अवधूत गीता (भगवान दत्तात्रेय - सान्वय हिन्दी व्याख्या सहित)

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Chapter 1

1. Through the grace of God alone, the desire for nonduality arises in wise men to save them from great fear.

Nonduality - monistic Consciousness, in which the knower, knowledge, and knowable - soul and God - become one; the highest realization of Divinity.

Fear - The word "fear" includes also such states of mind as insecurity, despair, and grief, all of which arise from a consciousness of oneself as limited and separate from others and which therefore can be dispelled only by realizing oneself as the All.

2. How shall I salute the formless Being, indivisible, auspicious and immutable, who fills all this with His Self and also fills the self with His Self?

Salute - No form of greeting or worship is possible where there is no consciousness of distinction.

Fills, etc. - The reality and substance of the so-called individual self is the Divine Self.

3. The universe composed of the five elements is like water etc. in a mirage. Oh, to whom shall I make obeisance - I who am one and taintless?

Five elements- earth, water, fire, air, and ether.

According to most philosophical systems of India, these combine to constitute the phenomenal universe and are derived from God associated with maya or ignorance.

The terms are not to be taken literally.

Taintless - untouched by the slightest ignorance and hence absolutely pure. The word is often applied to the Self and God.

4. All is verily the absolute Self. Distinction and nondistinction do not exist. How can I say, "It exists; it does not exist"? I am filled with wonder!

It - the universe.

5. The essence and the whole of Vedanta is this Knowledge, this supreme Knowledge: That I am by nature the formless, all-pervasive Self.

6. There is no doubt that I am that God who is the Self of all; Pure, indivisible, like the sky. Naturally stainless.

7. I indeed am immutable and infinite - of the form of pure Intelligence.

The Avadhoota Gita