Song of Ribhu - Chapter 15 – The Means for Conquest of the Mind - Verses 7-12

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7

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the great success.

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the great achievement.

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the great joy.

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the great yoga

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the great Knowledge.

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the great Liberation.

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the renunciation of all.

It is the renunciation of the mind that is the renunciation of thought.

 

8

It is thought that is the great delusion.

It is thought that is the body and senses and life.

It is thought that is the world and things.

It is thought that is the worldly bondage.

It is thought that is the Veda-s and others.

It is thought that is is inquiry and all others.

It is thought that is good and bad qualities.

It is thought that is sententious and insentience.

 

9

It is thought that is a great sin.

It is thought that is a great blemish.

It is thought that is a great disputant.

It is thought that is a great disease.

It is thought that is the great fear.

It is thought that is the great bondage.

It is thought that produces all the anxiety.

It is thought that appears as all.

 

10

When thought is not there,

There is not, in the least, the world and its beings.

IF it is there, they are there.

Therefore, son! It is thought that is the individual (jiva) and the

Supreme (Para) and the world.

One must conquer thought by any possible means.

The conquest of thought is the unparalleled victory.

If you want to ask what is the means of conquering this loathsome thought,

Now hear this.

 

11

There is never such a thing as thought at all.

There is only the Supreme Brahman,

Which is all consciousness,

Established as eternal and perfectly full.

This permanent certitude is the unfailing means, Son!

For victory over thought.

By this, destruction of the mind will truly result.

IF that results, all will shine as consciousness.

 

12

If we think for a moment that there is such a thing as thought,

Consciousness itself will appear as thought.

That itself will appear as the world and jivs-s and the Supreme.

There3 will be misery arising out of it.

Hence, son! Conquer thought easily

By the certitude that there is no such thin as thought

And all is Consciousness,

And thereby attain Bliss.