Ome, Vasudeva, Sutam, Devam, Kamshachanuram Ardhanam,

Devaki, Paramanaanandam, Krishna, Vande, Jagad Gurum. So we are the Gha'ad Gourou.

So we are studying the Bhagavad Gita. We are on the ninth chapter.

And I had mentioned earlier that the Bhagavad Gita divided into 18 chapters. One way of looking at the

whole Gita is that you can divide it into three parts of six chapters each. Chapter 1 to 6,

7 to 12 and then 13 to 18. What would these three these divisions mean?

The central teaching of Vedantah is

Tatwamasi, you are that or that

thou art. According to some

teachers, Mother Sudden Saraswati for example,

the

Gita can be divided into three parts based on this central teaching, that

thou art, you are Brahman. So the first part, the first six chapters talks about the nature,

our real nature, who we are, the nature of the self, that we are not body mind, that we have witnessed consciousness and so on.

The second six chapters talks about God, the God of religion,

the creator, preserve, a destroyer of this world, which is worshipped as God in all theistic traditions

and whose incarnation is Krishna. So that's the second six chapters, talks about God.

The last six chapters are supposed to be about the identity.

You are that. How, in what sense, you're not literally God, sorry, but

in what sense are you identical with the divine?

Of course, it's a very broad way of looking at it and in each of these sections there are many things,

not just the nature of the soul or God or the identity.

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