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CHAPTER 9. I TEACH A RELIGIONLESS RELIGION
And there is something of immense importance about truth: unless you find it, it never becomes
truth to you.
If it is somebody else’s truth and you borrow it, in that very borrowing it is no more true – it has
become a lie.
That is one of the reasons that the great mystics of the world have been saying again and again
that truth is inexpressible, because the moment you express it, in the very process of expression it
becomes a lie.
All your holy scriptures are full of lies.
God has not given you the chance to discover religion, but has given you ready-made religion; and
He does not allow you even to question, to doubt: that is a great sin. There are all kinds of stupidities
in your religious scriptures, but you have to believe in them totally.
A man like Bertrand Russell became very puzzled, for the simple reason that there are things which
anybody who has a little intelligence cannot trust – but to doubt makes you a sinner; you start feeling
guilty. Finally he wrote a book, Why I am not a Christian, and collected all the points that hindered
him from becoming a Christian. For example: the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. It is so unscientific
that to believe it is to destroy all your intelligence. To have faith in such an idea is suicidal; you are
destroying yourself And what are you gaining? – a stupid idea... virgin birth!
If Bertrand Russell could not believe in it, we cannot blame him. It was the Bible that prevented
a man who could have been religious.... Russell asked, ”Why in the trinity is there not a woman
included? God the father, God the son, and the Holy Ghost – what kind of family is this? This holy
family seems to be very idiotic. Why could they not put a woman in it?because all the religions
have been against women. To put a woman into the trinity, in the highest position of power, was
impossible for them; hence they had to put the Holy Ghost.
Now, nobody knows about the Holy Ghost, whether he is man or woman or neutral. And this Holy
Ghost is the person responsible for making Mary pregnant – and still he is holy! He is a rapist,
because Mary was not aware of it; she was not a willing partner in it, and she was already married
to a person. But the Holy Ghost did this; perhaps he is still around the world – and he is one third of
God!
A man like Bertrand Russell is prevented from being a religious person because of your idea of God.
But any idea of God will create problems. The Hindu God... instead of the trinity the Hindus have
trimurti, parallel – one god with three faces; three persons joined together in one person. But all
three are constantly fighting each other, so childish is their behavior. It is good that Sigmund Freud
was only aware of Christian and Judaic traditions. If he had been aware of Hindu tradition he would
have found immense support for his hypothesis.
In Hinduism, God created the world. The first being He created was a woman, naturally, because
without a woman nothing else can grow – the woman has to come first. But in creating a beautiful
woman, He himself became infatuated. Now, the father becoming infatuated with His own daughter
– that’s what Freud was looking for but nobody informed him that that was available. For his whole
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