Consciousness Speaks: Conversations with Ramesh S. Balsekar by Ramesh S. Balsekar

Author:Ramesh S. Balsekar [Balsekar, Ramesh S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-05-12T03:08:00+00:00

All of it is part of the functioning of Totality. The Totality is not concerned with good or bad. So, whatever happens in the working of the universe at the present moment, has to be accepted. Not accepting it means human misery. Until this acceptance happens, until there is Grace or whatever you call it and this acceptance or surrender happens, until then you are destined to be miserable.

Last June, an Armenian American came to me in Bombay. He had been traveling in India during March, April and May, the worst possible months to travel. He said he had traveled north to south, with great hopes of finding something precious, and all he found were ashramites, parroting Scriptures and greedy priests putting their hands out for money. He was terribly disappointed. He raved like this for twenty minutes. I brought him a bottle of chilled water and a glass. He drained it in a gulp, so I brought him another. When he had both literally and spiritually cooled down, he said, "Do you have anything to say to me?"

I said, "If you give me the chance!" Then he quieted down.

His story was that he was a successful engineer with one daughter, settled comfortably. One day he began to wonder what he was making more money for, since he had enough. He sold his business and started reading up on this subject and something drove him to come to India. He had just been to the Ramana Maharshi ashrama. While there, he had told someone his tale of woe who then gave him my address and telephone number, and so he had called and come by.

I said, "I'll give you one question to think of an answer to. You get an answer for that question, and you will have your answers for all your problems."

He said, "You mean it?"

I said, "Certainly I do! Just think what turned you, a perfectly happy engineer, into this miserable seeker? Did you give up your work and choose to be a seeker? What turned you into a seeker?"

We talked about it for a while. Then I said, "If some power turned you into a seeker, don't you think it is the responsi bility of that power to take you where you are supposed to be taken? Why are you so intense? Why do you want that thirst to end at a particular time?"

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