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Ribhu-gita Reading 5.2: Brahman Alone Exists

by Dev Bhagavān

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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.

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This world never exists.

It never manifested,

Nor does it ever exist by itself.

This world,

Said to be a wonder,

Is always verily naught.

The phenomenal world,

The mind faculty,

The ego sense,

The individuality do not exist.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

The effects of delusions etc.

The fear of delusion do not exist.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

There is no doer,

No action,

Nor the instrument,

Dear son.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

One there is none,

Nor is there any two.

There is no mantra,

Tantra or shastra.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

There is no listening or reflection,

Nor is there one pointedness of mind nor delusion.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

The two types of absorption in self do not exist.

The one who measures,

The measurement and the instrument do not exist.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

Surely ignorance does not exist.

There is never the talk of imprudence.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

The tetrad of the quadrilemma and the triad of related connections are absent.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

Past and future do not exist at all.

Indeed the present is completely absent.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

The Ganga,

Gaya,

The Setu Bandhana Rameswaram and the rituals thereof and other religious things do not exist.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

There are no earth,

No water,

No fire,

No air,

No space anywhere.

There are none of the celestials,

No guardians of directions,

No father and no guru anywhere.

Brahman alone being.

There is no far end here,

No end,

No middle,

Nor any position whatsoever.

There is no unity,

No duality,

Nor truth nor untruth here.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever naught.

There is no bondage and no liberation.

There is no need for declaration.

Neither are there somewhere,

Something,

Real and unreal,

Pleasures and such.

Nowhere are there pairs of opposites,

Rituals relating to holy waters,

Self or non-self,

No generation,

No growth,

No death or the illusion of coming and going.

There is no here,

There is no hereafter,

There is no guru or disciple,

Real and unreal,

Existence,

Duty and completed action.

All these are non-existent.

Race,

Refuge,

Caste,

Convention,

All these are non-existent.

The sextet of self-discipline,

Physical and mental restraints,

All indeed non-existent.

All is illusion.

Brahman alone is.

Consciousness alone is.

All these words are indeed non-existent.

The statement,

I am consciousness is non-existent.

I am,

I am eternal,

Are truly nowhere existent.

Brahman alone being.

All these are ever not.

Whatever conveyed through utterances,

Whatever contemplated by mind,

Whatever determined by intellect,

Whatever understood by rational mind,

That which is unified through yoga,

Performed through the senses,

Etc.

,

The waking,

Dreaming and deep sleep states and the fourth transcendental state.

All these are non-existent.

This is to be realized.

These are all limiting adjuncts,

Superimpositions.

There is never any purification through holy baths,

Nor is there any sanctity through meditation.

The three gunas do not exist in the least.

Neither does the triad,

The triple structure.

Expressions such as one or two are non-existent.

So is the misapprehension of many.

Delusion and the lack of it are indeed non-existent.

Be certain nothing in the least is there.

These being Brahman alone,

Nothing in the least remains.

Whoever hears this with attention becomes Brahman himself.

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Dev BhagavānGampaha, Sri Lanka

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Selkie

June 20, 2018

Thank you so much! Wonderful!

Chazzz

January 6, 2018

Very clear. One by one, releases all doubts. Thank you for sharing this meditation.

Kenneth

August 26, 2017

This is unique and special-- a very advanced understanding-- and yet, no-thing at all. Since Brahman alone exists, all this is only naught! 🤓

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