only a Sadhaka

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Dear jim , you write

>

> Who is a Sadhak?

> [Ramesh S. Balsekar: The question – Who is Gary? The answer – There

> is no Gary! Gary, the ego, doesn't exist. If Gary doesn't exist

> then what exists? Only the Source. Source is all there is.]

>

>

> Ask yourself: who is a Sadhak, who is doing, thinking, feeling,

> reacting, questioning, etc. as often as you can and a time may come

> when you suddenly know that you are not a person/body/mind/Sadhak and

> never was, and that the person/Sadhak, etc. that you took yourself

> for does not now or ever did exist - except as an image/concept in

> your own mind. When you stop believing in the personal object you

> have believed yourself to be since very early childhood, it will

> vanish and that which you are will remain. Things will be much

> better for you after that blessed remembrance.

 

Dear Jim ,yes

 

This paragraph above is in fact Self Enquiry.

 

, Ramesh's writings are always interesting .It is quite true that neither Jim

or Alan or Gary

doesn't really exist as a separate entity .Ramesh is a devotee of Ramana[he pays

obeisance to his

Portrait every morning before holding Satsang] and once a pupil of Nisagadatta ,

this statement is

in full accordance with Bhagavan's teaching too .

 

The danger is that if we only accept it as a concept , it is just another

thought , and of not a

great deal of help except as more information for the mind.What is important is

actually to

realize this finally ,and once and for all .This is what Ramesh calls "the

understanding".

 

Now spiritual practice ,which Ramesh does not deny .I have heard him say in

Mumbai "if it is the

will of the Source you will do spiritual practice and nothing can stop you".He

himself had a long

search originally inspired by Ramana ,he had a Traditional Guru , as a Brahman ,

he obeyed his

Guru and did the necessary Sadhanas .When he met Nisagaddatta through reading

about him in the

Mountain Path he was led after three years to the "ultimate understanding"

 

The point about the Sadhaka is that he follows practices prescribed by his

Master[in our case

Bhagavan] so that we are utterly convinced that there is no Jim or Alan and

there is no trace of

him left.That is what Atma Vichara is designed to do ,otherwise saying there is

no

Alan,Jim,Michael or Gabriel could be in many cases just words.

 

Every best wish in your quest , yours , Alan

>

 

 

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