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THE gods of the past are dead. And they cannot be revived again. They have become irrelevant
to human consciousness; they were created by a very immature mind. Man has come of age. He
needs a different vision of the gods, he needs a different kind of religion. He needs to be freed from
his yesterdays, because only then can the tomorrow become possible. The old has to die for the
new to be.
It is good that the old gods are gone – but it is difficult for humanity to say goodbye to them.
Humanity has become too familiar with them. They have been a great consolation and comfort
and convenience, they have been a sort of security. propping them one feels frightened, scared.
Mind wants to remain with the known because the known is the familiar, the trodden. Mind is always
afraid to move into the unknown. The unknown on the one hand challenges, attracts, on the other
hand creates fear. It is unpredictable, one cannot know beforehand what will be the outcome. And
mind is always orthodox, it is conventional. Mind is a convention, mind is traditional, mind is tradition.
So the problem is always there – mind clings with the past and life wants to go into the future, and
there is a constant tug of war between mind and life.
Those who choose mind remain dead. Those who choose life against mind are the salt of the earth.
It is not only that the gods of the yesterdays are dead, the very concept of a personal god has no
more any meaning. In the future there will not be gods, there will not even be one god, there can
only be godliness. Try to understand it. God cannot have a form in the future, and if you insist on
the form there will be no religion. Only a formlessness can be conceived – a quality, not a person;
an energy, not a being. Not God but godliness. Not any particular religion – Christianity, Hinduism,
Islam – but only religiousness.