AVADHUTA GITA

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Chapter 3, Vs. 1:

 

Swami Chetanananda

Avadhuta said:

The division of merit and demerit is completely absent in Brahman.

Brahman is pure, unmanifested, and devoid of passion and dispassion.

How cn I worship that infinite Supreme Beatitude, which is neither with

attributes nor without attributes, and is all-pervading and omnipresent?

 

Swami Ashokananda

The distinction of qulity and absence of quality does not exist in the

least. How shall I worship Shiva (the Absolute) who is devoid of

quality and bsence of quality, who is devoid of attachment and

detachment, who is of the form of ether, omniform, beyond illusion, and

all-pervading?

Note: Distinction, etc. - In this discourse the Avadhuta describes the

Self as neither distinct from phenomenal existence nor identical with

it. Such a perception of the Self is the highest realization

conceivable, inasmuch as the consciousness of Oneness is so full that

any recognition of even the least distinction is impossible. This Self

is the same as Brahman. It is I. When the knowledge of this Self

comes, even the so-called relative existence is no longer the same as it

appears to the ignorant. " Quality " refers to the different attriutes

belonging to relative objects, which are due to the three basic

qualities, sattva, rajas, and tamas. While relative existences have

quality, the Absolute is beyond all quality. This distinction, however,

is the language of relaive consciousness. In the state of

Self-realization to which we referred above, such distinction does not

exist.

Note: Worship - Worship implies duality, at least, distinction.