AVADHUTA GITA PART 3: IMMORTALITY 1. How shall I worship that great Self which is neither personal nor impersonal. Taintless, above love and aversion, uncreated, all-pervasive, of the form of the universe, having no attributes, yet not attribute less, That all-bliss Reality, my Self. 2. How shall I bow down to my own Self in my own Self and by my Self? I have no colours, white or yellow; Eternal Reality am I. 3. I am rootless, and without root, free from smoke, and smokeless am I, without a lamp, and lightless am I, equanimity am I, like a sun ever risen. 4. How can I name the passionless, desireless One as having desires? The Absolute cannot be described in terms of conditions; how can I speak of my Self? I am neither with an essence, nor am I without an essence. Space-like all equanimity am I. 5. How shall I say that non-duality is all this creation, or that, or that? Even if it be duality, then too I cannot attribute creation or dissolution to It. How can the Eternal, the All be expressed in any way? Space-like, all-bliss am I. 6. Neither gross nor subtle is my Self; It comes not, and It goes not; without a beginning and without an end; neither higher nor lower is It; that Truth Absolute, space-like, Immortality-giving knowledge am I. 7. Know well that all the senses are as space, and so also their objects. Know that the One is taintless, the One is neither bound nor free. That all-pervasive ever blissful Reality, Immortality-giving knowledge am I. 8. The knowledge of the Self, hard to obtain, which is experienced, is not Self; the object of meditation, hard to concentrate upon, is not Self; that which is near, and that which is far, far away, is not Self. Space-like, all-bliss Reality am I, Reality am I. 9. Without action am I, I burn up karmas; without pain am I, I burn up sufferings; bodiless, homeless am I, and yet I burn up these: all equanimity, space-like am I. 10. The seed of the plant of the world exists not in me, contentment and pleasures exist not in me; bondage and ignorance are not in me; space-like, Absolute Reality am I. 11. Self is not the knower nor the known. It is not accessible to inference. Words cannot describe this consciousness Absolute. The mind is lost in Its majesty. How can It be explained to you? As space-like I AM-realisation giving Immortality. 12. There is no separation and no unity in It. Neither is It inner nor outer. It is Truth Transcendental. It cannot be said It was all before. Verily nothing exists except the Self. And that space-like Immortality-giving knowledge am I. 13. I am the Eternal principle. Free from attachment and aversion, free from imperfections am I, fate and providence exist not in me. Eternally free from the sufferings of the world, verily, space-like Immortality-giving knowledge am I. 14. As the three states of consciousness exist not in the Self, how can It be the Fourth [Turiya]? Free from past, present and future how can the cardinal points exist in It? Eternal peace, space-like Transcendental Truth am I. 15. Neither father nor mother have I, neither wife nor child. Birth and death I do not know. The mind is not my own. Eternal peace, space-like Transcendental peace am I. 16. Deities and Gods, like Indra and Brahma, have no place in Self. Neither paradise nor heaven exist in the Self. The one taintless Transcendental Truth am I. 17. The saying from the scriptures neither this, nor that does not apply to the Self. How can it be said When all is subtracted Self alone remains? It is symbolical but not a symbol; yet even this cannot be said of the Self. Space-like, the water of Immortality am I. 18. The illusory world is not my modification. Nor is its glamour mine. Deceit and hypocrisy, truth and untruth have no place in me. Space-like, Immortality-giving knowledge am I.
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