1. Nidagha: Exalted Guru! Where do you have your ablution? What is the mantra for ablution? What is the appropriate time for ablution? and for tarpana? Please tell me.
2. Ribhu: The bath in the Self is the great ablution, the daily ablution. None other is so. This, indeed, is the great ablution: the certitude that I am Brahman.
3. I am of the nature of the Supreme Brahman. I am the supreme Bliss. This, indeed, is the great ablution: the certitude that I am Brahman.
4. I am just of the nature of Knowledge. I am only the Supreme alone. I am of the nature of Peace alone. I am the Immaculate.
5. I am only of the nature of the eternal. I am the permanent alone. All this, indeed, is the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
6. I am simply of the nature of all. I am the released. All this, indeed, is the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
7. I am of the nature devoid of all. I am. I am the space of Consciousness. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
8. I am of the nature of only the fourth state alone. I am only of the nature that transcends the fourth state. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
9. I am ever of the nature of Consciousness. I am Existence-Consciousness-Bliss. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
10. I am of the nature of Kaivalya (That which alone exists). I am ever of the nature of the pure. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
11. I am pure Knowledge alone. I am Kaivalya. I am the Beloved. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
12. I am only agitationless. I am. I am, indeed, of my own nature. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
13. I am ever of the nature of Satsang. I am ever the Supreme. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
14. I am ever of one nature. I am ever happiness itself, nothing else. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
15. I am of the nature that has no limitations. I am endless Bliss. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
16. I am of the nature of true Bliss. I am the Supreme Consciousness-Bliss. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
17. I am of the nature of endless Bliss, beyond the range of speech and mind. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
18. I am of the nature of Brahman-Bliss. I am ever of the nature of Existence-Bliss, the real Bliss. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
19. I am of the nature of the Self alone. I am full of the Bliss of the Self. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
20. I am of the nature of the radiance of the Self. I am the essence of the Light of the Self. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
21. I am without beginning, middle, or end. I am like the sky. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
22. I am of the nature of eternal Existence. I am eternally liberated. This is ever so. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
23. I am of the nature that is ever complete. I am ever without mind. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
24. I am of the nature of eternal Existence. I am eternal Liberation. This is ever so. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
25. I am ever of the nature of authoritative Knowledge. I transcend everything, always. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
26. I am of the nature that transcends form. I am ever of the nature that is space-like. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
27. I am of the nature of the joy of beings. I am the joy of language. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
28. I am of the nature that is the substratum of all. I am ever the mass of Consciousness. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
29. I am devoid of the attitude of having a body. I am, indeed, devoid of mind. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
30. I am without any activities of the body. I am only a mantra, ever. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
31. I am devoid of all things to see. I am, indeed, of the fiature that is to be seen. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
32. I am ever of the nature of the complete. I am ever satisfied. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
33. This Brahman, is, indeed, all. I am Consciousness alone. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
34. I am, indeed, only myself. Nothing else exists. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
35. I am, indeed, the great Self. I am the ultimate goal. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
36. I am, indeed, the great Void. This is the best mantra of all. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
37. I, indeed, manifest as if another. I, indeed,
manifest as if the body. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman
alone.
38. I also manifest as the disciple. I manifest as the triad of worlds. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
39. I transcend the triad of times. I am meditated upon by the Vedas. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
40. I have been implied in the scriptures. I reside in the mind. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
41. Excluding me, there is nothing else. Excluding me, the earth does not exist. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
42. Excluding me, there is no water. This is the best mantra of all. All this is, indeed, the Supreme Brahman. I am Brahman alone.
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.
44. I am of the nature of Hari, Brahma, and the others. I am also not any of these differentiations. I am just Brahman alone. I am Kaivalya. I am the unsurpassed.
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.
60. Renouncing the seven million great mantras, which can only confer hundreds of millions of births, one should resort to the Japa of this one mantra.
61. Immediately, one attains Liberation. There is no doubt of this for me. Thus, the explanation of the mantra has been told, the secret in all the millions of Vedas. Whoever hears this even once, becomes Brahman oneself.
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, who is indivisible, who is the physician for the ills of the world, and who is Isvara.