TRAGEDY OF MAN
How to Destress?
ACCORDING to the law of nature, human beings are created in such situations where they have to spend all their lives in hardships. Difficulty, hardships, and heartbreaks are essential parts of the creation plan of the Creator. No man has the power to prevent himself from a life of trials and tribulations. In this world, grief and hardship are parts of creation plan of God. This system is to remind man of the fact that the present world is not made as a place of luxury and comfort rather it is made as a testing ground. The present world is created so that man may pass through different situations or conditions. In these situations, it is being decided whether any person is eligible for the eternal life of Paradise or not. One who does not respond positively and rightly in these situations, is eligible to be separated from the rest and thrown into the dustbin of Hell.
In the present developed world, the conditions of hardships are always present. But the people, owing to unawareness of God’s creation plan, do not understand its nature. By giving the wrong response they prove themselves in the eyes of God such persons who underwent the examination course but could not make themselves successful.
In the present times, big institutions have been established, claiming to perform de-stressing, in order to relax people by stopping the function of thinking. But this is a kind of temporary solution to the problem. The practical solution to this problem is stress management.
This is a matter of general observation that those people who have suffered in their lives engage themselves in human service or social service. As if this is a way of eliminating sadness, but this is not the right and desirable reaction to difficulties and hardship. Social service is human service and as such it is without doubt a praiseworthy task. But when it is seen from the point of view of the creation plan of God about human life, we find an unwanted aspect about the social service. A person who experiences difficulties in life and then engages in social service, his psychology is, to put it briefly, “Let no other suffer what I have suffered.”
This psychology shows that man thinks every matter as simply a worldly matter. For him, sufferings are only worldly suffering, and the biggest task is to make this world a non-suffering place. Whereas this thinking is against the creation plan of God, therefore it is just not possible to make this world a suffering-free zone. Whenever a person experiences unpleasantness in the world, it happens so that a person may take right lessons from it; so that he is reminded of the reality that the present world is the world of trial. Nobody can find a comfortable life here. Man ought to take lessons from negative experiences of the world.
He must awaken the consciousness in himself that in this limited world he cannot achieve his desired life. That he has to seek his desired life in the next life of the unlimited world. In such a situation, the right lesson from unpleasant experiences is that man remembers the next world of Paradise. He awakens this thinking in himself that let me not suffer in the Hereafter that which I have suffered in this world.
Successful is he, who has realized eternal world in this temporary world, one who has discovered the secret of eternal success of the next world in the failures of the present world. God has made this present world in accordance with such a plan that here every man lives in ‘toil’. On the other hand, this is a reality that the world after death will be free from all grief and only the chosen people of God will receive it.
If observed in the light of this creation plan, the root of all human problems is that the people want to build their paradise in the world before death, whereas under the system of nature, such situations do not prevail here at all as may enable one to make his paradise on earth. Just as no building can be erected either on sand dunes or marshy lands, similarly, in this present world, it is not possible for anyone to construct the life of their dreams. And when man meets with failure under the law of nature, he falls prey to different types of negative reactions which wreak havoc to his personality.
The right thing is that man acknowledges and accepts this law of creation and according to it, he plans his life. This plan is just one—to strive to develop in oneself the desirable traits in this present world, so that he may be held eligible for the admission in Paradise in the world after death. According to this creation plan of God, man has to be content in the world before death and as a result, in the world after death he has Paradise in store for him.
