What is the role of priests and popes if the experience of God is subjective or objective?
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"God is not a concept to be mediated; it is the very essence of your inner being waiting to be awakened."
According to Osho, because God is neither an objective thing nor a separate subject but the very experience of your inner being, no mediator is possible or needed. Priests and popes cannot deliver, prove, or broker ‘God’; they mainly preserve doctrines and power—the politics of numbers—around a symbolic word. Drop intermediaries; turn inward to awaken.
No priest can give you God; you find it by looking inside yourself.
Why this matters practically
- Frees you from dependence on religious authorities and rituals.
- Encourages direct meditation and self-inquiry over belief and debate.
- Reduces conflict born from dogma and “numbers” politics.
- Encourages direct meditation and self-inquiry over belief and debate.
- Reduces conflict born from dogma and “numbers” politics.
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