Avadhoota Gita - 1

Sage Dattatreya

28. The principle of ego is not the Truth, which is homogeneous, which is free from the cause of superimposition and distinctions of perceived and perceiver. How can the ego be That which is aware of itself?

29. There is no substance whatever which is, by nature, unlimited. There is no substance whatever which is of the nature of Reality. The very Self is the Supreme Truth. There is neither injury nor non-injury in It.

30. You are the homogenous Reality; you are pure, bodiless, birthless and imperishable. Why then do you have any delusion about the Self? Again, why am I myself deluded?

31. When the pot is broken, the space within it is absorbed in the infinite space and becomes undifferentiated. When the mind becomes pure, I do not perceive any difference between the mind and the supreme being.

32. There is no pot; there is no pot's interior space. Neither is there an individual soul nor the form of an individual soul. Know the absolute brahman, devoid of knowable and knower.

33. Know me to be that Self who is everything and everywhere at all times, the one who is eternal, steady, the All, the non-existent, and the Existent. Have no doubt.

34. There are no Vedas, no worlds, no gods, no sacrifices. there is certainly no caste, no stage in life, no family, no birth. There is neither the path of smoke nor the path of light. There is only the highest Truth, the homogeneous brahman.

35. If you are free of the pervaded and pervader, if you are one and fulfilled, how can you think of yourself as directly perceptible by the senses or beyond the range of the senses?

36. Some seek non duality, others duality. They do not know the Truth, which is the same at all times and everywhere, which is devoid of both duality and non duality.