Balsekar Ramesh Biography

Born in the year. Ramesh Balsekar lived with the life of an ordinary person until retirement. At sixty years old, he retired from the post of head of the Bank of India. He succeeded a lot in worldly life: a good family, a high post, a successful career, but he did not have much interest in the spiritual side, except for a little hobby for advite. Following the Indian tradition, each person should have his own guru.

He was also at Ramesh, but communication with him did not bring the student almost no benefit. There are many teachers, but enlightened units. Only, after retirement, Ramyusha was lucky to meet with the true guru - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaja. In the city of Ramesh, Balsekar took a woman named Charda as a wife. They had three children. The eldest son, Adig, was a man of an extraordinary mind, but he had problems with health all the time.

Adit passed away at the age of forty -nine years a year. The middle child is the daughter of Jia, after being married, she moved to Bangalor, where she is still engaged in the manufacture of dairy products. Shivdas is the youngest son, now married and works in one of the international pharmaceutical companies. Ramesh is truly a great organizer and a person with outstanding abilities.

In the year, he began his career as a simple employee of the Indian bank. He never had a passionate desire to succeed and take a high post, but Ramesh never stayed on the service stairs for a long time, he moved up all the time. In the year, he retired as a general manager. Ramesh worked as president of the company for about ten years, for which the bank developed greatly, many branches in India and abroad were opened, thousands of employees were hired.

After Ramesh retired at 60, he read a note in one magazine about Nisargadatt Maharaja - Guru, who teaches Aditi's philosophy in the poor area of ​​Bombay. Ramesh was always interested in Advayata. Soon he himself went to a lecture and realized that Nisargadatta Maharaj to his true guru. A few months later, Ramesh was already engaged in translating the conversations of Sri Maharaja.

Nisargadatta spoke only in one of the local dialects, so there was a need to translate during the Satsangs. Ramesh sometimes played the role of such a translator. During one Satsang, when Ramesh translated the words of the master, enlightenment occurred through him. An enlightened person is not necessarily a person who can easily convey to others the entire depth of understanding of truth.

But the qualities of an enlightened master and an excellent speaker united in Ramesh. He is compassionate, patient, eloquent and has a sense of humor. Those dialogs that are presented in books only hint a little at the state that arises when you are next to the master, but, reading his books, you can come into contact with that divine and incomprehensible energy. But the most striking in Ramesha and his teaching is simplicity and everyday life.

The essence of his teaching is simplicity, or “Neti -Neti” - neither this, the global nothing that we all are. Although he lived in India to him to Satsanga came about ninety percent of the people from the West. Life experience, education and spiritual practice have made a peculiar bridge from it, which connects the East and West, the spiritual side and material.

In the year, Ramesh Balsekar left this world. Interview with Ramey Balsekar:-Maybe you would tell us something about your enlightenment and how it came to you? It suggests a certain event when dazzling light shines, and bliss comes from the ears, but this is not so, at least in my case it was not so. I heard that this event can happen very softly, but clearly, and especially when I read the story of Lao Zi and his student, it dawned on me that this is so.

Probably some of you know this story, but I think there will be no much harm if I repeat it. One of the students of Lao Zi came to him one morning. His eyes shone, his face shone with an expression of achieving something special, and he said: "Teacher, I achieved." Lao Zi with great compassion laid his hands on the student’s shoulders and said: "Son, you have not achieved anything." The student left.

After some time, he came again and said with deep calm: "Teacher, it happened." Lao Zi looked into his eyes, hugged him and said: "Now tell me what happened." The student said: “I accepted your words that nothing happened. But I also knew that I was no longer able to increase my efforts. And I stopped thinking about enlightenment, I stopped every effort to achieve enlightenment and took up my usual business.

And then it suddenly dawned on me that there was nothing that had to be achieved. It was already here. There was already a final state before it could have been a“ I ”, which is a lack of“ I ”, which is the lack of“ I ”, which is“ It would be wished for something to happen.As for me, I know the exact date when it happened. In the year there is such a day called dilating, this is a festival of light, which is celebrated throughout India.

This festival of light symbolizes the victory of good over evil, truth over untruth, the victory of the frame over Ravana. In the house of Maharaja it was usually the day when his attic was put in order, a kind of “spring cleaning”, and on this day no conversations were held. So it was the year when I first visited him, in the year. The next year, a day before the stir, when it was announced that for this reason there would be no conversation, one of my colleagues suggested, if Maharaj agreed to gather him.

And he lived next to Maharard, and most people who visited conversations knew his house. As a result, the next day the conversation took place at home with this colleague of mine. In addition, he was one of the translators. On that day, he said that he would take care of the guests and asked if I could not have translated? I agreed. As soon as Maharaj began to speak, something unusual happened.

It seemed to me that his voice came to me from somewhere from afar and very, very clear. Much more clear than usual. Maharaja had no teeth, so I always needed time to get used to his speech. But that morning his voice was heard from afar, he was much more clear than before, so I did not have to concentrate at all. And I found that the translation began to proceed from me so spontaneously that in reality I did not translate, I just watched, was a witness to how the translation was made.

Everything was as if Maharaj translated into English, but I was just present, was a witness. When the translation was over, I felt very sick. I did not know what was happening. The body reacted in a certain way to what happened for the simple reason that this experience was unusual for him. Later, my colleague said: “Ramesh, you were in excellent shape today! And I just accepted it.

It was a confirmation that something happened. But this is something that happened, inside it was a complete, total change. Outwardly the only change that I could detect was an unusual feeling of weightlessness of the body. I could not give the name of this, and this state continued for another day or two, until it, it happened, as I said, as I said, it already said. This was a calm event, of course, very unexpected after this translations were always like that, and Maharaj also noticed this.

You understood incorrectly. You often translate it incorrectly. "But after that day I noticed that I stopped paying attention to what was said, and the translation became smooth and spontaneous.

One morning, when I expected, while Maharaja gathers on his usual walk with me by car, I noticed that he was especially calm, and he said:" I was happy, then he knew the book "instructions" and said: "I said:" I said "" Glad it happened. This will not be the only book. Several books will be released. And what will be discussed in books will not be just a repetition of what I said.

How all this will be, I do not know. Even you will not know. "This is due to the fact that consciousness is no longer identified with the body?