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Sufism is not part of Islam; rather, on the contrary, Islam is part of Sufism. Sufism existed before
Mohammed ever was born, and Sufism will exist when Mohammed is completely forgotten. Islams
come and go; religions take form and dissolve; Sufism abides, continues, because it is not a dogma.
It is the very heart of being religious.
You may not ever have heard of Sufism and you may be a Sufi – if you are religious. Krishna is a
Sufi, and Christ too; Mahavir is a Sufi, and Buddha too – and they never heard about the word, and
they never knew that anything like Sufism exists.
Whenever a religion is alive, it is because Sufism is alive within it. Whenever a religion is dead, it
shows only that the spirit, the Sufi spirit, has left it. Now there is only a corpse, howsoever decorated
– in philosophy, metaphysics, in dogmas, doctrines – but whenever Sufism has left, religion stinks
of death. This has happened many times. This is happening already almost all over the world. One
has to be aware of it, otherwise one can go on clinging to a dead corpse.
Christianity has no Sufism now. It is a dead religion – the Church killed it. When ‘church’ becomes
too much, Sufism has to leave that body. It cannot exist with dogmas. It can well exist with a dancing
soul, but not with dogmas. It cannot exist with theology. They are not good companions. And with
popes and priests it is impossible for Sufism to exist. It is just the opposite! Sufism needs no popes,
no priests; it needs no dogmas. It is not of the head; it belongs to the heart. The heart is the
Church, not an organized church, because every organization is of the mind. And once the mind
takes possession, the heart has simply to leave that house completely. The house becomes too
narrow for the heart. The heart needs the whole of the sky. Nothing less than that will do.