The Life We Searched For: The Reality of Paradise

THE REALITY OF PARADISE

What is Paradise? Paradise is the answer to man’s search. Man finds himself in such a world where he is a strange exception. Besides man, every component of the vast universe is complete in itself. Therefore, it is only man who is not complete in himself. The rest of the entire universe is a zero-defect universe. It is only man who, exceptionally, has defects.

In the universe, there is certainty in everything. However, in contrast to this, uncertainty prevails in man’s world. In the rest of the universe, nowhere is fear visible, but man is always afflicted with fear and apprehension. In the rest of the universe, a state of satisfaction prevails, while in man’s life, there is a state of pervasive dissatisfaction. In the universe, man is the only creature sunk in the feeling that he did not get whatever he wanted. The rest of the universe is an evil-free universe, but man is, as an exception, afflicted with the issue of the ‘problem of evil.’

Paradise is the answer to these seeming conundrums. From the concept of Paradise, we can understand that man, too, will receive all that is fully available to the rest of the universe with only this difference—that the rest of the universe is getting what it ‘seeks’ in the ‘today’, whereas man can obtain what he seeks in the ‘tomorrow’—in the world of Paradise in the Hereafter—if he leads a virtuous life here. This is why the rest of the universe has no concept of tomorrow, while man alone possesses this concept.