The Ribhu Gita

Another text of meditation, the Ribhu Gita is uncompromising in its repetition and its subtlety. Forming the sixth section of the Siva Rahasyam is the instruction of Śiva in Mount Kailas to His devotee Ribhu. In this chapter, the often overlooked and frequently misinterpreted epithet of Bliss or Ānanda is turned over and over, revealing its many-faceted nature like a gem dazzling in the light.

With each verse, the teaching becomes thinner and thinner, until it disappears completely. Taking you with it.

Transcript

The Rupu Gita Chapter 24 The Definition of the Nature of Bliss Translation by Dr.

H.

Ramamurthy and Noam I shall speak about the true explanation of the mind full of Brahman bliss.

All this is indeed full of eternal bliss,

Devoid of cause and effect.

I am,

Indeed,

The undecaying bliss.

I am the illuminator of the bliss of the self.

I am of the nature of the bliss of knowledge.

I am ever the bliss at which to aim.

I am devoid of the joy of relating to things.

I reveal the illusory joy.

I am the happy self that is devoid of activity.

I transcend the bliss of being devoid of activity.

I am the self that illumines the joy of incentience.

I am the essence of the bliss of the self.

I am devoid of the bliss of the self.

There is no embodiment of the bliss of the self.

I am devoid of the joy of action.

I have the portion of bliss that comes from action.

I am devoid of the bliss of the gunas.

I am of the nature of the secret joy.

I am of the nature of the hidden joy.

I am the great one of the bliss of doing.

I am devoid of the bliss of knowing.

I am without any joy to be hidden.

I am ever of the nature of eternal joy.

I am the natural joy of exhilaration.

I am the bliss of the world.

I am the great bliss.

I am the great one transcending the world.

I am the bliss of difference.

I am the bliss of consciousness.

I am the bliss of happiness.

I am non-dual.

I am the bliss of action.

I am non-decaying bliss.

I am without the bliss of diverse modes.

I am all bliss.

I am undecaying bliss.

I am the bliss of consciousness.

I am immutable.

I am the true bliss.

I am the highest bliss.

I am the bliss of the present.

I'm higher than the highest.

I am the bliss of speech.

I am the great bliss.

I am the bliss of Shiva.

I am non-dual.

I am the bliss of peace.

I am devoid of the bliss of the future and of the bliss of the beginning.

I am the pure self,

The supreme bliss.

I am the bliss of consciousness.

I am non-dual.

I am the bliss of modes.

I am the highest bliss,

Transcending knowledge and blemish.

I am the bliss transcending all causes,

The bliss of consciousness.

I am not two.

I am all bliss.

I am the highest bliss of the conviction that I am.

The self is the bliss of Brahman.

I am the bliss of life and the bliss of dissolution.

I am of the nature of bliss,

Consciousness,

Absolute.

I am the self of the nature of pure bliss.

I am the bliss of the intellect filling the mind.

I am the bliss of sound.

I am the great bliss.

I am the bliss of consciousness,

The one without the second.

I am the self of bliss and the absence of bliss.

I am devoid of the bliss of differences.

I am the self reveling in the bliss of duality.

I am the bliss of consciousness and non-dual.

Be of the conviction that I am indeed all such great bliss.

That I am indeed the bliss of peace,

The illuminator of the bliss of consciousness,

The one bliss,

The highest happiness,

The one and only immutable consciousness.

I am the one and only great self,

The one which cannot be enumerated.

I am the great peace of the one truth,

Devoid of differences of interpretation.

I am absent of any conquest of bliss.

I am without any conquest by bliss.

I am rendered absolutely peaceful by blisslessness.

I am peaceful for I am peace itself.

I am peaceful in the bliss of my-ness.

I am the original illuminator.

I am ever at peace with my body.

I am devoid of the position I am peaceful.

I am the real alone,

Not of this world.

Thus also I am peaceful.

I am the innermost of the innermost.

Truly,

I am the innermost of the innermost of the innermost.

I am the one and only great bliss.

I am the one and only Akshara.

Brahman is just one syllable,

OM.

The undecaying is just one syllable,

OM.

There is only one great self.

There is only the one that fascinates the mind.

I am the only one without a second.

I am the only one and none other.

I am alone.

I am not the world and others.

I am alone and not the intellect.

I am the only one and truly peaceful.

I am the one and only blissful self.

I am the only one,

Not one with desire.

I am the only one,

Not the angry.

I am the only one,

Not one with greed.

I am the only one,

Not one infatuated or deluded.

I stand alone,

Undeluded.

I am the only one.

There is no other essence for me.

I stand alone,

Not the thinking self.

Unfold.

I am the only one and not another.

I am the only one,

Not the substance of goodness.

I am one,

Not old or immortal.

I am one,

Purnam.

I am one,

Achalam.

I am bliss.

I am one.

I am devoid of the concept that I am the body.

I am permanently of the realization that I am at peace.

I am at peace,

For I am Shiva.

It is natural that I am the self alone.

I am at peace,

For I am the self.

Ever pure in the space of my heart.

Now,

Be of such conviction without a doubt,

Without fear,

Without hesitation.

And immediately,

You are liberated in non-duality.

Let one unwavering,

At least daily,

Read such words aloud.

It has been said in the scriptures that the world of beings moves by the flow of time and by prescribed rules.

This is a mistaken notion because of the insentience of the world.

All this is,

On the other hand,

By the will of Ishvara.

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