Up until recently I did not know the first thing about Ramesh Balsekar, though I had heard of him over the years. On September 27, at the age of 92, Ramesh died at his home in Mumbai. He had returned to his home after recovering from pnemonia but soon after passed away among friends and family. He left many who loved him swimming deep in waters of despair these last few days. I learned about this teacher from my friend Gary who was a longtime student. He loved Ramesh. Digging a little deeper, I began to get a minor grasp of this beloved teacher’s impact on students worldwide.
He taught that everything operates mechanistically according to both Divine and natural laws. “While people believe that they are actually doing things and making choices, free will is in fact an illusion. All that happens is caused by this one source, and the actual identity of this source is pure Consciousness, which is incapable of choosing or doing. This false identity which revolves around the idea that ‘I am the body’ or ‘I am the doer’ keeps one from seeing that one’s actual identity is free Consciousness. Like other Vedanta teachers, he says that while creation and creator appear to be different and separate, that they are actually two sides of the same coin.” (Source: Wikipedia)
Ramesh said, “The final truth, as Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj and all the sages before them have clearly stated, is that there is neither creation nor destruction, neither birth nor death, neither destiny nor free will, neither any path nor any achievement. All there is is Consciousness.”
In this video, Ramesh sums up in one word what life is really all about…
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