Lesson from a Train Journey

The Maker has made this world in a truly remarkable manner. Here, innumerable phenomena are visible, but the One who has brought them into being is invisible. The signs of creation are spread out all around, but our physical eyes cannot see the Creator amidst them. This situation has made many people question and even deny the existence of God. They argue, “When we do not see God, how can we accept Him?” But this argument has no solid basis at all. The train in which I was travelling was racing at the speed of perhaps over 100 kilometres an hour. I was sitting inside it and heading towards my destination. I had not seen the train’s driver; I did not even know his name. But I could be sure that the train had a driver and that he was driving it. Why do we have this certainty about a train driver we haven’t seen? Deniers of God would say that this is because although we have not seen the train driver, we can see him if we want to. For us, it is possible to get off at a station on the way where the train might halt for a while, walk up to the train engine, and see the driver there. But this argument does not hold. If we get off at a station and go to the engine and see the driver of the train there, then what will we see? We will see only a human body with hands and feet. But is this visible body driving the train? Certainly not! The one driving the train is a mind, which is not visible to us and not an external human body that we can see with our eyes. And so, after his death, the driver’s body will remain intact, but it cannot drive a train. So, it can be said that we accept there to be a train driver without actually seeing the driver in the real sense.