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avadhuta owl

let me structure you first: there, now, ready, fly my owl granting vision logic, guiding thoughtform fair. what softness in the earth gives way to waterway, what forceful gust of air to final quench of earthy thirst... such unseen pyschomancy dusts the wing-stroke of your flight, and weathers well my musing trust; you see with ancient zero eye, and die to my dull interpret edge; like a certain volcano jumper's ox of oats and honey you coat the stone of time to symbolize my rhyme. hold, softer, still, i do not need to cut or pluck or forge with harshness -- your shrill screeching from the cage of lines here summons more than Athene's gavel ever forced. otherwise than writing, you wait... cradled darkly, unknown priorlife of avadhuta colors mixing in, of whalesong faintly felt like stegosaurus moans, like city-ships to overreach and then to rot, forgotten tattva vidya shastra forgotten sukha, Megbe, Tirawa, Awen, Asha, Ichor...
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Written by
vircapio-gale
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Jun 21, 2012
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(अवधूत avadhūta) is a Sanskrit term from some Indian religions or Dharmic Traditions referring to a type of mystic or saint who is beyond egoic-consciousness, duality and common worldly concerns and acts without consideration for standard social etiquette. Such personalities "roam free like a child upon the face of the Earth" (wiki).

अव 'ava':

favour; off, away, down.

धूत 'dhUta':

shaken, stirred, agitated; "rinsed"; fanned, kindled; shaken off, removed, destroyed; judged; reproached; [neut.] morality

अव-धूत 'avadhUta':

"shaken off (as evil spirits)"; removed, shaken away; discarded, expelled, excluded; disregarded, neglected, rejected; touched; shaken, agitated (especially as plants or the dust by the wind), fanned; that upon which anything unclean has been shaken out or off; unclean; one who has shaken, off from themselves worldly feeling and obligation, a philosopher; [neut.] rejecting, repudiating

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tattva-vidya-shastra:

"discipline of knowing reality" (one modern sanskrit term for philosophical enquiry -- the language having no straightforward equivalents for 'philosophy' or 'religion')

sukha:

skt. for happiness, comfort, ease, pleasure, bliss, light, space.

    fr. Su(good) & kha (“sky,” “ether,” “space,” orig. “hole,” particularly an axle hole of one of the Aryan’s vehicles, thus “having a good axle hole,” while dukkha meant “having a poor axle hole,” leading to discomfort

Megbe (African):

life force exists in blood and bones

Tirawa (Pawnee):

'force which moves all things'

Awen (Welsh):

"(poetic) inspiration"; also considered a force or

energy forged from an indivisible source that is the power behind the

physical

Asha (Avestan):

'truth', 'existence', 'right working', "the decisive confessional

concept of Zoroastrianism" (in Vedic language ṛta). "The correspondence between 'truth',

reality, and an all-encompassing cosmic principle is not far removed

from Heraclitus' conception of Logos." (wiki)

Ichor (Gk):

ἰχώρ is the ethereal golden fluid that is the blood of the gods

and/or immortals

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