The Divine Cool Breeze volume 27 number 2 (2014) | Page 4

RELIGION

SAHAJA
It is a very good question. Is Sahaja Yoga a religion?

I will tell you what is a religion and what is Sahaja Yoga.
The idea of our religion – what we call as religion – is that you find certain truth about
things like there was Christ, He lived on this Earth, He did this, He did that. So some
people take it up. They are not realized souls. They have not felt the Divinity. They
have not known what is divine life. They pick up the authority among themselves. They
organize it. Now this is the religion of Christianity. Same about Hinduism: some pandits
get together. They have some dry discussions among themselves and they are not
realized. They also never read Adi Shankaracharya and they start a religion.
You cannot start a religion. The religion is within you. It is the religion of evolution. The
religion is in your stomach. Do you know that? It is in your stomach existing now….
It means that every human being has a sustenance. For example, gold has a
sustaining power. Because it is untarnishable, we can say that is the sustaining power
of gold. In the same way, every human being has got a sustaining power as a human
being. If he does not have this, then he faults in his dharma in his religion.
Whatever is false or falsely made is not a religion. That is why people are turning away
from religion. Religion exists in your stomach, but you can deny it, you can defy it, you
can say that “I don’t believe in it.” You can have cancer of the stomach because of
that. You may have some disease because of that.
Fanaticism is not religion. Fanaticism is a disease. I am not talking of disease. I am
talking of something that is within you.