[Advaita-l] [advaitin] Gems from avadhUta-gItA

[V Subrahmanian]

Thanks Sudhanshu Ji, for sharing this selection which will serve as a daily
practice of tacchintanam.

Readers may please note this correction:

Verse 1.14
सबाह्याभ्यन्तरोऽसि

warm regards
subbu



On Sat, 21 Jun 2025, 11:53 pm Sudhanshu Shekhar, <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste.
>
> I wish to share some very insightful verses from avadhUta-gItA. These
> verses have impacted me deeply and are constantly with me since I read them
> first two years back. Also sharing translation by me along with lyrical
> voice recording.
>
> *Verse 5.31*
> बहुधा श्रुतयः प्रवदन्ति यतो वियदादिरिदं मृगतोयसमम्।
> यदि चैकनिरन्तरसर्वसमं किमु रोदिषि मानसि सर्वसमम्॥३१॥
>
> In various ways, VedAs state that this creation in the form of space etc
> is like mirage-water. If there is only one singular homogeneous continuum,
> then o' mind, why do you weep?
>
> *Verse 5.2*
> इति तत्त्वमसिप्रभृतिश्रुतिभिः प्रतिपादितमात्मनि तत्त्वमसि।
> त्वमुपाधिविवर्जितसर्वसमं किमु रोदिषि मानसि सर्वसमम्॥२॥
>
> Through Shruti such as "that thou art", you have been explained to be
> Atman. You are homogenous, adjunct-less reality. O mind, why do you then
> weep?
>
>
> *Verse 6.16*
> यदि मोहविषादविहीनपरो यदि संशयशोकविहीनपरः।
> यदि चैकनिरन्तरसर्वशिवमहमेति ममेति कथं च पुनः॥१७॥
>
> If you are devoid of delusion and sorrow, if you are devoid of doubt and
> sadness, if you are singular, continuum, whole and auspicious - then how
> can there be me and mine?
>
>
> *Verse 1.14*
> स बाह्याभ्यन्तरोऽसि त्वं शिवः सर्वत्र सर्वदा।
> इतस्ततः कथं भ्रान्तः प्रधावसि पिशाचवत्॥१४॥
>
> You are within and outside. You are that supreme auspiciousness which is
> everywhere at all times. Why do you then run around here and there like a
> ghost?
>
>
> *Verse 1.12*
> आत्मानं सततं विद्धि सर्वत्रैकं निरन्तरम्।
> अहं ध्याता परं ध्येयमखण्डं खण्ड्यते कथम्॥१२॥
>
> Know your own self to be continuous, singular and everywhere. How can then
> you divide yourself as meditator and meditated? How can the indivisible be
> divided?
>
>
> *Verse 1.11*
> त्वमेवमेकं हि कथं न बुध्यसे समं हि सर्वेषु विमृष्टमव्ययम्।
> सदोदितोऽसि त्वमखण्डितः प्रभो दिवा च नक्तं च कथं हि मन्यसे॥११॥
>
> Why don't you understand that you are singular and alone. That you are
> homogenously present everywhere. That you are imperishable. You are
> undivided and always shining supreme lord. How do you then think of day and
> night (when you are ever shining)?
>
>
> *Verse 1.26*
> आत्मन्येवात्मना सर्वं त्वया पूर्णं निरन्तरम्।
> ध्याता ध्यानं न ते चित्तं निर्लज्जं ध्यायते कथम्॥२६॥
>
> Through your own self, in your own self, you complete everything. O mind,
> there is no meditator or meditation of you. O shameless one, how can you
> meditate?
>
> To listen to the voice recording of the shlOkAs, please click at
> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y089cid0rcamq831g6ztq/avadhUta-gItA.m4a?rlkey=575ko1yvdvxjjd73738z2wzqo&st=udp62nh9&dl=0
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>
>
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