7.1
The Avadhuta wears castoff garments
made of rags. His path is free of virtue and vice.
He lives alone in a deserted place,
absorbed in the Oneness of being.
7.2
The mark of the Avadhuta may or may not
be visible. Beyond right and wrong,
he is nevertheless always honest.
His nature is pure Reality, immaculate Truth.
How can such a one engage in arguments
and discussions?
7.3
The Advadhuta is free of the snares of hope
and desire. He has no need of purifying acts,
and is not harnessed by rules
about acceptable behavior.
He is gloriously bereft of all things.
He has become That Which Is.
7.4
Having realized True Nature, how can the
Avadhuta say whether or not he has a body?
Whether or not he has passion or attachment?
He is Reality itself, clear and endless.
He is unbounded Truth.
7.5
In the immaculate unchanging Absolute,
is there a preference between form and formless?
Between knowledge and no-knowledge?
My form is clear and empty like the sky.
How is perception of objects possible.
7.6
Self is indivisible and boundless, like space.
Its nature is ever-pure and forever changeless.
How can there be division and separation?
How can there be bondage and liberation?
How can there be any changes whatever?
7.7
Everywhere there is one Absolute Truth,
one timeless Reality.
How can there b3e separation and union?
The One is the All, unceasing.
How can there be notions of loss and gain,
weakness and strength, void and substance?
7.8
Everywhere there is one Absolute Truth,
pure, empty, infinite as Space.
How can it be together or apart?
Have color or no-color? Be happy or unhappy?
Have enemies or friends?
7.9
The Avadhuta may observe the precepts of yoga
or he may not. Even so, he is called a yogi.
He may have experiences and possessions
or he may not. Even so he enjoys.
He is free of enjoyment and non-enjoyment,
therefore he enjoys. He moves about serenely,
his mind at rest in contentment.
7.10
If a practitioner of yoga believes in knowledge
and ignorance, duality and non-duality,
how can he realize Truth? How can he
be dispassionate in life? How can he enjoy
the immensity of immaculate Oneness?
7.11
Self is infinite and boundless as sky.
It is uncreated and cannot be destroyed.
It is devoid of concepts like whole and divided,
like hold on and let go.
How can there be talk of true or false,
expansion or contraction, substance or void?
Self is the eternal auspicious moment.
7.12
Unattached to life and the world,
the Avadhuta abides in Self.
He has transcended all things
and is free of birth and death.
What does it matter if he meditates or not?
7.13
The world is made by magic.
It is nothing but illusion, a mirage in the desert.
Only the Absolute Self exists.
7.14
Avadhutas do not seek wealth and enjoyment,
nor do they seek righteousness or liberation.
We are indifferent to everything!
Only seekers are concerned with ideas
about passion and dispassion,
attachment and non-attachment.
7.15
Where knowing cannot go,
how can there be knowledge?
Supremely pure and free,
absorbed in infinite bliss,
the Avadhuta spontaneously sings
the songs of Absolute Reality.