I cannot be split into parts
I never wake from within my self
I am never not awake
I am never moved by thought at all
I never try to be pure
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
I am neither the lord, nor am I not
the lord
I am the formless self
I am beyond the presence or absence
of the mind
I am the formless self
Know well that I am free of
everything
I am the formless self
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
I am a house that is empty
What may I say of that
I do everything, yet I do nothing
What can I say of that
I am always in the even state
I am the formless self
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
I am beyond being a soul or not a
soul
I am forever shining forth
I am beyond being a cause or not a
cause
I am forever shining forth
I am beyond both nirvana and bondage
I am forever shining forth
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
Unlimited by a beginning
I am forever shining forth
Unlimited by the continuing play
I am forever shining forth
Unlimited by the destruction of all
I am forever shining forth
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
Though you may be spoken of
You have neither name or form
Whether you are divided or undivided
There is nothing here but you
Oh mind, Oh shameless wandering mind
Why do you weary yourself so
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
Why do you weep and moan my friend
There is no old age or death for you
Why do you weep and moan my friend
There is no pain of birth for you
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You cannot be touched at all
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You have no form of your own
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You cannot be deformed
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You can never become old
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You can never lose your youth
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You can never lose your mind
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You have no organ of the senses
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You cannot be touched by lust
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You cannot be touched by greed
Why do you weep and moan my friend
You cannot be touched by infatuations
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
You and I are not attached to this
world of ephemeral forms
It is only the shameless mind that
divides the one into parts
Division and non-division are the
same to you and to me
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
There’s no object of worship in your
heart or in the state of Samadhi
There’s no object of worship in your
heart or in the objective world
There’s no object of worship in your
heart
I am beyond both place and time
I am nectarian knowledge, unchanging
bliss,
I am everywhere like space
~*~
Avadhuta Gita is a Hindu text based
on the principles of Advaita Vedanta (nondualism). It has been dated to
approximately the 9th or 10th century. The singer of the Avadhuta Gita (gita =
‘song’) is Dattatreya, an Avadhuta.
Avadhuta is a Sanskrit term referring
to a type of mystic or saint who is beyond egoic-consciousness. Such
personalities ‘roam free like a child upon the face of the Earth’. An Avadhuta
does not identify with their mind or body or ‘names and forms’. Such a person
is held to be pure ‘consciousness’ in human form.
nectarian – ancient; sweet as nectar
