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Readings from the Ribhu-gita with rāga background. These are very useful for contemplation or meditation, or background play to firmly seat the concept of nonduality in the mind.

Ribhu-gita Readings

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Reading of Chapter 4 of the Ribhu-gita with rāga Bhairavi background

Ribhu-gita Readings Ch. 4

Ribhu-gita Reading 4.3: Who am I?

Ribhu-gita Reading 4.2: Definition of the Self

Ribhu-gita Reading 4.1: There is no non-Self

Without doubt you are Brahman.
2.	You are Brahman indeed.  You alone are the supreme Guru. You are of the form of space only. Without doubt you are Brahman.
3.	You alone are all the states of consciousness. You alone are the import of everything. You alone are the undiminishing. You are devoid of everything. You are the witness and ever without a witness.
4.	You are time. You are without all. You are ever without a witness. You are without time. You are time and ever Brahman, the solid mass of consciousness. You are of the nature of all concepts of truth. Unquestionably you are Brahman.
5.	You are the truth. You are the enlightened one. You are the eternal. You are the emancipated. You are liberation. You are always deathless. You are a god. You are at peace. You are without affliction You are Brahman, you are fullness. You are the Supreme and the ordinary.
6.	You are ever-existing, always the same. You are the eternal one. You are the one denoted by words like ‘truth’. You are devoid of all limbs;  You are ever established. You are Brahman, you are fullness. You are the Supreme and the ordinary.
7.	You are free from all worldly bewilderment. You are spoken of by all beings. You ever arise in all beings. You are ever devoid of will. You are Brahman, you are fullness. You are the Supreme and the ordinary.
8.	You are ever rooted in joy. You are ever devoid of hatred. You are ever without activity and so on. You are Brahman, you are fullness. You are the Supreme and the ordinary.
9.	You are of the nature of consciousness. You are awareness alone. You are the sovereign one. You dwell as the Self alone. Without doubt you are Brahman.
10.	You are bliss; you are transcendental. You are void of everything and without attributes. You are the only one without a second. Without doubt you are Brahman.

Ribhu-gita Reading 5.1: Without doubt you are Brahman

30. This world never exists. It never manifested, nor does it ever exist by itself. This world, said to be a wonder, is always verily naught.

31. The phenomenal world, the mind faculty, the ego sense, the individuality do not exist. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

32. The effects of delusions etc., the fear of delusion do not exist.Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

33. There is no doer, No action nor the instrument, dear son!Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

34. ‘One’ there is none; nor is there any ‘two’. There is no mantra, tantra or śāstra. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

35. There is no listening or reflection. Nor is there one-pointedness of mind nor delusion. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

36. The two types of absorption in Self do not exist. The one who measures, the measurement and the instrument do not exist.Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

37. Surely, ignorance does not exist. There is never the talk of imprudence. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

38. The tetrad of the quadrilemma and the triad of related connections are absent. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

39. Past and future do not exist at all. Indeed, the present is completely absent. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

40. Gaṅgā, Gāyā, the Setu-bandhana Rameswaram and the rituals thereof, and other religious things, do not exist. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

41. There are no earth, no water, no fire, no air, no space anywhere.Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

42. There are none of the Celestials, no guardians of directions, no father and no guru anywhere. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

43. There is no far and near, no end, no middle, nor any position whatsoever. There is no unity, no duality, not truth or untruth here.Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

44. There is no bondage, and no liberation. There is no need for declaration. Neither are there ‘somewhere’, ‘something’, ‘real and unreal’, ‘pleasures’ and such.

45. Nowhere are there ‘pairs of opposites’, rituals relating to holy waters, self or non-self. No generation, no growth, no deathor the illusion of coming and going.

46. There is no ‘here’. There is no ‘hereafter’. There is no guru or disciple. Real and unreal, existence, duty and completed action—all these are nonexistent.

47. Race, refuge, caste, convention—all these are nonexistent. The sextet of self-discipline, physical and mental restraints—all indeed nonexistent.

48. “All is illusion”, “Brahman alone is”, “Consciousness alone is”—all these words are indeed nonexistent. The statement “I am consciousness” is nonexistent.

49. “I am”, “I am eternal” are truly nowhere existent. Brahman alone being, all these are ever naught.

50. Whatever conveyed through utterances, whatever contemplated by mind, whatever determined by intellect, whatever understood by rational mind,

51. that which is unified through yoga, performed through the senses etc. the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states, and the fourth transcendental state—

52. all these are nonexistent. This is to be realized. These are all limiting adjuncts, superimpositions. There is never any purification through holy baths; nor is there any sanctity through meditation.

53. The three guṇas do not exist in the least; neither does the triad, the triple structure. Expressions such as ‘one’ or ‘two’ are nonexistent; so is the misapprehension of ‘many’.

54. Delusion and the lack of it are indeed nonexistent. Be certain nothing in the least is there. These being Brahman alone, nothing in the least remains.

55. Whoever hears this with attention becomes Brahman himself.

Ribhu-gita Reading Chapter 5

Ribhu-gita Reading 5.2: Brahman Alone Exists

Listen again to this treasure of eternal experience that overwhelms one with wonder. 
26. 	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. 
27. 	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. 
28. 	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. 
29. 	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 Śiva. 
30. 	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 nonbeing, and the lack of it.  I am without language.  Such a one am I. 
31. 	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. 
32. 	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. 
33. 	I am devoid of the distinctions of being and nonbeing.  I am without volition.  I am without the distinctions of plurality of the Self.  What is not even in the least, that I am. 
34. 	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. 
35. 	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. 
36. 	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. 
37. 	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. 
38. 	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. 
39. 	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. 
40. 	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. 
41. 	I am satisfied with all the Upaniṣadic 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. 
42. 	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. 
43. 	I am devoid of the heart-knot.  Emanating from the heart, I pervade all.  I am without the six types of changes.  I am without the six sheaths. 
44. 	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. 
45. 	I am liberated from ‘is’ and ‘is not’.  I am without the negative sound ‘na’.  I am of the form of all consciousness.  I am Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. 
46. 	I am of the form that is.  I am myself.  I am of the form of universal mind.  I am without universe. 
47. 	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. 
48. 	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. 
49. 	I am without reality and unreality.  I am ever the real alone.  I am without anyplace to go.  I am without movement and such.

Ribhu-gita Reading 7.2: The Transcendent Self

28.	Listen well, O noble soul! The certainty that all is Brahman is hard to attain for men and even for gods. 
29.	Any form referred to as ‘this’, and again as ‘I’ and whatever is seen, that is all Brahman alone. 
30.	The notion ‘this is body’ is verily fear itself, it is said. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
31.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is verily the inner faculty of cognition, it is said. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
32.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is verily the repetitive cycle of life, it is said. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
33.	The notion that ‘I am the body’ that is said here to be bondage. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
34.	The learning ‘I am the body’ is verily to be remembered as hell. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
35.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is referred to as the whole world. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
36.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is regarded as the heart-knot. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
37.	The notion ‘I am the threefold body’ is said to be the knowledge pertaining to the body. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
38.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is verily the ideation of real and unreal. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
39.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is referred to here as the world of five elements. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
40.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is itself ignorance, it is said. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
41.	The assertion ‘I am the body’ is said to be impurities and impressions from past lives. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
42.	The assertion ‘I am the body’—truly that is regarded as the individual soul. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
43.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is proclaimed as the supreme hell. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
44.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is defined as mind only. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
45.	The assertion ‘I am the body’ is regarded as the limitation. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
46.	The understanding ‘I am the body’ is described as the all-sorrowful. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
47.	The knowledge ‘I am the body’ is talked about as the great mistake. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
48.	The assertion ‘I am the body’ is remembered as verily death. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
49.	The assertion ‘I am the body’ is regarded as unpleasant. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
50.	The assertion ‘I am the body’ is reminiscent as the great sin. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
51.	The assertion ‘I am the body’—that verily is overwhelming, it is said. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
52.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is to be remembered as all faults. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
53.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is verily the blemish, it is said. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone. 
54.	The notion ‘I am the body’ is said to be the great doubt. In all the three periods of time, it is not. All is Brahman alone.

Ribhu-gita Reading 8.2: All is Brahman

Bhagavan Sri RAMANA MAHARSHI is well known wherever there is a longing for a life of Wisdom and Love, of inner Freedom. 

The Sage of Arunachala was an embodiment of such a higher life and a living proof that he is hailed as the supreme symbol of Direct Non-dual Experience. He not only revived the ancient spiritual teaching of Self-Inquiry but also made it simple and direct bringing this ‘Science of Self’ within the ken of one and all. 
 Innumerable are the people from the various countries of the world who have spiritually benefited by getting acquainted with the story of his life of supreme abidance in the Self and by his teaching contained in his poetical and prose works like ‘Who am I?” and his answers to questions of devotees and visitors that has been recorded.

This album is dedicated to the Lotus feet of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

About the Composers: 
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These compositions pregnant with Vedic truth are by Sri Muruganar, Sri Sadhu Om and Sri Shuddhananda Bharathi, who are saintly devotees of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

The compositions of Sri Muruganar are from ‘Ramana Sannidhi Murai’ which is a magnum opus on Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. These spiritual outpourings have been highly regarded and declared by Sri Bhagavan to be on par with ‘Thiruvachagam’ in its devotional fervor, sung by the great saint Sri Manikkavasagar.

Sri Sadhu OM Swami like Sri Muruganar,was another great  poet - saint and a enlightened devotee of Bhagavan Ramana. Due to his sincere and steadfast adherence to the practice of Sri. Ramana’s teachings, and his total self-effacement, he became a fit vessel to receive the grace of Sri. Ramana in its fullest measure and to attain thereby firm and steady abidance in the state of Self-knowledge.

About the Musician
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M.S.SUBHASHINI is a young talented musician with a flair for Classical & Devotional music and is specially trained to render Thevaram, Thiruppugazh and other compositions with ease.She has done her M.A & M. PHIL [Music] from Madras University (India).

The uploaded Nine Tamil songs (from the Audio album titled ‘RAMANA DHARISANAM’) set to music & sung by M.S.Subhashini, are by the divine grace & in praise of the Great Sage of Arunachala (Thiruvannamalai), Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi.



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Ribhu-gita Reading 4.2: Definition of the Self

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