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Is it possible for a politician to be a religious man or for a religious man to be a politician?

Politics is born from ego and power-lust, while true religion transcends the self; they cannot coexist without corrupting the spirit.

— Osho
According to Osho, it is absolutely impossible for a political man to be religious because politics and religion are diametrically opposite ways: politics springs from ego, power-lust and an inferiority complex, while religion is a different dimension, not an add-on to personality. A truly religious person wouldn't enter power games, and a power-seeking politician cannot be religious; mixing them spreads psychological sickness into the spirit.

Chasing power and being truly spiritual pull in opposite directions, so a real saint won’t be a politician and a real politician won’t be a saint.

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