Avadhuta Chapter 1 Verse 17

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Translation by Swami Chetanananda

 

Avadhuta Chapter 1 Verse 17

 

You have no birth or death, no memory, no bondage or liberation, nor have

you

good or evil. Why do you weep, O my dear? Name and form belong neither to

you nor to me.

 

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No birth or death...good or evil - Birth and death are connected with the

body; bondage and liberation, good and evil, are connected with the mind;

but

The Atman, the real nature of man, is beyond the body and the mind.

Name and form - According to Vedanta philosophy, Brahman is one, without a

second; but It appears to be manifold by the interposition of name and form,

which is called maya. As the wave has a form and a name, "wave", but is not

different from the sea, so the objects of the universe have various forms

and

names but they are not different from Brahman. In samadhi, when name and

form disappear, man experiences the oneness of Brahman.