Religion Is Understanding, Awareness, Authenticity

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From:The Beloved, Vol. 2

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"Religion is a very complex phenomenon; its complexity has to be understood.
"There are seven types of religions in the world. The first type is ignorance oriented. Because people cannot tolerate their ignorance, they hide..."
Religion Is Understanding, Awareness, Authenticity
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"Religion is a very complex phenomenon; its complexity has to be understood.
"There are seven types of religions in the world. The first type is ignorance oriented. Because people cannot tolerate their ignorance, they hide..."

Osho continues:
"The people of the first type are the fanatics. They cannot even tolerate that there can be other sorts of religions in the world. Their religion is the religion. Because they are so afraid of their ignorance, if there is some other religion also then they will become suspicious, then doubt will arise. Then they will not be so certain. To gain certainty they become very stubborn, madly stubborn. They cannot read others' scriptures, they cannot listen to other nuances of truth, they cannot be tolerant towards other revelations of God. Their revelation is the only revelation, and their prophet is the only prophet. Everything else is absolutely false. These people talk in terms of absolute, while a man of understanding is always relative.

"These people have done great harm to religion. Because of these people, religion itself looks a little stupid. Remember not to be a victim of this first sort. Almost ninety percent of humanity lives in this first sort of religion, and that is in no way better than irreligion. Maybe it is worse – because an irreligious person is not fanatic. An irreligious person is more open, at least ready to listen, ready to talk things out, ready to argue, ready to seek and inquire. But the first type of religious person is not even ready to listen.

"When I was a student in the university I used to stay with one of my professors. His mother was a very devout Hindu; completely uneducated, but very religious. One day on a cold winter night, a fire was burning in the room in the fireplace, and I was reading Rig Veda. She came by the way and she asked, 'What are you reading so late in the night?' Just to tease her, I said, 'This is the Koran.' She jumped over me, took away the Rig Veda and threw it in the fireplace and said, 'Are you a Mohammedan? How do you dare to bring the Koran in my house!' Next day I told her son, my professor that, 'Your mother is a Mohammedan' – because this sort of thing has only been known to be done by Mohammedans.

"Mohammedans burned one of the greatest treasures of the world, the library of Alexandria."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 97 mins
File Size 27.7 MB
Type Individual Talks