Why is the concept of God considered a lie?

Question: The second question: WHY IS THE LIE OF GOD SO SUCCESSFUL? Because you are a failure. It is your failure that makes the lie of God so successful. In your life you have not loved totally, you have not lived totally. You have never done anything totally; this is your failure. I don't mean by failure what you understand. You understand you are a failure if you are not super-rich. You are a failure if you are not a great politician, a prime minister, a president. You are a failure if you are not world famous. That is not failure, that is simply the competitive, egoistic life. And that kind of life is the most miserable, because you are continuously fighting, fighting, pulling others back by the legs, rising over people's heads, making them as if they are steps for you to climb higher.

I am addicted to telling lies. Why do I do it?

Vimal, it may be just to feel superior! People start telling lies because that gives them a speciality: they can pretend that they know things which nobody else knows. Truth is universal, the lie is private. It is your own creation, nobody else knows about it; you become very special, the knower. If you say the truth you will not be special. I have heard that in a village there was a wise man. Once it happened that from the palace of the king some very precious diamonds were stolen and the king's people were searching for the stolen treasure. The king had loved those stones so much that at any cost they had to be brought back, but no clue was available. Then somebody suggested, "We have an old wise man in the town; maybe he can be of some support, some help, some insight he can give. Whenever…

[Disconnect yourself from love and you miss God] Love connects you with the source of all the energies. That source is God. Without love we live in a disconnected state, hence a very tiny amount of energy remains available to us. That too is in spite of us, because we cannot be absolutely disconnected from God, otherwise we will die. So a little bit of connection continues, but if one is consciously rooted in God, grows his roots in God... That's what love means: growing your roots in God. Becoming more and more love-full is becoming more and more God-full. And the more you love, the more you see God everywhere. Soon it becomes an all-comprehending strength. The source remains available to you; you cannot exhaust it, not even death can destroy it.

Love is the only religion there is -- not Christianity, nor Hinduism nor Mohammedanism, but love. Enough of all these isms -- they have tortured man enough, more than enough. It is time to get rid of all these isms and ideologies, all these dogmas and creeds. It is time to reject all that is non-essential and to save just the essential. The danger is that because the non-essential has grown so much and man has become so tired of it, he may throw out the whole thing -- even the essential with the non-essential, the baby with the bathwater. That danger is there. For the first time in the history of man we have come to a very critical moment. If we want to save the essential then the non-essential has to be rejected, and the sooner the better, because almost half of humanity has rejected religion.

Buddha was not against life, nor was Jesus against life, but Christians are against life and Buddhists are against life. The originators were all for life, but the priest cannot afford that. The priest lives on the division between God and life; not only on the division but on the antagonism between life and god. The priest condemns life, makes people feel guilty about being alive, teaches them to be destructive towards their own lives. This is how he becomes powerful, this is his strategy. Then he places God far, far away in the sky, and he becomes the agent, the mediator. He exploits in the name of God: he makes man feel guilty and makes God so far away that the guilty man cannot conceive that he can approach God directly, immediately. Then the priest is needed to function as a viamedia. But the true religion is always life-affirmative.