God Arises
The Life We Seek
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satisfaction from it. However successful atheists
may be, there come times in their lives when they
are forced to reflect that there is more to life than
they have ever been able to discover.
In 1935, twelve years before India’s independence,
Jawaharlal Nehru completed his autobiography
while in prison. In the concluding chapter he wrote:
“I have a feeling that a chapter of my life is over and
another chapter will begin. What this is going to be
I cannot clearly guess. The leaves of the book of life
are closed.”
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When the pages of the book of Nehru’s life were
reopened, it was his destiny to become the Prime
Minister of the third largest country in the world.
For nearly twenty years, he exercised power over a
sixth of the world’s population. But this
accomplishment did not bring him satisfaction. At
the very pinnacle of his career, he still felt that there
were some pages of his life which were yet to be
opened. The very questions that are rooted in the
human intellect when one first comes into the world
were still revolving in Nehru’s mind when his life’s
story was nearing its close. In January 1964 a
