61. The whole universe shines undivided and unbroken. Oh, the maya, the great delusion – the imagination of duality and nonduality!
Maya – ignorance.
62. Always “not this, not this” to both the formless and the formed. Only the Absolute exists, transcending difference and non difference.
“Not this”, etc. – No formed or formless object can be considered to be the ultimate Reality.
63. You have no mother, no father, no wife, no son, no relative, no friend. You have no likes or dislikes. Why is this anguish in your mind?
64. O mind, for you there is no day or night, rising or setting. How can the wise imagine an embodied state for the bodiless?
65. The Self is neither divided nor undivided – nor has It sadness, happiness, and the like, nor is It all or less than all. Know the Self to be immutable.
66. I am not the doer or enjoyer. Work have I none, now or formerly. I have no body nor am I bodiless. How can I have or not have a sense of “my-ness”?
67. I have no fault such as passion and the like – nor have I any sorrow arising from the body. Know me to be the one Self, vast and like the sky.
68. Friend mind, of what use is much vain talk? Friend mind, all this is mere conjecture. I have told you that which is the essence: You indeed are the Truth, like the sky.
All, etc. – Words and ideas, being finite and related to finite objects, can never reveal Truth completely.
69. In whatever place yogis die, in whatever state, there they dissolve, as the space of a jar dissolves into the sky.
Dissolve, etc. – become identified with the Self.
70. Giving up the body in a holy place or in the house of a candala, the yogi, even if he has lost consciousness, becomes identified with the Absolute as soon as he is free of the body.
Candala – one belonging to the lowest stratum – considered unclean and impure – of Hindu society.
Lost, etc. – that is to say, apparently so. The inward awareness of the yogi can never be clouded.
71. The yogis consider duty in life, pursuit of wealth, enjoyment of love, liberation, and everything movable or immovable such as man and so on to be a mirage.
72. This is my certain perception: I neither perform nor enjoy past action, future action, or present action.
73. The avadhuta alone, pure in evenness of feeling, abides happy in an empty dwelling place. Having renounced all, he moves about naked. He perceives the Absolute, the All, within himself.
Avadhuta – a liberated soul, one who has “passed away from” or “shaken off” all worldly attachments and cares, and has realized his identity with God.
74. Where there are neither the three states of consciousness nor the fourth, there one attains the Absolute in the Self. How is it possible to be bound or free – where there is neither virtue nor vice?
75. The avadhuta never knows any mantra in Vedic metre nor any tantra. This is the supreme utterance of the avadhuta, purified by meditation and merged in the sameness of infinite Being.
Mantra – a hymn or a sacred prayer.
Tantra – system of rites and ceremonies.
This – the truth as enunciated in the whole discourse.
76. There exists neither complete void nor voidlessness, neither truth nor untruths of the scriptures, has uttered this spontaneously from his own nature.
Truth – Complete Truth does not exist in the plane of relative existence.
