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you will have to hate all the pleasures of life. This idea of religions is very monopolistic. God wants the love in your heart in its totality. He cannot tolerate any competitor.
`NOW I LOVE GOD: MANKIND I DO NOT LOVE. MAN IS TOO IMPERFECT A THING FOR ME. LOVE OF MANKIND WOULD DESTROY ME.' Through the old saint, the whole religious attitude of anti-life, anti-joy, anti-pleasure is condensed. Why cannot you love mankind? -- because mankind is too imperfect a thing. God is perfect.
`LOVE OF MANKIND WOULD DESTROY ME.' The reality is, that love in its purity, in its spiritual flowering, does not make any distinction. It loves, not because you are worthy, it loves not because you are perfect, it loves not because you are God -- true love loves for love's sake. The object of love is irrelevant. You are so full of love that you go on sharing with those who are imperfect. And in fact they need more. Those who are unworthy, in fact they need more. Those who are undeserving, in fact they need more.
The perfect God has no need of your love -- the perfect God is only a hypothesis, it is only in your mind. You have never come across him; otherwise, a man who goes on looking for imperfections will find imperfections in God, too.
Have you ever thought about it? If God suddenly appears in front of you, will you not be able to find imperfections in Him? -- you will find imperfections in Him too. Perhaps He is not as beautiful as you had imagined. Perhaps He looks Chinese, or perhaps He is a Negro, or perhaps He is a Negro woman! Perhaps He is too old, too ancient: there is no freshness around Him, but only a stinking oldness; for centuries He has been there.
There are so many hypothetical conceptions of God. Some believe He has four hands. Do you think four hands will look right? And some think He has one thousand hands. A man with one thousand hands will be perfectly useful to be kept in a museum, but to love Him... and if He gives you a hug -- with one thousand hands. Once you can get out of His hug, you will never think of God again.
There are conceptions of God with three faces. It will be curious to see Him, but a man with three faces
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