The Alpha and the Omega - Kabir Kadre.Com

Because so-called religions need beliefs. There is no
other difference between one religion and another;
the difference is only of beliefs. A Mohammedan
has certain beliefs, a Hindu certain others, a
Christian certain others. The difference is of
beliefs. Yoga has nothing as far as belief is
concerned; yoga doesn!t say to believe in anything.
Yoga says experience. Just like science says
experiment, yoga says experience. Experiment and
experience are both the same, their directions are
different. Experiment means something you can do
outside; experience means something you can do
inside. Experience is an inside experiment
Science says: Don!t believe, doubt as much as you
can. But also, don!t disbelieve, because disbelief is
again a sort of belief. You can believe in God, you
can believe in the concept of no-God. You can say
God is, with a fanatic attitude; you can say the
quite reverse, that God is not with the same
fanaticism. Atheists, theists, are all believers, and
belief is not the realm for science. Science means
experience something, that which is; no belief is
needed. So the second thing to remember: Yoga is
existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is
required, no faith is needed # only courage to
experience. And that!s what!s lacking. You can
believe easily because in belief you are not going to
be transformed. Belief is something added to you,
something superficial. Your being is not changed;
you are not passing through some mutation. You
may be a Hindu, you can become Christian the
next day. Simply, you change: you change Gita for a
Bible. You can change it for a Koran, but the man
who was holding Gita and is now holding the Bible,
remains the same. He has changed his beliefs.
Beliefs are like clothes. Nothing substantial is
transformed; you remain the same. Dissect a
Hindu, dissect a Mohammedan, inside they are the
same. He goes to a temple; the Mohammedan
hates the temple. The Mohammedan goes to the
mosque and the Hindu hates the mosque, but
inside they are the same human beings.
Belief is easy because you are not required really to
do anything # just a superficial dressing, a
decoration, something which you can put aside any
moment you like. Yoga is not belief. That!s why it
is difficult, arduous, and sometimes it seems
impossible. It is an existential approach. You will
come to the truth, but not through belief, but
through your own experience, through your own
realization. That means you will have to be totally
changed. Your viewpoints, your way of life, your
mind, your psyche has to be shattered completely
as it is. Something new has to be created. Only with
that new will you come in contact with the reality.
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