Ome, Vasudeva,

sootam, Devam,

Kamsachanurramaraman,

Devaki, Paramanandam,

Krishna, Vande Jagad Guru.

So, we are studying the Bhagavad Ghiata and we are on chapter 13 just in case people have forgotten.

Yes, a very important chapter. I had mentioned earlier when we started chapter 13,

that it comes at a crucial inflection point in the Bhagavad Gita.

One way of dividing the Bhagavad Gita is into three parts,

chapter 1 to 6, then chapter 7 to 12 and then 13 to 18 in what sense the great

Vedantic teaching tautvahmasi you are that our real nature is Brahman you are that

the first six chapters are an investigation into the you, in Sanskrit Thum, you.

Who am I? What am I? So broadly speaking, first six chapters we find that investigation.

Then in the next six chapters, an investigation into that.

That is God here, the power of this in the universe.

That's from chapter 7 to 12.

And there is a good deal of truth in this,

because when we studied chapter 7 to 12,

we found a lot of Bhakti there devotion talk talk about God about incarnation about devotion and then finally brings it together you are that in what sense

not literally not in the vulgar direct sense of I am God, but my real nature is what God

also truly is. There is one shared divine reality, one limitless reality which we are.

And that becomes clear in the first two verses of the 13 chapter. Krishna says there that

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