Consciousness is all there is. So ‘who’ is to know or seek ‘what’? All there is is the impersonal functioning of Consciousness, or God, reflecting within Itself the totality of manifestation. Live life making decisions and accepting the consequences as if you have free will knowing it is Consciousness seeking, doing, living deciding…

Ramesh Balsekar is an awakened sage whose long life has been devoted to Ramana Maharshi and whose final Guru was Nisargadatta Maharaj. He perfectly reflects both East and West-born and raised in Bombay, India, thinking and speaking in English, student of Sanskrit and translator of the Bhagavad Gita, intimately familiar with the Taoist and Chan classics as well as the new paradigm (Consciousness is all there is) which has emerged from quantum mechanics. Poignantly clear and precise and delightfully, humorous, his teaching makes life simple.

Indeed; who is that “who”? This question is the central theme of this brilliant exposition on the philosophy of advaita, self realisation, enlightenment or whatever word you might like to use. Ramesh Balsekar was not only the President of the Bank of India in Mumbai in his working life, but upon his retirement became one of Nisargadatta Maharaj’s foremost translators and later assigned by the great sage Nisargadatta Maharaj, to expound on this transcendental and perennial knowledge of the Self.

Ramesh’s mastery of the English language is unrivalled even by Englishmen, and his superior general knowledge in all facets of intellectual life is astounding. Do yourself a favour and buy at least one of the many books written by Ramesh. And you can judge for yourself.

Thoroughly recommended.

– Richard Mwangi