Oom, Shri Harim, Paramanandam, Upadeshhtaram, Ishwaram,

Vyapakam, Sarvalka lokana,

Karnam Tannam,ammamamiamyam. Again, because of the cold, the few hardy souls we have got.

Well, yes, that is the Vedantic quality of Tithikshah. hardy souls we have got.

Well, yes, that is the Vedantic quality of Titika, which is spiritual fortitude.

I'll put up with heat and cold and physical illness, problems that the world throws at me, and pursue, in spite of all of that, pursue spiritual knowledge.

So that's the spirit of Vedanata.

In Aparoaksha Anubhoti, we were on verse number 76.

Shankarachari is giving us a series of examples.

I actually sat down and counted how many there were

in this series, in this particular series, from verse 70 onwards.

I counted 22 examples up to verse 86.

So what Shankarachari is trying to establish is the oneness of all existence.

That Brahman is the only reality, the oneness of existence.

That is the subject that's going on right now.

And how do you accomplish that? The problem is, when we experience the world, we certainly do

not see oneness. What we see is variety, plurality. Right here, there's so many people and

their chairs and there are so many items in this room, so much variety in this world. What do you even

mean by oneness? The oneness, which Adwaita wants to establish is not against the experience of variety or experience of plurality.

Follow me here carefully.

Adweta does not deny that you seem to be experiencing plurality.

But what Adweta says is, underneath this experience of plurality, there is a fundamental

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