Verse 7

Avadhuta

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

Pengembaraan mereka bebas; geraknya ialah merayau spontan. Sama ada berselimut kain atau telanjang seperti langit. Bagi mereka tiada dharma dan adharma, tiada suci dan tidak suci. Senantiasa dia melaksanakan korban yang memuncak pada Aśvamedha dan persembahan penutup; dialah pengorban agung, yogin agung.

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)