"The very first step in understanding what this is all about is giving up the concept of an active, volitional 'I' as a separate entity and accepting the passive role of perceiving and functioning as a process." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Avadhoota Gita - 1

Sage Dattatreya
Chapter 1

73. The avadhuta alone, pure in evenness of feeling, abides happy in an empty dwelling place. Having renounced all, he moves about naked. He perceives the Absolute, the All, within himself.

74. Where there are neither the three states of consciousness nor the fourth, there one attains the Absolute in the Self. How is it possible to be bound or free - where there is neither virtue nor vice?

75. The avadhuta never knows any mantra in Vedic metre nor any tantra. This is the Supreme utterance of the avadhuta, purified by meditation and merged in the sameness of infinite being.

76. There exists neither complete void nor voidlessness, neither truth nor untruths of the scripture, has uttered this spontaneously from his own nature. Truth - complete truth does not exist in the plane of relative existence.

~ End of Chapter 1~

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