In Serch of God
6. The Concept of Accountability
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6. THE CONCEPT OF ACCOUNTABILITY
G
OD IS
indispensable to man. His life is incomplete
without God. A philosopher has aptly remarked
that had there been no God, we would have had to
invent one. Fortunately, God exists in reality. We
can believe in God with conviction, not as a
supposition, but as a fact. And we can accord Him
the place He deserves in our lives.
It is essential that man should have within his
reach, a super formula for life’s management. God
provides just such a formula—a complete principle
for life’s management.
Human beings are not like machines controlled by a
mechanical system, nor are they like animals who
are governed by their instincts. Human beings enjoy
freedom. They take decisions about their actions of
their own free will. Now the question arises as to
how to keep man to the right course, how to make
him consistently disciplined in his behaviour.
History shows the ineffectiveness of all worldly
measures in this connection, whether—social
