silence shared in words
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There is no Future for Religion
Stop
bothering
to go to the synagogue, to the temple, to the
church, because they have befooled you enough.
Stop asking these people
the rabbis, the monks, the priests
because
all that they know they have been giving as consolations
for thousands of years
and all their consolations have proved impotent.
You have to turn
from politicians, from religious people,
to the scientist.
The whole humanity has to focus on science if it wants to get rid
of misery.
And my religion I call
the science of the inner soul.
It is not religion;
it is exactly a science.
Just
as
science functions in the objective world,
this science functions in the subjective world.
Remember, the outer science can help immensely
to reduce your suffering and misery
by almost ninety percent.
And once you remove ninety percent of your suffering and miseries -- which are physical,
biological,
science can
very easily remove them
then the remaining ten percent of misery
will be for the first time
clear to you.
Right now it is lost in the mess of
this ninety percent
of misery.
'Then you will be able to see that ;
all that misery was nothing compared to this ten percent
this ten percent is the real
anguish.
And that can be transformed only through
inward movement:
call it meditation,
awareness, watchfulness.
But that ten percent misery
is of tremendous
weight.
The ninety percent is nothing, it is just
hunger...
food you need, shelter you need,
employment you need and all these things can be tackled by science.
Remove the priest
completely.
He has no function for the future.
He has already done enough mischief.
Focus on science,
and then immediately you will see
a new dimension arising in you,
of which you were not aware. It was there
but a hungry man, how can he think
whether life has meaning or not?
A hungry man
cannot think whether the flower is beautiful or not:
he is hungry.
You cannot talk about music and poetry and painting to him.
That will be humiliating him;
it will be
just an insult, an outright insult.
But once these problems disappear
then he will
start,
for the first time,
to inquire
about real existential questions
which can be answered only by a
subjective science.
So there is no future for religion.
There is a future for an objective science to deal with objective matters,
and a subjective science to deal with your inward
matters.
One will take
care of your physiology, biology.
The other will take care of your psychology
and
your
ultimate
center: the soul.
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