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you become a Buddhist you will never be a Buddha, remember, and if you become a Mohammedan you will never be a Mohammed. if you become a Christian you have missed an opportunity of being a Christ -- and to be a Christ is beautiful and to be a Mohammed is a benediction. To be a Mohammedan, to be a Hindu, is just ugly; it is just political, and nothing else. It has nothing to do with religion.
Listen to this great Sufi, Sanai:
AT HIS DOOR, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN MOSLEM AND CHRISTIAN,
VIRTUOUS AND GUILTY?
He says: There is not even a difference between the sinner and the saint. At his door, differences disappear. Nobody is a sinner and nobody is a saint, and nobody is virtuous and nobody is guilty.
You will not reach to God as virtuous, because that is the ego. To feel that "I am virtuous" is the subtlest ego -- to feel about oneself, "I know, because I have crammed the Vedas; I know, because I can recite the Koran." If you try to reach God as knowledgeable, you will never reach him; his doors will remain closed for you. His doors can open only when you are innocent. When you are neither virtuous nor guilty, when you are neither knowledgeable nor ignorant, when you are neither a man nor a woman, neither white nor black -- only then.
I have heard:
A negro knocked on the door of a church one night. In the day of course he was afraid: the church belonged to white people, they wouldn't allow him to. But he knew the priest, he was a nice man: maybe at night, when nobody was looking, he might allow him in -- he wanted to worship in the church.
The priest opened the door. He WAS a nice man -- but to be a nice man is one thing, and to be a real man is totally different. All those nice formalities are just pseudo, phoney. He had been saying great things, but when this negro knocked on the door and he opened the door and the negro said, "Would you please allow me to come in? I will not tell anybody, but I want to worship God," the priest was puzzled: what to do? His mask was that of a nice man, very religious, saintly; because of the mask, he could not say no. But deep down, the reality was that he was as
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