Rays of the Absolute - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

FORWARd
To the beloved Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Rays of the Absolute: A Gita For Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
is an attempt to offer a song, prose, verses or sutras, to
my beloved Teacher, Guru and Spiritual Mentor, as a way
to honor him, (The Maharaj Principle) as the Absolute.
It is with the deepest reverence that each sentence was
written.
To My beloved Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj,
whose teachings have been with me
and changed the course of this life.
Some forty years ago, I longed for one document to
“tell me the way it is”. I always wanted to cut through all
the spiritual roundabout and be exposed to such a form
and Teacher. In the early 1970’s, I read my first copy of
the Bhagavad Gita, and rejoiced at its, beauty, I actually
felt like Krishna was speaking to me, and it was all in
one book. Of course “I” came to realize that appreciating
and imbibing such a document was a life’s work. By the
early 1970’s, words of the Buddha from the Heart Sutra,
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form”, or the Diamond
Sutra, “No being has ever entered Nirvana”, began to fall
into my hands at the now famous Bodhi Tree Bookstore
in Los Angeles, California.
“I” began to fantasize that more then likely the
verses, gitas, sutras, etc, were attempts to write down in
short Zen like Koan’s, teachings that were brief sayings