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    Consciousness Strikes: The Gospel of Ramesh Balsekar
    Consciousness Strikes: The Gospel of Ramesh Balsekar
    Consciousness Strikes: The Gospel of Ramesh Balsekar
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    Consciousness Strikes: The Gospel of Ramesh Balsekar

    By Shirish Kumar S Murthy

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    For centuries devotees of Lord Vittala have sung songs of devotion in his praise. They put their names before the concluding lines to point out that these concepts which burst forth from their heart helped them live in peace with themselves and in harmony with others. Much in the same way, the divine verses in this book represent the change of heart in a keen spiritual seeker who was fortunate to visit his Guru, Ramesh Balsekar, every morning.

    The format of these verses (abhangas) is simple and easy to understand; a few lines dealing with a particular aspect of the Final Understanding followed by a forceful summation – akin to an arrow that embeds itself in the heart, circumventing the intellect.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShirish Kumar S Murthy
    Release dateMar 26, 2016
    ISBN9789385902123
    Consciousness Strikes: The Gospel of Ramesh Balsekar

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      Consciousness Strikes - Shirish Kumar S Murthy

      1

      God is a concept

      useful to remove the concept of an individual.

      The human being knows that

      he cannot get all that he wants.

      So, he creates the concept of an all-merciful, all-powerful God who will give him all that he wants.

      What cannot be a concept?

      The feeling ‘I AM’, ‘I EXIST’.

      ‘I AM’ is knowledge.

      The atheist does not believe God exists.

      Can he doubt his own existence?

      No one can deny the impersonal feeling of existence.

      The mind cannot understand.

      ‘I AM’ is here and now.

      The mind is in the past or future.

      Ramesh says,

      ‘I AM’ is God.

      ‘I AM’ is all there is in phenomenality.

      2

      I am not sad, sadness arises.

      I am not proud, pride arises.

      I am not angry, anger arises.

      I am not eating, eating happens.

      I am not walking, walking happens. I am not reading, reading happens.

      Ramesh says,

      No ‘one’ is sad or angry,

      watch it happen as part of Divine Hypnosis.

      3

      Enlightenment means total annihilation

      of the sense of personal doership.

      As long as there is a person making effort

      Enlightenment cannot happen.

      Seeking will end only when

      the seeker is annihilated.

      Moksha is the total annihilation

      of the ‘one’ who wants moksha.

      Even the desire for moksha

      must disappear.

      That is not in your hands.

      It will disappear only when God wants it to.

      Ramesh says,

      The final step towards Enlightenment happens,

      when you truly accept

      that Enlightenment may not happen.

      4

      You are merely a programmed computer

      in the hands of God.

      When God wants an action

      He sends a thought or makes you

      see or hear something.

      The brain reacts

      strictly according to the programming.

      Each bodymind organism is

      uniquely programmed.

      This gives rise to the sense

      of being an individual.

      You understand that you are

      a programmed instrument when

      you accept that everything is predetermined.

      This happens when you accept that

      nothing happens unless it is the will of God.

      Ramesh says,

      When you accept God’s will totally

      you understand that God alone

      functions through all the living beings.

      5

      Divine Hypnosis gives rise to the feeling

      of being a separate entity.

      The feeling of being a separate entity

      gives rise to the notion of free will.

      The notion of free will gives rise to

      the sense of personal doership.

      The sense of personal doership

      gives rise to involvement.

      Understanding that no individual has free will

      pushes the sense of personal doership

      into the background.

      When the person goes into the background

      guilt and frustration become less prominent.

      Understanding that God alone

      functions as the manifestation

      makes the sense of enmity weak.

      Ramesh says,

      When the feelings of guilt and enmity

      disappear you don’t care for Enlightenment.

      6

      God is the seeker.

      There is no individual seeker.

      God is seeking spirituality through some.

      God is seeking money or power through others.

      What you seek is not in your hands.

      It depends on the programming.

      God has uniquely programmed

      each bodymind organism so that

      life as we know it can go on.

      If everyone seeks the same thing

      how will the movie be interesting?

      There is diversity so that it is interesting

      for God to watch the movie.

      Ramesh says,

      We are merely playing the roles

      which God has ordained.

      7

      God is within each of the bodymind organisms

      that He has created.

      You did not create the ego.

      God within has created the ego.

      He alone can get rid of it.

      Enlightenment can happen

      only when the ego is destroyed.

      Seeking began by God’s will.

      Seeking will end when there is

      total acceptance that everything

      happens by God’s will.

      Ramesh says,

      Enlightenment happens when you understand

      that there is truly no ‘me’ other than a concept.

      8

      True acceptance happens when

      there is no individual acceptor.

      True understanding happens when

      there is no ‘one’ to say I understand.

      True meditation happens when

      there is no ‘meditator’ with expectations.

      True surrender happens when

      there is no ‘one’ to say I surrender.

      What capital do you have

      to surrender to God?

      True surrender to God

      is a divine happening.

      Ramesh says,

      Final surrender happens only

      when the thinking mind which says,

      I must surrender, disappears.

      The thinking mind disappears when

      there is total understanding that

      God’s will prevails all the time.

      9

      The bodymind organism is merely

      a channel through which God functions.

      In this impersonal functioning of Totality

      feelings arise.

      You cannot be impersonal

      because you have no choice.

      All feelings arise

      as part of God’s will.

      Where do you come in?

      Having accepted this

      the million dollar question is,

      What should I do?

      The answer is very simple.

      Do whatever you like,

      by any standards,

      by any philosophy,

      by any system,

      by any attitude,

      you like.

      The freedom frightens you.

      Freedom is in the Heart.

      Ramesh says,

      I do not choose to do anything.

      In fact, I don’t choose to bring

      about the words that come out.

      10

      Things were never in your control.

      You thought they were.

      That’s where the problem arises.

      No ‘one’ has any control.

      Do you think every human being

      is responsible for what he or she is doing?

      The individual has no responsibility.

      The human being is enormously intelligent.

      If he also

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