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HERMETIC - ESOTERIC - MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHIES
An
Exercise on Self Enquiry - Who
is the "Doer"?
by Ramesh Balsekar
An exercise proposed by Ramesh Balsekar
At the end of the day
sit alone, quietly, for about 20 to 30 minutes, and think of one or more
actions during the day which you were convinced were "your" actions. Find
out if you decided, out of the blue, to do that action; or, was it some
thought or event which started that action over which you had absolutely no
control? Then, investigate the course or process of that action and find out
how much real control you had over it. If your investigation has been
thorough and honest, you will come to the conclusion in every case that
every action which you thought was "your" action turns out to depend on
several factors over which you had truly no control. In other words, you
come to the conclusion that no action was truly your action. Of course, it
is needless to say that you are doing this investigation - and observe how
honest and thorough it is – even this investigation itself depends upon
God's will!
Once this investigation begins - and proceeds, day after day - you may find
that it has become an obsession which could be termed "the dark night of the
soul"! But this need not necessarily be so. How smooth or difficult the
process of this investigation becomes, would itself be the will of God. The
important point is that when the ego is finally convinced that he cannot
truly call any action "his" action, the ego is faced with the significant
question: if no action is my action, and actions actually happen without any
necessity of a "me", then who is this "me" I am so concerned about? Is there
a "me" at all?! The question becomes an unbearable pain, arising from the
gut, from the Source, and the answer finally comes from the Source: "My dear
child, there never was a 'me' to suffer the pain of life and all there has
ever been is “I”, the Source from which the manifestation has emerged, and
it is “I” alone who has been functioning through the billions of human
beings." An action happens because that is the will of God; the results or
consequences, whatever they are, are also the will of God. The human object
cannot know the results or consequences of any action - the same action need
not produce the same consequences every time. And what is more, the
consequences of any action will not be restricted to only the individual
organism through which it happens - it could affect many others who had
nothing to do with the original action. Thus, for instance, a decision made
by the head of a large business enterprise could affect, for better or
worse, not only the one who made that decision but many others: the many
other businesses connected with the large enterprise and the many employees
of the business concerned.
To print : A SPECIAL SOUL
EXERCISE
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" Dark Night of the Soul"
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