Dattatreya’s Song of the Avadhut: An English translation of the Avadhut Gita

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“Of all the mystical treatises of ancient Indian literature, The Avadhut Gita, or “Song of the Avadhut” is one of the most eloquent and compelling. Its theme is the universal knowledge obtained through mystical vision, the knowledge of the eternal Self. This knowledge is not limited to the mystics of any one cultural traditions, but is universal among all those who have attained to mystical visions.

The author is The Avadihut Gita was enlightened by the same direct revelations which inspired the Upanishads, The Bhagavad Gita, and other such works. It must be read, therefore, not as the reiteration of a conceptual position, or as an argument for the Vedantic viewpoint, but as the sharing of directly revealed truth.

The Avadhut Gita is a call to knowledge, the supreme knowledge of ultimate truth. The Avadhut holds out no compromise of ultimate truth. The Avadhut holds out no compromise with illusion, he offers no foothold on separation, he allows no semblance of duality at all to creep into our perception of our reality.