Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya (two translations available)
A favorite, I’ve reread it over the years and it is always one I refer to often
both translations offerings of this powerful book are available, I highly recommend reading both.
As a child, did you ever lay on the ground looking up into the sky?
This book, Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya, translated by Swami Ashokananda is much like that experience.
The sky appears as one homogeneous existence in which a variety of images appear and disappear, and after a short period of time never leaving a trace that they were ever there. Only the sky remains. No duality or nonduality, just pure awareness of the sky, within and without.
As the book itself says in Chapter 1, verse 38 - "When all these appear to you as false, when the body and so on appears to you like space, then you know Brahman truly, then for you there is no dual series."
If you're ready to see with a child's pure sense of awareness again, then this book, by the grace of God alone is for you.
Descriptive and far reaching. This small tome dispells
many myths abiut the sciences of the inner and outer world.
If you are interested in Vedanta, I think you will find this text very inspiring. I read it often when I need a spiritual boost.
