Best Avadhuta Poems

“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. There is neither injury nor non injury in It.”


all that is manifest, has a beginning and...

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If it is of the nature of the not-Self,
how can there be Samahdi?
If it is of the nature of the Self, how can there be Samahdi? If it is both "is" and "is not", how can there be Samahdi?
If all is one and of the...

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“Some seek nonduality, others duality.
They do not know the Truth, which is the same at all times and everywhere, which is devoid of both duality and nonduality.”


everything everywhere, all at once
the pulse of life in unending renewal
spontaneity has no need to rehearse
with love and light...

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“As the self is filled by the Self, so is all filled continuously by you. There is no meditator or meditation.
Why does your mind meditate shamelessly?”


to behold its own reflection 
living light takes on myriad forms
each module though one with the whole
hypnotised by the ego,...

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“Know that which has form to be false, that which is formless to be eternal.
Through the instruction of this truth there is no longer rebirth into this world.”


ephemeral is the manifest universe
held in the womb of boundless space
love in the heart has no need to...

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“I have no mental activity, good of bad; 
I have no bodily function, good or bad;
I have no verbal action, good or bad.
I am the nectar of Knowledge -
beyond the senses, pure”


fragmented fickle thought relates to ego
useful of course but we now make it slow
we...

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“Even my natural self appears to me as non-distinct from the supreme Self; it appears to be one and like space. How can there be meditator and meditation?”


beginning at the end of our understanding
globe of love and light of God is all that is
without diminishing...

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” Through the grace of God alone, the desire for nonduality arises in wise men to save them from great fear.”

{Nonduality - monistic Consciousness, in which the knower, knowledge, and knowable - soul and God - become one; the highest realization of Divinity.

Fear - The...

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5. “The essence and the whole of Vedanta is this Knowledge, this supreme Knowledge:
That I am by nature the formless, all-pervasive Self.”

6. “There is no doubt that I am that God who is the Self of all; Pure, indivisible, like the sky.
Naturally stainless.”


Unreal is all...

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10. “I, the One only, am all this, beyond space and continuous. How can I see the Self as visible or hidden?”

11. “Thus you are One. Why then do you not understand -
that you are the unchangeable One, equally perceived in all?
O mighty One, how...

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“All is verily the absolute Self.
Distinction and nondistinction do not exist. 
How can I say, "It exists; it does not exist"? 
I am filled with wonder!”


inner light caged
by ego upstaged
whenever tested
in jest we rested
feral lower mind
choosing love kind

awake in the dream
where illusions stream
the vaporised self
dances...

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”Union and separation exist in regard neither to you nor to me. 
There is no you, no me, nor is there this universe.
All is verily the Self alone.”


Hiranyagarbha, the cosmic egg splits 
thus in this manner the one becomes two
polarities orbit love in the void
bringing...

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“31. When the pot is broken,/the space within it is absorbed in the infinite space and becomes undifferentiated.
When the mind becomes pure, I do not perceive any difference between the mind and the supreme Being.

32. There is no pot; there is no pot's interior space.
Neither...

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You are not born nor do you die.
At no time do you have a body.
The scripture declares in many different ways - 
the well-known dictum: "All is Brahman."


looking back our life lived thus far we see
ego is in bondage but soul is always free
oh worthy...

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“There is no body made up of five elements; nor is there anyone who is disembodied.
All is verily the Self alone.
How can there be the three states and the fourth?”


To put this verse in perspective
We pause to explain elements and states
The former, earth, water, fire...

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