"Whatever your heart clings to and confides in,that is really your God",says Martin Luther. Does it not need one's absolute familiarity with God 'to cling to and confide in'? It is almost similar to Osho's perception that "the mind wants to remain with the known,because it is the familiar trodden path'.
To say that God is invisible,means God stays behind godliness,perceived as goodness wherever it exists.That is why Osho says,"God has to disappear for the sake of godliness and religions should cease to exist for the sake of religiousness".
Today religion means socializing in different groups with an inherent itch for perpetuating division among different religious groups. We name as many religions as possible to accommodate as many gods as we can,so as to promote an orgy of celebration.In celebrations, some people become more important than the others.Equality disappears and enmity prevails.With the projection of ego,God takes a holiday not only from the spot but also from the religion that has designed the spot for him.
God is in a place of worship only if man is wholeheartedly looking for His invisible presence there. If the mind spots God through a vision,then God leaves the so called sanctum sanctorum and occupies a radiant space inside the deserving mind.It is in this context,the entry of a person into the Sanctum Sanctorum, depends more on the insight and inside of the mind,than the exterior clan or caste that one is said to belong to.
The presumption that only a particular breed of mankind has a clean mind and hence is more accessible to God,is nothing but a fiction foretold.Godliness in humans,is the GPS for tracing the invisible through the tracking device called nobility.Obviously, nobility is a piece of the mind unique and not the pick and drop of a community,specific.
The figures of God are man-made.So are the rituals involved in installing,initiating and ceremonizing those images.The invisible is believed to be visible,through the imaginative and creative formulations of human perception and priority.Man controls religion and God through his positions of power,in the name of caste and grasp of the devised rituals,claiming access to God,in the name of those rituals.
Religion is a matter of the mind.So is God. Trying to have access to God through self imposed agents,is like searching for God through a website.Today,religion and man's wild control of religion and God,create an existential crisis for God himself.When rituals surpass everything,realization of God through the goodness of the human soul and the spark of nobility emanating from that goodness,become secondary.
The trinity today is politics,religion and the power of caste and it is this trinity that determines man's social or public outreach to God.God does not live in any institution."Then why go to a place of worship?" One may ask.It is for personally affirming the presence of God in onself through a vision,at a common place of worship,with a congregation of people.God is the inner glory of every individual,who cherishes goodness as the vehicle for life's journey.
Without this inner glory,God becomes yet another unaffordable commodity,sold through the business process outsourcing of religion, controlled by the power of politics.So why not look for God,beyond one's religion?
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