The Avadhuta Gita, ascribed to Sage Dattatreya, is a text of Vedanta representing extreme Advaita. An Avadhuta is one who has shaken off all worldly attachments and has attained a spiritual state equivalent to the existence of God. The text is a small book of eight chapters, which breathes the atmosphere of the highest experience of Brahman. This is not a philosophical treatise establishing the tenets of Advaita, but gives expression to its highest conclusions as realised in the life of the great sage.
Swami Ashokananda, who was one of the spiritual giants of the Ramakrishna Order and the minister-in-charge of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco, USA, has transliterated and translated the text.