Ome, Asatoma,

Ome, Asatom, Ashto Ma, Sadgamaya, Tamasoamajy Jotirgamaya, Mritiurma amritam Gama Ome,

Shanty, shanty,

shanty,

hary,

Om, tatsat.

Ome

lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from the unreal to the real lead us from darkness to light lead us from

death to immortality oh peace peace peace so we are studying the Drigdrisya Viveka and over the past few classes, we have seen the six techniques of meditation.

In Adwaita Vedantah, the practice consists of the words are

Shravana, Manana, Nidhyasana.

Hearing, which means a systematic study of the Vedant

under a competent teacher.

And reflection, using reasoning to grasp what we have studied.

And then we have Nidhyasana, which is meditation,

which is an attempt to absorb the truths which we have studied and grasped.

Now it is this third stage, Nidhyasana, where we have the six techniques in this book.

The six techniques, if you recollect, they are three internal and three external. The three internal techniques being, the first technique

is using an object to become aware of the witness consciousness. Using an object, a thought. A thought

to become aware of the witness consciousness. The second, and then next what you do is use a Vedantic text to stabilize the awareness

of yourself as the witness consciousness.

You drop the object the thought.

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