Tolstoy was definitely reading Bhaghita and Upanishads. He definitely had a lot of a Bhakti kind of, you know,

leanings in his realizations about life. And when I read this, you know, I'm here in Bhagavidja,

like six chapter. This is, this is something I always like to to read and discuss we go if we go

to the sixth chapter talks about the state of awareness that one can achieve

through yoga and it says that that this perfection is characterized by one's

ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self

okay he the pierre had been living in this world where he the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self.

Pierre had been living in this world where he said he was trying to find happiness in life by achieving certain goals, right?

What to speak of just like the kind of decadence that was involved in that world?

But he discovered through this man that happiness is something that actually lies within the self.

And when you find that, then the external circumstances don't matter.

So again, this reads, this perfection is characterized by one's ability to see the self, by the pure mind, and to relish and rejoice in the self.

In that joyous state, one is situated in boundless

transidental happiness, realized through transcendental senses, and establish thus, if you could achieve

the state of consciousness, one never departs from the truth. And upon gaining this, they think

there's no greater gain, right? I don't need to gain anything else external.

Everything that I need, I've gained the greatest thing. Being situated in such a position,

one has never shaken, even in the midst of the greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual

freedom from all miseries arising from material contact. Now this peasant slave or prisoner you know he's

being marched around it what eventually what happens is he just can't keep up with the marching

anymore and they just shoot him but he even that he was like kind of okay with you know like

he he was just um he he he had achieved some of okay with you know like he he was just um he he had achieved some kind of

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