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Baby, My Whole Work Is to Confuse You!
I’m confused hearing you say there is no God.
There have been many beautiful moments in my life
when I feel something moving through me which I know is not me.
I used to call it God, now I call it godliness.
But I still don’t like hearing that there is no God.
Can you ease my confusion?
Baby,
my whole work is to confuse you!
Unless you are utterly confused,
you are not going to drop your knowledgeability.
What do you mean
when you ask me to “ease your confusion”?
In other words, you want
certain,
settled
knowledgeability.
You want to convince yourself that you know it.
I
cannot commit that crime.
You do not know it.
So first I have to remove all your
knowledge
which is bogus anyway.
You have not earned it,
you don’t deserve it.
It has not grown within you,
it is all
rubbish that you have collected from books,
from people.
I am going to confuse you more and more.
And look, what is your confusion?
You say
that there have been moments in your life
which you used to call
God
you cannot deceive me.
I know
you may have
experienced
a few beautiful moments;
everybody
experiences a few beautiful moments of well-being,
of
great uplift.
Seeing a sunset,
suddenly
you are silent.
Or listening
to the
tidal waves of the ocean
shattering
on the rocks
on the shore,
suddenly
you feel
almost a nobody
before this vast existence.
Looking
into the sky
and the stars
you may have
had
certain moments,
and you may have called them God.
Don’t make God so cheap.
I am raising God Higher
than he has ever been.
The Jewish God says, “I am a jealous God.
I am a very angry God.
I am not
nice,
I am not your uncle.”
Jesus
tried
to raise
the Jewish God,
and that was his crime.
He said,
“God is love.”
Now, this is very contradictory.
The Jewish God says, “I am jealous,
I am angry, I am not nice,”
and
Jesus makes him a goody-goody:
“God is love.”
This man should be removed
before he
destroys
their
certainty
that God is jealous, angry.
You have to be afraid of him,
because that will keep you on the right path.
If God is love,
then who bothers
what is right and what is wrong?
A loving God cannot punish you
in hell for eternity.
But Jesus
on the one hand says, “God is love,”
and on the other hand
he is a Jew after all
the eternal hell remains.
He cannot see a simple fact, that
if God is love
then eternal hell should be removed
because you need not be afraid of love.
Love gives you freedom to be yourself;
and
sandwiched between heaven and hell
you cannot have any freedom,
any individuality.
I am
trying to raise
God.
When I say there is no God,
I mean there is no
person
as God,
there is no personality in God.
You have to understand clearly
that personality is
something
false.
The word
personality comes from the Greek persona
persona means a mask;
in Greek drama
the actors used to have a mask.
You know sona means sound;
a sound coming through a mask
was called persona.
You cannot see who is behind
the mask;
hence the actor has a personality.
And if you all have personalities
you are all actors
you are not being
authentic,
sincerely
yourself.
Personality and individuality
don’t mean the same thing.
I am taking the personality of God
away.
I don’t want him to be
an actor
you have so many in Hollywood.
Strange, that the place is called “Hollywood”…
all gods,
personalities,
great personalities.
I don’t want God to be a
Hollywood actor.
I am trying to destroy his mask,
and once the personality drops
what is left
is godliness.
That is
the true individuality of existence.
I will not say, “God is love,”
because that still keeps God as a person.
On the contrary, I say, “Love is God.”
You can forget all about God.
If you can understand love,
that’s enough religion;
more than that is not needed.
I use the word godliness
and you are confused,
because those moments…
have you seen anybody in those moments
that you can call God?
You have not seen anybody in those moments,
because there is nobody.
You were using a wrong word,
I am correcting you.
Those moments you can call moments of godliness.
I am
changing God from a quantity to a quality.
God is a quantity;
godliness is a quality.
And you are confused by it?
Just a hangover.
Shake yourself well
slap yourself and shake yourself
and all confusion will disappear.
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