Who Wants To Know What? - Ramesh Balsekar -- Courtesy of advaita.org

[@meeraesq]

Krishna gave the Gita to Arjuna because he asked great questions. This interviewer had the maturity to understand and ask great questions to Ramesh. Thank you for this wonderful video.

[@sedonastacy]

Thank you for the most comprehensive explanation of totality. His discourse could not be anymore clear. I am ecstatically grateful : )

[@cianvdw2435]

I sat in that room for three weeks. How blessed .

[@Man_with_no_name]

namaste

[@Hexhex66]

I hope Ramesh sat in that room too when you did … 😅 (Just kidding.) I think it must have been a great experience for you. I wish I knew Ramesh Balsekar already when he was still alive. I love his books too, they are very helpful.

[@ShockwaveZero]

nice story

[@Emptiness512]

Great interview, i appreciate and love the person who is asking and identifying with Ramesh

[@roryoconnor861]

Love it. Amazing interview, not a single word wasted. Golden leaves for a crying child. Beautiful.

[@xamehc]

By far the BEST explanation of advaita I've ever heard... simply 'simple' =) Thanks for the post.

[@NewNow4u]

She did such a good job with her clarifying questions!

[@victoriafilmproduction6803]

For me one of the most clear and thorough conversation about nonduality and it's roots . It explains the real basis of religion. And very wonderfully lead by Rifka Hirsch. A Classic so to say!

[@christiano4873]

Saw this decades ago. A beautiful classic.

[@elshisu]

Complete, thorough, unsweetened, just the plain truth! Thanks!!!!!

[@albundy9597]

THEORIES ABOUND EVERYWHERE, Truth is relative, wait until you are dead first then it won't matter anyway.

[@zazzyz4558]

It’s not a theory

[@babycriminalchan5803]

With in 5 minutes after the video started everything becomes crystal clear to me 👁️🏵️🙏❤️

[@mariahetlelid1342]

So clear, so beautiful

[@jameelisaac7628]

Maria Hetlelid oinkness lol

[@bilimoriafirdaus]

Understanding got deeper with repeated viewing of this vdo alongwith Ramesh's other vdo's... Extremely grateful for posting this classic..🙏🧡

[@hemamalinirs1002]

Beautiful ,Immense gratitude and love for this video ❤🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@rajendramirji5830]

Mind blowing discourse. My salutes from bottom of heart.

[@PatsieSmithspiritpond]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful interview that was very well done. Beautiful words of truth and wisdom.

[@Drew3KW]

This is very special. I know it is still a golden leaf, but to me it is gold. Deepest thanks.

[@krissyramsey6524]

Outstanding interview! It doesn't get more clear than that. Thank you for sharing.

[@satsangsmoothie9086]

Timeless wisdom transported very clear by Ramesh!

[@bajawalla]

Rifka Hirsch, one of the best interviewers ever. As enlightened as her interviewee! 🙏🏽🌹💞

[@johnbarber8663]

Beautifully stated and clear. Soooooo Comprehensive!!!!

[@SathyAnna7]

Its so clear! Thank you very much...! :)

[@ngprovidence1275]

Excellent interview. Thanks for posting.

[@ganeshjagdishan]

love this...gr8 understanding, gr8 wisdom, Thanx!!!!

[@shantihealer]

What a wonderful life-changing video interview.

[@QuestingNeurons]

Treasure talk. The brightest, the highest, the greatest a man can achieve is the realisation that "there is nothing to achieve" and ultimately "there is no 'man' whatsoever".

[@axutgautam1187]

Pure gold.

[@abdonnp]

Muchas gracias por la traducción.

[@TadRapidly]

at 44:00 Rifka speaks of enlightenment-joy. The episode of enlightenment is a joyless state--there is no emotional component. Relative 'joy" is experienced afterward and onward but that comes from the understanding / clarity that the enlightenment episode brings.

[@innerlight617]

Many Thanks for uploading!ॐ ❤

[@gurugeorge]

Good interaction, intelligent questions eliciting clear answers.

[@1237shanti]

omg... this is ultimate knowledge. THANK YOU!

[@bodhimedia1]

God’s banker. The highest wisdom so simply expounded! 🙏🏻

[@bilimoriafirdaus]

Lovely interview!!

[@mobiustrip1400]

This is it! I'm seeking something that I never lost, because "I" is not separate, I am already.

[@bradstephan7886]

Excellent.

[@tapashchatterjee8567]

Thankyou Beloved RameshJi.......

[@brenca8694]

so concise and thorough... and excellent discourse which breaks through the "veil" of humdrum existence.

[@PeterMastropasqua-rk7tp]

Thank You for This Clarity 🙂🙏

[@monikavarma4]

Absolutely fabulous

[@sunil1968]

Great master..🌹

[@i__am__no__body__]

destiny bought me here thankyou gurujii

[@solomit1]

Thank you nice message 💓

[@tapashchatterjee8567]

The Expression Of An EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS........

[@pillettadoinswartsh4974]

Practical Advaita. Very much needed, if only to cut through all the woowoo out there, surrounding eastern teachings.

[@anonranger6428]

Consciousness is all that is - Advaita Vedanta Advaita Vedanta is one of mankind’s oldest philosophy that cannot be tied to a single religion or within geographical borders. It belongs to the entire mankind. Ramana Maharshi and Adi Sankara are modern religious scientists have explored Advaita Vedanta in their life and shared their learnings from their practise. Psychological Base : It is a modern psychological tool to deal with stress and sorrow and helps a man/woman be compassionate to a fellow living being. Associating with I, the ego is the source of all sorrow. You are not alone, you belong to the brotherhood called consciousness. When you have stress, sorrow don't carry it alone, understand that you belong to the brotherhood called consciousness that is eternally happy. Do not be powerless or feel your capability is limited. You belong to the powerful, the most intelligent brotherhood called consciousness. Meditation - Self Inquiry Who am I? Dhyana Yoga [BODY] Imagine yourself lying on the burning pyre, after death. What happens to you after death? Close your eyes and ask the question, ‘Who am I’ ? You are not the transient body that rots after death. [MIND] Are you the mind that generates the thoughts? When you close your eyes and meditate on a single entity, random thoughts or desires fill your mind. Chasing the thoughts or desires is sorrow. Freedom and happiness is in the thoughtless mind. When a thought or desire arises , kill the thought immediately with the question, To whom do the thoughts come for? The thoughts come to serve I, the ego, your name - your imagination of what you are. When there is no I, the name, the ego - the thoughts have no one to serve and they die. Stay in meditation with a thoughtless mind. Keep reminding yourself there is no I, the name, the ego. There is no body or mind. All that there is consciousness. When there is no I, the name, the ego, there is no you, this or that - the world disappears When is no subject, where is the object to desire for? All that there is consciousness. [HEART] The awareness that swells in your heart in the thoughtless mind is consciousness. Consciousness is all that is. Stay in the consciousness and be blissful and happy. Stay in the consciousness and be blissful and happy. How to stay in Consciousness? - Waking state - Karma Yoga Say Aham Brahmasmi - I am consciousness in both deep sleep, dream and in the waking state. Intellect is Consciousness, the supreme knowledge required to perform an action in the waking state. Intellect and Consciousness are one and same and not separate. Getting lost in the passion of work, without remembering I, the ego is the doer of the work is practising consciousness in the waking state. Also called Karma Yoga. Researchers, Scientists, Programmers, Engineers, Doctors and other professionals who get lost in the passion of work without realizing that they are the doer are practising consciousness in the waking state. Three Ethical values are prescribed to ward off associating I, the ego as the doer and to stay in Consciousness in the waking state. They are as mentioned in Sanskrit as the 3 Ds Damyata (Self Control), Datta (Charity) and Dayadhvam (Compassion). A person who knows he/she is Aham Brahmasmi (I am consciousness) in the waking state. identifies a fellow living being (human or non human) as one the same and as no different than himself as consciousness. is empathetic and compassionate towards another living being (human or non human) gets lost in his passion for work, does not credit I, the ego as the doer of the work nor personally own the fruits of the labor. He credits his work and the fruits of the labor to his intellect or consciousness, which are one and the same. takes the happiness, sorrows and pain with equanimity with the fact that his true state consciousness is always blissful and happy.

[@tim13354]

All bullshit.

[@indianmilitary]

+tim13354 yeah "virgin birth" "original sin" are not bullshit right?

[@tim13354]

+kashsoldier Yes. So?

[@garyvalentine2]

nice

[@siddharthjoshi6811]

Are you really saying that there is something like ' Virgin birth' ... or you are just being sarcastic ??

[@JatinderSingh-cs8dt]

Excellent talk for the seekers.

[@gaungadhara]

who is seeking what?

[@indianmilitary]

+gaston cardoso us (humans/matter) seeking our true self (consciousness)

[@Lawrence.Bennett]

+kashsoldier But consciousness just is like dreaming dog-shit.

[@tretayug3500]

Lawrence Bennett you look like a mugger!

[@fractalofgod6324]

@@gaungadhara nothing to seek everything is just as is.

[@Kajun666]

Profound information. amazing.

[@uptown4life13]

Agreed to the fullest.

[@ralters2000]

Great interview by both participants

[@vvk594]

Blessed

[@youlong1234]

Bravo !!! Namo Unity

[@sidharthachauhan4830]

Beautiful..thankyou

[@stevendoyle9002]

The point of existence is existence. To realize this is to be love, god, the self

[@ZuZungu]

Ramesh at one point , I think he says "consciousness has to be aware of something, it can't just be conscious". My question is, can't there be just a primordial consciousness where there is consciousness of Itself?

[@Hexhex66]

Well, who knows. I think Ramesh regards consciousness as of a similar nature as light: light can‘t be seen until it hits an object.

[@TadRapidly]

What he speaks about around 35:00 is absolutely essential to understand--enlightenment is NOT a sustained state, it is a short-lived episode of unity-consciousness.

[@avatareyes100]

the impersonal consciousness, identified with the mind-body organism, leads to the imagined schism from which one needs to find "liberation". That impersonal consciousness itself *is* freedom. with realization, a block of ice becomes flowing water. the basic substance is the same, however its properties have changed

[@doctormeyers7562]

Brendan Card l

[@yankumar5280]

thanks for sharing Wayne Liquorman

[@Emptiness512]

The realization of the individual is fallacy, this is when there is enlightenment...love that

[@albundy9597]

On the other hand why bother ? I don't understand all this concept of suffering, I am not a seeker (but I love philosophy) am not enlightened and yet I don't suffer, I see things impersonally and have done even as a child, it is as it is.

[@neva.2764]

​@@albundy9597Because you don't label everything?

[@sajithstephen9166]

Thank you❤

[@TheColbertois]

I love the way the presenter ended the interview : she was a little bit caught short... :)

[@LEDCircus]

One need not follow a structured system in order to realise self-enlightenment. To say to another, you can only be in this state by following these instructions goes against the nature of truth. Enlightenment, by definition is subjective. It must be a personal journey of discovery. Yes, there are scriptures and gurus which can guide one in the general direction, but this is a matter of self-realisation. No one can show you the path, you must create your own.

[@sharmilapenmetsa7249]

Amaging

[@shantihealer]

I think he said that in duality (ordinary life) the totality of consciousness is operating through an object which is identified with itself as the doer. In this state of mistaken identification it becomes attracted to one pole or another of all sorts of dualities. Such opposite poles include passionate love and passionate hate - hence hate crime.

[@albundy9597]

I have a pole like that

[@tapashchatterjee8567]

The REAL LIBERATION Comes From The REALIZATION That He CANNOT Be A Separate ENTITY...He Is Just A Part Of The UNBROKEN WHOLENESS [TOTALITY], Which Is A UNIVERSE... .......Thankyou Beloved Ramesh Ji.......

[@Hexhex66]

The final reality is so simple. But very few people can see it, because almost nobody wants to give up his little, jealous and anxious ego… I don‘t exclude myself. Still too often I forget who I really am. (Referring to Ramana Maharshi‘s question: Who am I?)

[@undergroundbullshit]

I was bush walking earlier in the year with John Wheeler while he was down visiting 'Sailor' Bob Adamson, he mentioned when he visited Ramesh that he had completely turned his back on advaita in his final years of life. I found this quite shocking considering his teachings, perhaps being on the death bed really determines how clear one is...anyhow

[@albundy9597]

Fear of death just happens, quick get a priest just in case !!!

[@TadRapidly]

@ajetk what would you ask?

[@TheHilde2008]

Escuchar a este señor es taladrar el 🥥 coco. Pero aún no lo escuché..

[@AndrasNagy2001]

Well put.

[@rjsillysaga]

This is a dream. Remember it always

[@dparansky]

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world...

[@N8_Presents]

Amen.

[@jameelisaac7628]

Rnickey Lidack Are you blind or aware of blindness? you can't be both because there not the same. also is blindness aware?

[@zatoichiable]

No artistic going round the bush style. direct, straight, short.simple.

[@doctormeyers7562]

Zatoichiable .

[@lalitbhandari2328]

Well explained

[@SuperBendecido666]

MUCHAS GRACIAS RAMESH

[@AmiraAroraOfficial]

🙏🏼

[@OwenPrescott]

The soul is everything and everything is the soul or consciousness as he describes. On the contrary, this idea gives one every reason to exist because there is no existence otherwise. It is an all or nothing situation, the thinking mind has just dismantled the all into smaller parts, our meaning in to exist as the entirety. Is a new born baby pointless without a sense of individual, no because the baby does not require individualism to be.

[@igqx5662]

Gran mensaje!

[@nicm1411]

Hi, thank you for posting this interview. Does anyone know the name of the woman asking the questions please? Thanks.

[@tejasjoshi3946]

Rifka Hirsch. Found it in comments.

[@TheWorldTeacher]

Actually, her name appeared above the Spanish subtitles at at least one stage during the video..

[@calvin3005]

he was about 88 at the time of that allegation, so if it's true, it's pretty impressive! and even if it is true, it wouldn't contradict his teaching anyway

[@nnsrinivas]

What is the allegation?

[@MrYahya0101]

Very clear. Much clearer than this New Age talk.

[@xamehc]

whoa??! where can I get info on this?

[@suerayss]

Gosh this is so hard to understand! I am trying so hard. I have unidentified myself from my body mind. Do I need to keep my job and do I need to pay my credit card bills or pay for my meals at restaurant ?

[@theunamed2039]

Incredible

[@MikeRoePhonicsMusic]

I want to know if gluons, which bind quarks together inside of atomic nuclei, can come to a state of rest or not. Perhaps this is not possible (possibly because gluons can interact with other gluons.) The reason I ask is because gluons have a non-zero mass. Since the kinetic energy of the gluons inside of the proton & neutron contribute to the vast majority of mass for the proton & neutron, & single quarks are never found in isolation, AND quarks are bound together by gluons, they can't rest.

[@WielkieOdpowiedzi]

They can't

[@suerayss]

I should get this. I am indian and hindu but the explanation is so winding that it ties my brain into knots.

[@albundy9597]

Nothing complicated there, you are a disposable object, finished.

[@vedicastroyogas6295]

11:41 what does lado mean?

[@fernandopavan1]

+Anup Thapa lado means "side" in this context means also "by the other hand/other point of view"

[@namewithheld9716]

I don't think he's necessarily saying that we couldn't have memories of past lives.

[@shrikramalei9091]

None But we can easily assume that he has no knowledge about his future incarnations as well! LOL

[@namewithheld9716]

I don't understand the intent of your reply.

[@edzardpiltz6348]

No, what he is saying that there never was a separate entity that ever could remember past lives. All there is is remembering happening in conciousness and thought creating the concept of personhood claiming memory as personal. Got it?! 😉😘

[@pradeepmenon2240]

Thanks

[@FlyedPiper]

Very different from his later talks.

[@ganeshjagdishan]

just amazing!

[@virenderyadav707]

🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@barbarahemming3841]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@ikrethos]

La ilusión de que todo es Ilusión , es de los Hipnotizados y los auto hipnotizados

[@WilliamGainessky]

He is speaking the same teaching that Jesus as the "Christ" was. There is no difference. Read the words and parable of Jesus in the Sermon in the Mount and in the Gospel of Thomas and you will see. There is a tragic misunderstanding that is inherent in the literal interpretation of the bible which does no go into the core of Jesus teaching. Jesus was put to death by the religious people of his day who also did not understand his teaching. Check out my music at: reverbnation.com/willgainesmusic google.com/+WilliamGainessky

[@LEDCircus]

Is your experience of life subjective?

[@carlosirles8382]

Uauuu this is like an open hand slap

[@justinpierce6841]

Well okay... but Meher Baba said that God is Love and speaks of Infinite Bliss, Infinite Power and Infinite Knoweledge. This would imply a Personal Sense of Being, unless I am incorrrect. Otherwise, this guy is basically saying that the nature of Reality is total absolute Unconsciousness?? Every teacher you can name says that God is Love.... but all I see is suffering. Humanity seeks an answer to this apparent contradiction. This man may be enlightened but I don't see how this is helpful to anybody. If I have no choices and no personal Being.... then Who does? If I'm not really suffering, but I just think I'm suffering and have no way out of this.... then does this mean that God is Not Aware of any of this?? Am I getting this right?? The Universe is not aware of itself or anybody else?? The Source just 'does stuff' unconsciously and we deal with it until we fall back into the Not Caring Impersonal non experience of No Being? Im not sure I like this. God is supposed to be Infinite Love. This would imply that I am Infinite Love.... but if Im not aware of my Being... then there is Nobody to love and all those starving kids in Africa really are alone in an uncaring 'impersonal' Universe? This can't be right.... surely something is missing.....

[@acuaman42]

A scientific way to understand what Ramesh is saying about consciousness is that everything is just quantum energy which is the basis of everything in this and in millions of other universes and in 11 dimensions. All this is in the latest book by Stephen Hawking, THE GRAND DESIGN. Advaita or nonduality could be explained by quantum physics.

[@edzardpiltz6348]

As fare as I know, quantum physics so fare can't account for sentience, the sense of a first person perspective experiences. That's the real mystery I am still awaiting a reasonable scientific explanation for. Don't remember reading Steven Hawkins taking about that. 😘

[@aminabdollahi1909]

pure love

[@collectionof]

not a judgement, just an observation.