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Synopsis Ramesh S Balsekar, in this volume, reaches beyond the communication of past knowledge to a creative exploration of the teachings of Nisargadatta Maharaj, inspired by the thirst of other seekers for enlightenment. In his contemplations upon the sentience of the human spirit, Balsekar has used Maharaj’s wisdom as the touchstone for his own ventures into the realm of conscious and unconscious. Explorations into the Eternal: Forays into the Teaching of Nisargadatta Maharaj, forms the third work in Balsekar’s trilogy which has been aimed at fulfilling the Maharaj’s personal enjoinder to write and talk about my teaching. In the earlier volume she offered insights into the teachings (Pointers form Nisargadatta Maharaj), and textual applications (a close examination of Saint Jnaneshwar’s Amritanubhava in Experience of Immortality. These well-received scholarly writings established Balsekar as an authentic interpreter of Maharaj. Balsekar at last appears as the true messenger himself-daring to articulate the riddles of life-acceptance and true seeking which have emerged from his own internal reflections. With a new vigor in his approach and a reverence for the classics, he has become his Master’s most apt spokesman: a philosophical devotee and a peerless stylist. Through Balsekar’s intellectual juorneyings, the reader will come to experience again the gifts and greatness of Nesargadatta Maharaj’s immortal work, I Am That. Widely-acclaimed during his visits to the other countries in recent years, Balsekar’s lecture have won for him a responsive audience.