Guru' isn't very good, so let's forget that. To See You've Got Religion' has him congratulating a friend on finding God. Religion equals impotence here.
Mysticism is so restrictive.
He distrusts religion because it's a way of filtering and categorising reality, of closing off one's self from the possibility of change and abdicating from the task of understanding things. His is the existentialist equation of freedom as responsibility. But the root problem is obviously not religion itself so much as an attitude of mind - that desire for escape and release which we all feel, and which so easily becomes bad faith. Motel Blues' is an anti-fame song, about loneliness on the road. Who needs a heart of gold. .