Religions dominate by making people guilty of their own nature

ALL THE RELIGIONS THAT HAVE EXISTED IN THE PAST HAVE USED ONE SIMILAR STRATEGY, and that is TO CREATE GUILT! That has been the technique of the priest TO DOMINATE YOU: make people feel guilty of small joys -- and of course those joys are natural and spontaneous.

AND WHEN A PERSON BECOMES GUILTY OF HIS OWN NATURE he starts rejecting himself, he starts dying. It is a slow kind of suicide. He becomes sad, he becomes drained off. His life loses flavor.

And then of course, TREMBLING, HE HAS TO GO TO THE PRIEST, because the priest creates the guilt in the first place -- it is his TRADE SECRET -- and then you have to go to the priest because there is nobody else who can guide you. That is the business of the priest: to guide you about spiritual affairs. And you are feeling so sad, so miserable; you need help, you need somebody to support you. You need somebody to teach you ways, means, methods so that you can get rid of your guilt. But the priest goes on creating more guilt in you!

ONCE YOU REPRESS SOMETHING NATURAL then it starts coming into your mind, it starts moving towards your head. It may disappear from the sex center, which was a natural phenomenon, but now it enters in your head.

There is no need to go against life. GOING AGAINST LIFE IS LIKE TRYING TO GO UPSTREAM, fighting with the river -- an unnecessary fight. Relax, rest, enjoy... and God can be found anywhere, because he is everywhere.

Live right now. LIVE AS DEEPLY AND PASSIONATELY AS YOU CAN, because that is the only way to discover God. That's the only source to uncover the hidden secrets of life. God is not against life, God is the innermost core of life. Hence I teach a life-affirmative religion. I don't teach Hinduism, Mohammedanism, Christianity; I only teach a kind of religiousness. The world is fed up with all these "isms"!

There are 300 religions and at least 3,000 sub-sects of those religions. THE WORLD NEEDS ONE UNIVERSAL RELIGIOUSNESS. My sannyasins don't belong to any religion at all; they simply belong to a new phenomenon: a religionless religiousness. The essential of religion, of all the religions, will be saved, but the peripheral will have to be dropped, the non-essential will have to be simply burned.

THE GOOD MAN IS ONE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY ACTS IN THE RIGHT WAY. The good man is NOT one who makes efforts to act in a certain way that is accepted by the society in which he is born -- it may not be good. There are hundreds of societies in the world, hundreds of civilizations have existed, and there is not a single thing that has not been either praised as good by someone or condemned as bad by someone else.

We need a rejuvenation, not of something old but of the essential which is eternal. MEDITATION IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT PART OF IT, and out of meditation, the transformation of your whole character.

I HAVE TO SAY THE TRUTH AS IT IS. I cannot compromise -- truth is always uncompromising. I cannot be polite either, because that politeness will not help. I have to be mercilessly hammering, continuously, on all that is wrong and all that is ill. CHUNK BY CHUNK ALL THE NON-ESSENTIAL, RITUALISTIC RELIGION HAS TO BE DESTROYED. When only the essential is left you will see the youngness of it, the freshness of it, the fragrance of it.

AND THE WORLD IS NOW IN A GREAT NEED, because man as he exists now cannot exist any more. Either he has to commit a global suicide or he has to come out of the past like a snake moving out of the old skin. He has to be reborn.

ONLY A NEW MAN CAN SURVIVE. The old man is incapable of survival in the future. Science has grown so much that unless we bring religion also to the same par, there will be no balance. Religion is lagging far behind and science is growing every day so speedily that if we don't bring religion also to the present, science and religion cannot meet. And in that meeting is the only hope.

OSHO
I Am That
Ch #10: The Eternal Religion
am in Buddha Hall