Avadhuta Says,

  Dattatreya is stated to be the son of Sage Atri and Anasuya, as the manifest form (amsha sambhuta) of Sri Hari Narayana. Here, in Avadhuta-Gita, he instructs the King Yadu the essence of of what Sri Krishna instructs Uddhava as depicted in the Bhagavata (11. 7-9). Avadhuta asserts that "very few people aspire to think of redemption, liberation from worldly attachments; it is only by divine grace that one gets 'unity consciousness', samyak-prajnya or oneness- of the Self". All mortals are prone to think of the physical body as the self and get too much to it, the gross, temporal, and the sentient.

   There is not much difference between what Ashtavakra says, or Sage Vashishta tells Sri Rama, or, for that matter what Raikva and Avadhuta say. All the problems that the mortals face during their journey of life on this earth are due to the ignorance and the accompanying desire to become this and that. But, these great Sages, attained souls, reiterate that, "There is nothing to attain anything here!"

In fact, we are made to believe that the embodied soul craves for emancipation. But, Ashtavakra goes beyond this and says, "you are already liberated. Where is the need for another liberation?"

  Avadhuta says, "The Atman (Self or Soul) is everything and there is no difference or non-difference, whatsoever; even the question of existence ('sat') or non-existence ('asat') does not arise. This appears a little dismaying to me! In fact this is the essence of all Veda jnyana, vijnyana. Essentially, I am the formless, all-encompassing, and all-pervasive 'Atman', soul".

  The very moment one comes to realize this he/she gets redeemed from all bondage. But how to reach this state of existence or non-existence?
   Right from the day one, we open our eyes on this earth and get recognized as the son or daughter of so and so, little do we realize or understand that we are acquiring qualities, names, functions and forms, what all attributed to us by others and we are none of these! We do not possess any form and a name is yet to be given! We go on changing in our body-form week by week and get totally distorted stage after stage until we lie almost unconscious on the death-bed. We never get the impression that we are ever-changing, deteriorating, and would die anytime!
   Thus, it is essential to understand these sublime aspects before death.