अवधूत गीता (भगवान दत्तात्रेय - सान्वय हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित)

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I have no body nor am I bodiless.
How can I have or not have a sense of "my-ness"?

67. I have no fault such as passion and the like -
nor have I any sorrow arising from the body.
Know me to be the one Self, vast and like the sky.

68. Friend mind, of what use is much vain talk?
Friend mind, all this is mere conjecture.
I have told you that which is the essence:
You indeed are the Truth, like the sky.

All, etc. - Words and ideas, being finite and related to finite objects,
can never reveal Truth completely.

69. In whatever place yogis die, in whatever state,
there they dissolve, as the space of a jar dissolves into the sky.

Dissolve, etc. - become identified with the Self.

70. Giving up the body in a holy place or in the house of a candala,
the yogi, even if he has lost consciousness, becomes identified
with the Absolute as soon as he is free of the body.

Candala - one belonging to the lowest stratum -
considered unclean and impure - of Hindu society.

Lost, etc. - that is to say, apparently so.
The inward awareness of the yogi can never be clouded.

71. The yogis consider duty in life, pursuit of wealth, enjoyment of love,
liberation, and everything movable or immovable such as man and so on
to be a mirage.

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

73. The avadhuta alone, pure in evenness of feeling,
abides happy in an empty dwelling place.
Having renounced all, he moves about naked.
He perceives the Absolute, the All, within himself.

Avadhuta - a liberated soul, one who has "passed away from"
or "shaken off" all worldly attachments and cares,
and has realized his identity with God.

74. Where there are neither the three states of consciousness
nor the fourth, there one attains the Absolute in the Self.
How is it possible to be bound or free -
where there is neither virtue nor vice?

75. The avadhuta never knows any mantra in Vedic metre nor any tantra.
This is the supreme utterance of the avadhuta, purified by meditation
and merged in the sameness of infinite Being.

Mantra - a hymn or a sacred prayer.

The Avadhoota Gita