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Leading A Spiritual Life

genres. All, directly or indirectly, have as their central
theme the quest for truth.
When an individual reaches the age of maturity,
his first concern is to earn his livelihood. He takes up
various kinds of jobs or engages in different types of
economic activity. And when he becomes engrossed
in some venture, he has a period of satisfaction. Then,
gradually, a time comes when he realizes that his job is
not giving him what he had been looking for. Certainly,
his work puts bread on the table but, as Jesus Christ once
rightly said: ‘Man cannot live by bread alone.’ (Matthew
4:4) To earn one’s bread is everyone’s first need. But,
‘bread’ can satisfy only one’s physical requirements;
it fails to give one intellectual satisfaction. This is the
main cause of frustration and despair experienced by
almost everyone today.

According to the Big Bang theory, the universe came
into existence about 13 billion years ago. Just being in
possession of this fact causes everyone to think: ‘Billions
of years ago, I was a non-existent entity in this vast
universe. Then, I was born and nature made me part
of the population of the world.’ Almost every person,
consciously or unconsciously, yearns to know how and
why he came into existence. There are few who have not
frequently reflected on existence, trying to understand
the meaning of their presence in this world.
When a person is born, he immediately finds himself
in a world with a life support system which he personally
did not struggle to create. He then realizes that nature
potentially had an entire technology already hidden
within it. This technology was one of mankind’s later

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