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You have been told. You are quoting others when you say, “I am a Hindu.” Your Hinduism is within quotation marks. When you say, “I am a communist,” you are again quoting others. You can believe in the Bible, or in DAS KAPITAL, it doesn't matter; you are a believer. Then you are not a true person. You have not yet known who you are. You are clinging to some information fed from the outside by others.
To discover oneself means to drop all quotation marks, to be utterly naked in the sun. Then only one becomes religious, then only one knows one's true center and being. But people are wasting their energies in unnecessary questions. You ask one question, you will get a thousand and one answers for it, and you will become more and more confused. If you believe in any answer that answer is not going to satisfy either; it will create new questions.
For example, if you believe that God created the world, then the question arises: why? Nothing is solved. You were thinking, “My question, 'Who created the world?' will be solved if I can trust and believe that God created the world,” but now the question arises: why? Why did he not create it before! What was he doing before he created the world? For eternity, just think… what was he doing! And why did he suddenly create the world four thousand and four years before Jesus? Why so suddenly? What happened, what motivation? Maybe some answer can be given to it; that is not going to help. New questions will arise. That is one of the indications of a false answer: it does not solve the basic question; on the contrary, it creates more questions.
-Rajneesh