Divine Rebellion

 

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Divine Rebellion

Revolution is concerned with outer things - the economic structure of the society, the political structure, the state. Rebellion is inner - it is concerned with the state of consciousness. Revolution is political, rebellion is spiritual. And a true rebellion transforms us into divinity; it reveals our godhood within. It makes us aware that we are not the body, nor the mind; that we are nothing but pure consciousness, that we are only a witness. Once this is experienced, realised, life becomes a play.

When misery comes, we witness it, we don’t get identified with it. Happiness comes and we witness it. Sometimes it is cloudy, very cloudy, and sometimes very sunny - but it is all the same to us because, as far as we are concerned, we remain rooted in our witnessing, which never changes. We remain immovable, unchanging.

Life is a flux: everything is changing, everything is in movement. In life there are no nouns, only verbs. There is only one noun and that is God. Everything else is a verb because nothing else is eternal. Everything is momentary: one moment it is there, the next moment it is gone.

Witnessing all, slowly slowly we remain neither happy nor unhappy; that is in a state of bliss. We are neither cold nor hot; that is Buddhahood. You are neither man nor woman; that is God-realisation. And remember - even if we have realised God the world continues to be the same. Illness will happen to us, old age will come, and death too. But because now we have a different vision everything happens and yet nothing happens to us.

Even after attaining to God-realisation, life is not a bed of roses. Thorns are always there, but our vision changes. We look in a different way, our attitude is different, our approach is different, because we are different. We are on a different plane: a watcher on the hill, and in the valley the same world continues. After God-realisation even if one becomes angry, one is not identified with it, is not affected by it – one just watches it. It is the same with all other extreme emotions – one just becomes a witness and watches it, like looking at the reflection in a mirror.

Before one attains realisation, one becomes miserable with one’s own life, after realisation one becomes miserable for others. That is so beautiful, because now the misery becomes compassion, beauty, grace.

This is divine rebellion – moving from identification to witnessing, moving from getting lost in things and the world, to a point where we are always alert, clear, transparent, unaffected, untouched.

We become a lotus leaf in the pond - the water can touch it but cannot affect it; in fact it cannot even touch it. It can be as close as possible but the lotus leaf remains utterly untouched by it. It remains in the pond and yet beyond it. This transcendence is divine rebellion.