Let us view from the angle that each person thinks of himself and his welfare and woes first. That comes so naturally. When small pleasures and pains visit, and life is just a series of such experiences, man just enjoys or cries at short ranges and just lives on. Do we remember everything we do from dawn to dusk and beyond, which are just routines? In fact, we cannot survive if we think and act on every small slice of our existence. Somehow, we have lulled our minds into placid expectation of certain pattern, though we know that the pattern is very fleeting and the applecart can be toppled any moment.
However, when calamities occur, realization dawns upon our mind that nothing is in its control. The mind gets panicky, desperate, and angry. Calamities may go away but if the mind is not calmed the mental and consequently even the physical system might perish. So the mind looks for an escape route, spurred by its survival instinct and past experiences, and the easy escape route is God, for the believer.
In fact, no religion or faith derides a person when he turns to that unknown God when his chips are down. That is so natural.
Even an infant searches for its mother’s breast only when it is hungry.
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