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    Sin & Guilt: Monstrosity of Mind
    Sin & Guilt: Monstrosity of Mind
    Sin & Guilt: Monstrosity of Mind
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    Sin & Guilt: Monstrosity of Mind

    By Ramesh S. Balsekar

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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 huSoft Coverand, 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."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRamesh S. Balsekar
    Release dateJan 30, 2015
    ISBN9789384363413
    Sin & Guilt: Monstrosity of Mind
    Author

    Ramesh S. Balsekar

    Ramesh Balsekar, a teacher of pure Advaita, or non-duality, 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 huband, 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.”

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      Sin & Guilt - Ramesh S. Balsekar

      SIN & GUILT

      MONSTROSITY OF MIND

      RAMESH S. BALSEKAR

      Edited by Susan Waterman

      A DIVISION OF MAOLI MEDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

      Books by Ramesh S. Balsekar

      A Duet of One (Indian Edition)

      Pursue ‘Happiness’ And Get Enlightened

      Celebrate the Wit & Wisdom: Relax and Enjoy

      Pointers From Ramana Maharshi

      Koun Parvah Karto?! (Marathi 2008)

      Does The Human Being Have Free Will?

      Enlightened Living

      A Buddha’s Babble

      A Personal Religion Of Your Own

      The Essence of The Ashtavakra Gita

      The Relationship Between ‘I’ And ‘Me’

      A Homage To The Unique Teaching of Ramesh S. Balsekar

      Seeking Enlightenment – Why ?

      Nuggets of Wisdom

      The End of The Seeking

      Spiritual Search Step By Step

      Confusion No More

      Guru Pournima

      Advaita and the Buddha

      It So Happened That… The Unique Teaching of Ramesh S. Balsekar

      Meaningful Trivialities from the Source

      The Infamous Ego

      Who Cares?!

      The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita

      Your Head in the Tiger’s Mouth

      Consciousness Writes

      The Bhagavad Gita – A Selection

      Ripples

      Consciousness Speaks

      Copyright © 2000 by Ramesh S. Balsekar

      First Reprint: January 2001

      Second Reprint: November 2002

      Third Reprint: October 2005

      Fourth Reprint: December 2007

      Fifth Reprint: December 2011

      PUBLISHED BY

      ZEN PUBLICATIONS

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      CREDITS

      Front Cover Original Design: Anjali Gewert

      Back Cover Photo: Justin Pumfrey

      Editorial Support: Chaitan Balsekar

      Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 99-62314

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the author or his agents, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      For my dear friend

      Leonard Cohen

      whose face lit up during the talks

      whenever this subject came up for consideration.

      Sin and guilt, pride and arrogance, together with hatred and ill-will, jealousy and envy, create a fire in the belly that makes life a living hell. Remove this ball of fire, and you have a sage participating actively in life as we know it, accepting his allotted share of pain and pleasure with peace and equanimity.

      CONTENTS

      EDITOR’S NOTE

      Introduction:

      The Basics

      What Does the Spiritual Seeker Seek?

      God’s Will and Man’s Free Will

      The Concept of Karma

      The Concept of Karma Based on The Individual’s Action

      The Concept of Sin and Guilt

      Conclusion: The Nature of The Manifest World

      Glossary of Concepts

      Freedom is what happens when

      the arrogant and silly notion

      that we live our own lives by our

      own will has fallen off.

      EDITOR’S NOTE

      The first time I saw Ramesh Balsekar it was from his back – 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 haunting question, lurking ever since childhood, was that I somehow wanted to be in tune with the ‘Higher Order’ of the universe, whatever that meant. That higher order was always apparent, but how to get there, in other words, how to no longer be separate, was another matter. As a child I probably looked for the answer from the teachers in the Sunday school of the church I attended for years with my mother. However, their life experience didn’t seem to reflect an answer. I felt more satisfaction digging a garden or riding through the woods on a lovely day on my favorite pony. As a student this seeking led me to study ecology and then physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology of plants. The answer that kept presenting itself to me as a university research scientist was that clearly the source of that higher order was not to be discovered, perceived, measured or contrived by any human being regardless of any sophisticated laboratory techniques or instrumentation that might be available. In 1989 I resigned from the university to run our farm full-time, where around 300 Angora goats, sheep and various other animals became my teachers, and perhaps the best I had thus far. Soon after, the nearest and clearest revelation came when I took a course on meditation, and I heard the word shakti; in the given context the meaning was in reference to the creative energy of God – surely this was the closest meaningful reference to that higher order that I had been given. It hasn’t been my destiny to roam the world popping in here and there to see many spiritual teachers, preceptors, gurus, or whatever. I have only been with one other spiritual Master besides Ramesh. But, the first time I heard Ramesh speak I knew that he truly knew the answer, that he lived the answer, and that through him the answer would be there for me – all there is, is Consciousness, also meaning

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