RELIGION HAS NOT HAPPENED TO THE WORLD YET



RELIGION IS NOT WHAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND IT TO BE. IT IS NOT CHRISTIANITY, IT IS NOT HINDUISM, IT IS NOT MOHAMMEDANISM

"Religion is not what people understand it to be. It is not Christianity, it is not Hinduism, it is not Mohammedanism."

"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, about reincarnation, and all kinds of crap."

"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. The so-called holy scriptures do not even prove that they are good literature. It is good that nobody reads them, because they are full of ugly pornography."

"One of my friends, when I said this, started working on the Holy Bible, and now he has found five hundred solid pages of pornography. If any book has to be banned from the world, it is the Holy Bible. But that friend does not know that the Holy Bible is just nothing. If you look into the Hindu Puranas, you will be surprised. They are the ancient most editions of Playboy. Not only the human beings but even the gods described there are such ugly, dirty old people, it is strange... and they are still worshipped as gods."

"For example, the moon is worshipped as a god by the Hindus, by the Jainas, but the story is that the moon was very much sexually interested in a beautiful woman who was the wife of a saint. In India the saints go to take a bath early in the morning before the sun rises, and that was the time when the moon would come – of course, in disguise, because gods can do anything. He would knock on the door and the wife would think her husband was back. The moon would make love to somebody else's wife and then disappear."

"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 very 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. All that was dark in your life disappears, and all that was wrong in your life disappears too. Whatever you do is done with utter totality and absolute awareness.

I know only of one virtue, and that is awareness."


IF RELIGIOUSNESS SPREADS ALL OVER THE WORLD, RELIGIONS WILL FADE AWAY. AND IT WILL BE A 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. If you look back at the history of man, you cannot resist the temptation to say that we have lived in the past in an insane way. 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."

"Unless religiousness becomes the very climate of humanity there will be no religion at all."

"Religiousness is an individual affair. It is a message of love from you to the whole cosmos. Only then will there be a peace that passeth all misunderstanding. Otherwise these religions have been parasites exploiting people, enslaving people, forcing people to believe. And all beliefs are against intelligence,

"Even God is not necessary for a religious person, because God is an unproved hypothesis, and a religious person cannot accept anything unproved. He can accept only that which he feels. This whole existence is full of godliness."

"If you are full of religiousness, the whole existence simultaneously becomes full of godliness. To me, this is what religion is."

OSHO (Satyam Shivam Sundram # 13)



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