The Road to Paradise
The Road to Paradise
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size. Such events, therefore, are desirable so that the
natural state of the world may be maintained.
However, our world may be said to be full of
contradictions. Here, everything is perfect—with
the exception of human beings. For the human
world is flawed by all kinds of defects and
shortcomings, as a result of which man is
continually faced with a state of unrest. The human
story is one of man’s continual effort to overcome
this state of discontent.
Everyone cherishes a dream world for himself. Call
this dream world ‘paradise’, and we can rightly say
that man is indeed a paradise—seeking creature.
One thinker has remarked that in this world
everything is beautiful except for one thing, and
that is human beings. We can put this differently as
follows.
On closer inspection, we find that there is an
extremely strange contradiction in our material
world. Of the numerous things in this world,
everything has taken its ultimate shape. We cannot
think of any other colour for the sky except blue.
Neither can we think of any other colour for light
