Long Avadhuta Poems

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...

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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....

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“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...

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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...

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"Don’t try to drag me into Oz
It will never work
I’ll kill the Munchkins and the witch
I swear I’ll go berserk"
--From "Malice In Wonderland" by Joyce Rugg

The scandal behind us,
We look to break through
To a new...

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“There is no need of knowledge, reasoning, time, space, instruction from a teacher, or attainment of Samahdi.
I am naturally the perfect Consciousness, the Real, like the sky, Spontaneous and steady.”


we are as we are complete
with...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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”The mind indeed is of the form of space. 
The mind indeed is omnifaced.
The mind is the past.
The mind is all.
But in reality there is no mind.”


reflect oh hermit, on how thoughts arise
first a stirring...

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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...

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