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Mangan Maran Saman Hai,
Mat Koi Mange Beekh.
Mangan Se Marna Bhala,
Yeh Satguru Ki Seekh

Kabir says – There is only one thing that can make you emperor, and that is your own being. Just find it.

The beauty of your own being is the beauty of existence.

The silence of your own being is the language that existence understands. And just settled in being, you have come home. The wandering is finished. The struggle is finished. At ease, you sit silently within yourself.

A great hidden splendor is revealed to you: you are not separate from reality, you are one with it. The trees and the moon and the stars and the mountains are all part of one organic unity; you are also part of that organic unity – you become part of God.

Religion is man’s highest achievement.
Beyond religion, there is nothing – but there is no need either. Your being is so abundant, so overflowing with bliss, silence, peace, understanding, ecstasy, that for the first time, life becomes really a song, a dance, a celebration. Those who do not know religion, don’t know celebration.

But organized religion is a totally different affair, authentic religion is always individual. The moment truth is organized, it dies; it becomes a doctrine, a theology, a philosophy – but it is no longer experienced, because the crowd cannot experience. Experience happens only to individuals – separately.

It is almost like love. You cannot have organizations of love – so that you need not bother; the organization will take care, the priest will love on your behalf. But that’s what has happened to religion. Each time a man discovers the truth, immediately one of the most cunning parts of humanity, the priests, surround him. They start compiling his words; they start interpreting his words; and they start making it clear to people that if you want to know the truth, you have to go via them – they are agents of God. They may call themselves prophets, they may call themselves messengers; they may choose any name, but the reality is, they are self-appointed agents of God. They don’t know God, but in the name of God, they exploit humanity.

Truth has always been found by individuals. That is the privilege of the individual, and his dignity.