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Renounce renunciation in every way.
Renounce the poison of renunciation and non-renunciation.
The self is pure, immortal, natural and immutable.

Chapter 4

1. There is neither invitation nor casting off;
   How can there be flowers, leaves,
   meditations and recitation of sacred texts,
   and how can there be worship of Siva -
   which is identity in non-difference?

2. The absolute is not liberated from bondage and obstruction.
   The absolute is not purified, cleansed and released.
   The absolute is not liberated by union or separation.
   I am indeed the free One, like the sky.

3. I have developed no false notion
   that all this reality come into existence
   or that all this unreality comes into existence.
   I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

4. Stained, stainless, divided, undivided -
   differentiated, none of these appear to me.
   I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

5. It has not yet happened that I, the ignorant one -
   have attained to knowledge, nor has it happened
   that I have become of the nature of Knowledge.
   And how can I say that I have both ignorance and knowledge?
   I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

6. It (The Self) does not appear to me as virtuous or sinful
   as bound or liberated, nor does it appear to me -
   as united or separated.
   I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

7. I never have the high, low, or middle state.
   I have no friend nor foe. How shall I speak of good and evil?
   I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

8. I am not the worshipper or of the form of the worshipped.
   I have neither instruction nor practice.
   How shall I speak of myself -
   who am of the nature of Consciousness?
   I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

9. There is nothing here which pervades or is pervaded.
   There is no abode nor is there the abodeless.
   How shall I speak of void and non-void?
   I am free from disease - my form has been extinguished.

10. There is no one to understand and nothing

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The Avadhoota Gita