RELIGION – A RIGHT MESS Religion is not what people understand it to be. It is not Christianity, it is not Hinduism, it is not Mohammedanism. The so called religion is a
dead rock. A rock may be very ancient, far more experienced, but a rock is a rock, and is dead. It does not move with the seasons, it does not move with existence; it is simply lying there. To me religion is a quality, not an organization. All the
religions that exists in the world- and they are not a small number, there are more than three hundred religions in the world – are dead rocks. They don’t flow, they don’t change, they don’t move with the times. And anything that is dead is not going to help you – unless you want to make a grave, and then perhaps the rock may be helpful! All the so-called religions have been making graves for you, destroying your life, your love, your joy, and filling your heads with fantasies, illusions, hallucinations about God, about heaven and hell. I trust the flowing, changing, moving….because that is the nature of life. It knows only one thing permanent, and that is change. All the
leaves fall down with no complaint; silently, peacefully, they merge back into the earth from where they have come. The naked trees against the sky have a beauty of their own, and a tremendous trust must be there in their hearts, because they know that if the old leaves are gone, the new will be coming. And soon new leaves, fresh, younger, more delicate, start coming out. A religion should not be a dead organization, but a kind of
religiousness, a quality which includes truthfulness, sincerity, naturalness, a deep let-go with the cosmos, a loving heart, a friendliness towards the whole. For these no
holy scriptures are needed. In fact there are no holy scriptures anywhere. An authentic religiousness needs no prophets, no saviors, no holy books, no churches, no popes, no priests – because religiousness is the flowering of your heart. It is reaching to the center of your being. And the moment you reach to the very center of your being, there is an explosion of beauty, of blissfulness, of silence, of light. You start becoming a totally different person. I know only one virtue, and that is awareness. If religiousness spreads all over the world, religions will fade away. And it will be of tremendous blessing to humanity when man is simply man, neither Christian nor Mohammedan nor Hindu. These demarcations, these divisions have been the cause of thousands of wars all through history. In the name of God, in the name of church, in the name of ideologies which have no evidence at all, people have been killing each other. Religion has not happened to the world yet.
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