THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 442 ~ regular prayers. The occasion was Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary, and the Indian Prime Minister was ritually paying homage to the father of the nation at the Gandhi Samadhi on the banks of the River Jamuna in Delhi. Such things happen every day, all over the world. Millions of people, who do not believe in God or attach any weight to religion, can be seen bowing down before gods of their own making. In this way, they satisfy their inner urge to submit to somebody. Such events show conclusively that man has an innate need for an object of worship. No further proof of the existence of God is required: the very fact that man needs God proves that He exists. If man does not bow down before the real God, he has to bow down before other gods instead, for without a god there is no way the central vacuum of his nature can be filled. But the matter does not end there. Those who take some thing or person other than God as their object of worship cannot ever find true fulfillment. They are just like a childless woman who cradles a plastic doll in her arms, trying to derive emotional