Sage Dattatreya
Chapter 2
1. Of the teacher - even if he be young illiterate, or addicted to the enjoyment of sense objects, even if he be a servant or a householder - none of these should be considered. Does anyone shun a gem that has fallen in an impure place?
2. In such a case one should not consider even the quality of scholarship. A worldly person should recognize only the essence. Does not a boat, though devoid of beauty and vermilion paint nevertheless feery passengers?
3. The unmoving One, who without effort possesses all that is movable and immovable, is consciousness, naturally calm, like the sky.
4. How can He, the One and All-pervading, who moves effortlessly all that is movable and immovable, be differentiated! To me He is nondual.
5. I am verily supreme since I am the Absolute, more essential than all essences, since I am free from birth and death, calm and undifferentiated.
6. Thus I, free from all components, am worshipped by the gods, but being full and perfect, I do not recognize any distinctions such as gods and the like.
7. Ignorance does not create any doubt. What shall I do, being endowed with modifications of the mind? They arise and dissolve like bubbles in water.
8. Thus am I ever pervading all existence beginning with cosmic intelligence-pervading soft, hard, sweet and pungent substances.
9. As pungency, coldness or softness is non-different from water, so prakrti is non-different from purusha - thus it appears to me.
1. Of the teacher - even if he be young illiterate, or addicted to the enjoyment of sense objects, even if he be a servant or a householder - none of these should be considered. Does anyone shun a gem that has fallen in an impure place?
2. In such a case one should not consider even the quality of scholarship. A worldly person should recognize only the essence. Does not a boat, though devoid of beauty and vermilion paint nevertheless feery passengers?
3. The unmoving One, who without effort possesses all that is movable and immovable, is consciousness, naturally calm, like the sky.
4. How can He, the One and All-pervading, who moves effortlessly all that is movable and immovable, be differentiated! To me He is nondual.
5. I am verily supreme since I am the Absolute, more essential than all essences, since I am free from birth and death, calm and undifferentiated.
6. Thus I, free from all components, am worshipped by the gods, but being full and perfect, I do not recognize any distinctions such as gods and the like.
7. Ignorance does not create any doubt. What shall I do, being endowed with modifications of the mind? They arise and dissolve like bubbles in water.
8. Thus am I ever pervading all existence beginning with cosmic intelligence-pervading soft, hard, sweet and pungent substances.
9. As pungency, coldness or softness is non-different from water, so prakrti is non-different from purusha - thus it appears to me.
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