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Title: Your Head In The Tigers Mouth by Ramesh S. Balsekar, Blayne Bardo ISBN: 0-929448-17-0 Publisher: Advaita Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Summary: Solace to an agitated Seeker - nothing to despair or do.....
Comment: Prior to reading "Your Head In The Tigers Mouth", I read "Consciousness Speaks", "Sin and Guilt - Monstrosity of Mind", and "The Ultimate Understanding", all of which provide Sri Ramesh Balsekar's teaching. I had the opportunity to attend his talks in Bombay for three days and I listened to another recorded talk on an audio tape. This gives me sufficient background to comment on this book.
The principal message in this book, "Your Head In The Tigers Mouth", is no different from what is available in "Consciousness Speaks". I felt that the talks recorded in this book are not that 'impressive', primarily because some of the questions/questioners were vague, and some of the questioners had no special purpose (which could be shared by other seekers) except to argue (at least as I view). The editorial work is not good, as I see conversations mixed up, as different people are speaking at the same time. Atleast let me say that the editorial setting in "Consciousness Speaks" was better. So, to that extent, a reader does not get much benefit. The Scene on Upanishads was silly. I wish Sri Ramesh spoke of his Understanding of the Upanashadic statements in the context of his message, than some other "Seeker" explaining what Upanishads meant to convey as he understood. I feel the explanations given by the 'Seeker' were incomplete and unsatisfactory and I did not find any help.
I feel, the translations of the Abhangas are biased, and do not provide accurate translations. The translations are colored by "Ramesh's terminology", in the new zeal of Sri Ramesh's teaching, though the actual words and thoughts do not necessarily mean that. So, the simplicity and spontaneity of the Abhangas is lost. The mysticism and devotion which provokes a "seeker" to 'discover That' is lost, in these verbose translations.
On two/three occations in this book the messages are totally contradictory to Sri Ramesh's present teaching in 2003 (when I personally attended his talks), surprisingly; rather the concepts in these two occassions were totally contradictory to Sri Ramesh's explanation/concepts as of 2003. See below:
Page 49:
Ramesh: Yes, I know. That is why I say involvement happens all the time because the ego has been conditioned - not for fifty or sixty years that Muralidharan has been living, but for thousands of years. The ego has been conditioned to react to the natural reaction of the brain and gets involved. That is what the ego does, you see ? So the ego does what it is supposed to do. It has been conditioned for thousands of years. ....
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Page 171:
Estrella: But, I don't understand. If I die - finished ! How can the ego exist in another world ?
Ramesh: Whether you call it ego, I don't know. All I am saying, if it is God's will that there should be a connection between a being with a body and a being without a body, why should God not create that connection ? ......
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Page 200:
Ramesh: That's right. So, it's all conceptual. My basic question is only one thing: if Philippe is supposed to do good deeds so that Philippe will have a good next life, then in the next life will there be a Philippe ? (everyone laughing) Or will there be a "Robert" ? And Robert wouldn't care a damm for Philippe just as Philippe now knows nothing about his previous life. So, Philippe cannot have a new life. In a new life there will be a new ego. ....
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All I want to convey is that the message is confusing in this book. Sure, it is good to listen to the words of a realised master. I personally benefited a lot by listening and reading Sri Ramesh's concepts. But be watchful of the pitfalls as listed above and also the wrong message "Who cares ? !!" seems to convey. I developed this opinion after reading the letters of his devotees which are printed at the end of the book. They seem to apply this "Who cares ?!!" approach to their phenominal life, inspite of Sri Ramesh's warning in the book that it is meant to question/express a state or approach in "seeking". So, be watchful !!
Because of such reasons, I preferred "Consciousness Speaks" as a better presentation of Sri Ramesh's message to the seeker. "Sin and Guilt - Monstrosity of Mind", seems to be the best presentation as it is not in the form of dialogues, and presents the concepts directly.
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Title: Who Cares?! The Unique Teaching of Ramesh S. Balsekar by Ramesh S. Balsekar, Blayne Bardo ISBN: 0929448189 Publisher: Advaita Pr Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Consciousness Speaks: Conversations With Ramesh S. Balsekar by Ramesh S. Balsekar, Wayne Liquorman ISBN: 0929448146 Publisher: Advaita Pr Pub. Date: January, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Ultimate Understanding by Ramesh S. Balsekar ISBN: 1842930451 Publisher: Watkins Publishing Ltd Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way by Wei Wu Wei ISBN: 0971078645 Publisher: Sentient Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Duet of One: The Ashtavakra Gita Dialogue by Ramesh S. Balsekar ISBN: 0929448111 Publisher: Advaita Pr Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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