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the World  And of course the disciple was the loser, because
these people managed to fulfill the demands of the followers.but
the followers were not capable of fulfilling the demands of the
masters, so they were condemned as sinners. All the religions
created nothing but guilt in the human mind, a deep feeling of
inferiority, a sense of failure, a kind of hatred for oneself,
one’s weaknesses, frailties. They destroyed people’s self-
respect. And no crime can be greater than that, because once a
person loses self-respect he loses his very soul; he loses his
manhood, he falls into a subhuman existence.  It has been a very
strange nightmare, tremendously painful to the whole of
humanity. A few cunning people - unintelligent but stubborn,
stupid but adamant - managed to do all kinds of irrational
things, and because others could not do them, they became great
saints.  I used to know one ma