अवधूत गीता (भगवान दत्तात्रेय - सान्वय हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित)

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how can there be consciousness
differentiated by exterior and interior?

6. If the Self is devoid of essence and lack of essence,
   if it is without void and nonvoid,
   If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
   how can there be a first, how can there be a last?

7. If the Self is the negation of difference and nondifference
   if it is the negation of the knower and the knowable,
   If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
   how can there be the third, how can there be the fourth?

8. The spoken and the unspoken are not the truth,
   the known and the unknown are not the truth.
   If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
   how can there be objects, senses, mind and intellect?

9. Ether and air are not the truth;
   Earth and fire are not the truth.
   If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
   how can there be cloud, how can there be water?

10. If the Self is the negation of imagined worlds,
    if it is the negation of imagined gods,
    If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
    how can there be discriminating consciousness of good and evil?

11. The Self is the negation of death and deathlessness.
    It is the negation of action and inaction.
    If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
    how can one speak of coming and going?

12. NO such distinctions exist as prakrti and purusa.
    There is no difference between cause and effect.
    If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
    how can one speak of Self and not-self?

13. There is no coming of the third kind of misery
    or the second kind of misery due to the gunas.
    If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
    how can there be and old man, a young man and in infant?

14. The Supreme is without caste and stage of life
    without cause and agent.
    If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
    how can there be consciousness of the destroyed and the undestroyed?

15. The destroyed and the undestroyed are both false.
    The born and the unborn are both false.
    If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
    how can there be the perishable and the imperishable?

16. The Self is the annihilation of the masculine and the nonmasculine.
    It is the annihilation of the feminine and the nonfeminine.
    If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute
    how can there be consciousness of joy and lack of joy?

The Avadhoota Gita