Sage Dattatreya
Chapter 1
64. O mind, for you there is no day or night, rising or setting. How can the wise imagine an embodied state for the bodiless?
65. The Self is neither divided nor undivided - nor has It sadness, happiness and the like nor is It all or less than all. Know the Self to be immutable.
66. I am not the doer or enjoyer. Work have I none, now or formerly. I have no body nor am I bodiless. How can I have or not have a sense of my-ness?
67. I have no fault such as passion and the like - nor have I any sorrow arising from the body. Know me to be the one Self, vast and like the sky.
68. Friend mind, of what use is much vain talk? Friend mind, all this is mere conjecture. I have told you that which is the essence: You are indeed are the Truth, like the sky.
69. In whatever place yogis die, in whatever state, there they dissolve as the space of a jar dissolves into the sky.
70. Giving up the body in a holy place or in the house of a chandala, the yogi, even if he has lost consciousness, becomes identified with the Absolute as soon as he is free of the body.
71. The yogis consider duty in life, pursuit of wealth, enjoyment of love, liberation, and everything movable or immovable such as man and so on to be a mirage.
72. This is my certain perception: I neither perform nor enjoy past action, future action or present action.
65. The Self is neither divided nor undivided - nor has It sadness, happiness and the like nor is It all or less than all. Know the Self to be immutable.
66. I am not the doer or enjoyer. Work have I none, now or formerly. I have no body nor am I bodiless. How can I have or not have a sense of my-ness?
67. I have no fault such as passion and the like - nor have I any sorrow arising from the body. Know me to be the one Self, vast and like the sky.
68. Friend mind, of what use is much vain talk? Friend mind, all this is mere conjecture. I have told you that which is the essence: You are indeed are the Truth, like the sky.
69. In whatever place yogis die, in whatever state, there they dissolve as the space of a jar dissolves into the sky.
70. Giving up the body in a holy place or in the house of a chandala, the yogi, even if he has lost consciousness, becomes identified with the Absolute as soon as he is free of the body.
71. The yogis consider duty in life, pursuit of wealth, enjoyment of love, liberation, and everything movable or immovable such as man and so on to be a mirage.
72. This is my certain perception: I neither perform nor enjoy past action, future action or present action.
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