Being Divine

Throughout our time, here on the last Pilgrimage weblog, we have discussed about spirituality as a means to reach out to the divine. We have discussed about spirituality as a means to reclaim the lost divinity within each and every one of us. However in the course of this entire journey, not once had we ever touched base on what divinity truly accomplishes. We never answered the question. What next? How would a seeker’s life be after being touched by divinity? Indeed how would a seeker’s life be once he made the transition from being simply human to being divine?

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The answer to that question is indeed surprising. Believe it or not, the transition from being human to being divine is what constitutes the entire struggle of the redundant and repetitive human existence. That transition in itself is a journey that is driven by an incessant desire and an innate craving of the divine. That desire in turn takes the seeker ever closer to achieving that state of divinity within his own self. It takes the seeker ever closer to completely evolving in the end. It is that very desire that finally unites a seeker with his eternal soulmate; himself.

Throughout this journey, as a seeker starts to progress on the path that leads to self-realization and enlightenment, he starts to observe the subtle changes that happen within himself. The spiritual path completely transforms and transfigures an individual both intrinsically and from the worldly perspective. It affects the very constitution of an individual, redefining his traits and characteristics, as the individual himself starts to experience the present of an alternate consciousness within himself; as he starts to experience and feel God within the confines of his own mind.

Extrinsically, the individual starts to feel a difference in the way that the world perceives him. There is a certain amount of prejudice veiled underneath a snide demeanor of falsified curiosity in the eyes that behold him. This happens owing to the fact that the subtle intrinsic changes affect the seekers behavioral patterns, thus making others around him conspicuous of the change. People don’t like change for it makes them feel uncomfortable; and the degree of change that any phenomena brings in depends on the ingenuity of that specific idea. Spirituality in itself is the single most ingenious and revolutionary ideology that an individual can imbibe in his life. The changes that the spiritual revolution brings about in an individual are indeed varied and beyond comprehension. Hence the silent rebuke from the society.

However a true spiritualist never really cares about the opinions of the others; for he knows in his heart that the path he treads is a path known to few; for indeed few have the courage to stage the spiritual revolution against lifetime’s worth of oppression that they have suffered at their own hands. Few have the drive to renunciate the worldly rot for the kingdom of joy that reigns within; and no matter what you do this is certain for a fact. Once touched by divinity; your life will never be the same again. At one point it will happen that you will renounce the world; or the world will end up renouncing you. However in both cases; you would be well off.

The renunciation that I speak of here is the renunciation that comes from within. It is the feeling of supreme happiness that accompanies the knowledge that there is indeed nothing in the world that can truly make you feel aggrieved; the knowledge that you are truly and completely free of all the bonds that bind you to this existence; the bonds that make you suffer. In such ways the silent and yet incredibly effective spiritual revolution reinstates the power to its rightful owner; the soul. Thus ends the journey from being simply human to being divine…

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