A GOD-ORIENTED LIFE

To find God is to find one’s centre of love. By his nature man is born seeker after the Supreme Being that is above him, that is free from all limitations. In short, a Being after finding whom a person becomes as satisfied as a child finding his place on his mother’s lap. The discovery of God saves one from regarding a non-God, a mere thing, as God and mistakenly and unrealistically thinking it to be the answer to the urge inherent in one’s nature. To discover God is to discover the true nature of one’s innate urge to seek God. On the other hand, the failure to discover God means failing to find that which represents man’s greatest and natural need. One who fails to find God is nonetheless driven by his natural urge to seek Him and thus gives the place of God to something other than God, in other words, to a non-God. This place might sometimes be accorded to a particular human being or an animal, yet at other times, to a phenomenon of nature, to certain material power, to a made-up concept, or even to oneself. Even if one fails to discover God or becomes a denier of God, it is not in one’s power to overcome the natural, inborn urge to search for God. That is why the men and women who have not found God inevitably come to hold on to something like a non-God, regarding it as God. Man’s nature may lead him to refuse to accept the real God as God, but then, in such a situation, it becomes impossible for a man to stop himself from according the status of divinity to something other than God. Making God one’s object of worship raises man’s position. On the other hand, regarding something other than God as God amounts Everything in the universe is playing a sacred music. If you concentrate yourself on this universal song, you will surely hear that the entire universe is giving a divine message—of love, compassion, peace, unity.