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RameshS. Balsekar Experiencing TheTeaching What does "awakening", in the final analysis, ac- tually mean? "Awakening" means that total disappearance of all phenomenal problems, resultingina perpetual feeling oftotal freedom from all worries. It is a feeling oflight- ness, of floating in the air, untouched by the impurity - and confusion - of the split mind. It is as if the very root of all problems has been demolished, as if the Hydra has been fatally pierced in the heart to prevent the heads from growing again and again. CHAPTER 5 ******* (Seekers) don't realize that all methods and tech- niques are utterly useless unless they give up the illu- sion that they themselves are autonomous entities, with volition and choice, working towards a goal. CHAPTER 9 ******* There is no practicer and nothing to practice - no seeker and nothing to seek. Deep apprehension ofthis is illumination. CHAPTER 20 ******* ...the presence of a seeker entity inevitably prevents enlightenment - there is no difference between ig- norance and enlightenment as long as there is a con- ceptual entity to experience either condition. CHAPTER 20 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereproducedortransmittedin anyformorbyanymeans,electronicormechanical,includingphotocopying,re- cording,orbyanyinformationstorageandretreivalsystemwithoutwrittenper- missionfromtheauthororhisagents,exceptfortheinclusionofbrief quotationsinareview. Copyright©1988by RameshS.Balsekar FirstPublishedinUnitedStatesOfAmericaby ADVAITAPRESS P.O.Box3479 RedondoBeach,California 90277 CO o Designedby:WayneLiquorman CoverArt:RifkaHirsch CoverDesign:Arthur Hendrickson C3 J. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber: 88-71633 ISBN0-929448-07-3 EXPERIENCING THE TEACHING by RAMESH BALSEKAR S. ADVAITA PRESS -LOS ANGELES- Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/experiencingteacOOrame Contents PREFACE .vii INTRODUCTION ix CHAPTER SOME BASIC FACETS 1 OFTHE TEACHING 14 CHAPTER2 THE DO-ER 26 CHAPTER3 THINKING-APERNICIOUS HABIT 29 .... CHAPTER4 ENLIGHTENMENT - LIBERATION - REALIZATION 34 CHAPTER5 DREAMING ANDAWAKENING 43 CHAPTER 6 "REBIRTH" CONSIDERED 49 CHAPTER 7 THE INHERENT IDENTITY 53 CHAPTER 8 THE WHOLE TROUBLE 59 CHAPTER WHO WHERE WHEN? 9 - - 61 CHAPTER 10 WHAT HE THINKS OFME 65 CHAPTER 11 WHO IS THE PERCEIVER WHO PERCEIVES? 70 CHAPTER 12 TRUE PERCEIVING 74 CHAPTER 13 THE ESSENCE OFUNDERSTANDING 78 CHAPTER 14 IDENTIFICATION AND DISIDENTIHCATION 83 CHAPTER 15 THE PERPETUAL PROBLEM 87 CHAPTER 16 REVERSING INTO THE FUTURE 90 CHAPTER 17 I AMTHE PAIN 95 CHAPTER 18 VOLITIONAL EFFORT 99 CHAPTER 19 WHATWE ARE 105 CHAPTER 20 "BONDAGE ANDFREEDOM7' - SIMPLIFIED 108 CHAPTER21 SPEAKINGOFGOD 116 CHAPTER22 OBJECTIVE ABSENCE IS SUBJECTIVE PRESENCE 121 CHAPTER 23 UNEXTENDED, YOU ARE HOME 130 CHAPTER24 THE BEGINNING ANDTHE END 133 GLOSSARY 137 . PREFACE Nisargadatta Maharaj had an apparently hearty dislike of professional writers on metaphysics. This was probably based onthewell-established premisethatthosewhoknow do not speak and those who speak do not know. Maharaj himselfspokefromexperienceandrepeatedlyremindedhis listeners of the utter futility of listening to him as one in- dividual entity to another. He said that when he spoke, it was consciousness speakingto consciousness. Soon after the writing for Pointers From Nisargadatta Maharaj begantoappearspontaneously,whenthisfactwas conveyedtoMaharaj,heseemednottohavebeensurprised. Hesaidthatsuchinspiredwritingwascalledprasadic,which couldbelooselytranslatedas "agiftfromnatureornisarga" It is essentialtounderstand thatthis giftisnotmadeforthe benefitofthenominalauthorbutasagifttothosewhowere in need of it. Such spontaneous writing has continued through Experience ofImmortality and Explorations Into The Eternal ,andnowExperiencingTheTeaching. Itwouldalmost seem that the circle is now complete with this fourth seg- My ment. friendSoumitraMullarpattanhadonceexpressed to me, after the second book was published, his hope thata RameshS. Balsekar,PointersFromNisargadatta Maharaj(Bombay: Chetana, 1982) RameshS. Balsekar, ExperienceOfImmortality (Bombay: Chetana, 1984) RameshS. Balsekar, ExplorationsInto TheEternal (Bombay: Chetana, 1987) EXPERIENCING THE TEACHING viii book would emerge that was based on my own experience of the deeper aspects ofMaharaj's Teaching. It would seem that this brief volume is the objectification ofthat hope. The essential point in Maharafs dislike of professional writingonmetaphysicswasthatsuchwritingwouldbecon- ditioned and limited by the dialectical approach, requiring proofofexperimentbyanybodyatanytime.Suchanauthor wouldbewriting onmetaphysical mattersnecessarilyfrom theviewpointofabound,identifiedandsupposedlyauton- omousentity,onewhohasapparentlyfullyacceptedtheno- tion that he is what he appears to be. He would be writing fromtheviewpointofanArjunaandnotfromthatofaLord Krishna. Such writing from a position of ignorance would not bear the stamp of authority, but could quite easily, be- causeoftherelativityoflanguage, seriouslymislead thefel- low-prisoners. Anyexpressionfrombehindprisonbarscan onlyfurtherdeludethealreadydeluded,thedelusionbeing that there arebars and that there is some onebehind them. Ihave alreadysaidelsewherethat thereiswritingbutno author. PerhapsIshould add thatitis whenthereaderfeels there is reading but no reader, that writing and reading wouldmergetoproduceapperceptionofthekindthatnever needs a comprehender.
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