Dattatreya's Song of the Avadhut Book

One of the best known mystical treatises of ancient classical Indian literature, The Avadhut Gita or &#34Song of the Avadhut,&#34is also one of the most siblime and uncompromising poetic statements ever written on the unitive knowledge obtained through mystical vision. It has stood for centuries as the quentissential representative of jnan, the path of knowledge. Abhayananda provifdes a compellingly eloquent English translation, with transliterated Sanskrit on facing pages.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Swami Abhayananda was born Stan Trout in Indianapolis, Indiana on August 14, 1938. After service in the Navy, he settled in northern California, where he pursused studies in philosophy and literature. In June of 1966 he experienced a strong desire to know God. Abandoning everything else, he retired to a secluded cabin in the mountain forests near Santa Cruz, California, and attained what he sought. AFter five years in his cabin, he journeyed to India to study with a Guru there, and in 1978 was initiated as a monk and was given the name Swami Abhayananda, &#34the bliss of fearlessness." Later, he taught meditation and the art of Self-Realization in various cities throughout the U.S., and has lately been living in the Olympia area of Western Washington state where he continues to teach, write, and publish his works of the knowledge of the Self.