Avadhuta Gita

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Continuing with the Avadhuta Gita (Song of the ever-free)

 

Chapter 4 Verse 14

 

I have subdued the senses and again,

I have not subdued them.

I have never cultivated self-restraint or religious austerities.

O friend, how can I speak of success and defeat?

I am by nature blissful and free.

 

 

Commentary:

(Few religions would dare make such a bold comment in its scriptures).

 

How can any ritual or religious practice promise Self Knowledge?

Hence comments in this verse point out the limitations of all such

practices (controlling the senses and the like).

All these are mere outer form -- they cannot really encapsulate what

is invoked and referred to as Self-knowledge.