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To: Solon who wrote (64973)1/23/2015 12:50:39 AM
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Ramesh Balsekar: " Free will is in fact an illusion "

Once creation has arisen, the world and life operate mechanistically according to both Divine and natural laws. While people believe that they are actually doing things and making choices, free will is in fact an illusion. All that happens is caused by this one source, and the actual identity of this source is pure Consciousness, which is incapable of choosing or doing.

God is merely one of man's concepts, a symbol used for pointing the way to the Ultimate Reality which has been mistaken for the Reality itself. The map has been mistaken for the actual territory. Worshipers may derive some sort of satisfaction or peace of mind through worship of a concept such as God (created by themselves), but it is a futile process from the viewpoint of experiencing one's true nature.
"What is generally understood to be prayer is nothing more than one fictitious
entity called 'me' begging for something from another fictitious entity called
'God'"
~ Ramesh Balsekar ( was president of the Bank of India) en.wikipedia.org



 Balsekar taught from the tradition of Advaita Vedanta nondualism . His teaching begins with the idea of an ultimate Source, Brahman , from which creation arises. Once creation has arisen, the world and life operate mechanistically according to both Divine and natural laws. While people believe that they are actually doing things and making choices, free will is in fact an illusion . All that happens is caused by this one source, and the actual identity of this source is pure Consciousness , which is incapable of choosing or doing.

This false identity which revolves around the idea that "I am the body" or "I am the doer" keeps one from seeing that one's actual identity is free Consciousness. Like other Vedanta teachers, he says that while creation and creator appear to be different and separate, that they are actually two sides of the same coin.

Balsekar taught that life is a happening but there is no individual doer of life.

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