Ome, Akhandam, Satchidhanandam, Avang Manasagocharam,

Aitmanam Akhila Dharam, Ashrayhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh So we are done up to text number 97.

We have done up to that.

Quick, big picture summary.

What have we got so far? The teacher is teaching Vedantah by the method of

Adhyaropa, upavada, which translates into superimposition and desuperimposition. What's it like? It's like showing how from the rope a snake appears by mistake, by error. And so how a rope is mistaken

as a snake and how we correct this error. We negate the snake to get the reality, which is the

rope. So adjha rope superimposition is mistaking the rope for a snake,

is the appearance of the snake in the rope, by mistake.

And upavada, negation, or de-superimposition

is recognizing that it is not a snake, it is a rope.

Now what's going on so far? So far what we have is, so far what we have is the appearance of the snake. So far we have the appearance of the snake. And that means you may be thinking where's the snake? We't come across a snake yet now the entire universe

which we experience ultimate reality is brahman but that we are we do not see that we are ignorant of

that we do not know that that is ignorance and in in the place of that we we mistake brahman for

this universe now this universe what Now this universe, what you might call creation,

what you might call the experienced universe here, it has three stages or three levels. Causal,

subtle, gross. In Sanskrit, carana, sokshshthsthoola. The universe has three levels. Karana, sukshshma, Sthula. The universe has three levels.

Karana, sokshshma, Sthula.

At the causal level, remember, all these are the snake.

These are not ultimately real.

Ultimately, the reality is existence and consciousness placed Brahman, the non-dual reality.

But the appearance has three levels, causal, subtle and gross.

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