God Arises
The Life We Seek
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becomes individual prosperity, the seeds of
destruction are sown for the rest of humanity.
The insatiable lust for self-fulfillment leads to
innumerable social evils: fornication, robbery,
looting, fraudulence, kidnapping, treachery,
terrorism, murder and, ultimately war. All these are
the result of people pursuing their own happiness,
come what may—and, inevitably, it is society that
pays the price.
The only solution to this problem is for humanity to
turn to its true purpose in life. The fact that
materialism has given rise to such conflict between
individual aims and social purpose clearly indicates
that man’s true goal in life is quite other. Rather
than aim at worldly satisfactions, he should set
himself to earning the approbation of his Creator in
the life after death, for this is what man’s purpose in
life truly is. If he were to adopt this course, the
individual and society would be able to progress in
harmony with one another, for there would then be
no confrontation between the two; the individuals
who constitute society would then be working
towards ends which did not clash with those of
