Brahman-Upadesa
Divine Life
Society Publication: Chapter 11 The Moksha
Gita by Swami Sivananda Commentary by Swami Krishnananda
1. The Guru said: Thou art not this
perishable body. Thou art not the wavering mind. Thou art not the Indriyas.
Thou art not the intellect. Thou art not the causal body. Thou art the
All-pervading, Immortal Brahman. Realise this and be free.
You are the Infinite Brahman
in essence. You are the supreme bliss. You are solely of the nature of divine
wisdom. You are the sole supreme, the sole peace, the sole consciousness. Your
real nature is indescribable. You are beyond speech and mind. Your nature is
beyond form. You are the All in yourself. You are replete with consciousness.
You are beyond the three periods of time. There is nothing which is not
yourself. You are shining in your own Self. You are Brahman that is truth,
bliss, ancient. You are the partless and the non-dual essence. Realise this and
be free.
2. Thou art the Prajnana Ghana Atma
(embodiment of wisdom). Thou art Chidghana Brahman (mass of consciousness).
Thou art Vijnana Ghana Purusha (mass of knowledge). Thou art Ananda-Ghana Soul
(mass of Bliss). Realise this and be free.
You are the secondless bliss.
You are the illuminator of all things. You are the ocean of knowledge and
power. You are both being and non-being. You are this whole universe. You are
the supreme, birthless, deathless, immortal consciousness. You are the mass of
joy. You are the mass of light. You are the mass of power. You are the mass of
knowledge. You have no hands, feet or eyes. You have no body. You are the One
Satchidananda! You are all-pervading. Be happy! You are Anandaghana! You are
merged in bliss. Move on happily! You are the perfect, the everlasting, the
Absolute! You are the mass of intelligence and delight. You are Perfect.
Realise this and be free.
3. Thou art Akhandaikarasa Brahman (one
homogeneous essence). Thou art Chinmatra Purusha (pure consciousness). Thou art
spotless; passionless, genderless and bodiless soul. Realise this and be free.
You are the one undivided
essence. You are eternally homogeneous in nature. You are the taintless Self.
You are the fully contented, the All. Nothing can harm you. Nothing can touch
you. You are the source and the root of everything. You are neither man nor
woman, neither father, nor mother, nor son, nor daughter. You exist for ever.
You were never born. You will never die. You are the Infinite Whole. Realise
this and be free.
4. Thou art timeless, spaceless, deathless,
changeless, endless, beginningless, motionless, desireless, faultless and
actionless Brahman. Realise this and be free.
You are beyond the operation
of time and space. Nothing of the relative world is your real nature. You are
the Atman. You are the Brahman. You are without internal or external
differences. You are the experiencer of everything. Realise this and be free.
5. Thou art indivisible, partless, and
infinite. Thou art birthless and deathless. Thou art immutable and
self-luminous. Thou art eternal, perpetual and self-contained. Realise this and
be free.
You are immutable and
self-existent. You are fearless, for you are Brahman which is fearless. You
have no desires, for you are full. You are without differences of body, for you
are infinite consciousness. Time and space limit absoluteness and you are not
these. You are divisionless and partless, for you are spaceless. You cannot
change and perish, for you exist at all places and times. You cannot come to an
end, for there is nothing beyond you. You have no source, for nothing existed
before you. You have no faults and sins, for you exist as the secondless purity
of oneness. You shine by your own light, and even the sun has no lustre before
you. You are self-contained, for you are both the existence and the content.
Realise this and be free.
6. Thou art Anandamaya-Purusha. Thou art
Chin-maya-Brahman. Thou art Jyotirmaya-Atma. Realise this and be free.
You are Anandamaya, the mass
of bliss, all other sources of happiness are your own reflections. You are a
mass of Chit which is objectless and is free from thought. You are a mass of
effulgence. Who can show a light to you? You are ever satisfied. Who can feed
you and guide you? You are the Imperishable Purusha, exalted above Maya!
Realise this and be free.
7. Thou art distinct from the three bodies
and five Koshas. Thou art the witness of the three states. Realise this and be
free.
You are not the five Koshas,
for they perish on the dawn of Knowledge. They are a mere product of
imagination. You are the eternal witness of these bodies. They come and go. But
you exist for ever. You are alone existent. Realise this and be free.
8. Thou art without blemish and without
decay. Thou art without disease and without difference. Thou art without old
age and without modification. Realise this and be free.
You cannot have blemishes, for
it is a convention of relative rules. You cannot decay like other objects, for
you are unchangeable. You cannot be transformed into another state, for yours
is the uncontradicted state of supreme perfection. No disease can afflict you,
you are the origin of health and peace, of calmness and satisfaction. Disease
is only a straying away of thought from the Self. You have no differences, for
differences are mere thought-constructions. You can never become old, for you
were never born. You exist since eternity. You have no modification, for you are
Apta-Kama. Realise this and be free.
9. That supreme Brahman which is the
immortal Self of all, which is the beginningless entity, which is immutable and
infinite, which is beyond the reach of mind and speech...that Brahman art thou.
Meditate on this. Realise this and be free.
You are Brahman which is
Satya, Jnana, Ananta, Akhanda, Saswata, Amrita, Abhaya, Avangmanogochara,
Ekarasa, Nitya, Suddha, Siddha, Buddha, Mukta, Prajnana-Ghana, Swayam-Prakasha,
Adwaya, Nirguna, Nirakara, Paripurna – that Brahman you are! You are That Ekam
Sat; Fear not! You are the most blessed Supreme Being! Realise this and be
free.
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