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The Fundamental Mistake of the Religions

OSHO International
5 min readFeb 20, 2022

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The Fundamental Mistake of the Religions

I am against all the so-called religions because they are not religions at all. I am for religion but not for the religions.

“The true religion can only be one, just like science. You don’t have a Mohammedan physics, a Hindu physics, a Christian physics; that would be nonsense. But that’s what the religions have done — they have made the whole earth a madhouse.

“If science is one, then why should the science of the inner not be one, too?

“Science explores the objective world and religion explores the subjective world. Their work is the same, just their direction and dimension are different.

“In a more enlightened age there will be no such thing as religion, there will be only two sciences: objective science and subjective science. Objective science deals with things, subjective science deals with being.

“That’s why I say I am against the religions but not against religion. But that religion is still in its birth pangs. All the old religions will do everything in their power to kill it, to destroy it — because the birth of a science of consciousness will be the death of all these so-called religions which have been exploiting humanity for thousands of years.

“What will happen to their churches, synagogues, temples? What will happen to their…

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