00:00Every religion says, seek peace or attain peace, then what are we fighting for?
00:05Words, contexts, religion is a mirror held up to you.
00:10We are fighting over the brand of the mirror, the colour of the casing, the size of the mirror, the
00:17historicity of the mirror, all these things.
00:20We can fight over everything related to the mirror, but we will never look into the mirror.
00:26And we take great pleasure in shattering each other's mirrors.
00:31Then what is religion teaching us?
00:34Religion is unteaching us.
00:36Religion is not there to teach you anything.
00:39The mirror does not show you your beauty.
00:42The mirror shows you your masks.
00:45The mirror unteaches you your masks.
00:48That's the role of religion.
00:50To peel away these masks, which are very, very ugly.
00:54That's the role of religion.
00:55Religion to reduce you, not to load you further with teachings or commandments or rituals or beliefs.
01:05That's not religion.
01:06Religion involves the self.
01:10This one, this world and the relationship between the two.
01:16With an urge for sublimation of this relationship and liberation of the self.
01:23This is religion.
01:24As a human being, I suffer and I deserve to live free of suffering.
01:29I deserve to attain my highest inner potential.
01:34And that has to be done while living in this world.
01:37This is religion.
01:38All else is fairytale.
01:42Good entertainment.
01:44Ah, pathetic entertainment.
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