Ramesh Balsekar

Ramesh Balsekar ( born May 25, 1917 in Mumbai, † September 27, 2009 ) was an Indian mystic. He was a student of Advaita teacher Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Life

After a western education Balsekar made ​​a career as manager until he retired at the age of 60 from his post as president of the Bank of India. After his retirement, was led by his search for enlightenment Nisargadatta Maharaj to. This became known in the seventies in the West, was published as an English translation of his dialogues, entitled I Am That as a book. After less than a year teaching at Nisargadatta and translation work for this, Balsekar came to his own statement to the " latest valid knowledge" and has been authorized by Nisargadatta shortly before his death as a teacher. Since that time, he conveys the message of his teacher in a somewhat modified form further.

Teaching

Balsekar emphasized in his teaching that the individual is not free is conditioned in its actions, but by genetic predisposition and the influence of society. The human being is free to act according to his thinking, but his thought itself can not be determined by himself, but corresponds to ' the will of God '. Balsekar draws on the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita about the authorship of human action. His doctrine that man is therefore unable to blame has been very controversial, and is sometimes associated with the Neo - Advaita, but Balsekar commented traditional works such as the Bhagavad Gita, the Ashtavakra Gita and Jnaneshvara Amritanubhava to justify his doctrine. Only those who recognize their own impersonal nature, is free of both guilt and blame, leading to perfect harmony with the environment. After Balsekar enlightenment itself means to the knowledge of this fact, which must be understood, however deeply and without a doubt. However, this knowledge can not be enforced because the man is not even free, and the identification is with himself as the causative doer of the actual content of his ignorance.

Ramesh Balsekars description of non-dualism

"First, there is the source. Call it confidence, call it called the Self as Ramana Maharshi, call it as you want, but understand that what is meant is a source that a without a second. everything there is the source from which this comes to manifesting, and the manifestation is the set of objects. ' "

" The second fundamental concept is at the functional level of yourself Manifesting: Nobody does anything Nothing happens unless it is this is the will of the source, the will of God, this means the following:. ., The impression of one's acting out is an illusion. Therein lies the final realization, the ultimate finding is the: .. There is no ego in the form of something that is different from the source, which is the source one as long as you say ' I am this or that ', is the personal self separate from the source [ ... ] the ego dissolves, in the moment in which you accept unconditionally that it has never ever been anything like a ' ego '. "

" The source has the imaginary ' I ' created because interactive, interpersonal interaction without using this ' I ' at all would not be possible .. So God can happen Purple game itself, must be able to take place between human relations and interpersonal relations, it simply needs a ego. ego simply means the feeling of being an actor, to be a separate entity that has control over his body. "

" The final truth is, according to Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj and the ways before them that is created or destroyed anything that there is neither birth nor death, neither destiny nor free will, neither any path of knowledge, nor any achievement. All what there is, is simply awareness. "

" In this original condition, there is absolutely no reason for being is some thing aware this means: .. Settling Come awareness is aware of its existence is not aware of it His will only become aware of when this sudden feeling of ' I AM ' appears. , this impersonal feeling of self- aware -ness conscious awareness is manifested: potential energy becomes actual energy There are no two things Nothing Separate stems from the potential energy ... this is the moment that science calls the Big Bang. . called the mystic, the non- scheduled becoming aware of consciousness ... "

Works

  • Who cares? J. Kamp Stockhausen Verlag, April 2001, ISBN 3933496543
  • Pointers. Pioneering Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj talks with. J. Kamp Stockhausen Verlag, July 1999, ISBN 3933496446
  • Ramesh S. Balsekar: "Where is Nothing, nothing can be missing ," Lotus Publishing 2008, ISBN 978-3-7787-8205-7
  • Ramesh S. Balsekar: " The cosmic mystery " J. Kamp Stockhausen Verlag, December 2006 ISBN 3-89901-062-0
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