• Avadhūta (IAST avadhūta, written as अवधूत) is a Sanskrit term from the root 'to shake' (see V. S. Apte and Monier-Williams) that, among its many uses...
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  • Avadhuta Gita (Devanagari: अवधूत गीता, IAST: Avadhūta Gītā) is a Sanskrit text of Hinduism whose title means "Song of the free soul". The text's poetry...
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    tradition in Hinduism. One of the most important texts of Hinduism, namely Avadhuta Gita (literally, "song of the free soul") is attributed to Dattatreya....
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    Ganapathi Sachchidananda, also known as Sri Swamiji, is a Hindu avadhuta and guru. He is a religious figure mainly in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil...
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  • is sandhi from na iti "not so"). It is found in the Upanishads and the Avadhuta Gita and constitutes an analytical meditation helping a person to understand...
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    The Avadhuta Upanishad (अवधूत उपनिषद) is a medieval era Sanskrit text and is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. The text is attached to the Krishna...
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  • pursuits or resulting thereof. According to Feuerstein, the designation avadhūta (Sanskrit: अवधूत) came to be associated with the mad or eccentric holiness...
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  • except that his name is recorded in the Avadhuta Upanishad, where Lord Dattatreya explains the nature of an avadhuta to Sage Sankriti. Gotra, Sankritya or...
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  • in Hindu and Buddhist traditions such as Advaita Vedanta (e.g. in the Avadhūta Gītā), Mahāyāna Buddhism (e.g. in the Ratnagotravibhāga), Vaishnavism (e...
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    the 18th century. Dattatreya the avadhuta, to whom has been attributed the esteemed nondual medieval song, the Avadhuta Gita, was a founding adi guru of...
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