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lost and you don't know where you are, all boundaries have merged, in that moment of orgasm you have your first glimpse of satori, samadhi, nirvana. But, in ANY situation, if you can come to the peak, you will attain a glimpse of God.
But your so-called religions don't allow you any peak. They cripple you, they paralyze you, they cut you short. They only allow you a minimum of life.
That's what renunciation means: live at the minimum. Only the basic needs have to be fulfilled. Your so-called religions don't teach you how to overflow; they only teach you how to become more and more narrow. They make you tunnels, narrow tunnels. Real religion will make you open, open as the sky.
A real religion is bound to be affirmative. Jesus is affirmative, tremendously in love with life; Christians are not life-affirmative. Krishna is life-affirmative -- dancing, singing, loving -- Hindus are not life-affirmative. Their so-called mahatmas, their co-called saints, are all life-negative, poisoning life.
If religion happens as your own experience, you will always find this distinction: your religion will be life-affirmative. You will say yes to life, and you will say yes totally. You will become a yea-sayer, and through that yes God enters you.
If your religion is just a conditioning -- borrowed, cheap, a substitute, imitative -- then it will be life-negative. You will be afraid of living, you will feel guilty, you will always be confused about what to do and what not to do: `Is it right? Is it wrong? Is it good? Is it bad?'
Borrowed religion never goes beyond morality. authentic religion is amoral; it is always beyond morality, good and bad. It knows no distinctions. If you understand this, you will be able to understand these beautiful sutras of Kabir. He is not a Hindu, he is not a Mohammedan, he is not a Christian. He is simply an authentic man, and his sayings are of the purest sayings in the world. And he is not worried about anything -- whatsoever he has felt, he has said it, without any compromise.
Before we enter the sutras, two or three more things. One: down through the centuries, religion has existed as a renunciation of
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