For me Ramesh is the greatest sage that has ever lived. For this mind-body organism. Although there were other sages who have had a tremendous impact on my way of thinking, Ramesh's words went straight to my heart. So simplified so easy to understand is the teaching.
This is a wonderful talk on Truth. This is why the Buddha said to everyone do not get caught up in debates and arguments if there is a God or not. Because the question is irrelevant to the objective of ending ones own unsatisfaction or suffering. Whether it is Gods will or not Gods will, all phenomena is impermanent, not-self and can not be relied upon for permanent satisfaction.
Llegué a Ramesh Balsekar por recomendación del español, Borja Vilaseca. Leí algunos libros, pero su enseñanza en libros jamás se compara a escucharlo hablar. No puedo imaginar la dicha de esos que pudieron interactuar con él
This brilliant lecture answers some of the very important and worrying questions of human mind, like 1. Why God has created this world of tragedies, calamities and of precarious state of happiness ? 2. FATE is alright, but do human beings have any trace of FREE WILL, wherein one can confidently say: " I SHALL DECIDE HOW I LIVE?" 3. Does a Sage get desires? 4. Responsibility Many other queries, which might have botherd you and me for a lifetime.
Thank you 🙏🏻 It’s funny, I had to wait more than 30 years to get the answers to my questions. I remember being 11 years old and asking these questions about free will to the Rabbis - never got an answer that felt right.
02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Impersonal Absolute NOTHINGNESS (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera). In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of temporary, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent). Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an 'awakened' individual. APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning ‘all this is indeed Brahman’ or ‘everything is the Universal Self alone’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances. Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified belief. Likewise, the notion of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief. Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal 'doership' - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling or unable to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements, listed above. The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life. Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life. Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined. Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture. So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT? WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher. Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course. Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment. ☮️
@@TheWorldTeacher 😂😂😂😂for a simple natural wholehearted comment from mr. Prabhat.. Such a long essay🙄Ramesh himself was more than enough to him in simple dialogues.. I felt🙏
@@pvgopiabnle Nice... Good evaluation.... With all humility... Am recalling a few crazy people of childhood... were so happy in their own world.. Expecting nothing.. Drowned in their own world.. Never asking anything from anybody nor averse to take if offered... May be the ultimate happy one, one may find on earth.. Feel@71... Do Pardon, should read this🙏🙏
Thank you for posting this. Very grateful. Wow, this is so clear. The basics is that « the question is asked by a created object. How can a created object understand the mind of the creator? » Blows me away
There’s only one TINY little problem with what you wrote above, Sue.☝️ There has never been, nor will there ever be, even the SLIGHTEST shred of evidence for the existence of the Godhead, that is, a Supreme Person or Deity.🤓 It is high time for humanity to awaken from all INANE superstitions such as the belief in a Personal God which created the Universe, would you not agree, Slave? 😩
@@pvgopiabnle, did you know that in ancient Bhārata (India), a person who consumed ANY type of animal was known as a “Chandāla” (dog-eater) and was not even included in mainstream society, but was an outcast?🥩
02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Impersonal Absolute NOTHINGNESS (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera). In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of temporary, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent). Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an 'awakened' individual. APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning ‘all this is indeed Brahman’ or ‘everything is the Universal Self alone’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances. Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified belief. Likewise, the notion of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief. Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal 'doership' - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling or unable to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements, listed above. The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life. Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life. Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined. Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture. So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT? WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher. Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course. Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment. ☮️
Is this not a detailed explanation for Rameshs concept ? I felt so. Could not find here any point not discussed by Ramesh in his talks and books.Thanks a lot for such an essay🙏
One time in Bombay Ramesh greet a new visitor from Australia who was sent by a Buddhist Monk who looked after the young man, who was a beaten up child, sent from one ugly family to the next, bad children care homes, the full programm. The young man dont commit drugs or a criminal career, he looked always for a better. I think he was around 24 years old. So after he's story was out Rames put his question: How you do a living, how you earn a living? The young guy very shy, I sat behind him, said he live by the Governments money. Immediately Ramesh rushed forward from his chair and said with a very stern voice and gesture towards the guy: The moment you hold the money in your hand it is your money! There were no words, tears I think or a strong touch in everybodys heart. Wayne Liquorman was there maybe he remeber also the event. In a certain way it was one of the most beatyful moments ever... Love Ramesh, thank you, forever thank you! Martin, Vienna Austria
Thanks so much for these lovely vdos...I can go on listening for ever...I am a fan of Eckhart and Rupert....so nice & equally refreshing to listen to an Indian Guru.🥀🧡...would like to know more about Ramesh & his life especially since I stay in mumbai.
I saw Ramesh 2 or 3 times during 1998 to 2006 Understood immediately but remained in the intellectual level until last year then sank deeper Then now living in peace For a few months wondered if temporary but now permanently established So hold on to the teaching
I was just thinking I'm so unripe,i went to the source,there was nothing..but in the next second was an intuitive knowledge that there's every thing coming from here..in am nothing.. When breath came back I was really puzzled and sad.. If there's no one what are we doing .. Today I got this answer.. I guess one's got to be a witness in source many times in order to completely be egoless ..ego disappears in love for Guru n i cried n cried ..for him that's when Thus life force rose up n shot up to the third eye.. ❤thus then the unrest and fighting the terrorists are all the will of The creator. We are only the witness. Everything comes from the Source 😮
With all due respect, most non-duality teachers are promoting a spiritual bypass that ignores the most important biological reality in the body-mind of most, if not all, human beings today - the impact of early childhood stress from physical and emotional neglect and abuse on brain development. Almost everyone in western countries were abandoned by their mothers to go back to work during critical neurological development, in the first three years of life especially. This is the root of the problem and grieving with a deeply empathetic therapist must occur as a biological stress release response to bring the human being sustainably out of a chronic stress state. The truth naturally emerges from this stable state. The best information on this is from the expert Erica Komisar, a psychoanalyst who is the most important voice on this topic in the world today. Her videos are freely available on RUclips. Love
Just Wonderful!!! Listen, there is one glitch in the video early on at about 3:21 minutes in. It looks like he starts to quote.."through which the Noumen (then cut-out) ...Doer there of". I think he started to say, "through which the Noumenan acts." Then it jumps to I think the Buddha qoute he often uses, "Events Happen. Deeds Are Done. But there is no individual doer thereof." Anyway for what it's worth if it seemed abrupt. Peace.
02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”: Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies. According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Impersonal Absolute NOTHINGNESS (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera). In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF. Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of temporary, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent). Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an 'awakened' individual. APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it. Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities). “Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning ‘all this is indeed Brahman’ or ‘everything is the Universal Self alone’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that! This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation: E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness). HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances. Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified belief. Likewise, the notion of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief. Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe. As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous. Suffering is due to a false sense of personal 'doership' - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling or unable to accept life as it manifests moment by moment. There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature: 1. Guilt 2. Blame 3. Pride 4. Anxiety 5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements, listed above. The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life. Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life. Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined. Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture. So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT? WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher. Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course. Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment. ☮️
@@pvgopiabnle, I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you wrote, but in order to read the remaining twenty-nine chapters of “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, which are the most authoritative, accurate and complete spiritual precepts extant, Email: prophet4god@icloud.com with the acronym “FISH” in the subject field. 🐟 “The gateway to KNOWLEDGE is ignorance”.
@@TheWorldTeacher No.. Thanks.. Ramesh is sufficient 🙏By the by i was mentioning about the comment by Savitha bhoote " Wonderful" for which you supplied your essay as a reply comment. Sorry for not making it clear in my first comment
the idea is that there is no "you". your mind body organ just fulfills it's destiny, taking care of others and dies. the important thing is what happens to others, not you, because there is no "self" that is real. the "self" is just an illusion created by the mind. Just like a tree planted grows and then dies, all body-mind organs fulfill their destiny and die. you have free will to do whatever you want, but whatever you do is your destiny, which was the destiny of the body-mind organ from birth or even before.
@@antonhanzel7232 can't you trust your heart, your feelings? Is it really so that you have to be blind? This man is phony, he 'tries' to give an understanding of ramana maharshi - but for whom? For those, which....
Yep we just biorobots executing DNA and ego code. We can observe this and transcend most ego coding to awaken to the infinite consciousness.. or not. Just a option to center in choiceless untainted absolute awareness. To close on the Natural state, to evolve beyond our reckless destructive social coding, and perhaps prevent this coming extinction.
The thing to understand is that if one pursues his or her desires and keeps breeding more and more infinite desires along the way then there will have to be innumerable births or the illusion of them. The person being restless of the mind because of these desires and the need to pursue them, will keep appearing in more human bodies to wander aimlessly to satisfy them. One lifetime may not be enough.
In the whole conversation of Shri Ramesh he is wonderfully articulative and rational. But he has made a mistake and that “He talks about choice and free will of a man and hence accepting the entity ‘man’ or ‘personhood’”. But fact is the idea of being an individual person (personhood) is an illusion and hence all ideas or concepts of a person have no basis in reality; they are equally illusionary. Moreover, all phenomenal world is created by the movement in the consciousness which itself is a big fraud (called Maya) and hence it is correct to say everything is happening without any will of God or cosmic law or all is happening spontaneously like it happens in dream. But, one more things also here and that is Ultimate reality which remains separate from all drama of consciousness. Now question is from where this consciousness did come. Answer is “This consciousness is manifested aspect of the Ultimate reality, which spontaneously, without any reason, appears out of the Ultimate reality or Absolute”. Since it appears and and disappears and one can also conclude that there was some thing which was prior to consciousness and there will be something after dissolution of the consciousness. And that is the Ultimate reality, which remains ever present still and in peace, behind the play of consciousness in the form of appeared world.
God knows what he wants you to do. If it’s against gods will it won’t happen !,! You have no responsibility . If it’s gods will it will be happening . I love his joking as well. “ Why did you make her so stupid,? So she would love you “ so funny wasn’t he ?
"Ego is also created by God!" When the Ego questions the validity of God's Will, is it not programmed by God? 'Human intellect, a created object, can't understand or comprehend the God's Will.' In that case, how is it known to the Spiritual Madters including the speaker?
Schade denn verstehe nicht die englische Sprache. Wäre passend auf deutsch Ramesh Balsekar zu übersetzen dann könnte ich seine Gespräche mit Interesse anschauen.Namaste!
@@antonhanzel7232 Namaste Anton! Englische Sprache ist für mich viel schwerer und nicht so im Wortgebrauch effizienter meiner Meinung nach. 6 Bücher von Jnani Ramesh Balsekar habe ich auf deutsch schon gelesen. Genauso wie von Jnani Nisargadatta Maharaj, Siddharameshwar Maharaj usw. Namaste Anton!
@@tJnani-rg5rl ich habe auch mehrere Bücher von Ramesh und Nisargadatta gelesen IAM THAT. Wo in Deutschland lebst du? Ich wohne in Bayern. Namaste Prost!
@@antonhanzel7232 Namaste Anton! Ich wohne seit 30 Jahren in NRW. Und habe auch paar Büchern von Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, Vimala Thakar und Osho gelesen. Namaste Anton!
How can one call someone a sage and at the same time call him programmed ? Unless someone has come out of the programming, he/she cannot be called a sage.
As I see you have free will if your are living within the framework of persona ( identity ) once that is dissolved you become part of whole and therefore no free will.
Thy will be done...........ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN! So, the will of God is what is happening in heaven, but for some reason is not yet being done on earth. And that is the will of God....or is it? Lol.
Is he just about predeterminism? I feel like we as human still have to make great effort to be happy or to accomplish what is needed and pursue what we want.
listening today for the first time, absolute treasure
For me Ramesh is the greatest sage that has ever lived. For this mind-body organism. Although there were other sages who have had a tremendous impact on my way of thinking, Ramesh's words went straight to my heart. So simplified so easy to understand is the teaching.
nonsense..his teacher was nirsag
@@kevinjoseph517 who is the teacher who the disciple. It was already there.
This is a wonderful talk on Truth.
This is why the Buddha said to everyone do not get caught up in debates and arguments if there is a God or not. Because the question is irrelevant to the objective of ending ones own unsatisfaction or suffering. Whether it is Gods will or not Gods will, all phenomena is impermanent, not-self and can not be relied upon for permanent satisfaction.
Llegué a Ramesh Balsekar por recomendación del español, Borja Vilaseca. Leí algunos libros, pero su enseñanza en libros jamás se compara a escucharlo hablar. No puedo imaginar la dicha de esos que pudieron interactuar con él
This brilliant lecture answers some of the very important and worrying questions of human mind, like 1. Why God has created this world of tragedies, calamities and of precarious state of happiness ?
2. FATE is alright, but do human beings have any trace of FREE WILL, wherein one can confidently say: " I SHALL DECIDE HOW I LIVE?"
3. Does a Sage get desires?
4. Responsibility
Many other queries, which might have botherd you and me for a lifetime.
Nisarga dattas THAT I AM another great Master..❤
@AlexandriaqpAnd he was one of Nisargadata 's translator!
@AlexandriaqpAnd he was one of Nisargadata 's translator!
I came to him through Sri Nisargadata Maharaj. He was one of his translators. Wonderful!
one can't make a mistake Ramesh the Gentleman Guru tanks for posting
Thank you 🙏🏻
It’s funny, I had to wait more than 30 years to get the answers to my questions. I remember being 11 years old and asking these questions about free will to the Rabbis - never got an answer that felt right.
Rabbis probably answered you but you weren’t ready to understand . Now you are.
@@johnretired8213 absolutely
Never seen such a wonderful person speaking so simply about spirituality.
02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Impersonal Absolute NOTHINGNESS (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera).
In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF.
Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of temporary, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an 'awakened' individual.
APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning ‘all this is indeed Brahman’ or ‘everything is the Universal Self alone’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation:
E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness).
HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified belief. Likewise, the notion of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe.
As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal 'doership' - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling or unable to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements, listed above.
The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life.
Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.
Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined.
Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture.
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher.
Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course.
Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment.
☮️
@@TheWorldTeacher 😂😂😂😂for a simple natural wholehearted comment from mr. Prabhat.. Such a long essay🙄Ramesh himself was more than enough to him in simple dialogues.. I felt🙏
@@pvgopiabnle Nice... Good evaluation.... With all humility... Am recalling a few crazy people of childhood... were so happy in their own world.. Expecting nothing.. Drowned in their own world.. Never asking anything from anybody nor averse to take if offered... May be the ultimate happy one, one may find on earth.. Feel@71... Do Pardon, should read this🙏🙏
@@narayanabhandary3797 🙄sorry could not understand.. What you mean..dear sir.Can you please clarify if you dont mind?🙏
@@TheWorldTeacher longest comment I've never read. Just saying.
Amazing guidance to awaken by Ramesh. Thank you for sharing
❤❤❤
Thank you for posting this. Very grateful. Wow, this is so clear. The basics is that « the question is asked by a created object. How can a created object understand the mind of the creator? » Blows me away
“Don’t make a choice.” Powerful!!!
Sat at his feet in Mumbai twenty years ago. God's will was that I watch this today.
There’s only one TINY little problem with what you wrote above, Sue.☝️
There has never been, nor will there ever be, even the SLIGHTEST shred of evidence for the existence of the Godhead, that is, a Supreme Person or Deity.🤓
It is high time for humanity to awaken from all INANE superstitions such as the belief in a Personal God which created the Universe, would you not agree, Slave? 😩
@@pvgopiabnle, NO.
@@pvgopiabnle, you’re INCORRECT, Mataji. ☝🏼
@@pvgopiabnle, kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
@@pvgopiabnle, did you know that in ancient Bhārata (India), a person who consumed ANY type of animal was known as a “Chandāla” (dog-eater) and was not even included in mainstream society, but was an outcast?🥩
Absolutely brilliant. He is so clear, precise and simple.
02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Impersonal Absolute NOTHINGNESS (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera).
In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF.
Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of temporary, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an 'awakened' individual.
APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning ‘all this is indeed Brahman’ or ‘everything is the Universal Self alone’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation:
E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness).
HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified belief. Likewise, the notion of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe.
As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal 'doership' - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling or unable to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements, listed above.
The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life.
Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.
Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined.
Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture.
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher.
Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course.
Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment.
☮️
Is this not a detailed explanation for Rameshs concept ? I felt so. Could not find here any point not discussed by Ramesh in his talks and books.Thanks a lot for such an essay🙏
@@pvgopiabnle, are you VEGAN? 🌱
@@TheWorldTeacher why you need an answer for that dear sir?😄
Thank you so much for these pearls! Wonderful!
One time in Bombay Ramesh greet a new visitor from Australia who was sent by a Buddhist Monk who looked after the young man, who was a beaten up child, sent from one ugly family to the next, bad children care homes, the full programm. The young man dont commit drugs or a criminal career, he looked always for a better. I think he was around 24 years old. So after he's story was out Rames put his question: How you do a living, how you earn a living?
The young guy very shy, I sat behind him, said he live by the Governments money.
Immediately Ramesh rushed forward from his chair and said with a very stern voice and gesture towards the guy: The moment you hold the money in your hand it is your money!
There were no words, tears I think or a strong touch in everybodys heart.
Wayne Liquorman was there maybe he remeber also the event.
In a certain way it was one of the most beatyful moments ever...
Love Ramesh, thank you, forever thank you!
Martin, Vienna Austria
Thank you ☺
Thanks so much for these lovely vdos...I can go on listening for ever...I am a fan of Eckhart and Rupert....so nice & equally refreshing to listen to an Indian Guru.🥀🧡...would like to know more about Ramesh & his life especially since I stay in mumbai.
He has a student named Gautam Sachdeva. Go visit him. Same teaching. ❤
*तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय 🌻🌿
Thankyou so much!! Lot of things are cleared today.
I saw Ramesh 2 or 3 times during 1998 to 2006
Understood immediately but remained in the intellectual level until last year then sank deeper
Then now living in peace
For a few months wondered if temporary but now permanently established
So hold on to the teaching
Ultimate..... To be stupid is really a bliss and should be the humility is ultimate guide 🙏😇
Brilliant , thank you for upload
I was just thinking I'm so unripe,i went to the source,there was nothing..but in the next second was an intuitive knowledge that there's every thing coming from here..in am nothing..
When breath came back
I was really puzzled and sad..
If there's no one what are we doing ..
Today I got this answer..
I guess one's got to be a witness in source many times in order to completely be egoless ..ego disappears in love for Guru n i cried n cried ..for him that's when Thus life force rose up n shot up to the third eye..
❤thus then the unrest and fighting the terrorists are all the will of The creator.
We are only the witness. Everything comes from the Source 😮
This is the truth How simply he makes you realise and feel you that you are literally shit
Thank you for posting,it was very appreciated.
If you have other Ramesh seminars would be nice.
Very nice🌺🙏
With all due respect, most non-duality teachers are promoting a spiritual bypass that ignores the most important biological reality in the body-mind of most, if not all, human beings today - the impact of early childhood stress from physical and emotional neglect and abuse on brain development. Almost everyone in western countries were abandoned by their mothers to go back to work during critical neurological development, in the first three years of life especially. This is the root of the problem and grieving with a deeply empathetic therapist must occur as a biological stress release response to bring the human being sustainably out of a chronic stress state. The truth naturally emerges from this stable state. The best information on this is from the expert Erica Komisar, a psychoanalyst who is the most important voice on this topic in the world today. Her videos are freely available on RUclips. Love
Okay. The truth has been spoken! ❤
Just Wonderful!!! Listen, there is one glitch in the video early on at about 3:21 minutes in. It looks like he starts to quote.."through which the Noumen (then cut-out) ...Doer there of". I think he started to say, "through which the Noumenan acts." Then it jumps to I think the Buddha qoute he often uses, "Events Happen. Deeds Are Done. But there is no individual doer thereof." Anyway for what it's worth if it seemed abrupt. Peace.
Glitches only appear in the phenomenal world, nothing exists that is known. Absolute IS. Glitch is an illusion.
Crystal clear!
Wonderful!!!
02. A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF “LIFE”:
Everything, both perceptible and imperceptible - that is, any gross or subtle OBJECT within the material universe which can ever be perceived with the cognitive faculties, plus the SUBJECT (the observer of all phenomena) - is to what most persons generally refer when they use the term “God”, since they usually conceive of the Primeval Creator as being the Perfect Person, and “God” (capitalized) is a personal epithet of the Unconditioned Absolute. However, this anthropomorphized conception of The Absolute is a fictional character of divers mythologies.
According to most every enlightened sage in the history of this planet, Ultimate Reality is, far more logically, Impersonal Absolute NOTHINGNESS (otherwise called “The Tao”, “The Great Spirit”, “Brahman”, “Pure Consciousness”, “Eternal Awareness”, “Independent Existence”, “The Ground of All Being”, “Uncaused Nature”, “The Undifferentiated Substratum of Reality”, “The Unified Field”, et cetera).
In other words, rather than the Supreme Truth being a separate Blissful, Supra-Conscious Being (The Godhead Himself or The Goddess), Ultimate Reality is Eternal-Existence Limitless-Awareness Unconditional-Peace ITSELF.
Because the Unmanifested Absolute is infinite creative potentiality, “it” actualizes as EVERYTHING, in the form of temporary, cyclical universes. In the case of our particular universe, we reside in a cosmos consisting of space-time, matter and energy, without, of course, neglecting the most fundamental dimension of existence (i.e. conscious awareness - although, “it” is, being the subject, by literal definition, non-existent).
Just as a knife cannot cut itself, nor the mind comprehend itself, nor the eyes see themselves, The Absolute cannot know Itself (or at least objectively EXPERIENCE Itself), and so, has manifested this phenomenal universe within Itself for the purpose of experiencing Itself, particularly through the lives of self-aware beings, such as we sophisticated humans. Therefore, this world of duality is really just a play of consciousness within Consciousness, in the same way that a dream is a person's sleeping narrative set within the life-story of an 'awakened' individual.
APPARENTLY, this phenomenal universe was created with the primal act (the so-called “Big Bang”), which started, supposedly, as a minute, slightly uneven ball of light, which in turn, was instigated, ultimately, by Extra-Temporal Supra-Consciousness. From that first deed, every motion or action that has ever occurred has been a direct (though, almost exclusively, an indirect) result of it.
Just as all the extant energy in the universe was once contained within the inchoate singularity, Infinite Consciousness was NECESSARILY present at the beginning of the universe, and is in no way an epiphenomenon of a neural network. Discrete consciousness, on the other hand, is entirely dependent on the neurological faculty of individual animals (the more highly-evolved the species, the greater its cognitive abilities).
“Sarvam khalvidam brahma” (a Sanskrit maxim from the “Chandogya Upanishad”, meaning ‘all this is indeed Brahman’ or ‘everything is the Universal Self alone’). There is NAUGHT but Eternal Being, Conscious Awareness, Causeless Peace - and you are, quintessentially, that!
This “Theory of Everything” can be more succinctly expressed by the mathematical equation:
E=A͚ (Everything equates to Infinite Awareness).
HUMANS are essentially this Eternally-Aware-Peace, acting through an extraordinarily-complex biological organism, comprised of the eight rudimentary elements - pseudo-ego (the assumed sense of self), intellect, mind, solids, liquids, gases, heat (fire), and ether (three-dimensional space). When one peers into a mirror, one doesn’t normally mistake the reflected image to be one’s real self, yet that is how we humans conventionally view our ever-mutating forms. We are, rather, in a fundamental sense, that which witnesses all transitory appearances.
Everything which can be presently perceived, both tangible and immaterial, including we human beings, is a culmination of that primary manifestation. That is the most accurate and rational explanation for “karma” - everything was preordained from the initial spark, and every action since has unfolded as it was predestined in ETERNITY, via an ever-forward-moving trajectory. The notion of retributive (“tit for tat”) karma is just that - an unverified belief. Likewise, the notion of a distinct, reincarnating “soul” or “spirit” is largely a fallacious belief.
Whatever state in which we currently find ourselves, is the result of two factors - our genetic make-up at conception and our present-life conditioning (which may include mutating genetic code). Every choice ever made by every human and non-human animal was determined by those two factors ALONE. Therefore, free-will is purely illusory, despite what most believe.
As a consequence of residing within this dualistic universe, we experience a lifelong series of fluctuating, transient pleasures and pains, which can take the form of physical, emotional, and/or financial pleasure or pain. Surprisingly to most, suffering and pain are NOT synonymous.
Suffering is due to a false sense of personal 'doership' - the belief that one is a separate, independent author of one’s thoughts, emotions, and deeds, and that, likewise, other persons are autonomous agents, with complete volition to act, think, and feel as they wish. Another way of stating the same concept is: suffering is due to the intellect being unwilling or unable to accept life as it manifests moment by moment.
There are five SYMPTOMS of suffering, all of which are psychological in nature:
1. Guilt
2. Blame
3. Pride
4. Anxiety
5. Regrets about the past and expectations for the future
These types of suffering are the result of not properly understanding what was explained above - that life is a series of happenings and NOT caused by the individual living beings. No living creature, including Homo sapiens, has personal free-will. There is only the Universal, Divine Will at play, acting through every body, to which William Shakespeare famously alluded when he scribed “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”
The human organism is essentially a biopsychological machine, comprised of the five gross material elements and the three subtle material elements, listed above.
The ANTIDOTE to all mental anguish is to firstly discern pain from suffering, then to achieve complete relief from that miserable state of existence, by abandoning the erroneous belief in personal authorship, and abiding in the primordial sense of being (the unqualified “I am”, which is one's core identity). This is the very same peace which is experienced each night during the dreamless phase of the sleep cycle. This 'resting imperturbably as Flawless Awareness' can be practiced on a regular basis, until it is fully assimilated and integrated into one's life.
Every person, from time immemorial, has been either intentionally or unwittingly seeking such causeless peace, most commonly by practicing one of the four systems of YOGA (religion) delineated in the sixteenth chapter of this work, or else in creating wealth and the acquisition of material possessions, or in psycho-physical pleasures. That peace of mind is often referred to as “happiness”, “joy”, or “love”, and often presumed to be a temporal state, since many assume, incorrectly, that continuous peace is unavailable in this life.
Fortunately, that is not the case - it is eminently possible to live one's life acquainted with unbroken peace of mind, if destined.
Following DHARMA (frameworks of authentic religion and societal duties) is not guaranteed to achieve that desired tranquillity of mind, but even so, it is beneficial for individuals, since it establishes a structure which enables one to more easily elevate oneself beyond the mundane, animalistic platform (i.e. the base pursuits of eating, sleeping and mating). Intrinsic to dharma is the division of the adult male population into the four classes of society and the inherent role of girls and women in society, as fully elucidated in latter chapters of this Holy Scripture.
So, now that you understand life, and the reason why we are suffering here in this (ostensively) material universe, you are now able to become liberated from all mental suffering, RIGHT?
WRONG! It is imperative to approach an authentic spiritual master to assist you to come to the above realization, by slowly undoing your past conditioning. Just as you have been conditioned over an entire lifetime to think one way, you need to be re-conditioned to think another way (in alignment with your essential identity as The Divine). For one who has himself for a teacher, that man has a veritable fool as his teacher.
Even if you adhere closely to the precepts of a competent teacher, you may still not come to a full understanding of life, but if you are sincere, humble and dedicated, you will definitely find more peace in your daily life - all of which was DESTINED to occur, of course.
Furthermore, if you are suitably-qualified and it was ordained, you may be fortunate enough to receive discipline from one of the EXTREMELY rare fully-enlightened masters residing on earth at any given time (perchance even the current World Teacher himself), and subsequently realize the aforementioned fundamental concepts, by diligently studying authoritative doctrines (especially the most accurate and complete of all extant Scriptures, this “Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”), serving your guru with great reverence and devotion, and by deliberately avoiding undue harm to oneself, to other individuals, to society as a whole, and to the natural environment.
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@@TheWorldTeacher just for a comment " "wonderful"🙄🙄🙄This is not two much but three much😂😂
@@pvgopiabnle, I have ABSOLUTELY no idea what you wrote, but in order to read the remaining twenty-nine chapters of “A Final Instruction Sheet for Humanity”, which are the most authoritative, accurate and complete spiritual precepts extant, Email:
prophet4god@icloud.com
with the acronym “FISH” in the subject field.
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“The gateway to KNOWLEDGE is ignorance”.
@@TheWorldTeacher No.. Thanks.. Ramesh is sufficient 🙏By the by i was mentioning about the comment by Savitha bhoote " Wonderful" for which you supplied your essay as a reply comment. Sorry for not making it clear in my first comment
In my humble opinion, humor is fundamental and he has this touch! A little like Moogi...
ENSINAMENTO PROFUNDO 👏👏❤
This teaching consolidates all my enemies who neglected, abused, oppressed me since birth into One, aka God. He is the only culprit 😁 Now what ???
the idea is that there is no "you". your mind body organ just fulfills it's destiny, taking care of others and dies. the important thing is what happens to others, not you, because there is no "self" that is real. the "self" is just an illusion created by the mind. Just like a tree planted grows and then dies, all body-mind organs fulfill their destiny and die. you have free will to do whatever you want, but whatever you do is your destiny, which was the destiny of the body-mind organ from birth or even before.
poderia ter tradução para português.... 🙏🙏
Legends in portuguese, If possible, please🙏🏻
Who is this ?
He makes m sense than
Many Guru s..
😊merci
Oh, my god, one of this teachers, who has understood 😂 intellectual..
What you mean ?
@@antonhanzel7232 can't you trust your heart, your feelings? Is it really so that you have to be blind? This man
is phony, he 'tries' to give an understanding of ramana maharshi - but for whom? For those, which....
@@d.l.7399 He always says most all spoken words are concepts and these are my concepts
@@alfreddifeo9642 👍💭
Has God free choice? Yes and no. Perfect mathematics cannot change his coherent perfection. Does it have one only Will?
Yep we just biorobots executing DNA and ego code. We can observe this and transcend most ego coding to awaken to the infinite consciousness.. or not. Just a option to center in choiceless untainted absolute awareness. To close on the Natural state, to evolve beyond our reckless destructive social coding, and perhaps prevent this coming extinction.
The thing to understand is that if one pursues his or her desires and keeps breeding more and more infinite desires along the way then there will have to be innumerable births or the illusion of them. The person being restless of the mind because of these desires and the need to pursue them, will keep appearing in more human bodies to wander aimlessly to satisfy them. One lifetime may not be enough.
You comment gives me the creeps! But I somehow know you are right. ❤
That’s just a fancy way of saying, “you better make the right choice!”
More ego based 💩 😂
David Carse in his great book says he sat with Ramesh in these early talks. I wonder if he is in this talk?
Who carse?😀
@@MattFRox 👏
Its true ❤
When the desire comes why not follow it may be the god wants us to follow why does the sage stop himself from not pursuing the desire
If one read chapter 2 of Bhagavad Gita, solutions to all these questions will be found
Could you please activate the German subtitles? Thank you so much ❤
I think you can fix it yourself in settings somewhere. Google it.
@@advaitahouse 👍🙂
Everything is based on god's will. So simple
what did ramesh think of Osho? Interesting to know
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The ego is a happening and, thus the Will of God. Can a picture be painted without at least two colors?
In the whole conversation of Shri Ramesh he is wonderfully articulative and rational. But he has made a mistake and that “He talks about choice and free will of a man and hence accepting the entity ‘man’ or ‘personhood’”. But fact is the idea of being an individual person (personhood) is an illusion and hence all ideas or concepts of a person have no basis in reality; they are equally illusionary. Moreover, all phenomenal world is created by the movement in the consciousness which itself is a big fraud (called Maya) and hence it is correct to say everything is happening without any will of God or cosmic law or all is happening spontaneously like it happens in dream. But, one more things also here and that is Ultimate reality which remains separate from all drama of consciousness. Now question is from where this consciousness did come. Answer is “This consciousness is manifested aspect of the Ultimate reality, which spontaneously, without any reason, appears out of the Ultimate reality or Absolute”. Since it appears and and disappears and one can also conclude that there was some thing which was prior to consciousness and there will be something after dissolution of the consciousness. And that is the Ultimate reality, which remains ever present still and in peace, behind the play of consciousness in the form of appeared world.
Simple answer to your question is there in this video itself.... in the story of Sufi 🙂
Long text (from you) from a busy mind it seems . . . .
5:27
In which year this talk took place?
2000
God knows what he wants you to do. If it’s against gods will it won’t happen !,! You have no responsibility . If it’s gods will it will be happening .
I love his joking as well. “ Why did you make her so stupid,? So she would love you “ so funny wasn’t he ?
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Schade nur, dass man nicht auf deutsch seine Gespräche übersetzt.
1:07 sounds like francés lucille
"Ego is also created by God!"
When the Ego questions the validity of God's Will, is it not programmed by God?
'Human intellect, a created object, can't understand or comprehend the God's Will.' In that case, how is it known to the Spiritual Madters including the speaker?
Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
Romans 9:20 KJV
why not?
to see himself
Mental realization wont do it.
1:17 🤣🤣🤣 the chief executive officer 🤣
Schade denn verstehe nicht die englische Sprache. Wäre passend auf deutsch Ramesh Balsekar zu übersetzen dann könnte ich seine Gespräche mit Interesse anschauen.Namaste!
Lerne doch Englisch. Ich hab auch Deutsch gelernt 👍
@@antonhanzel7232 Namaste Anton!
Englische Sprache ist für mich viel schwerer und nicht so im Wortgebrauch effizienter meiner Meinung nach. 6 Bücher von Jnani Ramesh Balsekar habe ich auf deutsch schon gelesen. Genauso wie von Jnani Nisargadatta Maharaj, Siddharameshwar Maharaj usw.
Namaste Anton!
@@tJnani-rg5rl ich habe auch mehrere Bücher von Ramesh und Nisargadatta gelesen IAM THAT.
Wo in Deutschland lebst du? Ich wohne in Bayern. Namaste Prost!
@@antonhanzel7232 Namaste Anton!
Ich wohne seit 30 Jahren in NRW. Und habe auch paar Büchern von Jiddu Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi, Vimala Thakar und Osho gelesen.
Namaste Anton!
How can one call someone a sage and at the same time call him programmed ? Unless someone has come out of the programming, he/she cannot be called a sage.
Please, we need spanish subtitles!!!
If it is God’s will, they will be provided 😉
1:18:08
As I see you have free will if your are living within the framework of persona ( identity ) once that is dissolved you become part of whole and therefore no free will.
Why evil?
to recognize virtuous
Define evil.
@@kris13iam The opposite of good.
Thy will be done...........ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN! So, the will of God is what is happening in heaven, but for some reason is not yet being done on earth. And that is the will of God....or is it? Lol.
Earth and Heaven are not separate 🙂
Is he just about predeterminism? I feel like we as human still have to make great effort to be happy or to accomplish what is needed and pursue what we want.