The Quest for God
Man’s ideal can only be one, and that is his Creator and Sustainer. Therefore, we can only satisfy our intellectual perception of the ideal by engrossing ourselves in God’s mission.
Once, an intelligent man remained pre-occupied with the thought that he could not attain his true position in life. Finally, he resolved this problem by committing suicide. In his suicide note, he wrote:
“I am putting an end to my life because I feel I have probably wandered into a world for which I was not created.”
This feeling of something being lacking is usually found in those born with great intelligence. As a result, they either live out lives of disappointment and lack of fulfilment, which only end when they die a natural death, or they cut the whole process short by committing suicide. On the other hand, it is common to find people of lesser intelligence leading thoroughly contented lives. However, among people of higher intelligence, one will rarely come across anyone who has succeeded in leading a life of contentment.
The reason for this is man’s innate idealism. By his very nature, everyone is in search of an ideal. However, it has proved so difficult to find this ideal in this world that the saying, ‘The ideal is unattainable,’ has gained currency. Often, the mediocre person will imagine that he has found the ideal, but that is because his sensitivity is so under-developed that he cannot discern the difference between the ideal and the non-ideal, and this leaves him happily pre-occupied with the latter. However, those with sharper intelligence immediately sense the difference; they are unwilling to accept anything that falls short of the highest standards.
Man’s ideal can only be one, and that is his Creator and Sustainer. If only the people of higher intelligence who are seeking the ideal could realize that only God’s existence is ideal and that only by becoming engrossed in God’s mission can we find that moral zenith which will satisfy the whole of our being and which will conform in every detail to our intellectual perception of the ideal!
Man’s ideal is his God, but he ceaselessly attempts to discover this ideal in a non-God.
