DISCOVERY OF MAN
Man’s life is divided into the pre-death period for a trial and the post-death period for reward or punishment. Man’s success lies in leading one’s life in this light.
Man’s brain contains around one hundred billion nerve cells. This astounding phenomenon is an indication of the fact that man’s Creator has placed enormous abilities inside him.
With this, man has been given a unique thing that has not been given to any other creature in this vast universe—an acute sense of pleasure. Man is the only creature in the vast universe with a very acute sense of pleasure and the capacity to enjoy pleasure. For man, everything can potentially be a source of pleasure.
God has created man with unique abilities. God has also made a beautiful world, Paradise. Paradise is a perfect world where every form of pleasure is present in its ideal form. Man and Paradise are counterparts of each other, as it were. Man is for Paradise, and Paradise is for man. Paradise is that place where man will acquire fulfilment. A paradise is thus a place where human nature finds its perfection. Without Paradise, man is meaningless, and without man, Paradise is also meaningless. Without Paradise, man’s life is incomplete, and without man, Paradise is also incomplete.
Man is a potential inhabitant of this Paradise, but no one will obtain paradise as a birthright or result of being a member of a particular social group. The condition for entry into Paradise is that man should prove that he is eligible for it based on his qualities.
God has made the present world for this purpose. It serves as a selection ground. The conditions of this world have been made so that everything is an examination paper for man. Here, at every moment, man is being tested. God is preparing a record of every person’s word and deed here. Based on this record, it will be decided who will be eligible to be settled in Paradise and who will not.
In this world, man has been given total freedom. However, this freedom is not a reward. Instead, it is for a test. God is watching how man uses his freedom. The people who use their freedom rightly, under God’s creation plan, will be selected to be settled in Paradise. On the other hand, those who misuse their freedom will find themselves rejected on the Day of Judgement.
Man’s life is divided into two periods—the pre-death period and the post-death period. The pre-death period is the trial period, and the post-death period is the reward period. The secret of man's success or failure lies in knowing this truth and leading one’s life in this light.
