You Made God - Osho

You can even create God outside yourself, the strange irony - you make an idol with your own hands, and then you bow down before and pray. You never understand what can come of praying before something that you make yourself. Seek who has made you. You sit with folded hands before a god of your own creation.

But your god cannot be greater than you. It can only be smaller. That is why all the gods and goddesses seated in your temples and mosques are smaller than you. You have made them, decorated them, and adorned them. They are your creations. They may be artistic, but they cannot be religious. As works of art, they have their place in museums and galleries—that is understandable. But to mistake them for the Divine is to fall into a profound delusion.

And one who becomes entangled with an outer God may worship, may pray, may go on pilgrimages, may perform rituals and sacrifices—but all of it is futile.

It is like pouring water into a desert: the sand absorbs everything, and nothing remains. Pour the water into the inner soil if you want the seed of the Divine to sprout. No flowering can happen by watering the desert outside.

The One who created you, from whom you were born, from whom you have come, is still present within you.

In fact, without Him, you cannot exist for a single moment. He is the breath within every breath. With every breath you take, it is He who is breathing. With every heartbeat, it is His heartbeat. In every vibration of your being, it is His throbbing. You exist only because of His existence. Your being is nothing but an expression of His Being.

-Osho From Suno Bhai Sadho, Discourse 16.