"The spreading of spiritual Knowledge is a movement. It is always a movement. Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, all have organized religions. They believe in the Law, they believe in everything. On the other hand, Knowledge is a movement because Knowledge can fit into anything. Spiritual evolution can fit into anything, but if it is dogmatized, if you have to go to a church and de certain rituals and believe certain things, then that spiritual evolution finally turns into a religion.

We read about Abraham, we read about Moses, the Apostles and Christ, and we come to know that none of them followed the masses. What was extraordinary in them was that they were following the true message, the true path of the prophets and masters.

One person may be a Christian, another a Hindu, and another a Muslim. They all have different beliefs and different scriptures. They even think differently. If you study the Muslim faith, they say that if you don't read the Koran you will go to hell. The Christians say that if you don't accept Christ and believe in the Bible you will go to hell. Hindus say that if you don't worship Krishna, then you will go to hell. It seems there is a contradiction here, because from each other's angle everybody is going to hell and nobody is going to be saved. So even the scriptures are not the common point. They could give us a correct direction but in themselves they are controversial. There is only one common point and that is our breath. Breath is common to everybody. A man who is a Hindu breathes, a Christian breathes, a Muslim breathes. The breath is a common denominator. The problem is, if we do not know this breath, if we do not know ourselves, how can we know anything else?

The essential truths which constitute the core and spirit of religion don't change. They are the common factor, the thread running through all religions, although a variety of symbols have been used to express them. Many saints and divine Masters have come and gone, but their teachings have been basically the same. A sincere, truly religious person doesn't quarrel about symbols and teachers, but follows the quintessential teachings and evolves spiritually.

Is man a body or'a soul? The physical body is the vehicle which enables him to function in this world, to relate and respond to his environment, but the body is not immortal, and doesn't escape death when its time comes. However, within this physical frame dwells a non-physical entity-the soul-which existed before it inhabited a body and will continue to live on after the disintegration and decay of the physical shell. It is not the body, but the soul, which exists. It is eternal and described by the scriptures as being the Primordial Being or Original Man.