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   have always declared, 'I am not speaking with my own voice, I am   
   speaking with the voice of heaven. I am the messenger of God. Don't   
   take these words to be mine -- they are the message of God, and so   
   you will have to accept them. You must not question whether they are   
   right or wrong; to question is a sin. If you question, your tongue   
   will fall off!' They have tightened the noose of dogma around the   
   people, so that they fear to take a single step over the line,   
   thinking, 'How terrible! If I do so I will be burnt in hellfire for   
   eternity!'   
      
   Those who sought to confine different groups within the bondage of   
   dogma in the aforesaid ways are the so-called religious leaders or   
   gurus; they have done enormous harm to the human society. The   
   various religious groups have fought many bloody battles, because   
   their dogmas were totally contradictory; if one group turned to pray   
   towards the north, the other turned towards the south. Their   
   leaders, meanwhile, fulfilled their own petty, selfish interests,   
   saying, 'These are God's commands.'   
      
   In this way one group has tried to capture another group to be its   
   arena of exploitation. As in the socio-economico-political field, so   
   in the religious field. They have tried to create satellite groups.   
   For instance, an affluent group tries to utilize a less-developed   
   group as its satellite group. That is, they want to obtain their raw   
   materials and force them to buy the finished products, which they   
   produce in their own factories. It occurs just this way in the   
   religious field also. And, being supported by the money of those who   
   want to create satellites, the propagators of religious faiths idle   
   away their days. Most of these propagators of religion are not even   
   aware of the fact that they are helping the exploiters create   
   satellite groups; but some are doing it consciously.   
      
   You must awaken those religious people who are not aware of what   
   they are doing, and make them aware. Let the ideals of Neohumanism   
   reach their ears and be implanted in the core of their hearts. With   
   their liberated intellects they will throw all their illusions into   
   the dustbin.   
      
   But those who are deliberately propagating dogmas as the agents of   
   injustice, will become furious and violent when they hear the   
   propagation of truth. Let them so become -- let them fill their cup   
   of sins to the brim. Their destruction is inevitable -- their   
   annihilation is the inexorable decree of fate.   
      
   So in the sphere of religion also, if you look carefully, you will   
   see that behind those who have been knowingly or unknowingly   
   operating the machinery of exploitation, there are certain wealthy   
   parties. Those parties want to create their satellites. In every   
   sphere of life you will find such wealthy people in the background."   
   (THE LIBERATION OF INTELLECT, DISCOURSE 7, EXPLOITATION AND PSEUDO-   
   CULTURE, Religious Exploitation, 21 March 1982, Calcutta)   
      
   Spirituality is the science of understanding one's own self and the   
   Supreme Entity.   
      
   "This Supreme Conscious Entity beyond the veil of cimmerian darkness   
   is called the Immutable Entity. He is the One to be adored by all.   
   He is the Universal Father. Out of His Infinite Cognition emerges   
   everything.   
      
   To realise the all-pervasive Supreme Entity the static darkness has   
   got to be dispelled from one's mind - there is no other way. Those   
   who grope in the darkness of staticity are bound to differentiate   
   between various objects, and will certainly be goaded to worship   
   various finite objects. When one develops real love for the Supreme   
   through unflinching sincerity and intense spiritual practice, the   
   bondages of inertness gradually loosen and finally snap open. Those   
   who take the finite to be the infinite, and ascribe Godhood to   
   finite objects, ultimately degenerate into inert matter. They are   
   psychologically unable to transcend the bondages of lineage, caste,   
   community and state. They may deliver noble-sounding speeches, but   
   in reality they look upon this world through the spectacles of   
   meanness. To fulfil their selfish group interests they utilise their   
   intellectual power and physical energy for internecine feuds and   
   battles, mutual slandering and jealousy, and thereby vitiate the   
   atmosphere of the entire universe.   
      
   Some intellectuals are in favour of respecting all religions. Such   
   people cannot do anything to promote the solidarity of the human   
   race, for most religions demand blind faith rather than rationality   
   from their followers. 'Don't argue', they proclaim. 'Accept the   
   teachings of the scriptures for they are the direct word of God'.   
   The cunning intellectuals of the past imposed the importance of   
   blind faith on the minds of their gullible followers. They told them   
   to obey the teachings, rational or irrational, otherwise there would   
   be no respite from the endless suffering of human life, no other   
   path to take them to the eternal bliss of heaven.   
      
   In most cases religions took advantage of human weaknesses, crippled   
   the people's rationality, and sapped their strength, thus   
   facilitating their exploitation by the religious traders. When the   
   vitality and strength of the masses remains unexpressed, the   
   exploiters will be able to exploit them in the economic and other   
   spheres of life for along time with relative ease. In the annals of   
   human history it can be seen in all ages that the various exploiters   
   were the patrons and the preachers of religion.   
      
   Dharma or spirituality is altogether different from religion for it   
   teaches human beings to advance while mercilessly smashing all   
   obstacles that thwart human progress. Its inherent qualities are   
   subtle analysis, ideological strength and the brilliance of valour.   
   That's why the vested interests cannot tolerate it and use all their   
   strength and machinery to oppose it. They claim they are protecting   
   religion. The greater the conflict between person and person,   
   between community and community, between state and state, the   
   greater is their advantage. But when many people form a collective   
   mind through sincere sacrifice and ardent practice while advancing   
   towards the realisation of oneness with the Supreme, it will be   
   difficult to continue exploiting people on any pretext.   
      
   In fact the ignorance of intuitional or spiritual science and dharma   
   (spirituality) has done enormous harm to the human race. In the   
   modern civilised society the same thing should not be allowed to be   
   repeated. By accepting the all pervasive and all-permeating Supreme   
   Entity - God - as the primordial factor for the crude, subtle and   
   causal worlds; by realising God as the nucleus of the enjoyer, the   
   enjoyed and the enjoyment; and by keeping the Supreme Cognition   
   fixed before the mind, human life should be rebuilt on a strong   
   foundation. All spheres of life should be completely restructured.   
   All feelings of differentiation - his god, her god, the Hindu's Hari   
   and the Moslem's A'lla'h - should be abandoned and that Supreme   
   Entity accepted from the core of one's heart. That Supreme   
   Imperishable Entity is the final desideratum, the culminating point   
   of all entities. We should not bother the least who addresses Him as   
   Hari or who addresses Him as A'lla'h.   
      
   Those whose existence is filled with cosmic ideation do not and   
   cannot support any discrimination regarding the Supreme   
   Consciousness - God - and His creation. But those who have not   
   properly understood the concept of the Absolute Entity confine Him   
   within the bonds of limitation by petty squabbling (over such   
      
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