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Religion always deteriorates into morality. Morality is dead religion. Religion is alive morality. They
never meet, they cannot meet. because life and death never meet light and darkness never meet.
But the problem is that they look very alike – the corpse looks very like the living man. Everything is
just like when the man was alive: the same face, the same eyes, the same nose, the hair, the body.
Just one thing is missing, and that one thing is invisible.
Life is missing, but life is not tangible and not visible. So when a man is dead, he looks as if he is
still alive. And with the problem of morality, it becomes more complex.
Morality looks exactly like religion, but it is not. It is a corpse: it stinks of death. Religion is youth,
religion is freshness – the freshness of the flowers and the freshness of the morning dew. Religion
is splendour – the splendour of the stars, of life, of existence itself. When religion is there, there is
no morality at all and the person is moral. But there is no morality; there is no idea of what morality
is. It is just natural; it follows you as your shadow follows you. You need not carry your shadow, you
need not think about your shadow. You need not look back again and again and see whether the
shadow is following you still or not. It follows.
Just like that, morality follows a religious person. He never considers it, he never deliberately thinks
about it; it is his natural flavour. But when religion is dead, when life has disappeared, then one starts
thinking about morality continuously. Consciousness has disappeared, and conscience becomes
the only shelter