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What was unknown yesterday, is known today. What is unknown today, may be known tomorrow or day after tomorrow. But some day the unknown is bound to be reduced to the known. The whole project is that these two categories of unknown and known disappear and there is only one category: the known. I call it demystification, destroying the mystery from existence. Everything becomes known.
Religion is not an effort to demystify. It is an effort to rejoice in the mystery, to deepen the mystery, to become one with the mystery, to be so utterly drowned in the mystery, that only the mystery remains and the explorer has evaporated.
These are totally opposite goals. Science tries to demystify. This is an effort to conquer nature. Man, the knower, remains in the end, and the whole existence becomes just his known territory -- conquered!
In religion, as you enter deeper, you start melting. At the final point, you are no more: only the mystery is.
Do you see the totally different states? In one the man becomes the conqueror. Nature with all its mystery is destroyed. It has become a known thing. In religion, man disappears, and only the mystery remains.
Science can never study religion. The scientist can become religious, but the way is not the way of study. The way is of the meditation.
So make it clear to the Conference that it is absolutely absurd to study religions. For thousands of years scholars have been doing that. It is just meaningless -- wastage of time.
And then there is another ideal of the Conference: How to bring religions, creeds, cults, closer to each other so they can drop their conflicts. They cannot drop their conflicts. Because their conflicts are the only reason for their existence. If they drop their conflicts, their very reason to exist disappears. You are asking too much!
And what is the point of bringing two corpses together? It will stink more. They all have to be destroyed! -- so that religious experience can become available to individuals, free of organized religions.
Now, I don't see how you can manage to bring conflicting religions, sects, together. I will give you few examples, and you
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