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be tortured, and they will never be rebellious. Unhappy people are always obedient. Unhappy people are very efficient, mechanical.
Happy people are not so efficient. They cannot be, because they are not machines. And happy people are always rebellious. If they feel like going with something, they will go, otherwise they won't. They cannot be tortured so easily... they cannot be dominated. They are dangerous. They are individuals.
Whenever you see a person happy, you will see individuality, an integration. A happy person becomes unique. A happy person has his own climate... lives in his own way... has a style, a flavour. A happy person is always a little eccentric. He does not care what other say -- he lives in his happiness. He is here to live his happiness. He is not worried about others' opinions. He lives from the inner. His trust is in himself -- not in rules and principles and disciplines and structures and systems... not at all.
So the society does not want happy people. From the very beginning it starts corrupting the happiness, starts creating such a situation that the child loses more and more contact with his own being.
My whole effort here is to make you again connected with your natural being. I am not going to give you anything new. It is some-thing that is yours and you have forgotten about it.
Religion is needed because the society is there. Religion is nothing but an undoing of whatsoever the society has done.
So religion is basically against the society -- and if religion is not against the society, it is no more religion. Then it has become part of the society -- it has betrayed.
For example, Jesus is religious -- Christianity is a betrayal. Buddha is religious -- Buddhism is a betrayal. Christians have betrayed Jesus and betrayed the revolution that he brought into the world. He was against the society, hence he was crucified. And christians are all for society -- for the structure, for the system, for convenience, security.
Religion is basically the antidote. It is the undoing of all that the society has done. If society disappears, religion will disappear, because when the disease disappears,
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