Come Follow To You, Vol 1 - Oshorajneesh.com

This is what Jesus means by conversion. A Hindu can become a Mohammedan, aMohammedan can become a Christian, a Christian can become a Hindu -- that isnot conversion. That is again changing masks. When a Christian becomesreligious, a Hindu becomes religious, a Mohammedan becomes religious, then itis conversion. It does not mean to move from one religion to another becausethere are not two religions in the world. There cannot be two. Religion is one.Religiousness is a quality; it has nothing to do with sects and doctrines anddogmas, churches and temples and mosques. If you are in a mosque and youbecome religious, you will no longer be a Mohammedan; you will simplybecome a pure being who has no adjective attached to him. If you are praying ina temple, the temple disappears: you are no longer a Hindu; you have becomereligious. This is conversion.I was reading the life of a very famous bishop. He went to St. Mary's Church inCambridge to deliver a university sermon. Thirty, forty years before, when hewas a young man, he was an undergraduate there. He was full of reminiscences,memories of his young age. He looked around -- could he recognize anybodywho was there when he was an undergraduate?He recognized an old verger. After the sermon he went to him and said, "Do yourecognize me? I was a student here forty years before. Everybody else has gone, Ican only recognize your face. Thank God you have good health. You served Himwell."The verger said, "Yes, I thank God, I thank Him very much, because afterlistening -- and I have been listening to each and every sermon that has beendelivered in this church for fifty years! -- thank God after listening to all sorts ofnonsense for fifty years, I am still a Christian."It is difficult to be a Christian if you listen to all sorts of nonsense that has beenpreached in the name of Christianity. It is difficult to be a Hindu if you know allthe nonsense that has been written in the name of Hinduism. It is difficult to be aMohammedan if you know what it means to be a Mohammedan. Because youdon't know, it is easy. You remain a Hindu because you don't know what itmeans: you don't know the hatred implied in it, you don't know the politicsintrinsic to it.It is easy to be a Christian, not knowing what Christianity has done in the past. Ithas been murderous: Christianity has killed more people than Communism. Butit is easy if you don't know. The more you know, the more it will becomedifficult to be a Christian, to be a Mohammedan, to be a Hindu. In fact, you willunderstand that these are the ways of not being religious, these are the wayswhich prevent you from being religious, these are the ways which are thebarriers. They deceive you that you are religious, they give you a false coin; theyare fakers, counterfeits. To be religious is not to be a Mohammedan, not to be aChristian, not to be a Hindu: to be religious is just to be religious, nothing else isneeded. That is conversion.Come Follow To You Vol 1Osho