Author: Ramesh S Baleskar
Editor(s): Sudhakar Dikshit / Jan Hailey
Publisher: Chetana Publications
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 271
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185300194
Description
So, you’ve come at last, have you? These words, uttered by Nisargadatta Maharaj, greeted Ramesh Balsekar the first moment he entered Maharaj’s tiny loft room near the red-light district in Bombay.
Capturing the spontaneity, wit profound wisdom and incisive intuition that was Nisargadatta Maharaj, Balsekar distills the essence of Maharaja’s teaching.
Having never met the sage until that day, Ramesh thought Maharaj must be talking to someone else-but there was no one else there. Thus began the relationship that would lead to Ramesh’s transformative awakening. Aged 60 and recently retired from his position as President of Bank of India, Ramesh began attending Maharaj’s daily talks, eventually serving as a translator for the growing number of westerners drawn to Maharaj by publication of his book, I am that, Within one year of meeting Maharaj, awakening happened.
The writings in this book, Ramesh’s first, were spontaneous, the notes of a devotees reflecting on his Master’s teaching. Not written with an eye toward publication, nevertheless the respected editor and publisher of I Am That, Sudhakar Dikshit, looked at the manuscript and convinced Ramesh it should be published.
Contents
PREFACE
EDITOR’S NOTE
Pride of Achievement
Consciousness, the Only Capital
In Face of Death
Manifest and the Unmanifest Are One
Awareness and Consciousness
Bondage of Space and Time
How a Jnani Sees the World
The Proof of Truth
You Are Rama; I Am Rama
Images in Imagination
The Play Goes On
Manifestation is a Dream
Love and god
Standpoint for Reading the Gita
Blind Youth with True Vision
He Came To Scoff
Noumenon and Phenomena
Let Us Understand Basic Facts
Self-knowledge and Problems of Life
Guru’s Grace Is All I Need
The Seed of Consciousness
Self-realization is Effortless
Child of a Barren Woman
A Review of the Fundamentals
What Are We, Really?
Life, A Slapstick Comedy
Mis-identification is Bondage
You Are Timeless
No Such thing as Enlightenment
What Were You Before Your Birth?
Maharaj on Himself
A Personal Experience
There is No Perceiver, only Perceiving
The Immaculate Identity
Total Absence of the Do-er
No One Is Born; No One Dies
Analyzing Thought
Beingness Is God
You are the Conscious Presence
Maharaj on Himself, Again
There Can’t Be Rebirth
Intellect Can Be an Addiction
Seeing the False as False Is Truth
Dabbling in Meditation
There is Noting but I Negation of Entity-ness
The Seeker Is the Sought
The Nature of Deep Sleep
Annihilation of the You
An Irreverent Revelation
Who Suffers?
Progress in Spiritual Search
The Suffering of Experience
Words and Their Fulfillment
Confusion about Life and Death
The Last Days: Last Teachings
The Last Moments: Mahasamadhi
APPENDICES
The Core of the Teaching
A Note on Consciousness
Bhakti, Jnana and the Individual
The Whole Truth
GLOSSARY