Once I said, your face is smeared with mud, and religion is like pure water meant to be thrown on your face so that you get cleaned up. But when that water hits your face, the water too gets muddy.
Falling on your face, the water has cleared away some of the mud, so now you can open your eyes. When you open your eyes, you find dirty water around you, and what is it that you say then? “Oh, this dirty water has spoiled my face!” No, the water is absolutely clean. Coming in contact with you, the water has become dirty.
Now, instead of looking at your own dirtiness, your own filth, your own tendency to remain dirty, you are blaming that which could have relieved you from your foul state. That’s what has been man’s approach towards religion.
This article has been created by volunteers of the PrashantAdvait Foundation from transcriptions of sessions by Acharya Prashant
