Ome Akhandam Satchidhanandam,

Avang Manasagocharam,

Athmanam Akhila Dharam,

Ashrae Bhishda Siddhye. I take refuge in the self, I take refuge in the self,

the indivisible, the existence, consciousness,

bliss, absolute, beyond the reach of words and thought

and the substratum of all for the attainment of my cherished desire.

So we are reading the section on all for the attainment of my cherished desire.

So we are reading a section on the inquiry into who am I, various ideas of the athman, of the self.

What's going on in this chapter?

Remember, the whole teaching is in the form of

Adhyra-Rop above Vada, superimposition and desuperimposition.

We are Brahman, but we have superimposed.

That means, so superimposition means taking something for what it is not,

taking a rope to be a snake, by mistake, by error.

We do not realize that we are brahman but we

experience a world and a body and a mind and we think of ourselves as limited beings as jivas

and involved in samsharam so this is our current state this is called adhyaroba superimposition

how did we come to be in this state?

This is what is going on.

From Brahman up to this universe and with the body mind superimposed, here we are.

So what do we superimposed?

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