You are going to the temple, reading the Gita, muttering a lot of words which have lost their meaning – that is not a religious mind at all. Such reading and repetition makes the mind dull and insensitive. Therefore there is a contradiction between daily living and what you think is real. This is not living a religious life. You have divorced life and ethics from religion, and a mind that lives in this duality, in this contradiction, in this cleavage, such a mind is creating the world at the present time, bringing the world more and more chaos. We see all this. Where there is confusion, where there is misery, people turn to authority and tyranny, not only politically but also religiously. From Public Talk 5, New Delhi, 4 February 1962 Read more |