Avadhuta Upanishad 7 — Verse 7

Sanskrit (Devanagari)

स्वैरं स्वैरविहरणं तत्संसरणम् । सांबरा वा दिगंबरा वा । न तेषां धर्माधर्मौ न मेध्यामेधौ । सदा सांग्रहण्येष्ट्यश्वमेधान्तयागं यजते । स महामखो महायोगः ॥७॥

Padapatha (Word Split)

स्वैरम् । स्वैर-विहरणम् । तत्-संसरणम् । सांबरा । वा । दिगंबरा । वा । न । तेषाम् । धर्म-अधर्मौ । न । मेध्य-अमेध्यौ । सदा । साङ्ग्रहणी-इष्टि-अश्वमेध-अन्त-यागम् । यजते । सः । महा-मखः । महा-योगः ॥७॥

IAST Transliteration

svairaṃ svairaviharaṇaṃ tatsaṃsaraṇam | sāṃbarā vā digambarā vā | na teṣāṃ dharmādharmau na medhyāmedhyau | sadā sāṅgrahaṇīṣṭyaśvamedhāntayāgaṃ yajate | sa mahāmakho mahāyogaḥ ||7||

Translation

ಅವರ ವಿಹಾರ ಸ್ವೈರ; ಅವರ ಸಂಸರಣ ಸ್ವತಂತ್ರ ಸಂಚಾರ. ವಸ್ತ್ರಧಾರಿಗಳಾಗಲಿ ದಿಗಂಬರರಾಗಲಿ. ಅವರಿಗೆ ಧರ್ಮಾಧರ್ಮಗಳಿಲ್ಲ, ಶುದ್ಧಾಶುದ್ಧಗಳಿಲ್ಲ. ಸದಾ ಅಶ್ವಮೇಧಾಂತ ಅಂತಿಮಾಹುತಿವರೆಗೆ ಯಜ್ಞವನ್ನು ನೆರವೇರಿಸುವವನು; ಅವನು ಮಹಾಮಖ, ಮಹಾಯೋಗಿ.

Academic Translation

Free (is) their wandering; their movement is spontaneous roaming. Clothed or sky-clad (naked). For them there are no (categories of) dharma and adharma, no pure and impure. Always he performs the sacrifice that culminates in the Aśvamedha and the final offering; he is the great sacrificer, the great yogin.

Verse Context

• Jīvanmukti; transcendence of dualities (dvandva) and ritual purity/impurity
• Mahavakya: Implied fruit of ‘prajñānam brahma’/‘ayam ātmā brahma’: when Brahman is known as one’s Self, conventional opposites lose absolute binding force.
• Atharva
• Chandas: Prose/metrical prose (late Upaniṣadic)