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Avadhuta Upanishad: Verse 8

कृत्स्नमेतच्चित्रं कर्म । स्वैरं न विगायेत् तन्महाव्रतम् । न स मूढवल्लिप्यते ॥८॥

कृत्स्नम् । एतत् । चित्रम् । कर्म । स्वैरम् । न । विगायेत् । तत् । महा-व्रतम् । न । सः । मूढ-वत् । लिप्यते ॥८॥

Recitation with translationAvadhuta Upanishad 8

kṛtsnam etac citraṃ karma | svairaṃ na vigāyet tanmahāvratam | na sa mūḍhavad lipyate ||8||

ఈ సమస్త కర్మ ఒక విచిత్ర ప్రదర్శన మాత్రమే. దానిని స్వేచ్ఛగా పాడి ప్రచారం చేయకూడదు—అదే మహావ్రతం. అతడు మూఢుడిలా లిప్తుడవడు కాదు॥८॥

All this action is a variegated display. One should not sing it out (i.e., not proclaim/celebrate it) at will; that is the great vow. He is not tainted like the deluded.

Non-doership (akartṛtva) and non-attachment to karma; māyā as displayMahavakya: Consistent with ‘aham brahmāsmi’: knowing oneself as Brahman, one does not identify with the spectacle of action.AtharvaChandas: Prose/short śloka-like cadence (non-strict)

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