The Ultimate Understanding

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Ramesh S. Balsekar is acknowledged to be one of the greatest spiritual teachers of Advaita - the doctrine of non-duality. This book represents the pinnacle of his teaching, inspired by and dedicated to, the great sage Wei Wu Wei, whom he found a great source of inspiration. The beauty of the teaching lies in its timeless quality: eternal, immutable, and boundless. Emanating from the very Source, the teach teaching is for all generations, for every generation.

Perhaps you, the reader, have already noticed that Ramesh has dedicated this book to Wei Wu Wei, a contemporary scholar of Tao philosophy. Some of the writings in this book were originally comments Ramesh had written in the margins of Wei Wu Wei's books as he was reading around thirty years ago. From the inception of this book, Ramesh's wish was that it be a special tribute to a man whose words had a profound impact during the process he has described as "dis-identification as a separate doer-entity - the process going on to culminate eventually in what is called 'enlightenment." This total dis-identification as a separate doer is the happening of the Ultimate Understanding.

The following is an excerpt concerning Wei Wu Wei, taken from a letter written by Ramesh to a disciple in January, 1989 (published in Consciousness Writes):

When I wrote the preface for my first book, Pointers from Nisargadatta Maharaj, I had included the following paragraph in it:

As I was translating Shri Maharaj's talks into English, I began noticing in my translations the distinct influence of Wei Wu Wei's use of the English language in his books.