Sage Dattatreya
Thus besought, the Goddess of ultimate knowledge began with great kindness to explain it clearly to the Sages.
"Listen Sages! I shall categorically explain to you all that you ask. I shall give you the nectar drawn out as the essence from the unending accumulation of sacred literature.
I am the Abstract Intelligence wherefrom the cosmos originates, whereon it flourishes, and wherein it resolves, like the images in a mirror. The ignorant know me as the gross universe, whereas the wise feel me as their own pure being eternally glowing as 'I-I' within. This realization is possible only in the deep stillness of thought - free consciousness, similar to that of the deep sea free from waves. The most earnest of devotees worship me spontaneously and with the greatest sincerity, which is due to their love of me. Although they know that I am their own non-dual Self, yet the habit of loving devotion which is deep-rooted in them makes them conceive their own Self as Me and worship Me as the life-current pervading their bodies, senses and mind, without which nothing could exist and which forms the sole purport of the holy scriptures. Such is my Transcendental State."
"Listen Sages! I shall categorically explain to you all that you ask. I shall give you the nectar drawn out as the essence from the unending accumulation of sacred literature.
I am the Abstract Intelligence wherefrom the cosmos originates, whereon it flourishes, and wherein it resolves, like the images in a mirror. The ignorant know me as the gross universe, whereas the wise feel me as their own pure being eternally glowing as 'I-I' within. This realization is possible only in the deep stillness of thought - free consciousness, similar to that of the deep sea free from waves. The most earnest of devotees worship me spontaneously and with the greatest sincerity, which is due to their love of me. Although they know that I am their own non-dual Self, yet the habit of loving devotion which is deep-rooted in them makes them conceive their own Self as Me and worship Me as the life-current pervading their bodies, senses and mind, without which nothing could exist and which forms the sole purport of the holy scriptures. Such is my Transcendental State."
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