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Avadhut Gita Chapter 1
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Avadhut Gita Chapter 2
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Avadhut Gita Chapter 3
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Avadhut Gita Chapter 4
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Avadhut Gita Chapter 5
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Avadhut Gita Chapter 6
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Avadhut Gita Chapter 7
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Avadhut Gita Chapter 3
1. How shall I worship that Atman great Which is
neither personal nor impersonal. Taintless, above love and aversion,
uncreated, All pervasive, of the form of the universe, Having no
attributes, yet not attributeless That all-bliss Shiva, my Self.
2. How shall I bow down to mine own Self In my own Self and by my
Self? I have no colours, white or yellow; Eternal Shiva am I.
3. I am rootless, and without root, Free from smoke, and smokeless am
I, Without a lamp, and lightless am I, Equanimity am I, like a sun ever
risen.
4. How can I name the passionless, desireless One As having desires?
The Absolute cannot Be described in terms of conditions; How can I speak
of myself? I am neither with an essence, Nor am I without an essence.
Space-like all equanimity am I.
5. How shall I say that non-duality Is all this creation, or that, or
that? Even if it be duality, then too I cannot Attribute creation or
dissolution to It. How can the Eternal, the All Be expressed in any way?
Space-like, all-bliss am I.
6. Neither gross nor subtle is my Atman; It comes not, and It goes
not; Without a beginning and without an end; Neither higher nor lower is
It; That Truth absolute, space-like, Immortality-giving knowledge am I.
7. Know well that all the senses Are as space, and so also their
objects. Know that the One is taintless, The One is neither bound nor
free. That all-pervasive ever-blissful Shiva, Immortality-giving
knowledge am I.
8. The knowledge of the Self, hard to obtain, Which is experienced,
is not Atman; The object of meditation, Hard to concentrate upon, is not
Atman; That which is near, and that which is far, far away, Is not
Atman. Space-like, all-bliss Shiva am I, Shiva am I.
9. Without karma am I, I burn up karmas; Without pain am I, I burn up
sufferings; Bodiless, homeless am I, and yet I burn up these, All
equanimity, space-like am I.
10. The seed of the plant of the world exists not in me, Contentment
and pleasures exist not in me; Bondage and ignorance are not in me;
Space-like, absolute Shiva am I.
11. Atman is not the Knower Nor is It the known. It is not accessible
to inference. Words cannot describe This Consciousness Absolute. The
mind is lost in Its majesty. How can It be explained to thee? Space-like
immortality-giving knowledge am I.
12. There is no separation and no unity in It. Neither is It inner
nor outer. It is Truth transcendental. It cannot be said "It was all
before." Verily nothing exists but Atman. And that space-like
immortality-giving Knowledge am I.
13. I am the eternal principle. Free from attachment and aversion,
Free from imperfections am I, Fate and providence exist not in me.
Eternally free from the sufferings of the world, Verily, space-like
immortality-giving Knowledge am I.
14. As the three states of consciousness Exist not in Atman, How can
It be the Fourth? Free from past, present and future How can the
cardinal points exist in IT? Eternal peace, space-like transcendental
Truth am I.
15. Neither father nor mother have I, Neither wife nor child. Birth
and death I do not know. The mind is not my own. Eternal peace,
space-like transcendental Peace am I.
16. Devas and Gods, like Indra and Brahma, Have no place in Atman.
Neither Paradise nor Heaven exist in Atman. The one taintless
transcendental Truth am I.
17. The saying of the Shruti "not this, not this" Does not apply to
Atman. How can it be said "When all is subtracted Atman alone remains"?
It is symbolical but not a symbol; Yet even this cannot be said of
Atman. Space-like, the water of immortality am I.
18. Maya is not my modification. Nor is its glamour mine. Deceit and
hypocrisy, truth and untruth Have no place in me. Space-like,
immortality-giving knowledge am I.
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