different languages. A commentator remarked about it thus: “This book sums up much of his experience of man and his life seen from the purely scientific aspect.” In this 312-page book, Dr Carrel failed to discover the truth about human life. Thus, he titled the book Man, The Unknown. As far as man as a scientific being is concerned, Dr Carrel had discovered him to a great extent. However, why did he give the book the title that he did? Because of confusion. Dr Carrel found ‘man’, but his study could