num_pages: 168
description: Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya an ancient text of pure Nonduality describing Self-Realization and the transcendence of all else. Contains the Sanskrit (devanagari) text transliteration and English translation. Notes by the translator. This version by Swami Ashokananda is the most popular translation.The singer of the Avadhuta Gita is Dattatreya an Avadhuta and according to the Nath Sampradaya the work was heard and transcribed by two of Dattatreya's disciplesSwami and Kartika. Ashokananda (18931969) in Katz (2007: p. 47) holds that [t]he Avadhuta Gita is a text of Vedanta representing extreme Advaita or Nondualism... that is Advaita Vedanta with an emphasis on extreme. As such this text may also be considered a forerunner of Tantric literature as the themes motif and orientation of this 'song' (Sanskrit: gita) are common to Shaivite Tantras Buddhist Tantras and Vaishnava Agamas (which are also tantric literature) and ancient Yoga philosophy.
language: English
title: Avadhuta Gita of Dattatreya
publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai