Ramesh S Balsekar: 25 books

Ramesh S. Balsekar has authored more than 45 well-known books over two decades. He has always had a uniquely individualistic approach to spiritual seeking and, in the course of his teaching, he has developed several unique concepts. For instance, what is the ego? He has clarified that ‘you’...

Most spiritual seekers have no real idea of what exactly it is that they are seeking – even after having spent years chasing the chimera of Enlightenment. It stands to reason that if you want something desperately you would take great pains to find out what it did for those who have ‘got’...

You think the proposition is preposterous, don’t you? You have always believed that enlightenment would get you lasting happiness, even bliss. In fact, you have believed that a prerequisite for “getting” Enlightenment was shunning happiness, maybe even embracing pain. If that is so, welcome...

Clear the confusion and empty the mind for salvation to happen. This book shows you the way. Conditioned as they are by hundreds of years of confusion, spiritual seekers have come to have the idea that the self realized sage is a kind of superman, a 'perfect' human being, totally in control of his...

Understanding comes to different people through different routes. With some it scores a direct hit with wisdom; with others it seeps in almost innocuously through the subtle layers of wit, anecdotes and teaching stories. No one knows just when it will strike and how. Take quintessential wisdom for...

Remain relaxed in Consciousness. In any situation, do whatever you feel you should do without any regrets about the past, without any complaints in the present, without any expectations for the future, and importantly, without blaming and condemning anyone for anything – neither yourself nor the...

It is everyone's experience that the basis of daily living is facing life from moment to moment, necessarily accepting whatever the moment brings - sometimes pain, sometimes pleasure. The interconnected opposites of pain and pleasure, along with the opposites of every conceivable kind, beginning with...

You cannot have an 'ego' because you are the ego: Consciousness identified with a name and form as a separate entity. The sage responds to his name being called; therefore, the sage has an ego. The ordinary man also responds to his name being called. What is the difference between the ego of the sage...

Ramana Maharshi composed The Essence of Spiritual Instruction in response to the supplications of the devoted Muruganar. The poet-devotee was writing in Tamil the story of the wayward rishis of Daruka forest who were practicing special rites for attaining powers they desired. Their egos deflated by...

The essence of Advaita is that the One unmanifest source has become the duality – and then the many – in manifestation. The unmanifest Unicity has become the duality in manifestation. Shiva, the unmanifest, has become Shiva-Shakti in manifestation.

Pythagoreanism is sometimes called ‘number mysticism’, and Pythagoras attached great importance to the numbers three and seven,and to the laws governing musical notes. Gurdjieff had also spoken of the “law of three” and the “law of seven”. The law of three states that all creation involves...