Sri Ramesh Balsekar

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Sri Ramesh Balsekar<br><br>A former bank

president who at the feet of his Guruji Nisargadatta

Mmaharaj exploded the myth of his own being.<br><br>Ramesh

S. Balsekar<br><br>Self-Realization or Enlightenment

is nothing more than the deepest possible

understanding that there is no individual doer of any action -

neither you nor anyone else. Also you are not the thinker

of any thoughts, nor the experiencer of any

experiences - they happen. When IT happens, no bright lights

are likely to flash in your head!<br><br>Other quotes

from Ramesh:<br><br>The universe is uncaused, like a

net of jewels in which each is only the reflection of

all the others in a fantastic interrelated harmony

without end.<br><br>Self-Realization is effortless. What

you are trying to find is what you already

are.<br><br>Enlightenment is total emptiness of mind. There is nothing you

can do to get it. Any effort you make can only be an

obstruction to it.<br><br>If you but cease from useless

conceptualizing, you will be what you are and what you have always

been.<br><br>Seeing truly is not merely a change in the direction of

seeing, but a change it its very center, in which the

seer himself disappears.<br><br>The only ultimate

understanding is that nothing is, not even he who

understands.<br><br>For enlightenment to happen the perceiver must turn

right around and wake up to the fact that he is face to

face with his own nature - that HE IS IT. The

spiritual seeker ultimately finds that he was already at

the destination, that he himself IS what he had been

seeking and he was in fact already home.<br><br>Concepts

can at best only serve to negate one another, as one

thorn is used to remove another, and then be thrown

away. Only in deep silence do we leave concepts behind.

Words and language deal only with concepts, and cannot

approach Reality.<br><br>cont: