Religion is an institution build on the foundation of human insecurity...

Religion should have been the arm which dissipates scientific knowledge for the betterment of living but it never happened in that direction. From the day we started living in a clan, marked our territories, our flock of cattle our women ... the illusion of security was developed in our mind... human beings have a tendency of following.. follow the leader, the religious guru, the philosophies, the beliefs.... and this nature of following breeds from the sense of security. In the early days ... the two men who had the strongest power were the ones who had the muscle... and the other one was the aged ... with wisdom..who knew when the seasons will change, when to plant the seeds, which herbs comes to cure, which stones can be used for arms.... and he enjoyed some privileges... and the foundation of priesthood was formed... for quite some time they enjoyed almost equal and in some cases greater power than the ruler...( we even find coronations happening now with a religious leader...) ... Anyways..down the ages as we accumulated knowledge man has started inquiring.... if there is something beyond this daily life... the daily pain, the conflict , the sorrow, the daily routine ... if there is something meta physical beyond our known realm... and the entire domain of religion got institutionalized but like the earliest times even now they survive and flourish on the same basis of insecurity.... and fear.

And also the fear of death ...which has played an important role in strengthening the foundation of religion... let me explain.. the feeling of security is there when you live in constancy... the end of constancy is insecurity... and death means the end of attachment and the fear of leaving everything behind you....and so we went towards religion as it provided the assurance of heaven of resurrection and even of re-incarnation....

Our brain is conditioned over a million years by accumulation of knowledge, experience and our pain and sorrow and fear..and since the earliest time we are always seeking security - as security of mind and our physical existence as it will bring our mind to a totally different level - a different state.... but the sense of security still remains an illusion... in both the physical and mental world...and that's where the thought creates gods, saviors, new philosophies, and the priests, the psychoanalysts, the religious gurus who make merry of the situation to catch you in their net... the mind also plays it part in building an illusion of security in the form of many a things like vastu, numerology, crystals, ying & yang, zen, yoga.

There can be no good from religions which give strictures, which binds people, encages the mind from questioning, which makes one group of people hate the other, which divides people - the only religion can be living with a true sense of morality and integrity where the mind does not follow thoughts and actions flow out of only love and compassion.