I'm not going to be.

I'm going to be.

I'm going to be. Oh Oh O'm

Shri Harim Paramanandam

Upadeh Starram Ishwaram

Vyapakam, Sarvalokana,

Kharanam Tamm namayyam. One big secret about Adwaita Vedantha, which one should know about, is that it is essentially a two-step process of teaching.

It is a teaching, but it's a two-step process. And one should not forget that and get stuck at the first step.

The first step is when we distinguish ourselves from body and mind. The truth about ourselves is that we are infinite existence, consciousness, bliss, infinite consciousness, pure consciousness.

And this pure consciousness has to be distinguished from the body and mind in which it shines.

So this process of distinguishing the pure consciousness from body and mind is called vivaca.

Viveka literally means discrimination, analysis.

Separation.

Separation of what?

Two things which seem similar and which have become mixed up.

When you separate them, not physically, not by any kind of physical or chemical process,

but in understanding, in our realization, we separate them.

That is called Viveka.

Having separated them, you see, the process of Viveka gives us the feeling that there are actually two things

one is pure consciousness the atman the self the real self and the other one the body mind

the body mind complex it gives us the feeling now there are two things. But actually there are not two things.

This is the second step of Adwaita Vedantah.

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