The Avadhut Gita, a free transliteration Chapter 1

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Quite a monumental undertaking, and

quite generous of you. I am hoping you and

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As for myself, I can barely keep up with things

right now... Ho Ho Ho!!!

 

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The Avadhut Gita, a free

transliteration Chapter 1

 

 

 

Seasons Greetings, Dear Friends!

 

I have just completed a free transliteration of the Avadhut Gita, by

Dattatreya. I will post it here in a series of 7 chapters.

 

 

 

Hymn of the Happy One

 

( A Free Transliteration of

The Avadhut Gita, by Dattateya)

 

 

Lyrics I

 

 

1. Fear is perpetually exceeded by the power of Love. I bow down to

Love!

 

2. How can I bow down to Love, when I am Love, and Love is

indivisible from Itself? Nevertheless, there is bowing, bowing.

 

3. I alone am, arising and dissolving within myself. How simple -- I

die into life! What Love! Join me?

 

4. Love is all, bondage and freedom both. What a great mystery -

nothing is bound, so why talk of freedom? Just love, and see if you

exist!

 

5. This is the whole substance of Wisdom; this is the essence of

knowledge, theoretical and intuitional. Just so, discard it all --

find out what remains. No one can say a word.

 

6. Love, which is the heart of all, impersonal and changeless, life

itself, neither pure nor impure - Yes, that's what I am. Personal and

changing too - ordinary enough.

 

7. The heart has no memory for poison, what need I fear?

 

8. The activity of mind, judgment and interpretation - what a

carnival side-show! I am the light that still burns when the clowns

bed down.

 

9. Some say the mind is like space, having no independent existence.

Look - a ghostly acrobat flies through the air!

 

10. Say I am limitless, say I am not. What is it to me? I alone am -

no one sleeps, no one wakens but me.

 

11. Awareness -- beyond creation, beyond destruction, informing all

beingness perpetually, dark womb of all light.

 

12. I am indivisible. How can perfection be divided?

 

13. A song to myself - I am all of this, this is all of me. The Holy

Books say I am this or that, but who is there to agree or disagree?

 

14. Since I am, you are too. We can all relax about that. Namaste!

 

15. Neither unity nor separation have a place to land in you or me.

All that is, is alone. "I", "you", "the world" - no substantial

existence. There is no victim. Shanti. Shanti Om.

 

16. The subtle faculties of touch, taste, smell, form and sound which

constitute the notion of an external world are not you, nor are they

inside you. You are bigger than anything you can know.

 

17. Losing oneself in the One, finding there's nothing to lose. Birth

and death -- no, not you, nor any kind of limitation. Why worry?

We've no name, no number.

 

18. Oh mind, why run around like an addict on the dope of fear?

Recognize the innocence of your Original Nature and be happy.

 

19. In the midst of endless modification, you are what doesn't

change. N nothing to attach to, nothing to avoid. Just understand

desire.

 

20. The Holy Books speak of a soul without attributes, ever pure,

imperishable, the eternal Truth. Check it out - that's you! But

you're not in a book or a body.

 

21. Recognize it all, physical and subtle, as a projection of your

own mind, an illusion. The underlying substratum is eternal. By

allowing this Truth to live one, how happy are we! All the baby love

words rhyme spontaneously to me!

 

22. Wise Folk call this, "Just Being". By practicing letting go, the

mind sees neither duality nor unity. Let go of even that - let there

be duality, let there be unity. In any case - we're bigger than that.

 

23. In the same way that you can't hold onto a dream, you can't hold

onto yourself. "Is" and "is not" don't apply to you either. In this

happiness, how does searching for happiness make any sense? Relax.

 

24. Immaculate Innocence, that's what we are. How can we even say: "I

am a friend" or "I am a stranger"?

 

25. The Holy Books say, "That's You, You Are That!" They also

say, "Not this, not that!" It's no contradiction to you, and that's

that!

 

26. Hindus call you "Atman", the spirit breath of all. In you is

neither practitioner nor object of practice. Why, O mind, do you

meditate?

 

27. I don't know what I am, so how can I speak of myself? I don't

know who I am, so how can I worship myself?

 

28. I am myself, the only one like me, in fact, the only reality.

Aware space is my nature. This is not an imagination, there's neither

one nor any, you nor me - we're free!

 

29. Free from subject and object am I, how can I be self-realizable?

Uncreated is my nature, nothing else exists. Love Supreme is my

nature, nothing else exists. Really, nothing exists! How mysterious!

Yet everything Is -- how ordinary!

 

30. Not death, not what dies, I am the Absolute Reality, the Witness

of my own death. I die into life, yet neither live nor die.

 

31. Break a bottle, space melts into space. Purity into Purity.

 

32. I alone am, awareness itself. Really, there is no bottle, no

glassy space, no embodied soul, not even a trace, no nature, no

story, no once and future glory.

 

33. There is no world, no holy teaching, no gods, no surrender, no

religion or politics, no tribe and no gender, no smoke-ring path, no

image to defend, no pretender.

 

34. To speak of dualism or nondualism entirely misses the point.

There is only What Is, Reality itself. Speak as you will!

 

35. Still, how can the supreme Reality be described, since it is

prior to perception? How can what comes after know about what

precedes it?

 

36. "I eat,I give,I act" . . . such statements do not apply to

you, Birthless One!

 

37. When there is only One, who speaks, who listens? Who the Teacher,

who the student? Who the lover, who Beloved?

 

38. Know for sure, "I am timeless, taintless awareness, unimaginable

Love!" Know it beyond belief as what's true! It isn't difficult!

 

39. From here to there, nothing but light; see for yourself. What

part is evil, what part good, what use of such conflictions?

 

40. The absolute void and its composite opposite, in emptiness and

form -- all I am. There is humor here, and poetry, should one take a

shine.

 

41. Even to say "Happiness" is a kind of sly comedian's trick.

 

42. The Truth of what you are is not modified by spiritual practice,

and yet we practice. Emptying the mind makes It no clearer. The Guru

does not magically reveal It. Jai Guru! It is, simply is, in Itself,

by Itself.

 

43. I am neither bound or free, nor separate from my pristine nature.

The universe rises and dissolves in me, nor do I regret it.

 

44. Neither doer nor taster of deeds am I. Neither archer nor arrow

nor target am I. When the arrow is flying, I am the flying. When the

arrow hits home, I'm that sound! Can you hear it? Even now?

 

45. Water pouring into water - just so, form and spirit are one.

Empty into empty, bliss within bliss! Pleasure and pain, good fortune

or ill, beyond these shades, Relax!

 

46. Why ask, "personal or impersonal?" You're neither. Before the

mouth opens, unsay yourself! Then hear who's talking now!

 

47. We're not a problem to be solved, there's no prize for a winning

story. Close the book and exhale. There is nothing broken, nothing to

fix.

 

48. Oh mind, why struggle? Fall into the heart, drown in the ocean of

your own bliss! Let what happens happen, yours is none of this!

 

49. Not the fruit of a tended vine, I am not what changes. Source of

sweetness and thirsting both, spilt wine drops lifting into air,

Love's own intoxication.

 

50. Neither formless or form, inconspicuous in my own absence, the

true word is "Silence". Before we knew, we all knew it.

 

51. Nothing to cling to, nothing to grasp, why wander, restlessness,

dear mind? Relax!

 

52. Does the night complain when the stars come out?

 

53. If you say, "Infinity", that's what I am. If you say, "Finite",

I'm that too! And yet, I am neither. Neither are you!

 

54. O mind, Beloved - keep quiet! Be still!

 

55. Impervious to the forcefulness of intellect, weary of the

beguilements of sensation, just fall into That! Don't be confused, or

be confused, absolutely!

 

56. This is dying beyond death, the death that grants eternity. What

Grace to fall, to fail completely! What enormous silence!

 

57. Where knowledge and desire end, there I am. Nothing has changed,

nothing has happened. Yes, what Grace!

 

58. The Happy One, the Avadhut, in unshakable equanimity, alive in

the holy nothing-special temple of nothingness, walks naked, as this

Grace, knowing all to be Love's own plaything, looking straight into

every face, every face one's own, the Happy One.

 

59. If you imagine that you understand anything about any of this,

you have not been paying attention. Regardless, fall in Love and

Understand. You and Love are not two, not even holding hands!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Love itself is the actual form of God."

 

Sri Ramana

 

In "Letters from Sri Ramanasramam" by Suri Nagamma

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myself. How simple -- I die into life! What Love! Join me?4. Love is

all, bondage and freedom both. What a great mystery – nothing is

bound, so why talk of freedom? Just love, and see if you exist!5.

This is the whole substance of Wisdom; this is the essence of

knowledge, theoretical and intuitional. Just so, discard it all --

find out what remains. No one can say a word.6. Love, which is the

heart of all, impersonal and changeless, life itself, neither pure

nor impure – Yes, that's what I am. Personal and changing too –

ordinary enough.7. The heart has no memory for poison, what need I

fear? 8. The activity of mind, judgment and interpretation – what a

carnival side-show! I am the light that still burns when the clowns

bed down.9. Some say the mind is like space, having no independent

existence. Look – a ghostly acrobat flies through the air!10. Say I

am limitless, say I am not. What is

it to me? I alone am – no one sleeps, no one wakens but me. 11.

Awareness -- beyond creation, beyond destruction, informing all

beingness perpetually, dark womb of all light.12. I am indivisible.

How can perfection be divided?13. A song to myself – I am all of

this, this is all of me. The Holy Books say I am this or that, but

who is there to agree or disagree?14. Since I am, you are too. We can

all relax about that. Namaste!15. Neither unity nor separation have a

place to land in you or me. All that is, is alone. "I", "you", "the

world" – no substantial existence. There is no victim. Shanti. Shanti

Om.16. The subtle faculties of touch, taste, smell, form and sound

which constitute the notion of an external world are not you, nor are

they inside you. You are bigger than anything you can know. 17. Losing

oneself in the One, finding there's nothing to lose. Birth and death

-- no, not you, nor any

kind of limitation. Why worry? We've no name, no number.18. Oh mind,

why run around like an addict on the dope of fear? Recognize the

innocence of your Original Nature and be happy.19. In the midst of

endless modification, you are what doesn't change. N nothing to

attach to, nothing to avoid. Just understand desire.20. The Holy

Books speak of a soul without attributes, ever pure, imperishable,

the eternal Truth. Check it out – that's you! But you're not in a

book or a body.21. Recognize it all, physical and subtle, as a

projection of your own mind, an illusion. The underlying substratum

is eternal. By allowing this Truth to live one, how happy are we! All

the baby love words rhyme spontaneously to me!22. Wise Folk call this,

"Just Being". By practicing letting go, the mind sees neither duality

nor unity. Let go of even that – let there be duality, let there be

unity. In any case – we're bigger than

that.23. In the same way that you can't hold onto a dream, you can't

hold onto yourself. "Is" and "is not" don't apply to you either. In

this happiness, how does searching for happiness make any sense?

Relax.24. Immaculate Innocence, that's what we are. How can we even

say: "I am a friend" or "I am a stranger"?25. The Holy Books say,

"That's You, You Are That!" They also say, "Not this, not that!" It's

no contradiction to you, and that's that! 26. Hindus call you "Atman",

the spirit breath of all. In you is neither practitioner nor object of

practice. Why, O mind, do you meditate?27. I don't know what I am, so

how can I speak of myself? I don't know who I am, so how can I

worship myself?28. I am myself, the only one like me, in fact, the

only reality. Aware space is my nature. This is not an imagination,

there's neither one nor any, you nor me – we're free!29. Free from

subject and object

am I, how can I be self-realizable? Uncreated is my nature, nothing

else exists. Love Supreme is my nature, nothing else exists. Really,

nothing exists! How mysterious! Yet everything Is -- how ordinary!30.

Not death, not what dies, I am the Absolute Reality, the Witness of my

own death. I die into life, yet neither live nor die.31. Break a

bottle, space melts into space. Purity into Purity.32. I alone am,

awareness itself. Really, there is no bottle, no glassy space, no

embodied soul, not even a trace, no nature, no story, no once and

future glory.33. There is no world, no holy teaching, no gods, no

surrender, no religion or politics, no tribe and no gender, no

smoke-ring path, no image to defend, no pretender.34. To speak of

dualism or nondualism entirely misses the point. There is only What

Is, Reality itself. Speak as you will!35. Still, how can the supreme

Reality be described, since it is

prior to perception? How can what comes after know about what precedes

it?36. "I eat,I give,I act" . . . such statements do not apply

to you, Birthless One!37. When there is only One, who speaks, who

listens? Who the Teacher, who the student? Who the lover, who

Beloved?38. Know for sure, "I am timeless, taintless awareness,

unimaginable Love!" Know it beyond belief as what's true! It isn't

difficult!39. From here to there, nothing but light; see for

yourself. What part is evil, what part good, what use of such

conflictions? 40. The absolute void and its composite opposite, in

emptiness and form -- all I am. There is humor here, and poetry,

should one take a shine.41. Even to say "Happiness" is a kind of sly

comedian's trick.42. The Truth of what you are is not modified by

spiritual practice, and yet we practice. Emptying the mind makes It

no clearer. The Guru does not magically

reveal It. Jai Guru! It is, simply is, in Itself, by Itself.43. I am

neither bound or free, nor separate from my pristine nature. The

universe rises and dissolves in me, nor do I regret it.44. Neither

doer nor taster of deeds am I. Neither archer nor arrow nor target am

I. When the arrow is flying, I am the flying. When the arrow hits

home, I'm that sound! Can you hear it? Even now?45. Water pouring

into water – just so, form and spirit are one. Empty into empty,

bliss within bliss! Pleasure and pain, good fortune or ill, beyond

these shades, Relax!46. Why ask, "personal or impersonal?" You're

neither. Before the mouth opens, unsay yourself! Then hear who's

talking now!47. We're not a problem to be solved, there's no prize

for a winning story. Close the book and exhale. There is nothing

broken, nothing to fix.48. Oh mind, why struggle? Fall into the

heart, drown in the ocean of your own bliss!

Let what happens happen, yours is none of this!49. Not the fruit of a

tended vine, I am not what changes. Source of sweetness and thirsting

both, spilt wine drops lifting into air, Love's own intoxication. 50.

Neither formless or form, inconspicuous in my own absence, the true

word is "Silence". Before we knew, we all knew it. 51. Nothing to

cling to, nothing to grasp, why wander, restlessness, dear mind?

Relax!52. Does the night complain when the stars come out?53. If you

say, "Infinity", that's what I am. If you say, "Finite", I'm that

too! And yet, I am neither. Neither are you! 54. O mind, Beloved –

keep quiet! Be still!55. Impervious to the forcefulness of intellect,

weary of the beguilements of sensation, just fall into That! Don't be

confused, or be confused, absolutely!56. This is dying beyond death,

the death that grants eternity. What Grace to fall, to fail

completely! What

enormous silence!57. Where knowledge and desire end, there I am.

Nothing has changed, nothing has happened. Yes, what Grace!58. The

Happy One, the Avadhut, in unshakable equanimity, alive in the holy

nothing-special temple of nothingness, walks naked, as this Grace,

knowing all to be Love's own plaything, looking straight into every

face, every face one's own, the Happy One.59. If you imagine that you

understand anything about any of this, you have not been paying

attention. Regardless, fall in Love and Understand. You and Love are

not two, not even holding hands!

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