Your Head In The Tigers Mouth

Your Head In The Tiger's Mouth Talks in Bombay with Ramesh S. Balsekar Books by Ramesh S. Balsekar: ♦ Consciousness Speaks * ♦ Consciousness Writes * ♦ A Duet of One ♦ From Consciousness To ♦ The Final Truth ♦ Experiencing The Teaching ♦ Explorations Into The Eternal ♦ Pointers From Nisargadatta Maharaj ♦ Experience Of Immortality ♦ Ripples * ♦ The Bhagavad Gita - A Selection * * Consciousness Published by Zen Publications Your Head In The Tiger's Mouth Talks in Bombay with Ramesh S. Balsekar Edited by Blayne Bardo First Published in March 1998 Chinese Year of the Tiger _PUBLICATIONS_ Copyright © 1998 by Ramesh S. Balsekar Published by ZEN PUBLICATIONS 9 Raja Bahadur Building, 156 J. Dadajee Road, Tardeo, Mumbai 400 034. India. Tel.: (91 22) 492 3446. Tel/Fax: (91 22) 492 2429 Printed by NEW THACKERS FINE ART PRESS Evergreen Industrial Estate, Shakti Mills Lane, Off E. Moses Road, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai 400 Oil. India. Photo Credits: Front Cover: E. Hanumant Rao/PORPOISE PhotoStock Back Cover: Dr. Joahnn Dham All photographs accompanying text pages by Justine Pumfrey ISBN: 0-929448-17-0 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 98-071393 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the author or his agents, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. Dedicated to Ramana Maharshi Contents Editor's Notes xiii Tiger's Mouth 1 Why Does the Speaking Happen? 3 The Setting 5 Satsang Scenes Scene 1 9 Effort—intellectual understanding—concepts—I Am, the only Truth—the Source—deep sleep—flip-flops— suffering—no individual entities, no choice—life is a reflection—will of God—no doer—programming— destiny—acceptance and surrender—seeking just happens—Potential Energy Scene 2 Involvement—expectation—tiger's mouth—life is nothing but seeking—what Ramesh says is not the Truth—does the Guru love the disciple?—love and impersonal Love—"who" is seeking? 47 69 Scene 3 Teaching must affect attitude—progress—acceptance, enlightenment—living "as if" there is free will— doership, involvement—Ananda, peace—decisions Scene 4 91 Control—action—no separate individual—What Is— Divine hypnosis, maya, sadhana—seeking is im¬ personal—surrender, acceptance—tiger's mouth— simple life—responsibility—prayer—experience but no experiencer—ego, body-mind—Guru—destiny Scene 5 121 Consciousness—manifestation is a reflection—Divine hypnosis—life is lived—acceptance—flip-flops— duality—programming—God's purpose cannot be understood—balance—rock, animal, human—after death—intellectual understanding Scene 6 149 Bhagavad Gita—no actions are "your" actions—a created object cannot understand the Creator Subjectivity—no experiencer—jnana, bhakti Scene 7 167 Beings without bodies—psychic element—karma— object of seeking—the sage, screen of Consciousness— witnessing—manifestation is real and unreal—no observer—no existence—life is nothing but seeking— no seeker Scene 8 No free will, find out of yourself—no action, only 191 reaction—Consciousness is all there is, so "who" is to ask "what" question?—no "one" is reborn—concept—I Am is the Present Moment—Consciousne