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nonsense, because they cannot conceive that religion is born in a consciousness. They can only conceive that out of fear every god is born. No, never out of fear is any god born -- out of love, out of prayer, out of a deep glimpse into the nature of existence. But this glimpse is bound to be individual. When others begin to follow, they are just following a dead ritual.
The sun can become divine in a moment of opening, in a moment of deep exposure, when there is a deep opening in all of your five bodies and the innermost becomes one with the outermost -- even for a single moment. In that exposure, everything is just divine. EVERYTHING! In that exposure nothing remains material; in that exposure everything becomes just a benediction, a bliss, a blessing. Matter just dissolves; everything becomes alive.
Divisions fall, barriers are not, oneness is felt.
Out of this oneness, out of this love, religion is born.
So all sociological theories about religion are absurd. They just miss the POINT! But that is natural, because for one who has not known love, fear is the only thing in life, the only experience. These are the basic experiences: either you know love or fear; if your life is not oriented in love, then it is bound to be oriented in fear. So, man's mind can have only two conceptions about the universe: either fear-oriented or love-oriented. If it is love-oriented it becomes religion; if it is fear-oriented it becomes just a material science. If you are in fear, then you begin to fight.
Science is a fight, a conquering of nature, a conquest, a struggle -- nature becomes the enemy. If life is love-oriented -- and that is what is meant by a religious life -- then it is not a fight. Then it is a communion, then it is a reverence; you are not an enemy and nature is not your enemy. Then there is a deep friendliness; then you become one.
So, if one has not felt deep love, love towards each and everything, then there is only one interpretation possible -- one can only interpret through fear.
That Art Thou
Chapter #3
Chapter title: Sarvasar Upanishad
9 January 1972 pm at Matheran Meditation Camp, India
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