Can You Understand What a Religious Life is?

K: I am not your guru, thank god, or anybody's guru.

Q: No, no, I'll call you as a non-guru sir, but that the whole (inaudible) in your presence. (Pause)

K: Sir, you asked a question: can tradition and culture exist or co-exist with a religious life? And we said very carefully tradition - apply it, sir, find out - tradition means handing down certain authoritarian statements, certain values, rituals, principles, conclusions, and so on. That's what tradition means. And that word also means betrayal, treason. Culture means to develop, to grow, the mind, your heart, to flower, to have beauty in your life, all that means culture. And a life which we live now daily is constant struggle, work, gathering money, having influence, having pain, suffering a great deal, insensitive to everything about us and only sensitive to our own little problems, and so on and on and on. That is what we call living. And religion as it is explained, means gathering your whole energy to enquire into what is truth and what is reality. Now do you want to go into all this?

Q: Yes, sir.