From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

9 December 1984 pm in Lao Tzu Grove
Question 1
OSHO,
CHAPTER 11
Truth: not a dogma but a dance
ARE YOU AGAINST ALL THE RELIGIONS? WHAT IS THEIR MOST FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKE?
YES, I am against all the so-called religions because they are not religions at all. I am for religion
but not for the religions.
The true religion can only be one, just like science. You don’t have a Mohammedan physics, a Hindu
physics, a Christian physics; that would be nonsense. But that’s what the religions have done – they
have made the whole earth a madhouse.
If science is one, then why should the science of the inner not be one, too?
Science explores the objective world and religion explores the subjective world. Their work is the
same, just their direction and dimension are different.
In a more enlightened age there will be no such thing as religion, there will be only two sciences:
objective science and subjective science. Objective science deals with things, subjective science
deals with being.
That’s why I say I am against the religions but not against religion. But that religion is still in its birth
pangs. All the old religions will do everything in their power to kill it, to destroy it – because the
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