अवधूत गीता (भगवान दत्तात्रेय - सान्वय हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित)

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It is never otherwise.

Knowledge - The Absolute is spoken of as Existence, Knowledge, and Bliss.

58. There is no need of knowledge, reasoning, time, space, instruction from a teacher, or attainment of Samahdi. I am naturally the perfect Consciousness, the Real, like the sky, Spontaneous and steady.

Samahdi - See verse 23. Dattatreya maintains that the practice of Samahdi is not necessary because, according to him, the Self has never been bound and hence does not require to practice anything to gain knowledge of Itself.

The Self, which is Consciousness Itself, can never lose consciousness of Its true nature and therefore Samahdi is superfluous.

59. I was not born nor have I death. I have no action, good or evil. I am Brahman, stainless, without qualities. How can there be bondage or liberation for me?

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

How, etc. - Exterior or interior cannot be spoken of He is indivisible and infinite.

61. The whole universe shines undivided and unbroken. Oh, the maya, the great delusion - the imagination of duality and nonduality!

Maya - ignorance.

62. Always "not this, not this" to both the formless and the formed. Only the Absolute exists, transcending difference and non difference.

"Not this", etc. - No formed or formless object can be considered to be the ultimate Reality.

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

64. O mind, for you there is no day or night, rising or setting. How can the wise imagine an embodied state for the bodiless?

65. The Self is neither divided nor undivided - nor has It sadness, happiness, and the like, nor is It all or less than all. Know the Self to be immutable.

66. I am not the doer or enjoyer. Work have I none, now or formerly.

The Avadhoota Gita