Avadhoota Gita - 4

Sage Dattatreya

Chapter 4

1. There is neither invitation nor casting off; How can there be flowers, leaves, meditations and recitation of sacred texts, and how can there be worship of Siva which is identity in non-difference?

2. The absolute is not liberated from bondage and obstruction. The absolute is not purified, cleansed and released. The absolute is not liberated by union or separation. I am indeed the free One, like the sky.

3. I have developed no false notion that all this reality come into existence or that all this unreality comes into existence. I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

4. Stained, stainless, divided, undivided differentiated, none of these appear to me. I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

5. It has not yet happened that I, the ignorant one have attained to knowledge, nor has it happened that I have become of the nature of Knowledge. And how can I say that I have both ignorance and knowledge? I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

6. It (The Self) does not appear to me as virtuous or sinful as bound or liberated, nor does it appear to me as united or separated. I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

7. I never have the high, low, or middle state. I have no friend nor foe. How shall I speak of good and evil? I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

8. I am not the worshipper or of the form of the worshipped. I have neither instruction nor practice. How shall I speak of myself who am of the nature of Consciousness? I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

9. There is nothing here which pervades or is pervaded. There is no abode nor is there the abodeless. How shall I speak of void and non-void? I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

10. There is no one to understand and nothing indeed, to be understood. I have no cause and no effect. How shall I say that I am conceivable or inconceivable? I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

11. There is nothing dividing, nothing to be divided. I have nothing to know with and nothing to be known. How shall I then speak of coming and going? I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

12. I have no body or bodilessness nor have I intelligence, mind or senses. How shall I speak of attachment and detachment? I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.