Kneading our need

I had a teacher, who used to often scold us children, with very frequent reminders of “Don’t bother about others, just try to bother about yourself, and what you are asked to do”!
As kids, we simply could not contain ourselves within ourselves. I in particular simply could not bring about myself to ‘comply’ with this instruction of that teacher quite easily. I felt an incessant urge to know what was going around myself, always! The only times, that I could focus at what ever the teaching was saying was only when the whole class was doing nothing else! I suppose this is so with almost any where till the children cross the age of 12. At our school, we knew what it was supposed to ‘mean’ when we were asked to keep ‘finger-on-your-lips’! It worked well! The teacher could deliver the data-packet into our heads, with least distortions, and external disturbances/diversions.

Despite such convincing instances, the question remained, ‘why is the teacher engaged in trying to teach others’ if that ‘don’t bother about others’ is ‘correct’? At that age, my own logic had not evolved to ‘compute’ and calculate the answers by myself. So, when I looked around, the teacher seemed quite right, going by that ‘majority’ rule. The whole of living beings other than humans, bothered only about themselves in what ever they do. And among humans, quite a reasonable number were ‘indifferent’ about others around! All I knew then, was that this was something that I would have to ‘figure-out’ by myself at a ‘proper’ time later….

The rest followed… (for me).

And now, when a question came up, I could almost guess, the asker is trying to find out the fundamental ‘nature’ of that inner being, while it is ‘confined’ within the physical human frame, because, we ‘see’ that there is a subtle ‘commonality’ about whatever an individual seeks out in that vast world, through such complex and diverse choices of fields of activity!

Psn (25th July, 2010)

http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100724070155AAAmCPB
What is man's greatest need?

My answer:
"Expansion" !

Take any average person around, and we would see that they seek to 'expand' what ever they desire or need.

Basic needs, like food, clothing and shelter, we try to expand what we have. If money is going to ensure this expansion, then it is money we seek(need). Otherwise, buy a bigger home, store more food, buy variety of clothes etc.

Even those who seek peace, try to spread it around intensely, so that they are assured of a "peaceful-atmosphere" amidst an expanded group of people (Now, here we do not call this person "greedy for peace"! Instead we call him "self-sacrificing" or a "self-less" person, ready to give up everything "else" for that greed for 'expanded-peace'!)

Just as human beings are 'programmed' by "default", for that propagation/preservation of species, which is a clever design by 'nature', there is also another subtle but higher design by a 'mystic' power within, which incessantly drives the human being towards that 'seeking' (irrespective of what ever else our 'need' be), till we need the need of this inner mystic power!

(Whether we like it or not, this question too is motivated by none else than that 'mystic-power'. Other wise, like any other non-human-living-being, we would have been contended with just seeking our own personal needs, and not bothering to "know" what could be greatest need of "man"!!)