Ribhu-gita Reading 6.1: All is Illusory

This series is classified Ajata-vāda | Jñāna-yoga | Turīya | Sahasrāra-cakra

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1. Religious rituals are illusory. The worlds are illusory. The diverse attitudes are illusory. Mansions are all illusory. Fear is also illusory. Supports and such are illusory. The things experienced are illusory. The many attachments are illusory.

2. The Vedas are illusory too. Words are illusory. Sentences are illusory. The diverse things are illusory. Wealth is illusory. Sky is illusory. The moon is illusory. Objects are illusory.

3. The guru, too is illusory. Merits and defects are illusory. Secrecy, also is illusory. Calculations are illusory. Motion is illusory. Movements are illusory. What is said is illusory. All are illusory.

4. Sacred lore such as the Vedas, the Śāstras and Purāṇas; cause and effect; Īśvara, the Lord; the world, elements and beings—all these are illusory. There is no doubt about this.

5. Bondage and liberation, pleasure and pain, contemplation, mind-stuff, gods and demons, primary and secondary, the highest and the other are all illusory. There is no doubt about this.

6. Whatever uttered in the least; whatever fancied through imagination and whatever thought of by the mind are all illusory. There is no doubt about this.

7. What little decided by the intellect, whatever one is led to by the mind, and whatever is compounded to make up the world are all illusory. There is no doubt about this.

8. Whatever is heard by the ears, whatever looked forward by the eyes, the eyes themselves, the ears and the body are all illusory. There is no doubt about this.

9. That which is substantial, that which is fictitious and whatever objective learning there is, are all doubtlessly illusory.

10. “Who am I?” “What is that or this?” “I am He”: these and other such statements are naught. Whatever is imagined of the world is all illusory, no doubt.

11. All practices, all confidentialities, all deluding causes, appellations such as ‘all beings’— these are, for sure, illusory.

12. All difference and distinctions, all delusion of aspiration, all erroneous variability are all certainly illusory.

13. “Viṣṇu is the protector,” “Brahmā is the cause of creation,” “Śiva destroys”—all such statements are all, no doubt, illusory.

14. Ritualistic baths, repetition of sacred sounds, penance, fire ceremony, traditional study, deity worship, sacred syllables, lineage and holy company are all, no doubt, illusory.

15. Everything is illusory. The world is illusory. So are past, present and future. The nothingness achieved by negation is naught. Everything is illusory, no doubt.

16. The variance of thought and the manifold world are the results of ignorance. The multitudes of worlds are verily Brahman. Be certain of this.

17. The concrete existence of the three worlds, the upsurge of goodness and falsehood, the wise words repeated by the masters are verily Brahman. Be certain of this.

18. The exalted and the base as well, the best, the mediocre and ‘That’, the sacred syllable AUṀ and the first letter of the Sanskrit alphabet are all Brahman. Be certain of this.

19. Whatever appears as the world, whatever is seen as the world, whatever exists in the world—all are Brahman, without doubt.

20. Whatever is conveyed by any letter, whatever is compounded, whatever is derived by anything—that is all certainly Brahman.

21. Whatever is uttered by anyone, whatever employed by anyone and whatever is proclaimed by anyone—all that is certainly Brahman.

22. Whatever is granted by anyone, whatever is done by anyone and whatever holy baths are undertaken—that is all certainly Brahman.

23. Wherever there be a holy act, wherever there be an evil action, whatever is done by you in truth—all are doubtlessly illusory.

24. All this and all of me are Brahman, for sure. Whatever little appears is all illusory, for sure.

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