Avadhuta Gita

तत्त्वं त्वं न हि सन्देहः किं जानाम्यथवा पुनः। असंवेद्यं स्वसंवेद्यमात्मानं मन्यसे कथम्

You are the truth—there is no doubt; what else could I know again? How can you consider the Self, which is not an object of knowledge, as something to be known by itself?

मायाऽमाया कथं तात छायाऽछाया न विद्यते। तत्त्वमेकमिदं सर्वं व्योमाकारं निरञ्जनम्

How, dear one, can there be illusion or non-illusion? There is no shadow or non-shadow. This all is one reality, formless like space, stainless.

आदिमध्यान्तमुक्तोऽहं न बद्धोऽहं कदाचन। स्वभावनिर्मलः शुद्ध इति मे निश्चिता मतिः

I am free from beginning, middle, and end; I am never bound at any time. By nature I am spotless and pure—this is my firm conviction.

महदादि जगत्सर्वं न किंचित्प्रतिभाति मे। ब्रह्मैव केवलं सर्वं कथं वर्णाश्रमस्थितिः

All this world, from the great principle down, does not appear to me as anything; only Brahman alone is everything—how then can there be caste or stage of life?

जानामि सर्वथा सर्वमहमेको निरन्तरम्। निरालम्बमशून्यं च शून्यं व्योमादिपञ्चकम्

I know, in every way, that I alone am all, uninterrupted; without support, not void, and yet the fivefold void of space and the rest.

न षण्ढो न पुमान्न स्त्री न बोधो नैव कल्पना। सानन्दो वा निरानन्दमात्मानं मन्यसे कथम्

I am not a eunuch, not a man, not a woman; not knowledge, nor imagination. How can you consider the Self as either blissful or devoid of bliss?

षडङ्गयोगान्न तु नैव शुद्धं मनोविनाशान्न तु नैव शुद्धम्। गुरूपदेशान्न तु नैव शुद्धं स्वयं च तत्त्वं स्वयमेव बुद्धम्

Not by the six-limbed yoga, nor by the destruction of mind is there purity; not by the teacher’s instruction is there purity—truth is realized by oneself, by oneself alone.

न हि पञ्चात्मको देहो विदेहो वर्तते न हि। आत्मैव केवलं सर्वं तुरीयं च त्रयं कथम्

The body is not composed of five elements, nor does it exist without them; the Self alone is everything—how can there be the fourth state, or the other three?

न बद्धो नैव मुक्तोऽहं न चाहं ब्रह्मणः पृथक्। न कर्ता न च भोक्ताहं व्याप्यव्यापकवर्जितः

I am not bound, nor am I liberated; nor am I separate from Brahman. I am not the doer, nor the enjoyer; I am free from pervading or being pervaded.

यथा जलं जले न्यस्तं सलिलं भेदवर्जितम्। प्रकृतिं पुरुषं तद्वदभिन्नं प्रतिभाति मे

Just as water placed in water is without distinction, so too, nature and spirit appear to me as not different.

यदि नाम न मुक्तोऽसि न बद्धोऽसि कदाचन। साकारं च निराकारमात्मानं मन्यसे कथम्

Even if you are not liberated, you are never bound; how can you consider the Self as having form or formlessness?

जानामि ते परं रूपं प्रत्यक्षं गगनोपमम्। यथा परं हि रूपं यन्मरीचिजलसन्निभम्

I know your supreme form, directly, like the sky; just as that supreme form is like a mirage in water.

न गुरुर्नोपदेशश्च न चोपाधिर्न मे क्रिया। विदेहं गगनं विद्धि विशुद्धोऽहं स्वभावतः

There is no teacher, no instruction, no limitation, nor any action for me. Know that I am pure by nature, bodiless, like the sky.

विशुद्धोऽस्य शरीरोऽसि न ते चित्तं परात्परम्। अहं चात्मा परं तत्त्वमिति वक्तुं न लज्जसे

You claim your body is pure, your mind is the highest of the high, and you yourself are the supreme Self—yet you are not ashamed to speak so.

कथं रोदिषि रे चित्त ह्यात्मैवात्मात्मना भव। पिब वत्स कलातीतमद्वैतं परमामृतम्

Why do you weep, O mind? Become the Self by the Self, within the Self. Drink, dear one, the timeless nectar of nonduality.

नैव बोधो न चाबोधो न बोधाबोध एव च। यस्येदृशः सदा बोधः स बोधो नान्यथा भवेत्

There is neither knowledge nor ignorance, nor both together; for one whose awareness is thus, that awareness is never otherwise.

ज्ञानं न तर्को न समाधियोगो न देशकालौ न गुरूपदेशः। स्वभावसंवित्तरहं च तत्त्व- माकाशकल्पं सहजं ध्रुवं च

Knowledge is not reasoning, nor is it meditative absorption; it is not place or time, nor the teaching of a guru. I am that reality, self-aware by nature, space-like, innate, and constant.

न जातोऽहं मृतो वापि न मे कर्म शुभाशुभम्। विशुद्धं निर्गुणं ब्रह्म बन्धो मुक्तिः कथं मम

I am not born, nor do I die; I have no good or bad actions. I am pure, without qualities, Brahman—how can there be bondage or liberation for me?

यदि सर्वगतो देवः स्थिरः पूर्णो निरन्तरः। अन्तरं हि न पश्यामि स बाह्याभ्यन्तरः कथम्

If the divine is all-pervading, stable, full, and uninterrupted, I see no separation—so how can there be inner or outer?

स्फुरत्येव जगत्कृत्स्नमखण्डितनिरन्तरम्। अहो मायामहामोहो द्वैताद्वैतविकल्पना

The entire world shines forth, unbroken and continuous. Ah, what great delusion of maya—this wavering between duality and nonduality!

साकारं च निराकारं नेति नेतीति सर्वदा। भेदाभेदविनिर्मुक्तो वर्तते केवलः शिवः

With form and without form, always 'not this, not this'—free from both difference and non-difference, the One Shiva alone remains.

न ते च माता च पिता च बन्धुः न ते च पत्नी न सुतश्च मित्रम्। न पक्षपाती न विपक्षपातः कथं हि संतप्तिरियं हि चित्ते

You have no mother, no father, no relative; you have no wife, no son, no friend. You are neither partial nor opposed—so why does this distress arise in the mind?

दिवा नक्तं न ते चित्तं उदयास्तमयौ न हि। विदेहस्य शरीरत्वं कल्पयन्ति कथं बुधाः

For you, O mind, there is neither day nor night, nor rising nor setting. How can the wise imagine embodiment for one who is bodiless?

नाविभक्तं विभक्तं च न हि दुःखसुखादि च। न हि सर्वमसर्वं च विद्धि चात्मानमव्ययम्

Neither undivided nor divided, neither pain nor pleasure, neither all nor nothing—know the Self as imperishable.

नाहं कर्ता न भोक्ता च न मे कर्म पुराऽधुना। न मे देहो विदेहो वा निर्ममेति ममेति किम्

I am not the doer nor the enjoyer; I have no actions, past or present. I have no body, embodied or disembodied—so what is this 'mine' or 'not mine'?

न मे रागादिको दोषो दुःखं देहादिकं न मे। आत्मानं विद्धि मामेकं विशालं गगनोपमम्

I have no faults like passion, nor suffering of the body. Know me as the one Self, vast and sky-like.

सखे मनः किं बहुजल्पितेन सखे मनः सर्वमिदं वितर्क्यम्। यत्सारभूतं कथितं मया ते त्वमेव तत्त्वं गगनोपमोऽसि

O friend, mind, what is the use of much talk? O friend, mind, all this is mere speculation. What is essential I have told you: you are the truth, vast as the sky.

येन केनापि भावेन यत्र कुत्र मृता अपि। योगिनस्तत्र लीयन्ते घटाकाशमिवाम्बरे

By whatever means, wherever, even at death, yogis merge there, like space within a jar merging into the sky.

तीर्थे चान्त्यजगेहे वा नष्टस्मृतिरपि त्यजन्। समकाले तनुं मुक्तः कैवल्यव्यापको भवेत्

Whether at a holy place or in an outcaste's house, even if memory is lost at death, one who gives up the body at that moment becomes all-pervading liberation.