The organized religions of the world often fail to express the real vision of those who have been the fountainhead of inspiration for their very coming into existence. Dogmas and beliefs, rituals and ceremonies can never be the essence of the true spiritual life. They are generally not only superficial and ineffective, but positively harmful and misleading. Often, they not only feed the ego of the priestly class, but also serve as an instrument for the exploitation of the credulous. When religion becomes merely a matter of external rituals and ceremonies, it becomes a cage for the soul. Nor does it help very far to change one religion to another; it is like going from one cage to another. If religion does not help man to emancipate the soul from spiritual bondage and realize God, it has no useful purpose to serve. Then it is time that religion should go to make room for God.
I am, therefore, not interested in founding a new religion. The world is already divided by numberless sects, based upon dogmas and beliefs. I have not come to give another cage to man, but to impart to the world the illimitable truth. The world needs awakening and not mere verbal instruction; it needs the freedom and the amplitude of Divine Life, and not the superficiality of mechanised and pompous forms; it needs Love, and not the display of power.
The world-task ahead of me is particularly creative. Essentially, we are all one. I am greater than none of you in the soul-sense and, really speaking, none of you have to receive divinity from me, the divinity that is externally existing equally in us all; but what I have to give is the knowledge and the experience of the oneness of us all.
Out of the agonising travail and suffering of the present times, the new enlightened humanity has to be born. Man should be weaned away from the allurements of the ego-life; he shall come into full inheritance of his own divinity and know himself to be none other than the Supreme God Himself; and his heart shall be unlocked so as to release the dynamic Love Divine.
Divine Love knows no decay, fear or corruption, because it is illumined by the understanding that all life is One. Let those who are alive to the real values hearken to this call of mine; they will have an ample share in bringing into existence the new era of Truth and Love.