Living in God's Glory
English book, p. 28
By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
These words were a heartfelt cry from his innermost being. it indicates how a man cannot rid himself of such feelings, even when his conscious actions have been motivated by the purest of logic. Even the staunchest of atheists and unbelievers admit, from time to time, that they remain dissatisfied in their state of disbelief. at moments like the ones Bertrand russell experienced in Greece, they are forced to relent, to give in to such impulses as they have reasoned themselves into suppressing and have been at pains all along to disavow. indeed, man can never free himself from his inborn ties with divinity. EACH IN ITS ORBIT RUNS The disciplined and harmonious functioning of the universe for billions of years is proof that a conscious being governs the universe and all its creation. Modern technology has produced a mechanical ‘man’— the robot—which performs the prodigious feats of walking, talking, and working. however, it functions purely mechanically at the end of it all, just like any other manmade machine. it does not evince the subtlety of behaviour controlled by human intelligence, which we find in homo sapiens. on one notable occasion, a robot was hired by a london office to perform the services of an office boy. The lady

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