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True religion will fail and disappear from the face of the earth if it remains pure and original. When it is organised or institutionalised, it has a better chance of survival. This is the very reason Buddhism failed in India. It failed because it wanted to remain pure. It didn't believe in god and some of its teachings did not go down well with the masses.

But it spread like wildfire in Thailand, Japan, China, Sri Lanka, Burma and other place. Buddha was not a public relations person but Buddhist missionaries were. They compromised many things to suit the local culture and liking. This is what’s happening in Malaysia.

The Umno fellows will say and do things that is to the liking of the Malay masses. There is a competition amongst them to see who is more Islamic. They are talking about removing crosses in mission schools , removing the word Allah from a Catholic publication, temple demolitions, Islamic state, fighting over dead bodies and other things.

There is a parallel to the above explanation. In the west, the devil is described as black but in Africa, it is the other way around - white! This is the work of the missionaries of organised religion. Organised religions are bound to split into many sects of the main religion. We have seen it in Christianity, Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism.

Osho, the misunderstood mystic has said "You can organise a religion only when you are ready to make it a politics and you are ready to lose its religiousness. A religion can be organised only when it is no longer a religion. That is to say, a religion cannot be organised as religion. Organised, it is no more religion. A religion basically remains unorganised, remains a little chaotic, remains a little disorderly - because religion is freedom."


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