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If we examine Nature, we see that Nature has a great concern for each element, to develop it correctly. We, as parents, have great love for our children. We want to give them the best. We put our whole lives into it. We develop all kinds of systems for them. Actually, the whole world works only to promote children so they have a better life. But we are not succeeding.

And yet, Nature provides us with all the means. It's given us love. Without love, we wouldn't pay attention to our children. But we love them, just as animals love their offspring. In other words, Nature, which tends to the development of every single element, relates to each of these elements, to all creations, in a very special way. On the one hand, it prompts them to grow safely, well, and favorably. This is why Nature instills in parents a strong instinctive love for their children, and we have no choice but to take care of them.

On the other hand, if we consider the human species, we see that we are not succeeding. If we examine a fruit on a tree, we see that at the beginning of its growth, it is very unpleasant, and not tastyat all. But as it grows and ripens, it becomes handsome, fragrant, and sweet, and good to eat, far from its initial unripened state.

Perhaps we are also like a fruit up on a tree—going through such forms of development which have not reached their conclusion, which haven't ripened? Perhaps we're like an apple, which is still green, hard, and sour, on its way to becoming a beautiful, ripened fruit. But we just don't have the experience to know how it will eventually turn out.

We can actually see a similar "ripening" with humans. When a child is small, it is uneducated and weak. It takes 15-20 years for the child to grow, and only then, is it qualified for life, knowing how to do things, and learning even more, to the point at which it can even change the world.

Animals do not advance in the same way. An animal is typically prepared for life after developing for only a few weeks after birth. However, it doesn't advance much after that. It remains an animal, knowing only how to take care of its needs instinctively. It doesn't grow and develop continually, or change itself or the world.

Therefore, we can conclude that our development—like that of a fruit—is gradual. And the more "sour," the more corrupt it is in the beginning, the sweeter the result will be in the end. And the more stages there are in its development, the more complex will be the final state, and the greater the achievements will be.

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