<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/3-april-1957#p10,p12,p13,p14,p15,p16,p17,p18,p19</ref>
=How to Embrace God?==
Karmamarga, the Way of Works, one of the three ways by which the spirit of man may see, embrace & become God.
Give up the natural desire for the fruits of our works and surrender all we do, think, feel and are into the keeping of the Eternal, To identify ourself with all creatures in the Universe both individually and collectively, realising our larger Self in others.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/an-incomplete-work-of-vedantic-exegesis#p7</ref>
In every religion there are some who have evolved a high spiritual life. But it is not the religion that gave them their spirituality; it is they who have put their spirituality into the religion. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/9-june-1929#p5</ref>
The time of religions is over. We have entered the age of universal spirituality, of spiritual experience in its initial purity.<ref>https://incarnateword.in/cwm/15/religion#p29,p30,p31,p32</ref>
The children of Auroville should replace the exclusiveness of one religion by the wide faith of knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p412</ref>
Religion and philosophy seek to rescue man from his ego; then the kingdom of heaven within will be spontaneously reflected in an external divine city.
If one has faith in the god of a religion, how can one have faith in the incarnate Divine? <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/17/1-june-1934#p2</ref>
==Why Religion Failed?==
Religion too by putting God far above in distant heavens made man too much of a worm of the earth little and vile before his Creator and admitted only by a caprice of his favour to a doubtful salvation in superhuman worlds.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/18/taittiriya-upanishad#p92</ref>
False socialisation of religion has been always the chief cause of its failure to regenerate mankind.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-spiritual-aim-and-life#p5,p6</ref>
People follow religion by social habit, in order not to get into the bad books of others. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/23-may-1956#p12</ref>
One of the greatest comforts of religion is that you can get hold of God sometimes and give him a satisfactory beating. People mock at the folly of savages who beat their gods when their prayers are not answered; but it is the mockers who are the fools and the savages.
<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-59#p1</ref>
==The Way Forward==
A revolutionary reconstruction of religion, philosophy, science, art and society is the last inevitable outcome. It proceeds at first by the light of the individual mind and reason, by its demand on life and its experience of life; but it must go from the individual to the universal. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-coming-of-the-subjective-age#p3</ref>
What is farther needed is the awakening of a certain vision, an insight and an intuitive response in the soul. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/25/the-suprarational-beauty#p7</ref>