Dattatreya
Jīvanmukta Gītā (Song of the One Liberated While Living)
Traditional attribution
Jīvanmukta Gītā (Song of the One Liberated While Living)
जीवन्मुक्तगीता (Jīvanmuktagītā)
A short Sanskrit poem on liberation while living. It rejects the idea that liberation consists in the death of the body (if so, it says, pigs and dogs would also be liberated) and defines the liberated one as he who sees Śiva established in all beings; according to its last verses and the commentary, he renounces inwardly everything born of illusion and may outwardly seem inert. Maharaja Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar translated it with a commentary in 1957.
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Authorship note
The colophon declares it "composed by Śrī Dattātreya, lion of Vedānta". Real author and date unknown.
Editions and translations
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English
Dattatreya
Dattātreya: The Way and the Goal
The Conscious LibraryDattātreya: The Way and the Goal
George Allen & Unwin, Londres, 1957
Translation: Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar
Sánscrito · संस्कृतम्
Dattatreya
जीवन्मुक्तगीता (con el comentario de Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar)
The Conscious Libraryजीवन्मुक्तगीता (con el comentario de Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar)
Wikisource en sánscrito
El texto es de dominio público; el comentario de Wadiyar (m. 1974) no lo es.
Other works by Dattatreya
- Avadhūta Gītā (Song of the Liberated One) · 950
- Tripurā Rahasya (The Mystery of Tripurā)
- Dattātreyayogaśāstra (Dattātreya's Treatise on Yoga) · 1200
- Jābāladarśana Upaniṣad (Darśana Upaniṣad)
- Avadhūta Upaniṣad · 1400
- The teaching of yoga to Alarka (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa)
- The twenty-four teachers: dialogue of the avadhūta with Yadu (Bhāgavata Purāṇa 11.7–9) · 900
- Dattātreya Tantra
Sources
- जीवन्मुक्तगीता (Jīvanmuktagītā), texto sánscrito con el comentario de Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar, Wikisource en sánscrito; colofón: «compuesta por Śrī Dattātreya, león del vedānta».
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