Sin and Guilt Monstrosity of Mind

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In nearly every talk happening daily in Bombay, Ramesh Balsekar reminds visitors that anything any sage has ever said, anything any religion or scripture has ever said is a concept. In a delightful and unique manner he shatters commonly held fantasies about Truth, about seeking, about how life happens. A teacher of pure Advaita, or non-duality, Ramesh is an unearthly blend of the utterly human and utterly divine manifesting as a brilliant spiritual Master. His crystal-clear and profound teachings are backed by his complete understanding that "Nobody does anything" coupled with his life experience as a top executive of a major Indian bank, as a husband, father and grandfather-all lived knowing that it is all happening as God's will. For much of his full life Ramesh, whose Guru was Nisargadatta Maharaj, has been devoted to Ramana Maharshi, in whose spirit Ramesh welcomes seekers and asks "Who is seeking? Leave the seeking to Him who started the seeking."

The first time I saw Ramesh Balsekar it was from his back T - he had appeared just outside the sitting room where a number of visitors were waiting for his morning talk to begin. I happened to look up after he had glanced around and had turned to leave-what struck me was an irresistible and irrefutable glow of strength, gentleness and humility. In the same moment of saying to someone, "Is that him?", a distinct and admittedly slightly uneasy feeling came up, perhaps having been sparked by the grace of his glance: "Something big is going to happen." Whether it was "me" knowing she was about to receive a most compassionate barrage of precisely delivered irreconcilable blows, or the heart leaping with joy and already beginning to melt in recognition of that lovable ultimate, mysterious and sublime teacher known as the Guru, it doesn't really matter - because both happened.

One of the questions Ramesh most always asks a new visitor is what it is they think they are seeking as a spiritual seeker. For me, the search for years had also been the apparent underlying driving force behind several major changes that had happened in my life.

THE WHEEL OF LIFE

Logic and reason of the West think of life as being linear. The East understands life and existence as being circular the circle means returning to the starting point, Life begins with the first breath, and ends with the last breath. Samsara means the wheel of life, whether it is the seasons of the year or the rotation of the planets. It is curious perhaps significant that the East paid little attention to the chronological history, only to the relationship of forces and events, the cause effect relationship, which the basis of life and living is.

The circle has its own logic, magic, mystery hardly any movement in the universe is linear. All movements seem to be circular, returning to the beginning and starting again, apparently endlessly: the movement of the stars or the planets including the earth, or the life of man. The manifestation has appeared with what science calls "the Big Bang" or what mysticism calls "the Awareness of Consciousness", the burst of the potential energy into its activization and finally going back into the nucleus when the burst of energy exhausts itself. When the new moon attains its fullness, the reverse movement starts.