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Ribhu-gita Reading 7.2: The Transcendent Self

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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Listen again to this treasure of eternal experience that overwhelms one with wonder.

This is rare,

Very rare,

Rarest in all the worlds.

I am,

Again,

I am the transcendent,

The resplendent and the great being I am.

I am the Guru in all forms.

I am in all forms.

Such a one am I.

I alone am.

I am pure.

I am the overflowing.

I am supreme.

I am.

I am the knower ever.

I am the truth.

I am without impurity.

I am the knowledge born from experience.

I am the exceptional.

I am the common.

I am all.

I am pure.

I am without sorrow.

I am consciousness.

I am equal.

I am devoid of honor and dishonor.

I am without qualities.

I am Shiva.

I am completely devoid of duality and non-duality.

I am without pairs of opposites.

Such a one am I.

I am totally devoid of being and non-being and the lack of it.

I am without language.

Such a one am I.

I affect the void and the lack of it.

I am the auspicious.

I am the mind.

I am without equal or the lack of it.

I am not of the base nature.

I am ever without all.

I am the serene.

I ever am.

I am devoid of the number one.

Neither am I one with a second number.

I am devoid of the distinctions of being and non-being.

I am without volition.

I am without the distinctions of plurality of the self.

What is not even in the least that I am.

I am not.

I am not another.

I am without body and such.

I am without refuge or the lack of it.

I am without support.

I am without bondage,

Liberation and such.

I am the pure Brahman and such.

Such a one am I.

I am without a mind and all such things.

I am the supreme.

I am the beyond.

I am ever of the nature of self-inquiry.

I am without inquiry.

I am such a one.

I am of the nature of the letter A.

I am the letter U.

I am the joyous.

I am without meditation and the absence of it.

I am without an object of meditation.

Such a one am I.

I am more perfect than the most perfect.

I am perfection.

All full am I.

Such a one am I.

I am of the form that transcends all.

I am the transcendental Brahman.

Such a one am I.

I am devoid of goal and characteristics.

I am without merging.

Such a one am I.

I am without measurement and one who could measure me.

I am without the measurable.

Such a one am I.

I am the seer of all that is unreal.

I am without eyes and such.

I am fully developed.

I am fully enlightened.

I am pleasant.

I am the beyond.

I am without all sense organs.

I am amenable to all actions.

I am satisfied with all the Upanishadic knowledge.

I am ever easily attainable.

I am in joy.

I am without anything that can make me joyous.

I am the reward of all forms of silence.

I am of the form of eternal awareness.

I am real and unreal and full of consciousness.

There is not an iota that is unpleasant to me.

I am devoid of the heart not.

Emanating from the heart I pervade all.

I am without the six types of changes.

I am without the six sheaths.

I am freed of the six foes.

I am the innermost of the interior.

I am without space and time.

I am clothed in space and such.

I am liberated from is and is not.

I am without the negative sound,

Not.

I am of the form of all consciousness.

I am existence consciousness bliss.

I am of the form that is.

I am myself.

I am of the form of universal mind.

I am without universe.

I am of the form of all kinds.

I am not devoid of the nature of existence.

I am without the triad of time.

I am without lust and such qualities.

I am bereft of body and its possessor.

I revel as one without qualities.

I have no liberation.

I am liberated.

I am ever without having to achieve liberation.

I am without reality and unreality.

I am ever the real alone.

I am without any place to go.

I am without movement and such.

I am ever of the nature of remembrance.

I am peaceful.

I am amiable.

Thus my own experience has been described.

This chapter is great indeed.

Whoever hears this even once becomes Brahman himself.

Meet your Teacher

Dev BhagavānGampaha, Sri Lanka

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Recent Reviews

Dagmar

September 26, 2020

Thank you for reading from Ribhu gita, recommended by Ramana Maharshi, about the all pervading Self. The arrangement with music is beautiful.

Alejandro

October 13, 2017

Muy profundo me hizo descubrir paz por un momento

sunil

October 13, 2017

Wow, this is SHIVA the OMKARA

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