Religious Life

To find out; what is a religious life is not to find out the pattern of religious life--what to do, what to wear, what to think and how to control, to be a bachelor, and all that stupid stuff-but to have this energy without a motive, without a direction; and that comes only when there is this deep, unresolved, unsatisfiable discontent. Religious mind has no belief of any kind. Because the beliefs, dogmas only clutter the mind, and impede the free enquiry. To follow a religious pattern is not to be religious. What to do, what to wear, what to think, and how to control to be a brahmchari, to perform rituals, all this does not make a man religious. Then how to find out what is religion. Going to a pandit or some sanyasi or a guru, or reading the scriptures. All these approaches can give you information or set opinion about religion, but does not make you religious. You have to be fearless in enquiry, and find for your ownself what it means rather than being tutored by others. Religion is deep investigation of oneself as one is.
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