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reflect it."
His answer is tremendously beautiful: "Before enlightenment I was miserable, and after enlightenment I am miserable." As far as the outer world is [illegible]
Even being God ain't a bed of roses, remember. Thorns are always there, but your vision changes. You look in a different way, your attitude is different, your approach is different, because you are different. You are on a different plane: a watcher on the hill, and in the valley the same world continues.
The same master was again asked the same question, by another inquirer, and he said the same thing: "I was miserable before my enlightenment and I am miserable after my enlightenment," but when he was asked to explain it further, he said something more, he added something more. He said, "Before, I was miserable for myself, now I am miserable for others." But that is a revolution. To be miserable for oneself is ugly; to be miserable for others is compassion, is beauty, is grace.
This is what I call divine rebellion: moving from identification to witnessing, moving from getting lost in things and the world, to a point where you are always alert, clear, transparent, unaffected, untouched. You 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.
Sannyas is basically a movement towards such a rebellion, such a radical transformation.
Even Bein' Gawd Ain't A Bed of Roses
Chapter #2
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2 October 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7910025
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OSHO (TO SONJA): Bliss follows him like a shadow. It is natural, spontaneous, not something cultivated or practiced, because wisdom is nothing but the arising of a witnessing consciousness in you. Wisdom is not knowledge, wisdom is the realization of your interiority. It is not information, it is experience.
You cannot accumulate it from others or from scriptures.
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