Belief in Belief

I used to think that Rajneesh was a radical and hypocritical cult leader (who owned about one hundred Rolls Royce cars). May be he was all that and much more, or may be not. Whoever he was, his thought process in The Book of Understanding impressed me, and it made too much sense. His main preaching was, self-realization is a do-it-yourself thing, and renunciation hurts spiritual progress. Gita said the same thing, but I think it wasn't stressed and elaborated adequately.

I do not believe in believing. My approach is to know, and knowing is a totally different dimension. It starts from doubt, it does not start from believing. The moment you believe in something, you have stopped inquiring. Belief is one of the most poisonous things to destroy human intelligence.

All the religions are based on belief; only science is based on doubt. And I would like the religious inquiry also to be scientific, based on doubt, so that we need not believe but we can come to know someday the truth of our being, and the truth of the whole universe.