Let Life Flow

The retired bank president, a golf player, a husband and father—none of this fits very well the stereotype of an Indian guru… Ramesh Balsekar is the spiritual successor of Nisargadatta Maharaj, who received from him a direct transmission of intuitive knowledge about what a person truly is and what they are not. Confusion between these two—between what is and what isn’t—is the cause of our misfortune. As soon as we begin to see more clearly, happiness warms us like the sun. Let life flow; nothing should restrict the blessed stream of it within you and around you, says Balsekar—and people become happier by catching the truth behind the words of this ordinary, successful Indian retiree. His life and his view of the world make him the kind of master who symbolizes the ideal bridge between East and West, between spiritual and material.

… The truth of life is that its arrows sting, but the painful feeling from these stings lasts surprisingly briefly. Likewise, the fairy glow of a week or two of vacation quickly fades and without fail. The sense of happiness people experience, according to many psychologists, is determined more by genes than by the surrounding reality.

… No matter how tragic or comic people’s rises and falls are during their lives, they inevitably return to the level of happiness that is predetermined in them from birth.

Man wants to continue living and doing, and at the same time demands that Being must come. He will not stop the war, but he needs peace—he craves and demands it! A human is not ready to let their life drift freely—this is the only problem. He wants to awaken to reality, to reveal his "true essence," but without throwing away the reality of a dream.