Dattatreya

“ If I, the supreme, of the nature of the sky, alone exist, how can there be here the supreme truth - which is blissful reality, how can there be here the supreme truth which is not of the nature of bliss, and how can there be here the supreme truth of the nature of knowledge and intuition? ”

“ By making my pilgrimage to Thee Thy all-pervasiveness has been destroyed by me. With my meditation, Thy transcendence of the mind has been destroyed. Thy transcendence of speech has been destroyed by my singing Thy Praise. ”

“ He attains to the supreme Self, who is eternal, pure, fearless, formless, and supportless, who is without body, without desire, beyond the pairs of opposites, free from illusion and of undiminished power. ”

“ The enlightened one - aims at that which is without any mark or marklessness. He is skillful, being devoid of right or wrong. He is the absolute truth, stainless and pure. How can the liberated engage in discussion and disputation? ”

“ The self is here in the universal consciousness which is the All and undivided. It is here in the universal consciousness which is absolute and immovable. It is here in the universal consciousness which is devoid of men and other beings. ”

“ The enlightened one nude or clad in a patched garment of rags gathered from roads follows the path which is devoid of virtue and stays in an empty abode - absorbed in the pure, stainless homogeneous Being. ”

“ The beginner chooses a gross object. When he has dwelt on it continuously for some time, his consciousness becomes subtle and steady. He then chooses a subtle object to concentrate on. Gradually he reaches a high state of concentration, but some differentiations in his consciousness still remain-there is the consciousness of himself as the concentrator, of the object on which he is concentrating, and of the process of concentration. Next even these differentiations vanish. For the object of concentration dissolves, and there remains only the pure, undifferentiated Consciousness, the Absolute. ”

“ If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be any fruits of work?
[6:20] ननु शोकविशोकविमुक्त इति nanu śokaviśokavimukta iti ननु दर्पविदर्पविमुक्त इति । nanu darpavidarpavimukta iti / यदि चैकनिरन्तरसर्वशिवं yadi caikanirantarasarvaśivaṁ ननु रागविरागमतिश्च कथम् ।। २०।। nanu rāgavirāgamatiśca katham //20//
The Self is verily free from sorrow and absence of sorrow. The Self is free from pride and the absence of pride. If there is only one indivisible, all-comprehensive absolute how can there be consciousness of attachment and nonattachment? ”

“ The activity involved in the extension of relative existence is not a modification of myself. The gloom which is the expansion of grief is not a modification of myself. The tranquility which produces one's religious merit is not a modification of mine. ”

“ Friend mind, of what use is much vain talk? Friend mind, all this is mere conjecture. I have told you that which is the essence:You indeed are the Truth, like the sky.
All, etc. - Words and ideas, being finite and related to finite objects, can never reveal Truth completely. ”

“ A sage is one whose intelligence is unsmitten by lusts - who is self-controlled, gentle and pure - who possesses nothing, who is indifferent - who eats moderately - is quiet and steady and has taken refuge in me.
"intelligence unmitten by lusts", kāma is a complex term which denotes the feelings of love as well as physical lovemaking, sexplay. The coitus of sexuality as well as penetrative foreplay is a study in nonduality or even the resolution of opposites and difference. ”

“ The man of self-restraint or the ascetic, therefore, is never bound.
Desired, etc.-only apparently desired by him who possesses Self-knowledge. When one has attained to the knowledge of the Self one may still continue to live in the body and appear to be actively seeking desired objects. This, however, is only in semblance. Being free from the taint of ignorance, which makes the average man seek desirable objects and avoid undesirable ones, he is really inactive. ”

“ Know the Self always to be everywhere, one and unintercepted.
I am the meditator and the highest object of meditation. Why do you divide the Indivisible?
Unintercepted - See note on "Continuous," verse 10. Divide, etc. - Even the act of meditation is an expression of ignorance because it implies duality.
[1:13] न जातो न मृतोऽसि त्वं न ते देहः कदाचन । na jāto na mṛto'si tvaṁ na te dehaḥ kadācana / सर्वं ब्रह्मेति विख्यातं ब्रवीति बहुधा श्रुतिः ।। १३।। sarvaṁ brahmeti vikhyātaṁ bravīti bahudhā śrutiḥ //13//
You are not born nor do you die. At no time do you have a body. ”

“ He attains to the supreme, eternal Self, who is devoid of manifoldness, oneness, many-and-oneness, and otherness; who is devoid of minuteness, length, largeness, and nothingness; who is devoid of knowledge, knowableness, and sameness. ”

“ Know the one who is Consciousness and devoid of fire and air. Know the one of the nature of consciousness - who is devoid of earth and water. Know the one of the nature of consciousness - who is devoid of coming and going. ”

“ Historically, the early codifiers of the Buddhadharma responded to Shakyamuni Buddhas sutras on 'selflessness' (anatman) which in early Enlgish discourse was often unfortunately rendered no-soul or no-self which conveys nihilism which the Buddhadharma vehemently challenges as an extreme position. Similarly, the first and second turnings of the wheel of Buddhadharma challenge 'eternalism'. But the Buddhanature of the third turning is often described with such a semantic field as is the Dharmakaya. ”

“ It has been said that the destiny of those devoted to action is the same as their thought at the end, but it has not been said that the destiny of those established in yoga is the same as their thought at the end.
End-the dying moment. The belief in India, clearly expressed in the Bagavad Gita, is that the last thought in the mind of the dying person indicates the nature of his future existence. This is not true, however, of one who has attained to the knowledge of the Self. ”

“ How can a yogi be natural and free from attachment here? He is the enjoyer of the pure, stainless and homogeneous Being.
[7:11] भग्नाभग्नविवर्जितभग्नो bhagnābhagnavivarjitabhagno लग्नालग्नविवर्जितलग्नः । lagnālagnavivarjitalagnaḥ / एवं कथमिह सारविसारः evaṁ kathamiha sāravisāraḥ समरसतत्त्वं गगनाकारः ।। ११।। samarasatattvaṁ gaganākāraḥ //11//
The Self is destruction, devoid of the destroyed and the undestroyed. The Self is the auspicious moment, Devoid of the auspicious and inauspicious time. ”

“ I know that all, in every way, is the one indivisible "I" which is self-sustained and full, while the five elements, beginning with ether, are empty.
[1:47] न षण्ढो न पुमान्न स्त्री न बोधो नैव कल्पना । na ṣaṇḍho na pumānna strī na bodho naiva kalpanā / सानन्दो वा निरानन्दमात्मानं मन्यसे कथम् ।। ४७।। sānando vā nirānandamātmānaṁ manyase katham //47//
The Self is neither eunuch, man, nor woman: it is neither idea nor imagination. How can you think the Self to be full of joy or joyless?
Full of joy - Here "joy" is used in the sense of relative joy as perceived by the senses and the mind. ”

“ I am the death of the movement of the unmoving One. I am neither decision nor indecision. I am the death of sleep and wakefulness. I am neither good nor evil, neither moving nor unmoving, I am neither substance nor insubstantial. ”

“ The truth which is homogeneous is of the form of the sky.
[7:12] सततं सर्वविवर्जितयुक्तः satataṁ sarvavivarjitayuktaḥ सर्वं तत्त्वविवर्जितमुक्तः । sarvaṁ tattvavivarjitamuktaḥ / एवं कथमिह जीवितमरणं evaṁ kathamiha jīvitamaraṇaṁ ध्यानाध्यानैः कथमिह करणम् ।। १२।। dhyānādhyānaiḥ kathamiha karaṇam //12//
Forever divested of all and united to the Self - the enlightened one is the All - free and devoid of truth. Thus, how can there be here life and death? and how can there be any accomplishment through meditation and lack of mediation? ”

“ The yogi who has attained to the Highest is beyond the need of such prescriptions. Contemplation, etc.-The spiritual aspirant is prohibited from doing certain things, just as he is enjoined to do other things; but upon attaining the Highest he goes beyond all injunctions and prohibitions. Realizing himself as the Absolute, he may act in even an apparently evil way, just as God does some apparently evil things in His creation. ”

“ Dattatreya maintains that the practice of samadhi as a quiescence is not necessary because, according to him, the Self has never been bound and hence is not required to practice anything to gain knowledge of Itself. The Self, which is Consciousness Itself, can never lose consciousness of Its true nature and therefore Samadhi is superfluous. ”

“ The yogi, after death, does not travel along any path having already attained the Highest, which has nothing to do with any particular place or time, he has no world to reach. Supreme, etc.- The supreme Truth which the yogi attains after transcending all duality is ever present, eternal, and absolute, so cannot be spoken of in terms of relative existence or relative truth. ”

“ How can the ego be That which is aware of Itself?
[1:29] अनन्तरूपं न हि वस्तु किंचि- anantarūpaṁ na hi vastu kiṁci- त्तत्त्वस्वरूपं न हि वस्तु किंचित् । ttattvasvarūpaṁ na hi vastu kiṁcit / आत्मैकरूपं परमार्थतत्त्वं ātmaikarūpaṁ paramārthatattvaṁ न हिंसको वापि न चाप्यहिंसा ।। २९।। na hiṁsako vāpi na cāpyahiṁsā //29//
There is no substance whatever which is by nature unlimited. There is no substance whatever which is of the nature of Reality. The very Self is the supreme Truth. ”

“ When through constant practice one's concentration becomes objectless, then, being divested of merits and demerits, one attains the state of complete dissolution in the Absolute through the dissolution of the object of concentration, but not before then. ”

“ Tantra is a developmental spiritual system of rites and ceremonies. "This" denotes the truth as enunciated in the whole discourse. The intention of this needs to be made clear. The avadhuta is released from ritual observance. But there are examples of Avadhuta that sing mantra continuously in meter. The importance of this verse is the rhetoric of 'evenness' or 'sameness' and it is this same pervasive doctrine of sacredness permeating all that is that fuels the intestinal oblation of the aghori of which Dattatrya is reputed to have engaged in this sadhana as part of his pastime. ”

“ Not only does one escape the austere dogma and at times the fanaticism that is attached to certain organized religions, but one also does not have to practice a preestablished set of doctrines and rituals, hold specific allegiance to a certain belief system, or refrain from certain conduct that is conceived by some religions to be evil, sinful, or unnatural. ”

“ He attains to the supreme, eternal Self, in whom is no closing of nostril nor gazing nor posture, and in whom is neither knowledge nor ignorance nor any nerve-current.
Closing, etc.-In the practice of pranayama or breath control, each nostril in turn is closed with a finer in order to breathe only with the other nostril. Gazing-fixing the eyes on a certain point to induce concentration. Posture-a particular way of sitting which allows the body to be most comfortable and yet conduces to the practice of mental concentration. ”