The Book: Noticing Being One - selected articles

Your body can be likened to a soap bubble, a thin membrane enclosing a lot of air molecules. These represent the experiences, convictions and belief patterns which make up ‘you’. When you die, these units return as a host of patterns to the infinite ocean of Consciousness from whence they were enclosed.

Ramesh’s ideas on Karma are a logical extrapolation of his basic tenet that there is no personal doership. Karma explains a persons situation in this life as due to their actions in previous lives – but there is no personal reincarnation.

Without boundaries, all of existence would be one vast continuum, one huge bowl of porridge. Boundaries within Manifestation allow structure to exist, at all imaginable levels; and they also create the illusion of separateness.

The Divine is one, yet it manifests a multitude of apparently individual phenomena. Thus in their essence, in their source, all these phenomena are actually all part of one picture, one symphony. And therefore the first question we must ask is “How or why did the ‘story’ of separateness arise in mind-energy-body organisms?”

This article describes the (subjectively) verifiable facts upon which my suggested model of existence is based. Surprisingly, it’s only three facts.

This article describes briefly the three instances which I propose as the basis and source of all existence: The Absolute, Universal Awareness and Great Consciousness. For each instance, I briefly explain why I state or suggest it.

Let’s not get dogmatic about whether my suggestion is the right model of existence. We could pick it apart all day, but to what end? The final answer, if possible for individual beings, will have to be from experience, not speculation.

Great Consciousness is, prior to experience which shapes it, immature and as such totally capable of being as nasty as the worst we can observe. It is the more experienced facets of Great Consciousness which are compassionate, in the same way that each of us can develop compassion as we mature by reflecting on our experiences.

I have read various spiritual books, and sat in quite a few ‘Satsangs’; but I have spent a lot more time doing exercises to extend my own perception, making experiences of life in many contexts, and reflecting on my experiences. So when I speak or write, it is from real knowledge, rather than anything I read or heard.

It‘s not about phenomena, including emotions, psychology and ‘head-knowledge’. It is about the actual noticing of the non-separation of all phenomena, as they are manifested by the Divine. And it is about the knowledge of the Ultimate, or Absolute, the foundational aspect of the all-creating Trinity.