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Nonduality Highlights: Issue #3668, Sunday, September 27, 2009, Editor: Mark
Dear Friends,
It is with the heaviest of hearts I write to tell you of the
passing of our beloved Ramesh this morning at 9AM in his home in
Bombay.
Ramesh was truly an extraordinary being. His life as a successful
banker, author and spiritual teacher directly enriched the lives
of tens of thousands of people.
Having met Ramesh was one of the defining moments of my life, as
I am certain it was for many of you reading this note. His
generous spirit, open, loving presence and spiritual
Understanding combined to make him one of the truly great Sages
of the 20th century. We are truly blessed to have known him...be
it "in person" or through his Teaching.
Ramesh lives on. Though his body will this afternoon return to
the elements, his spirit lives on in his books and in the hearts
of all of us who have known him and loved him...
Twenty-two years ago Ramesh came into my life. Today his body
leaves it. To have been able to walk beside him for all this time
and to have been able to bow at his feet has been for me the
greatest of life's blessings.I shall miss not being able to sit
with Ramesh, to watch a cricket match together or to share some
chocolate or to laugh at some silly joke he reads from the
newspaper. It is not the greatness of the man I will miss
most...his greatness remains undiminished by his death...it is
the little things, the human things.
Many of you will share with me the exquisite human pain of the
loss of a beloved one. If you take a moment to quietly look at it
you may see in the pain the wonder of Life itself. If so, it will
truly be the Grace of The Guru.
With much love,
Wayne (Liquorman)
"It is not the reatness of the man I will miss most...his
greatness remains undiminished by his death...it is the little
things, the human things.."
Indeed. The essence of presence.
- Anna Ruiz, posted to NondualitySalon
ramesh, true friend, will remain in our heart forever. blessed be
his memory.
- Yosy Flug, posted to NondualitySalon
All that we can truly say is, 'I am here in the absence of space
and now in the absence of time', and the one thing that matters
is the instantaneous apperception of this fact.
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The truest advice for anyone listening to the teaching of Truth
is to apperceive directly and forget immediately.
- Ramesh Balsekar, posted to ANetofJewels
Dear God,
This is my record of eternal gratitude to You.
You gave me birth in a most respected Hindu family, but not high
enough in social status to make me proud.
You gave me a physical form well-admired for its perfection, but
it was small enough to keep me humble.
You gave me education high enough to be most useful in life, but
not high enough to make me proud.
You gave me success in sports high enough to be satisfied, but
not proud.
You gave me a career in which You took me high enough to be
admired, but not high enough to make me arrogant.
You gave me a wife and family for which I have always been
eternally grateful, but You did not spare me some grief to remind
me not to forget what life is all about, and to be always
grateful for what I do have.
You did not forget to place an adequate number of temptations in
my way so that I may not be too critical of others who have to
face their own temptations.
I am now 84, and perhaps the only wish that remains is that the
long life You have given me will not carry a burden at the end.
But in that case, I know You will also give me the necessary
courage to go with it.
You gave me a lot to show me how little is needed to be content
and how much could be given away.
And, undoubtedly, the most important of all - as if the bounty
You have showered on me were not enough - You crowned Your
achievement by using this psychosomatic apparatus to convey to
the world the most important message of Advaita. Truly I am
blessed. Or, indeed, my Beloved, have You not blessed Yourself?!
Finally, it occurs to me, if You were to design for Yourself a
life in phenomenality, could it have been much different from
this one?
And, for this thought, no tears are enough to wash Your Noumenal
feet.
- Ramesh Balsekar, from The Ultimate Understanding