Portraits In Faith: Ramesh Balsekar
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
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"For 35...40 years I pursued enlightenment...sort of a deep, almost unconscious seeking of enlightenment. It ended in frustration because not even my guru or anybody could give me answers to two basic questions: What am I looking for-enlightenment-but what is enlightenment? More important: What will enlightenment do for me if and when I get it?
But when I asked my guru, he got angry because he thought I was questioning his enlightenment. Then he saw that many up there were waiting for his answers to: ‘What is enlightenment?’ and ‘What will it do for me?’
So he calmed down, and he gave me an answer which I knew would come. ‘You will know what enlightenment is and what it does for you only when you are enlightened. To know the sweetness in the mango we have to eat it.’
That is the classical escape route.
The basic question is, ‘What do I, Ramesh, want in this life?’ in the circumstances in which I was placed, over which I never had any control. And honestly, the answer to that is enlightenment...which I came to know when I retired at 60 and said, ‘No more enlightenment for me. Stupid!’ All I want for the rest of my life-however short or long it is-is happiness. Happiness for Ramesh! The ego; selfish, yea. Therefore, I thought, ‘Pursue happiness.’ And I got it. Or rather, it was my destiny to get it.
So, what I'm going to do is try to tell you the process in which this happened. First, I decided what it was that I wanted. From the beginning: happiness. But surely I knew what enjoyment was. I may not have enjoyed all of the enjoyments in life, but I still knew what was enjoyment. That is the opposite of pain. So, I know what enjoyment is, and yet I'm seeking happiness. Therefore, the most important question to start with is: ‘What is this happiness I'm seeking?’ which has to be totally different from the enjoyment I've had as [it has been] all my life. You know what I mean? And that was the most important question: ‘What is the happiness?’
I decided, [it was] foolish to seek happiness. I have to [actually] be satisfied with accepting the pleasure when it happens, enjoy it, suffer the pain when it happens.
Then an important question arose [and] at that point I had a...something [a voice] from outside...that only means God. So, what came to me from outside was: ‘You're wrong! It has never been my intention for the human being to suffer. It has always been that the human being, the birthright of the human being, is the happiness which he is seeking. Only thing is, that happiness is based on one factor which the human being has not accepted. That's why he is not happy.’
And then I happened to come across four beautiful words from the Bible which I had come across hundreds of times before but they made no real impression on my heart. In fact, the heart said, ‘Stupid.’ And [the words were]: ‘Thy will be done.’ Now it went straight to my heart. I said, ‘How fantastic! That is true!’ I may want something, you may want something, but who will get it does not depend on his effort. Ultimately, it is God's will, or the will of the Source.
And then I remembered the words in the Bhagavad Gita [about murder, when it happens as a natural consequence, such as in battle]. Therefore, 'Thy will be done' is not strictly correct [because] ‘thy will’ has been done. Therefore, the movie is already in the can. What we are still viewing is the same movie, but frame-by-frame-by-frame, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, second-by-second. But, even the physicist has accepted that with the Big Bang, the entire manifestation was created as a block; physicists say, 'as a block.' The fan, when it's working at the highest speed, you may feel the air, but you can't really see [the air]. And the slower the fan, the more clearly we see the blades.
So, that was the end of my search."
Ramesh S. Balsekar (25 May 1917 - 27 September 2009) was a disciple of the late Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned Advaita master. From early childhood, Balsekar was drawn to Advaita, a nondual teaching, particularly the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Wei Wu Wei. He wrote more than 20 books, was president of the Bank of India, and received guests daily in his home in Mumbai until shortly before his death.
thank you to Ramesh from the deepest parts of my heart, honestly these past 11 years I haven't resonated more with anyone anywhere. What Ramesh happens to be saying feels like home. Never felt such quietness and silence within myself with anyone elses presence. Life always brings me back to advaita teaching and these satsangs with Ramesh, usually through tremendeous pain. I am deeply grateful for these moments when no question arises, no emotion is present. There is just nothingness yet very peaceful. 🙏
What a man to just trust people and allow them into his home and speak to them lovingly, directly and compassionately. You see his faith in his actions.
So grateful to Ramesh for Ever.
Amazing” Thy will be done” total surrender and acceptance.. thank you for sharing!
Omg ! Brilliant ! Just Brilliant ! This answers each & every question the seeking process has. Thank you so much & gratitude to the uploader
An unmanifest source can only be when there is an manifested source... It is paradoxically one, Happens and never Happens.
Master Ramesh is a very wise man thank you so much for the uploader of this magnificent vid. 🙏
Thanks for sharing Ramesh timeless wisdom!
THY WILL HAS BEEN DONE.Thank you.
Thanks for Ramesh Lord and His Wisdom ❤
Wonderful teaching of the "I am that which I am", unmanifest oneness, true teaching of the Bible.
Beautiful Being He Was So Wise ❤😊
Beloved Guru Ji
I could tell by his manners that he was an intelligent and well-educated man
Wonderful, thank you!
Wonderful pearls to touch the core of heart. Thank you!😊
Amazing human being 💓
Thank you! ❤❤❤
Gracias por los subtitulos. Muchas gracias 🙏
Love you Ramesh!
Love and Pranams. ❤
Merci pour les sous-titres en français ✨💖
Thank you
This answers all my questions. Thank you, Daniel and Ramesh.
A magician of words.. may be he was the choosen one.. by God himself..
If the World is empty then faith is an idea for no one to have it.
Thank you source for this teaching.
Further note. Was noticed throughout the video that the subtitles were not accurate with what Ramesh was speaking.
Just letting the film maker know.
Not sure if it’s automatically done by the platform or by a person.
None the less.
So very grateful my teacher Ramesh. May the heart accept totally the concept of it be the destiny of this body mind organism.
Till then let’s see if I’m really doing anything. Including writing this post.
Thy will has been done.
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Beautiful interview 🙏
Superb lovely❤...thanks🙏
His intellect is so sharp.
amazing, no? what a great gift to have been there with him
@@portraitsinfaith many in India didn't know he existed is the irony. Now also there is no information if any enlightened being out there.
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Those beeping cars would drive me Cookoo. One of my goals, how to 'allow' these types of things and not let it bother me. It's one thing I must learn. Seeking inside the self to find the root of it will allow me to 'see'.
Be happy 🌷🌸🌿🪴
I get one point from reading and also experiencing some things, that LOVE is.. So that love dont have polarity. Hatred means lack of love, or no love... And also i get to second point that love is god.. So how it is in this case?
Thoughts on Timothy Conways criticisms of this man and his teachings ?
If everything is predetermined, we don t have the tiniest chance of choice in what we call "life". Not even the things we think to have chosen or "materialized" by our fulfilled wishes and visions for the bettering of this world, which came true.
We would be poorer than we think that we are: Becoming a millionair or staying financially poor etc. would be all predetermined like the birth in a lovingly or cruel and envious family.
That is the concept or Ramesh. It is not the truth. But It can transform you, or remove the earlier misconceptions in your mind. A concept is pointing to the truth, but it is still a concept.
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help to be enlighten ?
There is still more to the story dear friend.
If we’re 3 dimensional object, then Mind is the 4th dimension in which the three dimensions exist
divine frog
He's just giving Easter eggs if I may. Krishna said I already killed them and I never realized why he said that. Now I know the movie is pre recorded. We think we know unless some enlightened being explains it
So it is predetermined that I was inspired and practicing yoga and meditation and now I am too neurotic and am constantly seeking escape from myself? I have no choice in the matter? The story of this projected person has already been written and I just need to awaken out of it?
You coming to this point it's predetermined. Your mind has been useful to come to this point, from now and on you should discard it. Go to deep sleep where your mind dissapears.
It is a concept. A concept is not the truth, it can only point to the truth. You have to test it for your ownself.
@@Deepak94 that"s what Ramesh always say, test it out the concept, his only prescribed meditation is to see if everything is your will or Thy will....and are you the real doer....
@@truthseeker683 absolutely correct brother👍
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I think he is enlightened person cause his Ears are like Buddha's
Can I please ask, something I don’t understand -
Ramesh tell us to make a decision but not to expect a particular outcome as it’s all down to god’s grace/plan as to what will happen (ok that’s cool get that)
But then he states that there is no chooser, no thinker, no doer - get that too great.
But what gets me is, if there is no doer who makes the decision because you could call the entity making the decision the chooser or the doer??
Please help, am I missing something?
Decision is happening like everything else and it just looks like you are making a decision...there's no any entity making a decision...
God made you, as a 3 D object. God made the programming, the genes and the conditioning. So God is the only doer. In another words, you are God.
There is no entity...it is just a bundle of thoughts & emotions thinking itself to be a seperate person!
@@bilimoriafirdaus Thanks, I still don't get it then - sorry. If I listen to the video and heed the advise given by a spiritual teacher then there is some kind of doer (that is doing the actions based on the advice), but at the same time we are often told there is no doer and that even the ego is illusory - and also thoughts can not think. Is it that the actual doer is universal consciousness and that with unfiltered awareness if a decision is made it comes from universal consciousness whereas if a situation is viewed through the filter of the ego then the decision is made from universal consciousness itself choosing to identify with 'ego' or choosing to consider itself to be a separate entity???