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There is a new website for Ramesh Balsekar by his disciple Shirish

Murthy: www.consciousnessstrikes.org

 

I have pasted the section on Nisargadatta Maharaj.

 

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Maharaj

What is it that you really want? Are you clear about it? Are you

looking for God? What exactly are you looking for?

 

Visitor

Somehow, I have always known and felt deeply that nothing that life

in this world could offer would satisfy me because it was

 

Maharaj (Shaking with silent laughter)

If you could only realise how funny that is - " I want to reach

reality. " Who is this 'I' who wants to reach reality? Is it this body-

complex, this psychosomatic apparatus that wants to reach reality?

And is he sure that 'reality' is agreeable to accept him? Also, how

will this 'I' reach reality? By taking a high jump or a long jump?

Or, perhaps by a rocket? Or, is it through a mental leap that this

reality is to be reached? And, finally, what exactly do you mean by

the 'reality' that you want to reach?

 

Visitor (laughing)

Now that you put it this way, it does seem funny, or, should I

perhaps say tragic.

 

Maharaj

Who is that listens to these words, whether funny or tragic?

 

Visitor

Me, I, the one who is sitting here; I am listening to these words and

also speaking to you.

 

Maharaj

The respective senses, with the aid of the Prana, the life-force, do

the actual work. But is there not something - call it your sense of

presence - without which none of your senses would be able to cognize

anything? What is it that gives sentience to a sentient being?

 

Visitor

Yes. If I were not conscious, my senses would not work.

 

Maharaj

Understand then, that it is this conscious presence that you are, so

long as the body is there. Once your body is gone, along with the

vital breath, consciousness will also leave. Only that which was

prior to the appearance of this body-cum-consciousness, the Absolute,

the ever-present is your true identity. That is what we all really

are. That is rality. It is here and now. Where is the question of

anyone reaching for it?

 

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