There are people who are dedicated to countries – the fatherland, the motherland. That is a very tiny thing to be surrendered to, and foolish, and some adolf hitler will exploit it. Then there are people who are dedicated to churches – Hinduism, Christianity, Islam. Better than a country, but still a dogma, a creed, a man-made thing, and something which basically divides humanity. One becomes a Christian, another becomes a Hindu, and there is division, there is conflict, there is violence – and the beauty and the irony of it is that the violence is in the name of love! So never dedicate yourself to anything which divides. To dedicate oneself to god means to dedicate to all – to the whole, to the totality. And by ’god’ I don’t mean that somebody is sitting there in the sky and managing the world – that is a very childish concept of god. It is good for helping children to understand, but it is simply stupid. There is nobody, there is no person there. The personality of god is diffused in the whole of existence. He is not somewhere, he is everywhere! He is in the stone and he is in the flower, he is in you and he is in me... he is in the lowest and he is in the highest, he is in the atomic and he is in the cosmic. The personality is diffused. He is like salt in the ocean: taste it from anywhere and it is salty, taste existence from anywhere and it is divine. So god is not a person. It is better to say that existence is divine; there is no divinity. And when I say ’offered to god’, I mean offered to divinity, offered to this divinity of the whole – and that’s what a religious person really is. ~ OSHO, For Madmen Only, CHAPTER 10 10 April 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium OSHO Commune International, Pune, India
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