Only by persistent practice and experience

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THE ESSENCE OF RIBHU GITAThe following verses constitute the teachings of Siva to Ribhu,who in turn transmits those teachings to his disciple Nidhaga Rishi.The treatise goes by the name Ribhu Gita.The sine qua non of Mukti is Siva's grace47. Everything is only a concoction of time, space andenergy. All else is the trite talk of people who dislike the effortof sadhana which takes them to the Self. This talk is based ontheir dense ignorance of the Self. Only by persistent practiceand experience of sadhana, can one arrive at the truth that allconcepts of souls, world, and the cause thereof are just evanescentshadows on the screen of Siva-Self-Brahman. (Ch.24, v.31)48. There is never such a thing as conception of namesand forms, no such thing as the conceiving mind, no such thingas a person lost in samsara, and no such things as the world andits creator. Everything that is seen to exist must be realised to beno other than the sole, pure Awareness-Being-Brahman-Self.(Ch.25, v.8)