Avadhoota Gita - 1

Chapter 1

Sage Dattatreya

19. You verily are Truth, devoid of change, motionless, one, of the nature of freedom. You have neither attachment nor aversion. Why do you suffer, seeking the object of desires?

20. All the scriptures say that the Truth is without attributes, pure, immutable, bodiless, and existing equally everywhere. Know me to be That.

21. Know that which has form to be false, that which is formless to be eternal. Through the instruction of this truth, there is no longer rebirth into this world.

22. Sages say that Reality is one only and the same. And through renunciation of attachment, the mind, which is one and many, ceases to exist.

23. If it is of the nature of the not-Self, how can there be samadhi? If it is of the nature of the Self, how can there be Samadhi? If it is both "is" and "is not", how can there be samadhi? If all is one and of the nature of freedom, how can there be samadhi?

24. You are pure homogeneous Reality, disembodied, unborn and immutable. Why do you think yourself as 'I know it here' or 'I do not know'?

25. By sentences as 'That Thou Art', our own Self is affirmed. Of that which is untrue and composed of the five elements - the shruti says 'not this, not this' (neti, neti)

26. As the self is filled by the Self, so is all filled continuously by you. There is no meditator or meditation. Why does your mind meditate shamelessly?

27. I do not know the Supreme;  how shall I speak of Him? I do not know the Supreme, how shall I worship Him? If I am the Supreme, who is the highest Truth, who is homogeneous Being and like unto space, how then shall I speak of Him and worship Him?