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Dissolving Spiritual Confusion: The Essence of Ramesh Balsekar’s Teachings
Dissolving Spiritual Confusion: The Essence of Ramesh Balsekar’s Teachings
Dissolving Spiritual Confusion: The Essence of Ramesh Balsekar’s Teachings
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Dissolving Spiritual Confusion was written when the devotee in Shirishkumar Murthy witnessed remarkable changes in the visitors’ attitude after meeting Ramesh Balsekar. In some cases, old concepts were replaced by new ones. In some, there were tears of gratitude. In yet others, the frown of confusion gave way, in due course, to a broad smile. An Indian seeker who had exclaimed, “What nonsense!” the first time he heard Ramesh’s teaching, ended up becoming an ardent devotee.

It was a wonder to see how the intellectual understanding slowly percolated to the heart. The seeker, who had started off brimming with questions, became silent and receptive. The resonance between the Guru and the disciple, happening gracefully, would delight quite a few visitors. It was known that once this happens to the seeker, he stops expecting anything from anybody...including God.

No other miracle happened at Ramesh’s place.

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Release dateMar 22, 2016
ISBN9789385902109
Dissolving Spiritual Confusion: The Essence of Ramesh Balsekar’s Teachings

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    Dissolving Spiritual Confusion - Shirish Kumar S Murthy

    1

    I don’t expect

    any respect from you.

    We are just talking.

    I have no responsibility of taking you anywhere.

    If I accept someone as my disciple

    I don’t struggle to turn him into a Master.

    I only have the responsibility of talking to him.

    You think you have come here.

    My total conviction is

    that you couldn’t have come here

    unless it was God’s will.

    Do you accept, at least intellectually,

    that nothing happens unless it is God’s will?

    Yes.

    Then we can talk further.

    You think ‘we’ are talking to each other.

    The talking and the listening

    happen in Consciousness

    by the will of God.

    Ramesh says,

    The consequences of this talking and listening

    are in God’s hands.

    2

    "How to go

    with the will of God?"

    You want to get away from

    misery and cling to happiness.

    Do you think you are not in touch with God

    when there is misery?

    That means you are not accepting

    the situation as it is.

    At any moment,

    the situation as it is,

    is the will of God.

    Where does receptivity or resistance come from?

    The scientist, surprisingly,

    attributes everything to the genes.

    Can you blame God

    if the genes and the conditioning are not good?

    What makes you think that

    God has the responsibility of being fair to you?

    Life means existence of interconnected opposites.

    lf you don’t accept it

    there will be suffering.

    Ramesh says,

    Whether you accept it or not

    depends on the will of God.

    3

    You are merely an instrument

    through which God or

    Consciousness functions.

    But, from the society’s point of view,

    you do exist and

    will be held responsible for your actions.

    This understanding should not prevent you

    from living your life.

    You do whatever you think you should do.

    How does this tally

    with the basics of the teaching

    that nothing happens unless it is God’s will?

    In doing what you think you should do

    you are still going with the flow.

    Accept whatever happens

    through your bodymind organism

    as well as others’ as God’s will.

    That is going with the flow.

    At any moment, what you think you should do,

    is precisely God’s will.

    Ramesh says,

    What you want to do cannot happen

    unless it is God’s will.

    4

    My basic concept is,

    Nothing happens unless

    it is God’s will.

    This doesn’t prevent you

    from doing whatever you want.

    God’s will does not restrict

    the individual will from functioning.

    Your will is just an instrument

    for God’s will to function.

    Lord Krishna says,

    There is no sin or merit.

    You think of sin or merit because

    Knowledge is covered by ignorance.

    Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says,

    "Totally accept that nothing happens

    unless it is God’s will

    and you may do whatever you like."

    God’s will does not refer to any individual.

    Ramesh says,

    God’s will in respect to any bodymind organism

    is it’s destiny.

    5

    I would like you to go away

    without that confusion

    on your face.

    Me too!

    The basics of the teaching

    is that everything happens.

    No one does anything.

    Is it acceptable to you,

    or is that where the confusion lies?

    Life is all about making decisions.

    You have to decide which way you want to go.

    The teaching does not tell you

    that you do not have to decide.

    You cannot get away from making decisions.

    Using the working mind,

    decide whether to go this way or that.

    Based on the calculations,

    make a decision,

    knowing that the decision

    could not have happened without God’s will.

    Ramesh says,

    The decision that you make

    has already been made by God.

    So, why be afraid of making decisions?

    6

    Only that Power

    which has created the hypnosis

    can remove it.

    The most encouraging statement for the seeker

    comes from Ramana Maharshi.

    He says,

    Your head is already in the tiger’s mouth.

    So, let God do his job.

    No one is to be blamed for the resistance,

    or complimented for the receptivity

    in the bodymind organism.

    The same Power

    that has created the organism of Mother Teresa

    has created the psychopath.

    To accept that you are not the doer

    is to accept that nothing happens

    unless it is God’s will.

    Consciousness recognizes itself

    when the sense of personal doership

    is totally annihilated.

    No ‘one’ can be Enlightened.

    Enlightenment can happen

    only if it is God’s will.

    Ramesh says,

    Enlightenment is the total annihilation

    of the one who wants to be Enlightened.

    7

    My friend

    married a native American.

    When the child was three

    his wife left him

    for no apparent reason.

    One day the child found him

    moody and upset during bed time.

    The child asked him,

    Are you thinking of mummy?

    He said, Yes,

    The child told him,

    Don’t think of her and you will be alright.

    A five year old told his nurse one day,

    "Janet, do you know we are all dreaming?

    We will wake up when we are dead."

    The nurse told this to the mother.

    When the mother, in her ignorance,

    asked the child, Who told you that?,

    he looked at her

    with tremendous compassion and pity

    for asking the question.

    A few seconds later he said,

    God told me that, meaning,

    Are you satisfied now?

    Ramesh says,

    The only way

    to get rid of the sense of personal doership

    is to understand

    that everything just happens.

    No ‘one’ does anything.

    8

    The understanding is that

    no ‘one’ is doing anything.

    First I must understand,

    why can’t anyone do anything?

    You must understand

    that what you call your action

    is merely a reaction of the brain

    to an outside event,

    strictly according to the way it is programmed.

    The question that comes up

    with this understanding is,

    "Is there any action

    which I can call my action?"

    If you accept

    that you don’t act,

    then the enquiry,

    ‘Who am I?’ begins.

    When the mind-intellect

    repeatedly questions itself,

    "If no action is my action

    then who am I?",

    the ego goes deeper and deeper

    into the background

    until the question dissolves

    in the Heart.

    Ramesh says,

    When you truly accept

    that you are merely an instrument

    through which God creates

    such actions which He wants,

    the sense of personal doership gets lost.

    9

    You couldn’t have

    changed what happened

    yesterday, last week or last year.

    You can’t know what will happen

    tomorrow, next week or next year.

    All that you can understand

    is that whatever happens

    is not your action.

    What is destined will happen

    through the bodymind organism

    irrespective of whether you want it or not.

    You cannot stop the wanting that arises,

    You have no control over what you want.

    By the same token

    you must also accept

    that whatever arises in any other bodymind organism

    is independent of that person.

    The brain will react to the outside event.

    If the programming is to be quick of anger

    then anger will arise.

    Ramesh says,

    With this understanding

    anger won’t turn into hate, envy or jealousy.

    10

    Surrender can only happen.

    When acceptance happens

    there is grace.

    Then the whole problem disappears.

    The sixty-four thousand dollar question then is,

    "I understand all that you say,

    but please tell me

    how do I get that acceptance?"

    There is always someone ready with a technique.

    The knowing is not of the mind.

    If you apply your mind

    it will cut the understanding into pieces.

    Every one of you

    has experienced this sense of oneness.

    Ramesh calls them ‘free samples’.

    Do you know what drug pushers do?

    They give you free samples first.

    That is what Consciousness does

    to make you a seeker,

    and then you are hooked.

    Wayne says,

    Then there is nothing you can do

    to stop the seeking.

    11

    You ask,

    "What causes

    Enlightenment to happen?"

    Any connection you make is purely notional.

    You can take it the other way around.

    In horse racing

    you think money came into your hands

    because the horse won.

    Is it not reasonable to conclude

    that the horse won

    because it was your destiny to receive the money?

    A lot of sadhanas will strengthen the ego

    until the breaking point.

    Feelings of superiority will come up

    but the feeling of emptiness comes about.

    How long this will continue is anybody’s guess.

    These sadhanas always end up

    in giving you the feeling of emptiness.

    Then you meet a Guru like Ramesh

    and understand

    that all these techniques are not real.

    They are not needed.

    Wayne says,

    Truth is here and now.

    12

    When you find your Guru

    everything becomes clear.

    You can see and understand.

    Essentially every teaching is false.

    When this is understood

    a lot of things become clear.

    There are lots of avenues

    to come to the point of surrender.

    I was never a spiritual seeker.

    I was an alcoholic and drug addict.

    The first part of awakening came

    when these dropped away.

    At that

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