Avadhuta Gita

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Avadhuta Gita

 

Chapter verse 23

 

Nature of the Real Self:

 

Brahman is effulgent, absolutely pure, infinite and beyond the intellect.

It is unwise to think of the infinite Brahman as unpolluted or polluted,

undivided or divided. I am existence-knowledge-bliss boundless as space.

 

Commentary: We see this constant struggle to try pin down Brahman. We see

here the use a method called double bind. Though we are forced to use

superlatives like infinite and yet the verse contradicts itself by saying

" watch out as all definitions lead to dualism. Unpolluted implies that which

is not polluted hence it indirectly ties up Brahman as negation of

pollution - all such definitions however grand are limitations on Brahman

which does not care for such classifications and non-classifications.