Ome, Vasudeva,

soam, Devam, Kamsachanurramaddanam,

Devaki, Paramanandandam, Krishna, Vande Jagad Gurum.

So it's been a little disrupted over the past few months. First of all, I went off to India.

And then I had multiple speaking commitments in different places across the United States.

And most of it, the brunt was born by the Gita class because it's on a Friday evening.

The invitations are usually over the weekend. So I would be traveling.

We are on the eighth chapter. One way of looking at the Bhagavad Gita which has 18 chapters

is to divide it into three sets of six chapters each, chapters one to six and then seven to 12,

then 13 to 18.

And then equate these three sets with the great Vedantic saying,

Tatuamasi, that thou art.

The idea in non-dual Vedanta, Thadwita Vedanta is that the central teaching of all of these texts

is that you are the ultimate reality, your own nature,

our own nature, if we realize who we are, is Brahman, the ultimate reality.

Now, tat is that absolute reality. Tuam is you, the individual being.

Now, the first six chapters, according to this division, the first set of six chapters,

concentrates on finding out who we are.

And the next six chapters, the one where we are now from chapter seven onwards,

focuses on that as the god of religion, the god of theistic religions, you know, the creator, preserve,

a destroyer of the world. And the final six chapters will tell us about the oneness, how,

the what our reality and the reality of God are one and the same. It does not mean that you are God.

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