The Innate Emotion to Find the Creator

THE INNATE EMOTION TO FIND THE CREATOR Human beings have a strange feature that is not shared by any other creature. And that is the unlimited desire to search. Every human being has this desire within him from birth, which makes him constantly search for something unknown that he has not yet found. No success or achievement whatsoever manages to satisfy this desire. Nor does any failure destroy it. Philosophers have termed this as the desire for the ideal. This desire for the ideal is the real and final moving force behind all human activities. If this desire were absent, all activities in this world would suddenly stop. It is this powerful desire of the human mind that Sigmund Freud wrongly termed as sexual desire. Alfred Adler wrongly branded it as the desire for power. William McDougall erroneously claimed it was a mysterious result of the combination of various animalistic instincts in man. Karl Marx tried to prove that it was the desire for material or economic accumulation which, in his view, controlled all other human activities. To write all these explanations off as erroneous, it is enough to note that even when some people acquire the things that the thinkers mentioned above labelled this desire actually to represent, it did not make them content. Instead, their inner being remained as restless as before, and they were no different from other people.