Rebellious Spirit Search for Truth
What is religion, really? It is an individual approach towards truth. One has to go alone; one has to find one's own way. You cannot follow another, you cannot move on a ready-made track. The more you search your own way, the closer you will be to God, or to truth, or to reality. In fact, the way is created as you walk. Life is wild, and it is good that it is wild. It is good that it has no map, that it is not charted, that it is still unknown. With knowability, all charm will be lost, all beauty will be lost. Then life will not surprise you; and if surprise is lost, all is lost. Then there will be no wonder, no wondering. Then your eyes will go dead and your heart will stop beating; the passion will disappear. Love will not be possible. Awe, wonder, surprise: these are the ingredients of the charisma, of the mystery of life. So it is good that there are no scriptures; it is good that there are no ritualised religions; it is good that you are not on a uper-highway: the bule is a rebellious per son. He is not a revolutionary. A revolution- ray is still thinking in terms of how to change society. But a rebellious person does not bother about the world because he understands that the world cannot be changed by him, and who is he to change the world? "What is my authority to change the world? And if the world decides to be the way it is. Who am I to interfere with it?" He leaves the world to itself. He does not interfere; he does not meddle with it. He starts changing himself. His revolution is inward. A rebellious person simply drops out of that society which doesn't suit him. He does not wait for it to be transformed so that he can fit with it. That desire is foolish, stupid. Then you will be lost. And that day. that utopia, will never happen - when the society has changed so much that you can fit with it, and the society can fit with you. It has never happened. Revolutionaries have lived down through the centuries, and died. The world has remained the same, more or less, but the lives of those revolutionaries were wasted in trying to change it. Just think of Marx, Lenin. Trotsky, coming back and looking at the world; they will start crying. Is this the world they strived for? They were trying to change the world because they thought that only when the world had changed according to their wishes would they be able to live happily. The revolutionary asks: "How can you be happy in an unhappy world?" The rebellious person says: "Leave the world to itself. Nobody has ever changed it". He is down-to earth: "I can live my own way. I can create my own world within me". He is a drop-out. Bauls are drop-outs. They don't belong to any religion, to any society, to any nation. А rebellious person is one who says: "I'm not going to wait; I'm going to live right now". The revolution ary hopes for the future. He says: "I am going to wait. I will wait for the right moment". The rebellious person says: "The right moment is here-now, and I'm not going to wait for anybody, I'm going to live right now". A rebellious person lives in the present: he is not against anybody. He may appear to be so because he is trying to live his own life, but he is not really against anybody. He simply says: "Please leave me alone. You do your thing and let me do my thing. Don't interfere with me and I will not interfere with you". The vision of the rebellious mind is very realistic. Life is short. The future is not certain, so why waste time in fighting with others: in trying to convince them? Just celebrate life.
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Rebellious Spirit Search for Truth
What is religion, really? It is an individual approach towards truth. One has to go alone; one has to find one's own way. You cannot follow another, you cannot move on a ready-made track. The more you search your own way, the closer you will be to God, or to truth, or to reality. In fact, the way is created as you walk. Life is wild, and it is good that it is wild. It is good that it has no map, that it is not charted, that it is still unknown. With knowability, all charm will be lost, all beauty will be lost. Then life will not surprise you; and if surprise is lost, all is lost. Then there will be no wonder, no wondering. Then your eyes will go dead and your heart will stop beating; the passion will disappear. Love will not be possible. Awe, wonder, surprise: these are the ingredients of the charisma, of the mystery of life. So it is good that there are no scriptures; it is good that there are no ritualised religions; it is good that you are not on a uper-highway: the bule is a rebellious per son. He is not a revolutionary. A revolution- ray is still thinking in terms of how to change society. But a rebellious person does not bother about the world because he understands that the world cannot be changed by him, and who is he to change the world? "What is my authority to change the world? And if the world decides to be the way it is. Who am I to interfere with it?" He leaves the world to itself. He does not interfere; he does not meddle with it. He starts changing himself. His revolution is inward. A rebellious person simply drops out of that society which doesn't suit him. He does not wait for it to be transformed so that he can fit with it. That desire is foolish, stupid. Then you will be lost. And that day. that utopia, will never happen - when the society has changed so much that you can fit with it, and the society can fit with you. It has never happened. Revolutionaries have lived down through the centuries, and died. The world has remained the same, more or less, but the lives of those revolutionaries were wasted in trying to change it. Just think of Marx, Lenin. Trotsky, coming back and looking at the world; they will start crying. Is this the world they strived for? They were trying to change the world because they thought that only when the world had changed according to their wishes would they be able to live happily. The revolutionary asks: "How can you be happy in an unhappy world?" The rebellious person says: "Leave the world to itself. Nobody has ever changed it". He is down-to earth: "I can live my own way. I can create my own world within me". He is a drop-out. Bauls are drop-outs. They don't belong to any religion, to any society, to any nation. А rebellious person is one who says: "I'm not going to wait; I'm going to live right now". The revolution ary hopes for the future. He says: "I am going to wait. I will wait for the right moment". The rebellious person says: "The right moment is here-now, and I'm not going to wait for anybody, I'm going to live right now". A rebellious person lives in the present: he is not against anybody. He may appear to be so because he is trying to live his own life, but he is not really against anybody. He simply says: "Please leave me alone. You do your thing and let me do my thing. Don't interfere with me and I will not interfere with you". The vision of the rebellious mind is very realistic. Life is short. The future is not certain, so why waste time in fighting with others: in trying to convince them? Just celebrate life.
DISCLAIMER:
The views expressed in the Article above are Osho Desai kashmiribhatta.in is not in any way responsible for the opinions expressed in the above article. The article belongs to its respective owner or owners and this site does not claim any right over it.
Courtesy: Osho Speaking Tree,Times of India