Ribhu-gita Reading 4.3: Who am I?

This Introduction is for those who may encounter this series but are new to Ribhu-gita. Ribhu-gita was one of Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi's favorite traditional spiritual works. It forms the sixth section of the Sanskrit work known as Śiva-Rahasya. It is the teachings of Lord Siva in Mount Kailas to His devotee Ribhu, from whom the Gita derives its name.

Bhagavan Ramana often referred to the Ribhu-gita in his talks with devotees and seekers, and he is reported to have said that if one repeatedly read Chapter 26 of the Ribhu-gita one could pass spontaneously into samādhi, the natural state of Self-realization.

Bhagavan Ramana first attendant, Palaniswami had brought a copy of Ribhu-gita to Bhagavan's attention. Later in life Bhagavan related how surprised he was at the time to hear an exact description of his own state recited in the Ribhu-gita and that it had been experienced by others and was the bliss of the Self sought after by all true seekers.

Transcript

I alone am the supreme Brahman.

I alone am transcendental happiness.

I alone am.

I alone am myself.

Brahman alone am I.

I am consciousness alone of the nature of divine knowledge.

I am devoid of all letters of expression.

Brahman alone am I.

I am devoid of any meaning.

This is divested of any meaning.

I am free from all kinds of misfortunes.

Brahman alone am I.

I am ever pure,

Enlightened,

Eternal,

And completely tankless.

I am the form of transcendental bliss.

Brahman alone am I.

I am ever the nature of perfection.

I am being consciousness bliss.

I am the form of non-duality only.

Brahman alone am I.

I am of indefinable form.

I am devoid of beginning or end.

I am not of the nature of created matter.

Brahman alone am I.

I am devoid of self-will,

Divested of all nations.

I am everything.

I am that alone.

Brahman alone am I.

I am devoid of all names.

I am without all forms.

I lack all attachments.

Brahman alone am I.

I am the creator of all speech,

Transcending the pinnacle of the Vedas,

Vedanta.

I am the end of all measures of time.

Brahman alone am I.

I am the end of all forms.

I am the bliss at the end of all names.

I am the end of all the eons of time.

Brahman alone am I.

I am happiness and not else.

I alone am the immutable consciousness.

I alone am everywhere.

Brahman alone am I.

The Self is Brahman alone and only a solid mass of pure intelligence.

I alone am the undivided essence.

Brahman alone am I.

My form is knowledge only.

I am of unitary nature.

I am the endless essence.

Brahman alone am I.

My form is only being and solitary transcendence.

I alone am.

I am devoid of significance or the absence of it.

Brahman alone am I.

My form is immeasurable.

My form is indefinable by logic.

My form is inconceivable.

Brahman alone am I.

I am not of the form of liquid essence.

I am free from sorrow.

I shine as being pervasive.

Brahman alone am I.

I am devoid of all activity.

I am divested of all distinction.

I am without doubts.

Brahman alone am I.

I am without ego sense.

Neither am I with the sense that I have no ego.

I am ever of the nature of Brahman.

Brahman alone am I.

I am neither Brahman nor others following him.

I have no traits of Keshava,

Vishnu at all.

Nor do I have aspects of Shankara.

Brahman alone am I.

I shine as silence.

I am neither the most minute nor the most grand.

I am the most minute and the most grand.

I am not the body's luster.

Nor do I illuminate the world.

I am a solid mass of consciousness and its part.

I am ever the nature of being.

I am full with joy.

I am of the nature of the joyous.

I am neither a boy nor a youth nor an old man.

I am beyond the biat.

I am not of the myriad forms.

Brahman alone am I.

The experience of myself thus expressed is the essence of all Upanishads.

The rare one who hears this becomes Brahman himself.

I am neither Brahman nor others following him.

I am neither Brahman nor others following him.

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