"In Truth; we are One, In Religion; we are Many." There are so many religions and faiths in the world, i.e., Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism, Sufism, Bahai Faith etc. But unfortunately people exploit a crude idea of religion by exclusively associating it with primitive scriptures and conventional churches. The basic cause of all religious dissensions, fanaticism and racial riots is the thorough misunderstanding of religion. Religion is the understanding of the thinker and the thought, which means the understanding of action in relationship. Religion is understanding the beauty, the depth. Religion is the understanding of the thinker; for what the thinker is, that he creates. Without understanding the process of the thinker and the thought, merely to be caught in a dogma is surely not the uncovering of the beauty of life, of existence, of truth. In developing this theme of self-understanding. Religion is not the acceptance of some dogma, tradition, or so-called sacred book. Religion is the inquiry to find the unknown of the himself. Then is there something sacred, not invented by thought? There is nothing sacred in the temples, in the mosques, in the churches. They are all the inventions of thought. So, when you discard all that, is there something sacred, that is nameless, timeless, something that is the outcome of great beauty and total order which begins in our daily life. That which is mysterious, not in the sense of the mystery that thought has created, that great sense of mystery which scientists are also inquiring into that mystery, that mysterious thing is sacred. It has no symbol, no word. You cannot experience it, because if you experience there is still the experiencer who is the centre, who is the 'me or I' that will experience, therefore still division. So where there is this emptiness and space there is vast energy. And that energy is sacred. God, Truth, or whatever you may choose to call reality, cannot be described. That which can be described is not the absolute Truth. Relationship is response to the movement of life. That is, life is a constant challenge, and when the response is inadequate, there is conflict; but to respond immediately, truly, adequately to the challenge, brings about a completeness. In that response which is adequate to the challenge there is the cessation of conflict, and therefore it is important to understand oneself, not in abstraction, but in actuality, in everyday existence. only such a mind is capable of perceiving that which is God, truth. Or, is religion the state of mind in which there is an experiencing which is not of memory, which is a state in which all conditioning by time has ceased? It is only when there is the complete cessation of 'the me', of 'the I', of the ego, which cannot come about through any effort, any will, through any conscious act, it is only when there is love, that there is a possibility of such a mind being religious. Surely, religion is a way of life: a way of life that is whole, that is not fragmentary, in which there is no conflict whatsoever, which means there is no contradiction in oneself, contradiction of opposing desires, opposing ideas and demands, a total non-fragmentary life, a whole life, a total mind, a whole mind which doesn't think one thing and do another, doesn't say one thing and act contrary to what has been said. And religion is the uncovering of that which is most holy, which has no name, which is the absolute truth, the origin of everything. A truly religious mind, particularly if realized in many individuals, would produce a radically new world. It is only the man who has no other religion than the religion of 'being' - the state of being has no space, it has no corners in which the mind can become something at will produce a new world.