Men for long have invoked God to explain existence. Science has comprehensively usurped this role. Does God fulfil some other needs of humans? -I- Is belief essential to soothe a wounded mankind, battered repeatedly by the harsh blows of a nonchalant fate? Born of stardust worked upon by the laws of nature for billions of years, humans are like all living beings on earth; Yet unique. They think. They remember past and reflect on future. Griefs and joys of past colour each moment of our lives. Our present is forever a hostage of our past and future. We are never free to wholeheartedly indulge in the passing moments. Human suffering is thus, illimitable. Neither its source nor its remedy is known to the afflicted soul. Nature, though the source of everything that we are, is supremely indifferent to human condition. Each of us is an island in themselves. Company of fellow humans, however soothing, is transient. One covets a source of constant solace, of infinite compassion, that is