Kindred and modern voices
Avadhūta Gītā
The song of one who has dropped everything, including the vocabulary of dropping things.
c. 9th–10th century · Dattātreya
- When
- c. 9th–10th century
- Behind it
- Dattātreya
- Where it sits
- Kindred and modern voices
Read for the taste of it rather than for instruction.
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Commentaries worth trusting
Read by teachers within the tradition, not summaries of it.
- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, on the avadhūta state — Sri Ramakrishna Ramakrishna loved this text and lived what it describes; the Gospel shows it in a life.
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