In Serch of God
5. God-Oriented Life
~ 34 ~
One who fails to find God is compelled by his
natural urge to give the place of God to something
other than God. This place is sometimes accorded to
a certain human being, sometimes to a certain
animal, sometimes to a phenomenon of nature,
sometimes to a certain material power, sometimes
to a certain supposed concept and sometimes just to
the self.
Even if one fails to discover God, or he becomes a
denier of God, it is not in his or her power to stifle
the urge in his nature to find God. That is why
those men and women who have not found God
inevitably come to hold something other than God
as God. And this supposed God is always some
creature or the other of God.
By nature, it is possible for man not to accept the
real God as God, but it is not possible for anyone to
save himself or herself from granting the status of
divinity to something other than God.
Making God one’s object of worship raises man’s
position. On the contrary, regarding something
other than God as God amounts to descending from
the level of humanity.
