Ribhu Gita (Tamil) Ch 30:
(26)
Since it is only Supreme Brahman, which is Consciousness
alone.
That appears as the World, the Individual, & the
Supreme.
All this World and Individuals. though countable,
Are nothing. else, but only Consciousness alone.
Do the bracelets
and others that are composed only of gold
Constitute anything apart from gold ?
Can the pot &
the dish & others that are mere clay
Be even a trace of anything except clay ?
(27)
Even though the Undivided, perfectly full Brahman
Is seen as the World by the Ignorant,
This manifold World will be seen as the Supreme
By the fully knowledgeable.
Even though the rope
is directly in front
Appears to the uncomprehending as a snake,
We have seen the principle of that snake [appearance]
Manifesting as an actual rope
[Reality] only to the knowledgeable .
(31)
That state of being full of changeless Awareness
ls the unparalleled Liberation.
Those who have attained that great State
Will never again be in sorrow, never again have any blemish,
will attain Joy,
Will be the ones who have accomplished all they have to do,
And will remain ever the one Supreme Nature,
For those, who are af the nature of the exalted Supreme,
There are none of the problems of this misery of repetitive
Birth and Death.
[selections based on Master
Nome’s Self-Knowledge]
That which knows the presence or absence of thoughts is
neither. Neither obscures or clarifies That. Consciousness, which is the
knower, is never defined by the known. That in which the three states of
waking, dreaming, and deep, dreamless sleep, with all that they contain,
appear, as the illusion of motion in That which is ever still, of form in the
Formless, or a modification in That which is immutable, is the Reality of
infinite Consciousness. Consciousness requires no light other than itself to
illumine itself. The entire manifestation is rightly said to be only one small
corner in the infinite, formless Consciousness. Examining a corner to see what
actually is the corner, it reduces itself to a single conceptual dot. That dot
is the notion of an "other," a "second." In Ultimate Truth,
as there are no corners in space, there is not a sing objective thing in the
Reality of the Self.
Negate the attributes superimposed on the Self and the
concepts about the Absolute, and realize their identity. The Self is: in all
sentient beings, the Consciousness which is their Being; in all things, the
unseen Existence which is; in all locations, the space; in all Space, the vastness; in all Time, the endlessness, in
every heart, the Love.
Veiling and differentiation are the characteristics of
ignorance. As dimension of depth of the image in a mirror does not truly exist,
so differentiation does not exist in the one Self. Meditate on Consciousness
without an object. If you ask yourself what do you know for certain, you will
release all ideas and form and abide in ever-existent Being. There is no
creation and no destruction, no birth and no death, no bondage and no
liberation from bondage, no ignorance and no knowledge, no path and no
achievement, none ignorant and none who know, no one bound and no one striving
to be liberated and no one liberated. This is the highest final Truth.
[based on the Maharshi's Teaching]
We
all believe "I am this Body", "I am a person", "I am
called so-and-so, & was born on such-and-such a date at such-and-such a
place". Thus we identify our consciousness "I am" with a
particular Body. This identification is the result of a confused & unclear
knowledge of the true nature of Consciousness.
Our consciousness "I am" is not something material, whereas
our Body is merely a bundle of physical matter, which is not inherently
conscious. Yet somehow we are deluded into mistaking this material Body to be
our consciousness "I". As a result of our unclear knowledge of
consciousness, we mistake matter to be conscious, & consciousness to be
something material. That which thus
mistakes this Body to be "I" is our Mind. Our Mind comes into
existence only by imagining itself to be a Body. In Deep Sleep we are unaware of either our Mind
or our Body. As soon as we wake up, our Mind rises feeling "I am this
Body, I am so-and-so", & only after thus identifying itself as a
particular Body does it perceive the external World through the 5 Senses of
that Body. Exactly the same thing
happens in Dream – our Mind identifies itself as a particular Body &
through the 5 Senses of that Body it perceives a seemingly real & external
World. When we wake up from a Dream, we understand that the Body we mistook to
be "I" & the World we mistook to be real & external were both
in fact only figments of our imagination.
Thus from our experience in Dream we all know that our Mind has a
wonderful power of imagination by which it is able to create a Body, to mistake
that imaginary Body to be "I", & through that Body to project a
World which, at the time we perceive it, appears to be every bit as real
& external to us as the World that
we now perceive in this Waking state.
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"There is no Creation, no Destruction, no Bondage, no longing to be freed from Bondage, no striving for Liberation, nor anyone who has attained Liberation. Know that this to be Ultimate Truth." – the "no creation"
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