There are three hundred religions on the earth, and each claims that it is the only ultimate truth, all others are false. Now, anybody who has a little intelligence can see the point that there can be only one kind of religiousness, unnamed -- just like science. You don't call it Jewish science, Mohammedan science, Hindu science, Christian Science. Just to call it science is enough; its rules are universal. Religion is the science of the inner world. Its rules also are universal. But these three hundred religions have been teaching you just the opposite. They have been teaching you rituals which don't lead you inside. They have been teaching you about a God who lives above the clouds; nobody has seen him. They have been teaching you commandments written three thousand years ago, written five thousand years ago -- written, and you have to live according to them. They have encaged you. In every possible way you are chained -- not only your body, but your spirit. Hence, everywhere atrocities are surfacing. They have been surfacing down the ages, but the media to inform you about the reality that is happening all around the earth was missing. Education was missing. Now you are educated, whether you are a Jew or a Christian or a Hindu or a Buddhist, in the same way, in the same science, the same laws. In every way science has made the whole humanity one. But religions go on carrying the hangover of the past, dividing man against man. The violence that they have repressed for centuries has come to a climax. The people want to take revenge, because they have been mistreated, they have been deceived by the people they have trusted -- by their prophets, their messiahs, and their incarnations of God. These people have been the greatest criminals. They divided humanity. They divided you, split you into body and soul: you have to torture your body if you want to know the soul. So for thousands of years people have been torturing their bodies; that was the only way to become saintly. But now it is difficult to convince people that by torturing their bodies they will become holy. There seems to be no sense in it. Man has been divided into man and woman. Half of humanity consists of women, and they have lived a life of slavery, torture, indignity. They are rebelling. Man is rebelling against the past unconsciously. He is enraged by the whole human history. And he is so full of anger, violence, that any small thing brings it up, and it starts spreading like a wildfire. Secondly, man is tremendously frustrated because the leaders of mankind in the past have been giving him hope, hope of a paradise beyond death. Not a single person has returned after death and given his eyewitness evidence that there is a paradise, that there is a God, that your acts will be judged -- you will be thrown into eternal hell or into the eternal blissfulness of paradise.
hans-wolfgang - am Dienstag, 26. September 2006, 00:00
