Info on Dattaatreya

[egodust]

Anand wrote:
>
>    If any of you know about Dattaatreya, please post it on the mailing
>   list and I will pass on the information to him.
>
>   I know just a little about Dattaatreya, mainly from the PuraaNas, and
>   the compositions of Vaasudevaananda Sarasvatii. There is also a
>   Dattaatreya upanishhad and a Datta PuraaNa.
>

In addition to the Avadhutha Gita (mentioned by Ken) is the classic Tripura
Rahasya (the Mystery Beyond the Trinity [a.k.a. turiya or Fourth State]),
which is Sri Dattatreya's (Sri Narayana--incarnation of Visnu) instruction
to Parasurama.  In my opinion, it's a toss up as to which--this or Astavakra
Gita--delivers the cleanest advaitic strike to the thought-riddled mind of
the struggling jiva.

This is available from Arunachala Asrama in NY. (Tripura Rahasya, translated
by Swami R. Saraswathi)

Namaste.

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Hello,

On Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:19:14 GMT, egodust <egodust at DIGITAL.NET> wrote:
> In my opinion, it's a toss up as to which--this or Astavakra
>Gita--delivers the cleanest advaitic strike to the thought-riddled mind =
of
>the struggling jiva.

Vedanta catalog lists a "Astavakra Samhita".   Is this the same text as =
the
"Astavakra Gita" or something different?


Cheers,

Ken                         <*>
kstuart at mail.telis.org

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  How one thought will live provide the others die
  For I have riches more than these " - John Lodge