Who Am I?

The Beauty of The Still Mind The river cannot know the ocean: it can only become the ocean. The shadow cannot know the substance, it can only become the substance. Similarly the identified Consciousness as the 'ego' cannot know the Impersonal Consciousness, the Source - it can only become the Source when the body is dead. In the meantime, what the ego can do is to be constantly, without interruption, connected to the Source: this happens when there is the total acceptance that everything happens according to God's Will / Cosmic Law and that therefore, the human being incapable of doing any deed and therefore it is stupid to blame or condemn anyone for anything - neither oneself nor the other.  - Ramesh S. Balsekar, A Buddha's Babble  http://www.advaita.org/

What it all boils down to is mind (the realm of thoughts and processes and symbol) cannot be used to understand reality. Mind has to be transcended. Reality has to be "experienced" not "understood". Mind can be used only to the extent of understanding that what is sought to be understood is beyond the "understanding" by the individual seeker. There can only be an impersonal awareness of reality as manifested in the universe - no part can understand the unbroken wholeness: "That-which-is", here and now. -Ramesh S. Balsekar, from DOES THE HUMAN BEING HAVE FREE WILL? 

“I“ am the apperceiving of all that is perceived, the seeing of whatever is being seen, the hearing of whatever is being heard, the knowing of whatever can be known, the doing of whatever can appear to be done, the feeling of whatever is being felt, the experiencing of all that is being experienced. I am awareness of anything and everything of which any sentient being can be aware. Can there be a “who“ or “what“ or “when“ or “where“ for the Infinite Intemporality that I am? That is why Ramana Maharshi, when he was dying, said, “Where could I go?”  Sri Ramana Maharshi

Baba's mahasamadhi occurred two years ago today, but he's with us as strongly now as he ever was