Sage Dattatreya
Chapter 1
Chapter 1
37. How can they describe the Truth, which is beyond mind and words, which is devoid of white and other colors, of sound and other qualities?
38. When all these appear to you as false, when the body and so on appear to you like space, then you know brahman truly, then for you there is no dual series.
39. Even my natural self appears to me as non-distinct from the Supreme Self; it appears to be one and like space. How can there be meditator and meditation?
40. What I do, what I eat, what I sacrifice, what I give - all this is not mine in the least. I am pure, unborn, undecaying.
41. Know all this universe to be formless. Know all this universe to be without change. Know all this universe to be of purified body. Know all this universe to be of the nature of Absolute.
42. You are verily the Truth. There is no doubt about it - otherwise, what do I know? Why do you consider the Self, which is perceptible to Itself, as imperceptible?
43. My child, how can there be illusion and non-illusion, shadow and lack of shadow? All this is one Truth, all this is of the nature of space and without taint.
44. I am free in the beginning, in the middle and in the end. I am never bound. This is my sure knowledge - that I am naturally spotless and pure.
45. The whole universe, beginning with the principle of cosmic intelligence, is not in the least manifest to me. All is indeed brahman alone. How can there be any existence in caste or stage of life for me?
38. When all these appear to you as false, when the body and so on appear to you like space, then you know brahman truly, then for you there is no dual series.
39. Even my natural self appears to me as non-distinct from the Supreme Self; it appears to be one and like space. How can there be meditator and meditation?
40. What I do, what I eat, what I sacrifice, what I give - all this is not mine in the least. I am pure, unborn, undecaying.
41. Know all this universe to be formless. Know all this universe to be without change. Know all this universe to be of purified body. Know all this universe to be of the nature of Absolute.
42. You are verily the Truth. There is no doubt about it - otherwise, what do I know? Why do you consider the Self, which is perceptible to Itself, as imperceptible?
43. My child, how can there be illusion and non-illusion, shadow and lack of shadow? All this is one Truth, all this is of the nature of space and without taint.
44. I am free in the beginning, in the middle and in the end. I am never bound. This is my sure knowledge - that I am naturally spotless and pure.
45. The whole universe, beginning with the principle of cosmic intelligence, is not in the least manifest to me. All is indeed brahman alone. How can there be any existence in caste or stage of life for me?
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