For a healthy and enlightened spiritual life, the concept of religion or god is not a must. Believers in god will differentiate between ‘yours’ and ‘mine’. But when one believes in nature, he or she cannot differentiate because there is only one nature. As sincere spiritual seekers, our duty is to exemplify the universal energy: not to represent finite religion, group, cult, nation or the very word god. If you delve the science of alchemy, there is no separate god, but the Truth. Swami Shivananda once asserted: 'God plus desire is man and man minus desire is God.'
The very word God needs the umbrella of Truth, but Truth needs none. It is not God who has created the earth, but it is the human being who created God to neutralize the psychological, biological and physical fears of the inner. In fact, the very word God stands for Generating, Operating and Destroying principles of Nature. Sage Vyasa, Sri Krishna, Buddha, Abraham, Moses, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammed and all other outstanding spiritual personalities have realized this eternal Truth and dedicated their energies for the humane order of the world. One can reach this infinite height of Truth only when the 'self' ceases to exist. There are people who have reached this infinite height. They may live in our surroundings, but they do not exhibit their infinite energy, unless and until the space-time is ripe. Indiscriminate exhibitions from the so-called enlightened persons are the result of their enlightenment selfishness.
The infinite energy of the infinite consciousness has no relation with the concept of God. To transcend space and time, there is a crucial need to abandon the emotional binding with the words like God, religion, cult, group, nation, creed etc. Osho says, “My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is certain alchemy, a science of transformation. I am not here to support your belief. I have to take your beliefs away. I am not here to inspire you, because all inspiration creates slavery. If you are inspired to me, you will become a slave to me, you will become dependent on me. I don't inspire you; I simply go on shattering, shocking you.”
Rig Veda says,
"The restless swan--the human soul--is on the journey infinite to find out
the Truth".