Avadhuta Gita

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The Avadhuta Gita ( Sanskrit , f., अवधूत गीत, avadhūta gīta , literal; "Song of an enlightened one") is a holy script of Hinduism . It tries to use paradoxical statements to move the reader to a task of "thinking in preconceived categories", which - similar to Buddhism - should lead to a more direct, intuitive knowledge of reality.

Text example: IT is not suitable for short or long discussions. Geometric terms such as circular or triangular are not applicable to it. "(Avadhuta Gita 5.7) " It cannot be discussed in conceptual concepts such as cause and effect or in grammatical constructions. "

The Avadhuta Gita, divided into seven chapters, is a continuation and compression of the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta taught in the Upanishads and systematized by Shankara . In this sense, the Avadhuta Gita largely gets by "without God"; however, it is viewed as the revelation of a Hindu deity named Dattatreya .

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