Om! I Am Brahman - Ribhu Gita

 

I Am Brahman

43. I am Brahman. I am pure. I am always pure, ever. I am without qualities. I am without desires. This is the best mantra of all.

45. I myself shine by myself, by myself alone, and not by anything else. I abide in myself. This is the best mantra of all. I myself enjoy myself. I myself revel in myself. I myself am my own Light. I myself revel in myself.

46. I myself revel in my own Self. I see only my own Self. I am happy in my own Self. This mantra, thus, is the best: I remain in my own Consciousness. I revel in joy in the realm of my Self. I am seated on the throne of my own Self. This is, thus, the best mantra.

47. Ever seeing the mantra of one's Self, ever exercising the Knowledge of one's Self, the mantra "l-am-Brahman-l am" will destroy all sins relating to one's Self.

48. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the defect of duality. "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the sorrow of differentiation.

49. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the disease of thought. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the disease of intellect.

50. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the disease of mental agony. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy all the worlds.

51. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the defect of desire. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the defect of anger.

52. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the defect of conceptualizing. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will also destroy sankalpa.

53. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the sorrow pertaining to all this. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l am" will burn up the blemish of lack of discrimination.

54. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will utterly destroy ignorance. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy millions of defects.

55. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will do away with all rituals. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy mistaken notions of the body.

56. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will efface (the distinction of) the seen and the unseen. The mantra "I-am-Brahman-I-am" will reveal the Knowledge of the Self.

57. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" bestows success in the realm of the Self. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will destroy the unreality.

58. The mantra "I-am-Brahman-I-·am" will destroy all else. The mantra "I-am-Brahman-I-am" will confer indescribable joy. '

59. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" will remove the idea of non-Self. The mantra "l-am-Brahman-l-am" confers the Bliss of Knowledge.

62. That mind is fit for the supreme Liberation that is aware that He alone is the One who is the ever-blissful, the source of supreme joy, the permanent, from whom there is nothing apart, from whom have been born all the worlds, who cannot be comprehended by words or mind or the assemblage of senses or the body.

From the Chapter VI of Ribhu Gita ‘’ THE  CHAPTER OF THE DETERMINATION OF ''I AM BRAHMAN''

om! Types of desire. ~ Atman Nityananda

Types of desire 

 

·       Rajasotamasic desires. Desires for pleasures (sex, food, drinks sense pleasures), worldly desires for money, success, possessions, fame and name, harm, exploit, violate and control others..

·       Sattvic desires. Desire for knowledge, happiness, sattvic foods, art and activities, for peace, creativity, beauty, harmony, loving and helping others, uniting and cooperating with others

·       Desire (intense longing) for liberation and God-realization

 

The rajasotamasic desires are related with carnal pleasures, selfishness, pride, arrogance, avarice, greed, antagonism, rivalry and see others as a means or obstacle of their realization. Are based on separation, lack, need, unsatisfaction, discontentment, fear, greed, attachment, sensuality, low self-esteem, low self-worth. The rajasotamasic desires maintain people attached and identified to their lower aspects of their existence (instinctive, lower vital-mental[intellectual) and to the lower aspects of material experiences. Rajasotamasic desires are the base of egoistic tendencies known as defects, passions and negative emotions.

 

A man has a thousand and one desires. But the central strong desire is the sexual desire. The fundamental desire is the urge for a mate. All hang on this central basic desire. The desire for money, the desire for a son, the desire for property, the desire for houses, the desire for cattle and other desires come later on.

    ~ Swami Sivananda

 

The sattvic desires are related to harmony, joy, happiness, beauty, creativity, love, unity, sharing, inclusiveness, well-being, health and prosperity of all, inner transformation and development. The sattvic desires are mostly related to the higher aspects of our existence and when related to the instincts then are ingrained by the sattvic qualities and thus they are transformed in sattvic experiences.

 

For, example desire for sex when is of rajasotamasic nature then sex is made in a brutal, passionate, animalistic or perverted way and with an attitude of taking of others, of using others for our own satisfaction, and when we give to them something we do it only for receiving back something. While when is of sattvic nature then sex is made in love, caring, sharing, giving and in a higher state as means of meditation, self-transformation and development and offering to God.  

 

However, attachment to sattva is also an impediment for Self-realization and transcend bodily existence. In addition, when we don’t aspire for Self-realization rajas and tamas can easily enter in our minds and thus we cannot converse the mind completely sattvic. Hence, we have to suffer from the rajasotamasic qualities which will continue coexist along with the sattvic ones.

 

Since desire is very powerful, we can get rid of rajasotamasic desires through sattvic desires and with a gradual development of desire for liberation or God-realization and finally get rid of sattvic desires with a very intense desire for liberation.

The mechanism of displacement. ~ Atman Nityananda

The mechanism of displacement

This mechanism causes the redirection of an impulse, i.e., desire from one object or person to another and the redirection of anger from one person to another (usually onto a powerless substitute target) or an object.

For example, we desire sexual pleasure and since we do not have the opportunity to enjoy it at that moment the desire for pleasure is directed to another object that we can easily obtain, for example, eating a chocolate.

In the same way, we get angry with our boss and as we cannot express our anger towards him, we express it to a person in the subway or when returning home to our partner or children for an insignificant thing to release the psychic energy that has accumulated due to anger.

Anger can also be directed towards ourselves, especially when when we suffer from guilt and low self-esteem.