You cannot create a religion around me

I am making every effort to create barriers, hindrances, for those who will try to make a religion organized around my teachings.

In the first place it is impossible to find out what my teachings are. Anybody is going to go nuts finding out what my teachings are, because I have not been teaching at all. These are not gospels that I am giving to you, they are simply gossips. Now, have you ever heard of any religion being created around gossips?

I am not giving you a message from God.

I simply enjoy talking, I love it! […]

How can you organize a religion around a man who teaches you disobedience, rebellion?

All these teachers are responsible; although others organized the religion, these teachers are responsible. If I meet Mahavira and Buddha or Jesus or Mohammed, I am not going to forgive them so easily. They cannot just use the excuse: “When we died others organized the religion.” I will tell them, “But you left the message in such a way that it could be organized. Who is responsible for that? You should have made arrangements to make it impossible to be organized.”

If there had been no organized religion on the earth we would have seen a totally different flowering of humanity. A different fragrance would have been there on this earth, not this stink that you can see everywhere, in every church, in every temple, in every mosque, in every synagogue. It is through organization.

Organization immediately becomes power. […]

My whole emphasis is herenow.

This very moment is all to me.

You cannot create a religion around me.

You can dance around me, you can sing around me, you can paint around me. You can do a thousand things around me, but you cannot do politics around me. And if you do then you are an idiot. Then you are simply wasting your time, you are in the wrong place. If you want to play politics, be somewhere else. Here, finally you will realize that you wasted your time, this was not the place for politics.

My religion is only a quality, a religiousness.

This is the problem for politicians to understand. They think that here in our city, state and religion are mixing. They are absolutely wrong. There, state and religiousness are one, not mixing; there is no question of mixing. What do you mean by mixing? In Washington they are mixing, in Salem they are mixing. Here, they cannot mix – here, they are one, because here religion is not Christianity, is not Hinduism.

Here, religion is only a silence of the heart.

Osho, From Darkness to Light, Ch 13 (excerpt)

Thanks to Anuragi for submitting excerpt