Avadhuta Gita by Dattatreya

   The essence and the whole of Vedanta  is this knowledge, this supreme knowledge, that I am by nature the formless, all pervasive Self.

   I have no mental activity good or bad, I have no bodily function. Good or bad, I have no verbal action, good or bad. I am the nectar of Knowledge, beyond the senses, pure.

   I the One only, am all this, beyond space and continuous.  How  can I see the Self as visible or hidden?

   You are not born nor do you die. At no time do you have a body. The scriptures declares in many way dictum : “ All is Bhraman”

   As the self is filled by the Self, so is all continuously filled by you. There is no meditator or meditation.  Why does your mind meditate shamelessly?

   How can they describe the Truth, which is beyond mind and words, which is devoid of white and other colours, of sound and other qualities?

   Know that which has form to be false, that which is formless to be eternal. Through the instruction of this truth there is no longer rebirth in this world.

   Sages say that the Reality is one only and the same. And through renunciation of attachment, the mind, which is one and many, ceases to exist.

   I am free in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end.

     I am never bound. This is my sure knowledge – that I am naturally spotless and pure.

   The Self certainly does not become pure through the practice of six – limbed yoga. It certainly is not purified by the destruction of the mind. It certainly is not made pure by the instructions of the teacher. It is Itself the Truth, It is Itself the illumined one.

   There is no need  of knowledge, reasoning, time, space. Instructions from a teacher, or attainment of Samadhi.  I am naturally the perfect consciousness, the Real, like the sky, spontaneous and steady.

   If God pervades all, if God is immovable, full, undivided, then I see no division. How can He  have exterior or interior?

   You have no mother, no father, no wife, no son, no relative, no friend. You have no like or dislikes. Why is this anguish in your mind ?

   This is my certain perception : I neither perform nor enjoy past action, future action or present action.

   Of the teacher – even if he be young, illiterate or addicted  to the enjoyment  of sense objects, even if be a servant or a householder – none of this should bee considered. Does  anyone shun a gem fallen in an impure place.

   The unmoving One, who without effort possesses all that is movable and immovable, is conciousness, naturally calm, like the sky.

   Space is pervaded by It, but It is not pervaded by anything. It is existing within and with out. It is undivided and continuous.

When through constant practice one’s concentration becomes objectless, then being divested of merits and demerits, one attains the state of complete dissolution in the Aboslute through the dissolution of object of concentration, but not before then.

 

That which is form is visible to the eye while the formless is perceived mentally. That (the Self), being beyond existence and non- existence, is called intermediate.