What for?

what could be the possible reason for the lasting influence of those works of literature which discoursing the purposes of human life. Why is it that we human beings follow with a zeal all those works which tend to give us a look at the meaning of this existence. Why is it that even after all that is possible to be achieved in a life, a satisfied person still cannot do away with his longings. What is the reason that all that which appears to answer, howmuchever failingly, those longings of human life, invariably and inevitably becomes dear to the collective human awareness all around the world. And upon that is the fact that despite all these ages of known human mistakes and consequent experiences and the accumulated wisdom, nothing as remarkable has turned up which could provide a meaning universally and satisfactorily acceptable to human life and anither complimentary fact is that had anything of this sort had come up, it would have silenced all those longings of the human heart which no idea, no thought, no action, no diligence, no religion, no belief, no faith system, no serious deployment of human life has been able to quench since all the history of life on earth. We have been in the stone age, in the bronze age, in the early man age and today we stand at the verge of extinguishing life on earth having discovered the vast unending sources of nuclear energy, but still we are at the same old stage of being ignorant of life's purpose. Nothing as satisfactory has come up despite all these centuries of vigorous application of both physical and mental faculties by the human beings.

Allegiance to a given system of thought blindly without extending any enquiry into the origins and basis of the system is one of the things which gives a temporary relief because it succeeds, even if by mental coercion, in silencing the ever active and questioning mind. Anything concrete which could let mind have its sway and yet satisfy its longings has not seen livht of the day till today despite the fact that we boast of having secured a vast knowledge of this creation.