Ramesh Balsekar and Nisargadatta

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"For the sage there is no illusion of the manifest universe at all, and

there is therefore no question of the duality called relationship,

male / female, good / bad or otherwise. He moves through life as if

it is real but never gets involved because his mind is always whole."

B

 

 

"What business have you with saving the world, when all the world

needs is to be saved from you? Get out of the picture and see whether

there is anything left to save."

 

N

 

 

"Anyone who has truly apprehended that it is impossible for him to live

independently according to his own "will power" would naturally cease

having any intentions. When he is convinced that living is a sort of

dreaming in which he has no control over his actions, all tension

ceases and a sense of total freedom takes over."

B

 

 

 

"Seeking out causes is a pastime of the mind. There is no duality of

cause and effect. Everything is its own cause."

 

N

 

 

"Man's conflict and unhappiness stem from his obsessive preoccupation

with security and survival based on two fundamental misconceptions:

one, that he is separate and distinct from the rest of creation, and

two, that he has independent free will in the choice of action to

determine the results of events within that creation. This tremendous

misunderstanding itself constitutes man's fall from divine grace,

referred to in the Biblical fable of Adam and Eve as 'the knowledge of

good and evil'."

B

 

 

 

"Man's great illusion of happiness and suffering will never stop except

by the mind's learning to cease to act upon itself."

 

B

 

"Develop the witness attitude and you will find in your own experience

that detachment brings control. The state of witnessing is full of

power; there is nothing passive about it."

 

N

 

 

 

 

"While we think it is we ourselves who are making the decisions, events

are actually happening on a vastly magnificent scale in which we are

merely pawns on a chess board. Free will has, in fact, no bearing at all."

 

B

 

 

"One who has seen his true nature no longer regards life as being full

of menace and misery as most people do. His previously mistaken sense

of personal volition and responsibility has disappeared in such

freedom and joy that life is now just an amusing spectacle like a game

or a dream, in which he has no real part."

 

B

 

"Enlightenment is the inevitable result of the utter absence of

purposeful intention."

 

B

 

"The covering of delusion and suffering that has come over our original

state of unicity is nothing, other than volition or desire - the

wanting of something to be other than it is. All that is necessary is

to realize the falsehood of the ego and, by inference, the falseness

of all its demands."

 

B

 

"The counter question to every problem is: "Who has this problem?"

The realization that he who has the problem is merely a concept

without any substance is the only solution."

B

 

 

"Whatever is happening is always happening only in the mind that

perceives it."

B