A Personal Religion Of Your Own
Ramesh S. Balsekar
Books by Ramesh S. Balsekar • Consciousness Speaks • Your Head in the Tiger’s Mouth • Who Cares?! • A Duet of One • Advaita and the Buddha • Sin and Guilt: Monstrosity of Mind • The Bhagavad Gita – A Selection • Enlightened Living • Confusion No More • The Essence of The Ashtavakra Gita • The Relationship Between ‘I’ And ‘Me’ • Pursue ‘Happiness’ And Get Enlightened • Does The Human Being Have Free Will? • Pointers From Ramana Maharshi • A Buddha’s Babble • A Homage To The Unique Teaching Of Ramesh S. Balsekar • Seeking Enlightenment – Why ? • Nuggets of Wisdom • Guru Pournima • It So Happened That... • Consciousness Writes • Celebrate the Wit and Wisdom: Relax and Enjoy • The Infamous Ego • Ripples • Spiritual Search Step By Step • Meaningful Trivialities from the Source • The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita • Tumcha Swatacha Vyaktigat Dharm (Marathi) • Atmabodhacha Shodhat Aahes? – Ka? (Marathi) • Ashtavakra Gita Saar (Marathi) • Koun Parvah Karto?! (Marathi) • Dharm Se Swadharm Tak (Hindi)
COPYRIGHT © 2006 by RAMESH S. BALSEKAR Revised Edition February 2018
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There never has been a creation, nor a dissolution.
Your Maha-mantra for happy daily living “In any situation, do whatever you feel you should do, without any regrets about the past, without any complaints for the present, without any expectations for the future, and without blaming or condemning anyone for anything, neither yourself, nor the other. What actually happens has never been in anyone’s control. It has always been according to God’s Will / Cosmic Law. Thus you will always be free of sin and guilt for yourself, and free of the burden of hatred towards the others. This will mean the supreme happiness of peace of mind...Sukha-Shanti.” Ramesh S. Balsekar
The dictionary defines ‘Religion’ as ‘a system of daily conduct and mental attitude’.
INTRODUCTION
Daily living means every human being at any given time or place, even 5,000 years ago, doing in any situation, whatever he felt he should do. In other words, daily living cannot happen unless every human being has total free will. Thereafter, what happens has never been in anyone’s control. What has happened is one of three things: 1) he has got what he wanted, 2) he has not got what he wanted; or, 3) what happened was beyond his expectation, for better or worse. Thereafter, the society has accepted what has happened, as the individual’s action, judged it as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, and given its award according to social regulations and legal provisions: reward or punishment. Reward has meant pleasure in the moment; punishment has meant pain in the moment. That is what daily living means. It must begin with free will for the human being, but thereafter it is God’s Will. And the human being’s free will is based on two factors – genes, and conditioning in the social environment in which the individual was born, over neither of which did the individual have any control. Both factors were created by God. Therefore, it is perfectly clear that whatever any indi