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I do not know Shiva; how can I speak of Him?
I do not know Shiva; how can I worship Him?
I , myself, am Shiva, the primal Essence of everything;
My nature, like the sky, remains ever the same.

I am the Essence, the all-pervading Essence;
I have no form of -my own.
I'm beyond the division of subject and object;
How could I possibly be an object to myself?

There's no such thing as an infinite form;
The infinite Reality has no form of Its own.
The one Self, the supreme Reality,
Neither creates, nor sustains, nor destroys anything.

quote 3719 | The Avadhuta Gita
#27to29, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

T he Self is the identity of everyone;
You are everything, the unbroken Whole.
The thinker and the thought do not even exist!
0 mind, how can you go on thinking so shamelessly!

quote 3718 | The Avadhuta Gita
#26, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

I f you see the world as unreal, can that be the experience of Unity?
If you see it as real, can that be the experience of Unity?
If it's seen as both real and unreal, can that be the experience of Unity?
To see everything as the One is the true state of Freedom.

quote 3717 | The Avadhuta Gita
#23, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

A ll the scriptures unanimously declare
That 'the pure, formless, undifferentiated Reality
Is the Essence of all forms.
There is absolutely no doubt about this.

All forms, understand, are only temporary manifestations;
The formless Essence eternally exists.
Once this truth is realized,
There's no more necessity to be reborn.

quote 3716 | The Avadhuta Gita
#20&21, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

Y ou can't be heard, or smelled, or tasted;
You can't be seen, or sensed by touch.
Truly, you're the ultimate Reality;
Why, then, should you be troubled so?

Neither birth, nor death, nor the active mind,
Nor bondage, nor liberation, affects you at all.
Why then, my dear, do you grieve in this way?
You and I have no name or form.

0 mind, why are you so deluded?
Why do you run about like a frightened ghost?
Become aware of the indivisible Self.
Be rid of attachment; be happy and free!

Truly, you're the unchanging Essence of everything!
You're the unmoving Unity; you're boundless Freedom.
You have neither attachment nor aversion;
Why, then, do you worry and succumb to desire?

quote 3715 | The Avadhuta Gita
#16 to 19, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

T here's no such thing as union or separation
For me or for you.
There -is no me, no you, no manifold world;
All is the Self, and the Self alone.

quote 3714 | The Avadhuta Gita
#15, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

Y ou, also, are the One! Why don't you understand?
You're the unchanging Self, the same within everyone.
You're truly illimitable; you'. the all-pervading Light.
For you, how can there be any distinction between the day and the night?

Understand that the Self is continuous Being,
The One within all, without any division.
The "I" is both the subject and the supreme object of meditation;
How can you see two in That which is one?

Neither birth -nor death pertain to you;
You have never been a body.
It is well known that "All is Brahman";
The scriptures have stated this in various ways.

quote 3713 | The Avadhuta Gita
#11 to 13, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

I 'm One; I'm all of this!
Yet I'm undifferentiated, beyond all forms.
How, then, do I regard the Self?
As both the Unmanifest and the manifest world.

quote 3712 | The Avadhuta Gita
#10, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

T he mind is formless like the sky,
Yet it wears a million faces.
It appears as images of the past, or as worldly forms;
But it is not the supreme Self.

quote 3711 | The Avadhuta Gita
#9, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

T hat one God who shines within everything,
Who is formless like the cloudless sky,
Is the pure, stainless, Self of all,
Without any doubt, that is who I am.

I'm the infinite and immutable One;
I'm pure Consciousness, without any form.
I don't know how, or to whom,
Joy and sorrow appear in this world.

I have no mental karma, either good or bad;
I have no physical karma, either good or bad;
I have no verbal karma, either good or bad.
I'm beyond the senses;
I'm the pure nectar of the knowledge of the Self.

quote 3710 | The Avadhuta Gita
#6 to 8, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

W hat, then, is the heart of the highest truth,
The core of knowledge, the wisdom supreme?
It is, "I am the Self, the formless One;
By my very nature, I am pervading all."

quote 3709 | The Avadhuta Gita
#5, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

T ruly, all this universe is only my Self;
It is neither divided nor undivided.
How can I even assert that it exists?
I can only view it with wonder and awe.

quote 3708 | The Avadhuta Gita
#4, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

T he five subtle elements that combine to compose this world
Are as illusory as the water in a desert mirage;
To whom, then, shall I bow my head?
I, myself, am the stainless One!

quote 3707 | The Avadhuta Gita
#3, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

A ll that exists in this world of forms
Is nothing but the Self, and the Self alone.

quote 3706 | The Avadhuta Gita
#2, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

T ruly, it is by the grace of God
That the knowledge of Unity arises within.

quote 3705 | The Avadhuta Gita
#1, Reprinted from Abhayananda, S., Dattatreya: The Song Of The Avadhut, Olympia, Wash., Atma Books, 1992

Y ou are the Self, the infinite Being, the pure, unchanging Consciousness, which pervades everything. Your nature is bliss and your glory is without stain. Because you identify yourself with the ego, you are tied to birth and death. Your bondage has no other cause.

quote 3704 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947, p.97

U tterly destroy the ego. Control the many waves of distraction which it raises in the mind. Discern the Reality and realize "I am That."
You are pure Consciousness, the witness of all experiences. Your real nature is joy. Cease this very moment to identify yourself with the ego.

quote 3703 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947, p.97

T he fool thinks, "I am the body"; the intelligent man thinks, "I am an individual soul united with the body." But the wise man, in the greatness of his knowledge and spiritual discrimination, sees the Self as the only reality and thinks, "I am Brahman."

quote 3702 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947, p. 69

A s the mind becomes gradually established in the Self, it proportionately gives up the desire for external objects. When all such desires have been eliminated, there is the unobstructed realization of the Self.

quote 3701 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947;

E ven after the Truth has been realized, there remains that strong, beginningless, obstinate impression that one is the agent and experiencer... This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme Self. Sages call that cessation of mental impressions, "Liberation."

quote 3700 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947;

T eachers and scriptures can stimulate spiritual awareness. But the wise disciple crosses the ocean of ignorance by direct illumination, through the grace of God.
Gain experience directly. Realize God for yourself. Know the Self as the one indivisible Being, and become perfect. Free your mind from all distractions and dwell in the consciousness of the Self.
This is the final declaration of the Vedanta: Brahman is all; [It is] this universe and every creature. To be liberated is to live in the continual awareness of Brahman, the undivided Reality.

quote 3699 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947, p.131

S eated in a solitary place, free from desires and with senses controlled, one should meditate free of thought on that one infinite Self.

quote 3698 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Atma Bodha: 38

T hat Reality is One; though, owing to illusion, It appears to be multiple names and forms, attributes and changes, It always remains unchanged. [It is] like gold which, while remaining one, is formed into various ornaments. You are that One, that Brahman. Meditate on this in your mind.

quote 3697 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947, p. 51

T he entire universe is truly the Self. There exists nothing at all other than the Self. The enlightened person sees everything in the world as his own Self, just as one views earthenware jars and pots as nothing but clay.

quote 3696 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Atma Bodha: 48

T he universe is truly Brahman, ... for that which is superimposed (the universe) has no separate existence from its substratum (Brahman). ….
The name, "universe," is superimposed on Brahman, but what we call the "universe" is [really] nothing but Brahman.

quote 3695 | (Adi Shankaracharya) Shankara
Vivekachudamani; Prahhavananda, 1947, p. 71

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