AVADHUTA GITA

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Chapter 3, Verse 11:

 

Swami Chetanananda

O my dear, I am neither free from thought nor am I with thought. I am

neither separated nor am I unted. I am neither without mind nor do I

have a mind. I am Existence-Knowledge-Bliss and boundless as space.

Note: According to the Vedanta philosophy, when an individual soul

merges with Nirguna Brahman (Brahman without attributes), he is beyond

thought and mind; and again, when he is within Saguna Braahman (Brahman

with attributes, or name and form), he has a mind and he thinks.

 

Swami Ashokananda

My child, I am not devoid of nonexistence and existence. My child, I am

not devoid of unity and absence of unity. My chld, I am not devoid of

mind and absence of mind. I am the nectar of Knowledge, homogeneous

Existence, like the sky.

Notes: Nonexistence - " Existence " here is relative existence.

Unity - transcendental Oneness.

Unity - organic unity, as in the phenomenal universe.

Devoid, etc. - in the relative and the trancendental states of the Self,

respectively.