Avadhoota Gita - 1

Sage Dattatreya

Chapter 1

10. I, the One only, am all this, beyond space and continuous. How can I see the Self as visible or hidden?

11. Thys you are One. Why then do you not understand that you are the unchangeable One, equally perceived in all? O Mighty One, how can you, who are ever-shining, unrestricted, think of day and night?

12. Know the Self always to be everywhere, one and unintercepted. I am the mediator and the highest object of meditation. Why do you divide the Indivisble?

13. You are not born nor do you die. At no time do you have a body. The scripture declares in many different ways the well-known dictum: All is Brahman.

14. You are He who is exterior and interior. You are the auspicious One existing at all times. Why are you running hither and thither deluded, like an unclean spirit?

15. Union and separation exist in regard neither to you nor to me. There is no you, no me, nor is there this universe. All is verily the Self alone.

16. You do not belong to that which is composed of five objects of senses, such as sound; nor does that belong to you. You indeed are the Supreme Reality. Why then do you suffer?

17. For you there is no birth or death, for you there is no mind, for you there is no bondage or liberation, no good or evil. Why do you shed tears, my child? Neither you nor I have name and form.

18. Oh mind, why do you wander about deluded, like an unclean spirit? Behold the Self indivisible. Be happy through renunciation of attachment.