Nothing Ever Happened

Nidagha: "Master, if all is Brahman, how did ignorance arise? How did the one become many?"

Ribhu: "It did not."

Nidagha: "But here we are, in apparent multiplicity. Something must have happened."

Ribhu: "When you wake from a dream, did the dream events actually happen? You experienced them vividly. You remember them clearly. Yet — did they happen?"

Nidagha: "They seemed to happen but did not truly occur."

Ribhu: "Just so. Nothing ever happened to Brahman. No creation occurred. No bondage arose. No multiplicity appeared. These are dream events in a dream that never began."

Nidagha: "Then this conversation, this teaching..."

Ribhu: "Never happened. You never forgot your true nature. You never needed liberation. There was no journey from ignorance to knowledge. In truth, Brahman has simply been — eternally undisturbed, eternally complete."

Nidagha: "But I feel the weight of my life, my karma, my struggles."

Ribhu: "The character in the dream feels their life as real. From where you truly are, even this feeling never happened. No time passed. No karma accumulated. No struggle occurred. Only Brahman, timelessly present."

Nidagha: "This is hard to accept."

Ribhu: "The one who finds it hard to accept also never happened. Rest as what you are. Not what happened to you. Not what you became. What you are. What you have always been. What nothing ever happened to."