God Arises
The Life We Seek
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one, free from the restrictions of time. I received a
contentment (peace) not unlike that associated with
religion.”
This great English thinker may have turned away
from the worship of God, but he could not do
without an object of worship. So he had to assign to
mathematics and philosophy the place in his life
that had previously been occupied by religion. Not
only that, but he was forced to attribute to them
qualities—freedom from the restrictions of time and
space, which can only be inherent in God. For,
without these things, he could not have received the
quasi-religious contentment, which he instinctively
sought.
If an article were to appear in a newspaper
proclaiming that the late Prime Minister of India,
Jawaharlal Nehru, had been seen bowing down in
worship as Muslims do in prayer, no one would
believe it. Yet, on the last page of
The Hindustan
Times
of October 3, 1963, there was a picture which
showed Nehru doing just that. Here was Nehru
with head inclined and hands on knees, in the very
posture that Muslims adopt
ruku
during their
