The Ultimate Goal of Life Is to Meet the True God

The Ultimate Goal of Life Is to Meet the True God

Sangjenim’s truth is the cosmic principle; the cosmic principle is Sangjenim’s truth. The manner in which heaven and earth undergo change based upon the fundamental principle of birth, growth, harvest, and rest—this is Sangjenim’s truth. “Truth has its roots in nature.” This means that truth lies completely within nature.

 

I often say, “No one demands payment for a fresh breeze, and no one demands payment for the bright moon.” Like a fresh breeze and the bright moon, Sangjenim’s truth is an impartial dao for all in heaven and earth. Everyone in the world has the same right to practice Sangjenim’s truth.

 

Why did God come into the world? He came to the world to conduct gaebyeok—to undertake the renewal of the world. Sangjenim, the True God, must personally come to the world to conduct the dao of gaebyeok for the salvation of multitudes, and so He was compelled to incarnate on earth. Sangjenim came into the world and—in accordance with His words, “Saving lives and healing the world is the dao of sages” (Dojeon 2:56:8)—He established the principle that humanity would attain salvation by dwelling within His truth at the time when heaven and earth wage gaebyeok. This done, He returned to heaven.

 

Therefore, the ultimate goal of life is to meet the True God, who entered and departed this world as a mortal! It is to meet the True God, who incarnated in the age of the fruition of heaven and earth and who established the great dao, the great truth, of delivering life from certain death! All the ancestral spirits yearn for their descendants to embrace the truth of the True God so that they will be blessed and live in glory. This is the ultimate aim of the universe’s cultivation of humanity.