INTRODUCTION

of the creation is synonymous with the discovery of the meaningfulness of the Creator. The realization of God has been the focal point of my quest from the very first day. My days and nights have been spent in this quest, so much so that perhaps I can say I have found God. Around 1960, I was in my brother’s house in Azamgarh, in Northern India, where I met a person. During our conversation, suddenly, he asked me, “Can man see God?” I answered, “Have you not seen God as yet?” I have had many such experiences in my life. However, be that as it may, ‘seeing God’ in this world is in the figurative sense, not in the real or literal sense, because in the real sense, in this world, no person can see God, the Creator and Sustainer of all the worlds. Once, in an article, I wrote that to believe in God is strange, but not believing in God is stranger still. So when I say I believe in God, I prefer the less strange to the more strange. A friend of the scientist Albert Einstein once asked him if he was an atheist. He replied in the negative and explained that he could be more appropriately called an agnostic. An agnostic is someone who says that he cannot say that God does not exist, nor can he say that God does exist. Einstein’s response to his friend can be paraphrased as follows: “I have no evidence to support the denial of God, as the scientific evidence in support of the existence of God is so considerable that I am also not in a position to say that there is no God. I can say that probably there is a God, but INTRODUCTION