"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

Saturday, August 19, 2017

Avadhoota Gita - 6

Sage Dattatreya

Chapter - 6

10. If the Self is the negation of imagined worlds, if it is the negation of imagined gods, If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be discriminating consciousness of good and evil?

11. The Self is the negation of death and deathlessness. It is the negation of action and inaction. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can one speak of coming and going?

12. NO such distinctions exist as prakrti and purusa. There is no difference between cause and effect. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can one speak of Self and not-self?

13. There is no coming of the third kind of misery or the second kind of misery due to the gunas. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be and old man, a young man and in infant?

14. The Supreme is without caste and stage of life without cause and agent. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be consciousness of the destroyed and the undestroyed?

15. The destroyed and the undestroyed are both false. The born and the unborn are both false. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be the perishable and the imperishable?

16. The Self is the annihilation of the masculine and the nonmasculine. It is the annihilation of the feminine and the nonfeminine. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be consciousness of joy and lack of joy?

17. If the Supreme is free of delusion and sorrow, doubt and grief If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be I and mine?

18. The supreme is the destruction of virtue and vice. It is the destruction of bondage and freedom form bondage. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute How can there be here any consciousness of sorrow and the absence of sorrow?

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