If we consider what religion has come into existence in order to do, we see that religion came into existence to fulfill the responsibility of uniting the people of the world, of making into one all humankind who have not been able to unite in the history of the world. Then what does religion assert? What should a religion assert? We must unite our individual selves. In order to make ourselves one, we must bring our mind and body into unity. Until now the directions of the minds of different individuals differed according to their thought systems or concepts. If a person is a scholar and he dedicates his life to doing research in his area of specialty, if his area is scholarship then the direction of his mind is towards scholarship and he gambles by bringing his body into unity with that idea.

Then, considering God, what should be the standard for the highest heaven which humankind are longing for? The standard is hearts or minds which do not change. However history may change or develop, the standard of mind that is not dominated by circumstances, which does not develop and does not change no matter how rapidly the environment and the times may change, not dominated and which never changes is needed.

That standard of mind is not according to my own standard of thinking. It must be the standard of the common mind of humankind. Not only that: if there is an absolute being who created the heaven and earth, that standard must contain the content which will allow a reciprocal relationship to be formed with that absolute being and will allow becoming one with Him. From that position, we see that it is God's subjective standard of conscience which must be established.

Therefore religion should devote itself to centering our standard of conscience on God. If there is a being called God, then the standard of my conscience must not change in relation to Him. Therefore, it seems to me that the important standard which religion should assert is how to establish an absolute, unchanging standard of heart in front of the absolute God. If this deviates, if this changes according to the age or according to one's situation, then I don't see that the mission of the religion to accomplish God's will can be fulfilled. In that sense, it is the mission of religion, which has crossed through the course of the history of human society, to unite our standard of conscience with the absolute God. (82-272)