Ome, Vasudeva,

sootam, Devam,

Kamsachanuram Ardana,

Devaki, Paramanandam,

Krishna, Vande Jagad Guru.

So we are studying the 11th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita, which is the chapter on what is called

Vishwaraupadarshana, the vision of the cosmic form.

Vishwara rupa literally means cosmic form.

And it's a unique chapter in the whole Bhagavad Gita.

All the chapters have Krishna teaching Arjuna something, except the first one, where Arjuna

is basically whining. No, I mean that's not fair. So there, it's the beginning of the whole Bhagavad Gita because Arjuna raises a very serious

question there, the question of war.

I was just yesterday in Stony Brook University in a group of philosophers.

And one of the philosophers said to me, you know, I'm worried about this question.

I know somebody is going to ask me very soon in the class, the war, should we fight or not fight?

And just to make it clear, none of these philosophers are going to fight.

But they are worried about it.

I said, yeah, go ahead and fight.

No, no, no, it's not that simple.

It is true, it's not that simple at all.

And I told them an anecdote about Bertrand, Russell, and Wittgenstein.

So in the First World War, Bertrand, Russell and Wittgenstein, both were in, they were in Cambridge University before that.

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