When you have an investment in somebody’s illusion, you cannot destroy that illusion

Just think of God as a horse – it looks absurd. Think of God as a dog – it looks sacrilegious. But we go on thinking of God as man – and it doesn’t look sacrilegious? It is the human ego. Man feels very very happy when he can think in terms of God being like him. In the Bible it is said God created man in His own image – certainly this is written by man. If horses were writing their Bible, they would not write that, certainly not. They might even write that God created the Devil in man’s image, because God – how can God create man in His own image? And man has been so cruel to horses; nothing in man seems to be divine – ask a horse. Maybe the Devil, maybe a representative of Beelzebub, but not God at all.

Tantra drops that whole anthropomorphism. Tantra brings things to their right proportion, puts man in his right place. Tantra is a great vision. It is not centered on man. It is not centered on any partial

attitude. It sees reality as it is – in its suchness, in its TATHATA, in its Suchness. It does not talk about God. Instead of God, Tantra talks about truth.

Tantra does not create any ritual, does not create any worship, does not create any temple, does not create the priesthood – they are not needed. Man can stand face to face with truth in direct relationship; no mediator is needed, no priest is needed. The priests GO on talking about truth and God and heaven and a thousand and one things, not knowing anything of what they are talking about. Words, mere words. They have not experienced. Those words are just empty.

Tantra creates no priesthood. When there is no priesthood, religion is pure. Bring in the priest and he poisons. Bring in the priest and it is BOUND to be poisoned, because the priest has his own investment in it.

A man entered into a pub, and while he was drinking he saw a drunkard coming out of the pub, somehow dragging himself, wavering. And then, suddenly, the drunkard who had come out of the pub started making gestures as if he was driving a car, and making the noises of the engine and the honking of the horn.

The newcomer was surprised. He asked the pub-owner, ”Why don’t you tell this poor guy what he is doing?”

And the pub-owner said, ”He always does that. Whenever he has taken too much he does that. Now he will do it almost the whole night. He will go around and around in the town; he thinks he is driving

a great car.”

So the newcomer said, ”But why don’t you explain it to him?”

He said, ”Why should we explain? – he gives 10 $ per week to keep the car washed.”

When you have an investment in somebody’s illusion, you cannot destroy that illusion. You would like the illusion to continue. Once the priest comes in, he has his investment in all your illusions: illusions about God, illusions about soul, illusions about heaven, illusions about hell – he now has a great stake. Now he depends on your illusions, he lives on your illusions – he exploits your illusions.

Tantra is a disillusionment. It has not created any priesthood. Tantra says it is between you and truth itself, and there should be no one standing between you and truth. Let your heart be open to truth, and truth is enough. Nobody is needed to interpret it. YOU ARE ENOUGH to know what it is.

In fact, the more you are full of the interpretations, the less is the possibility to know that which is.

Truth is in the beginning, truth is in the middle and truth is in the end. In fact, there is no middle, no beginning, no end – it is all one. Truth is not passing... it abides.