Song of Ribhu, Chapter 14, Verse 31 - 36

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I think this set of verses reveals the key teaching in this chapter,

from a practice point-of-view.

 

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31

Without me, there is no difference as " this man. "

Without me, there is no difference as " this woman. "

Without me, there is no difference as " this thing. "

Without me, there is no difference as " that thing. "

Without me, there is no difference such as " is here. "

Without me, there is no difference such as " is not here. "

Without me, there is not an atom of difference.

Be ever immersed in the meditation that I am Brahman.

 

32

What is seen as " this " is Brahman only.

What is seen as myself is Brahman only.

What is seen as " that " is Brahman only.

What is seen as manifold is Brahman only.

What is seen as stable is Brahman only.

What is seen as unstable is Brahman only.

Whatever is looked at as " What is this? " is Brahman alone.

Be ever immersed in the meditation that I am That.

 

33

The primal ignorance is Brahman alone.

The emerging thought is Brahman alone.

The body with a form is Brahman alone.

The individual senses are Brahman alone.

Time and space Brahman alone.

All things that are seen are Brahman alone.

All is only Brahman, the abode, and that is myself.

Be ever immersed in the meditation that I am That.

 

34

Space and other elements are Brahman alone.

All that pertains to nature is Brahman alone.

What is thought of as " I, " " I " is Brahman alone.

What is thought of as " not I " is Brahman alone.

What are thought of as " you " and " I " are Brahman alone.

All thoughts are Brahman alone.

The originless Brahman alone is real, that That is myself.

Be steadfastly immersed in this inquiry.

 

35

There is no such things as the words or the sentences they constitute.

There is not Gita or other treatises or their authors.

There is none of the unreal world or jiva-s.

There is no Iswara who bestows desired things.

The Supreme Brahman, which is drossless, attributeless,

Timeless, blemishless, intersticeless, all pervasive, and motionless,

is all.

I am that Brahman.

Be steadfastly immersed in this inquiry.

 

36

I am Brahman; I am Brahman; I, indeed am all.

I am Brahman; I am all.

Daily and continuously be immersed in this inquiry

Until this mode of " I am Brahman " becomes stabilized.

After this " I am Brahman " bhava (conviction) is stabilized,

Cast this off, too, and, becoming Brahman,

Be established changeless

In the undivided, blissful Experience.

 

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Om Arunachala,

Richard