"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

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Avadhoota Gita-5

Sage Dattatreya

Chapter - 5

25. Here is the Self devoid of body and disembodiment. Here is verily the supreme One devoid of dream and deep sleep. Here is the supreme One devoid of name and injunctions. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?

26. Pure, vast and homogeneous like the sky, the Self is the same in all and devoid of all. It is the homogeneous Being divested of essence and non-essence and change. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?

27. Here is the Self which is more than dispassionate to virtue and vice to substance and non-substance to desire and desirelessness. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?

28. Here is the Self, the same in all which is without grief and grieflessness. Here is the Supreme, without happiness and sorrow. The Supreme Truth is devoid of teacher and disciple. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?

29. Verily there is no offshoot essence or absence of essence. Neither is there movable nor immovable sameness nor variety. The Self is devoid of reason and unreason. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?

30. Here is the essence the concentration of all essences which is said to be different from ones individual consciousness. To be the instrument of perception of objects is unreal. Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?

31. Since the Vedas have declared variously that this universe made of ether and the like is like a mirage, and since the Self is one indivisible - and the same in all, Why dost thou, who art the identity in all, grieve in thy heart?

32. Where one knows nothing, there is verily no versification. The Supreme and free One pure of thought, absorbed in the consciousness of the homogeneous being, prattles about the truth.

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