He was saying that that delusion is a prison.

And that's a fact.

You know, it's like when we think that I'm separate from everything, we actually enter

into a prison of fear.

It's like now I need to kind of carve out my place within this environment and kind of fight for the resources.

And those that are thinking that actually there is a oneness here, and I'm part of that, and that's

eternal, it kind of gives one a state of peace of mind by which you can kind of just stop thinking about yourself in one sense

and you think about the larger self in another sense and that self includes everyone you know there's there's a

there's a really interesting we're going to come up against this, come up to this today in our reading of the Bhagwata.

But a really interesting question gets asked because we've been reading about how the residents of Randavin loved Krishna more than they love their own children.

And, and, and, and, you know, to Marash Prickett, he's saying, like, that's, we don't

see that so much, you know, like, generally people love their own children, like, with

extreme feeling.

And other children, you know, they may want the best for them. They may, you know,

they may wish them the best, but there's not the same kind of investment. But these, this was a

different thing. And why is that? And the answer that Shukadavu Goswami gives, and Shugodev

Gosewami is like the most full-on other-worldly being.

You know, he's from the zone that like, that Einstein is just chipping away at.

You know, like, Einstein's like, I think I'm figuring something out here about the universe.

And Shugabev-Goswami is like, he's there, like, fully.

And he gives an answer that really speaks

to this point that I think we'll find interesting

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