begin here ! ( 08 dec 06 (fri)

A religious man does not seek God. The religious man is concerned with thetransformation of society, which is himself. The religious man is not the man thatdoes innumerable rituals, follows traditions, lives in a dead, past culture,explaining endlessly the Gita or the Bible, endlessly chanting, or taking sannyasa -that is not a religious man; such a man is escaping from facts. The religious man isconcerned totally and completely with the understanding of society, which ishimself. He is not separate from society. Bringing about in himself a complete,total mutation means complete cessation of greed, envy, ambition; and therefore heis not dependent on circumstances, though he is the result of circumstance - thefood he eats, the books he reads, the cinemas he goes to, the religious dogmas,beliefs, rituals, and all that business. He is responsible, and therefore thereligious man must understand himself, who is the product of society that he himselfhas created. Therefor e, to find reality he must begin here, not in a temple, not in an image - whetherthe image is graven by the hand or by the mind. Otherwise, how can he findsomething totally new, a new state?