Akhandam Satchidhanandam,

Avang Manasagoccharam,

Aitmanam Akhila Dharam,

Ashrae Bhishda Siddhye.

Good evening and Namaste everybody. We are studying Vedantasaara and in that we were on text number 50. We have done up to text number 50. So what have we got so far? We've got our main players in setting up the system of Vedanta.

The ultimate reality, which is very simple in Vedantah, Brahman, the absolute existence consciousness

place, non-dual. So which makes it very simple for us. Non-dual means there's nothing apart from that.

But then now you have to explain everything, all of this.

How do you explain that?

So for that, the next player that was introduced was Maya.

And Maya is nothing apart from Brahman because it's not real.

It's an appearance in Brahman, so it's not apart from Brahman. Therefore,

Brahman still remains non-dual. It's not too. It's not Brahman and Maya. It's Brahman.

But Maya for to explain what we are experiencing. Now Maya, and then Brahman limited by Maya,

becomes the god of this universe, which is names are Ishwara,

names are Saguna Brahman and so on, multiple names for giving.

Maya has total aspect and an individual aspect.

So taken in an individual aspect, Brahman through what I mean by individual aspect is just

you can think of it very simply as a tiny bit of Maya, a little bit of Maya, one tiny aspect of Maya,

one tiny little power of Maya. Remember the example of the cobra with all the poison in its

mouth and only a little bit of the poison. So Brahman through the individual aspect of Maya becomes an individual sentient being like us.

So now we have Brahmhan, Maya, God, individual sentient beings, us, Jivas.

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