अवधूत गीता (भगवान दत्तात्रेय - सान्वय हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित)

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Tantra - system of rites and ceremonies.
This - the truth as enunciated in the whole discourse.

76. There exists neither complete void nor voidlessness,
    neither truth nor untruths of the scriptures,
    has uttered this spontaneously from his own nature.
    Truth - Complete Truth does not exist in the plane of relative existence.

Chapter 2

1. Of the teacher-even if he be young illiterate, or addicted to the enjoyment of sense objects, even if he be a servant or a householder -none of these should be considered. Does anyone shun a gem that has fallen in an impure place?

Illiterate here refers to one who is not versed in the scriptures.

Addicted (apparently so.)

2. In such a case one should not consider even the quality of scholarship. A worldly person should recognize only the essence. Does not a boat. though devoid of beauty and vermilion paint nevertheless ferry passengers?

Essence,etc.- The essential qualification of the teacher is not intellectual immanence, but capacity to impart spiritual illumination.

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

4. How can He, the One and All-pervading, who moves effortlessly all that is movable and immovable, be differentiated! To me He is nondual.

5. I am verily supreme since I am the Absolute, more essential than all essences, since I am free from birth and death, calm and undifferentiated.

6. Thus I, free from all components, am worshipped by the gods, but being full and perfect, I do not recognize any distinctions such as gods and the like.

Free, etc.-not made up of parts; indivisible.
Worshipped, etc.-because the true Self is the highest Divinity.
Recognize, etc.-In the highest spiritual realization no distinctions and differences are perceived.

7. Ignorance does not create any doubt. What shall I do, being endowed with modifications of the mind?

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The Avadhoota Gita