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if you are a Buddhist it is your agreement -- unconsciously. In your very childhood they have forced the agreement on you and destroyed your innocence, your freedom, your search for truth.
My trip around the world is to make people free who are suffering under unnecessary slavery, suffering through belief systems -- in churches, in synagogues, in temples, but it is the same story in different names; there is no basic difference. All the religions are preventing people from knowing the truth.
And unless you know the truth of your being, you will never feel the great benediction of life. You will never be able to overflow with joy just for the sheer fact of existence.
If you cannot experience truth, you will not be able to connect yourself with this vast cosmos which is your home, which has given birth to you, and which has the tremendous expectation of you that you will grow to the ultimate peak of consciousness... because through you, existence can become conscious; there is no other way.
Man is existence's most precious treasure -- which is being wasted by Christians, by Jews, by Hindus, by Buddhists, by Mohammedans. He is existence's greatest experiment. In this vast, infinite universe, only on this small earth has existence been able to produce this humanity, which has the potential to become totally conscious.
Existence expects much from you.
Just think: if humanity disappears from the earth, the whole existence will be dead. Not only this earth, all those millions of solar systems and millions of planets and stars will be simply dead. It is through thousands of years of tremendous effort that nature has brought matter to a point where it becomes conscious, alive.
Now all the religions are preventing consciousness from growing. They are all against existence, they are all against nature, they are all against you.
My trip is to make people aware of their imprisonment, to make them aware of their potential -- what they are and what they can become -- to make them aware that existence is waiting for something tremendously ecstatic to happen in them and nobody has the right to prevent it. You owe it to existence.
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