Earlier, days and nights were a mystery; the roar of the wind, cloud and the rains were a mystery; birth-death, fire, trees, flowers and fruit were a mystery. This led to uncertainties, pleasure and misery in our lives. It triggered our intelligence and we became truth-seekers.

The individual’s existence is a combination of the unconscious or Dhamma, and conscious-self or ego, a mix of observer and doer. Normally, the observer keeps a watch over the doer. As we grow, the conscious-self looks for the entities that generate pleasurable sensations and strives at enhancing this. The expansion of knowledge is centred around this ‘looking for’ and ‘striving for’ habits that have become complex activities.

Developments in the form of various institutions, their laws and interrelationships contribute to ego. The persistent endeavour of truth-finders has been to crack many mysteries. But one mystery still remains: God. Symbolically speaking, God is but a manifestation of fear of human ego for not being able to uncover the causes of mysteries around.