If we consider the condition man is in this vast uni verse, it is that of a needy dependent.
Man is neither omnipotent, nor self-sufficient.
He is in need, constant need, of many things vital even for mere survival, which are not wholly within his power to obtain. He is beset by worries, illnesses, calamities that can ruin his life s work in a single moment. As against the sheer scale of what is around him, the number and the variety of plants, trees, animals, rivers and moun tains, the awe some power of natural forces, the grandeur of the heavens, he is bound to reflect on his own frailty and relative insignificance. That reflection, that profound impression of his own helplessness and smallness compared to the tremendous harmonies and scales of the order all around him, awaken something deeply embedded in his soul which bids him to acknowledge the Divine and to worship. He is bound to consider the existence of some great mysterious power behind or beyond nature which controls the objects and events around him.