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Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya (two translations available)

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  • Avadhut Gita
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attributed to the sage Daittatreya

The purest statements of the supreme knowledge of Advaita Vedanta, by a sage who lived over three thousand years ago.

  • 136 pages, Indian paperback - Chetanananda translation 81-85301-26-3
  • 176 pages, Indian paperback - Ashokananda translation 81-7120-037-0
$6.95
The Avadhuta Gita, ascribed to the sage Dattatreya, is a Vedanta text that represents "extreme" Advaita. An Avadhuta is one who has shaken off all worldly attachments and has attained a spiritual state equivalent to the existence of God. The text is a small book of eight chapters, which breathes the atmosphere of the highest experience of Brahman. This is not a philosophical treatise establishing the tenets of Advaita, but gives expression to its highest conclusions, as realized in the life of the great sage. Swami Ashokananda, now deceased, was one of the spiritual giants of the Ramakrishna Order and the minister-in-charge of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco, has transliterated and translated the text. The translation by Swami Chetanananda is also very good, and perhaps easier reading.
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Review By Kim

Must have

A favorite, I’ve reread it over the years and it is always one I refer to often

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Review By KB

Lovely translation

both translations offerings of this powerful book are available, I highly recommend reading both.

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Review By William Johnson

Avadhuta Gita of DATTATREYA

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.

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Review By Richard Jones

Avadhuta Gita

Descriptive and far reaching. This small tome dispells
many myths abiut the sciences of the inner and outer world.

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Review By Peace

Avadhuta Gita

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Review By Davor Ararankovic

Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya

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.