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want liberation you will have to embrace the real religion. In real
religion you become free from the good and the bad, the pleasant
and the unpleasant, the right and the wrong. The religion of the
Self is the only true religion. It is a non-worldly religion. All
other religions that focus on the physical body and its actions
are relative religions; they are the religions of the non-self, they
are worldly religions. There are no boundaries or sects in real
religion, no flags to fly, no conflicts of opinions, nothing to
renounce or accumulate. In the real religion there is no partiality
towards anything; liberation is never attainable through partiality.
People want liberation and yet they engage in conflicts
and difference of opinions, and take sides. By claiming you are
right, you automatically say that the other person is wrong. You
will never achieve liberation by saying anyone is wrong. You will
only attain the abode of the supreme Self, which is void of any
partiality, when you get rid of your differences of opinions,
discord, and sectarianism and come to the center. By taking
sides you strengthen the foundation of partiality and in doing so
you bind yourself to infinite worldly lives. Look here! Do you
want liberation or do you want to remain in sects? How many
factions and warring camps have been created from just one
religion? There is no liberation wherever there is any kashaya
(anger, pride, attachment and greed), and there is no kashaya
in religion. People resort to kashaya to strengthen their sects
and have reduced religion to a racecourse. They compete for
disciples. A man renounces his wife and children but takes on
disciples in their place. Then he spends the entire day in discord
and restlessness with his disciples. How can you call that a path
to liberation?
A Vitarag would never speak the harsh words that I do
but what can I do? In order to rid these people of their disease,
the speech that flows through this medium is full of compassion
and absolute detachment. People are not at fault; they too desire