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

其行游自在；其动转乃随缘漫行。或着衣，或如虚空般裸形。于彼无所谓法与非法，无所谓净与不净。恒常之中，他行那以马祭（Aśvamedha）与终极供献为归结之大祭；彼为大祭主，亦为大瑜伽行者。

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)