What is peace for the rebellious man?

Question: BELOVED MASTER, WHAT IS PEACE FOR THE REBELLIOUS MAN? Raso, peace is, for the rebellious man, his very light. It is his very aroma, his fragrance, the harmony of his heart, his at-oneness with existence. All conflicts of the mind are just memories of the past. The mind is no longer divided, split or schizophrenic. The mind has become an organic unity. The ordinary man who has not tasted rebellion or religion -- which to me are equivalent -- is a house divided against himself. He is continuously fighting within and without. He is fighting for money, for power, for prestige, for respectability. His outside life is nothing but power politics. It is a continuous, ongoing warfare that ceases only when he stops breathing. The inner scene is not much different either, because the outer and the inner cannot be much different.

The seed was stagnant, the plant is a river. Bliss is a flower but you have to become the soil, and the ego has to die in the soil like the seed dies, then you can also know the invisible, then you can also manifest the unmanifested. That's what happens to a Jesus, to a Buddha, to a Lao Tzu: something of the unknown starts surrounding them, becomes their climate, their milieu. And those who are unprejudiced, those who are open, can see in a Buddha God walking on the earth, living in a body. It is only the blind who miss, it is only the deaf who miss, but the greater part of humanity consists of blind and deaf people. Initiation into sannyas means that now you will search for the eyes and the ears. They are there, we just have not used them.

Osho, yesterday you said that a religious person is always a rebel. Then can a rebel be at ease, be spontaneous?

I certainly said that a religious person is always a rebel, but I did not say that all rebels are religious. One may be rebellious without being religious, but no one can be religious without being rebellious. So what is the difference between a religious rebel and a rebel? The ordinary rebel—who is political or social, without religion—can never be at ease. There will be great tension there—twenty-four hours of worry and restlessness. A religious rebel means: natural ease. Not rebellion for the sake of rebellion; not rebellion against someone—the religious person’s rebellion is the longing to remain in his own naturalness. He wants to live in himself. Whatever obstructs this living-in-himself, he does not accept. He has no urge to break for the sake of breaking. He does not want to be against anyone. He only wants that nothing become an obstacle to his freedom. Nor does he want…

Question: BELOVED MASTER, WHAT ARE THE QUALITIES OF A REBEL? A rebel simply lives his life in the moment, with awareness, with no desire to dominate, either while he is living or when he is dead. He does not have any lust for power. He is a scientist of the soul -- that is the fourth dimension. Just as science uses doubt, skepticism, inquiry, he uses the same methods for his inner search. Science uses them for objective reality, he uses them for his subjectivity. But he does not condemn doubt, he does not condemn skepticism, he does not condemn disobedience, he does not condemn a nonbelieving approach to reality. He enters within his own being with a scientific mind. His religion is not superstitious -- it is scientific.

man lives in a state of turmoil for the simple reason that he is divided into many fragments and all those fragments are fighting to dominate man has not got one self, he has got many selves the idea of one mind is very false man is poly-psychic: he is many minds he is a crowd and of course the crowd cannot be peaceful there is continuous competition each fragment trying to come up on the top there is great politics in everybody's inner world unless this whole politics ceases there is no possibility of peace at the most people can manage just a facade of peace, just on the surface but deep down they are boiling deep down there is always war sometimes hot, sometimes cold, but no peace in fact the only way to be peaceful is to help all these fragments melt into oneness unless that integration…