4) Human Pursuits and Needs

Investigating one's heart now, one can find that everyone seeks after something better. If it is true today, it will be true tomorrow. We seek to become a more valuable being in some better and wider circumstance than that which we are in now.

What do man and God want and expect at this point now? We cannot deny that we and God are wanting and expecting something better than what exists now: wanting and expecting good today and better tomorrow; a good situation today and a better situation tomorrow. For this expectancy comes faith.

A newborn baby knows its mother's breast only. Then it knows parents as it grows, and then it knows itself. Man's mind always tends to pursue the highest level. When will it stop its pursuit? And how high is high enough? That is the question.

People's desire to meet a better person is to meet God through him or her, and people's tendency to seek a better one is ultimately to see God. Therefore, it is a pleasure to seek the thoroughfare leading to God.

\The prime problem of humankind is to unite with the ultimate center whom we seek, the Absolute Being. In seeking relative notables and the absolute notable one should transcend the relative notables and unite with the absolute notable. There, one establishes the relation between high and low. Man should enter into such a relation.

The place where a man likes to go is a good and nice place. Students like to go to school. Why do they like to go to school? They go to school to get promoted. What would be the next after being promoted? To get still better.

What would be the next after getting still better? What would be the next? To go beyond the secular world and go to the top of heaven where God abides. Is it good to be getting promoted? Human desire is endless. That causes a problem. What will be the destination of human desire? Where is the goal? This is the problem. Man wants more and more, wants to get promoted higher and higher, and wants to grab every good thing, even the world itself.

Everyone likes to be respected, and expects to be the center of the multitude. \Being the center one likes to be the result of all things, or, becoming the motivation of every work he wants to show off the end result. In other words, each and every one has the desire to control one's circumstance as from the center, in the ruler's shoes.