I am the Light (John 9:5)

He called Himself the Son of Man, establishing a connection and valuing relationship with man, and here is man, trying to find his way to God, that's religion. When Jesus called himself Light, it simply implied we are in the dark, completely blind, all our efforts to come to Him is useless. But He became man so we can be enlightened, all we have to do is accept Him and receive Him as our source of Light. Light gives life and it shows the way through the darkness, He is the way the truth and the Life, it is believing only in Him that would make us see the path to the Kingdom. Making others enlightened was His purpose, "You are the light of the world" (Matt. 5:12) The goal of man is not "doing" this and that but "becoming" like Him. The Light. Religion makes us to look but becoming like Him will make us see.