Ome, Vasudeva,

Vandhya,

Gamsachanuram Ardhanam,

Devaki, Paramanandam,

Krishna, Vande, Jagad Guru.

So in the Bhagavad Gurdom So in the Bhagavad Gita, we are studying chapter 3

and I had mentioned a couple of classes or several classes ago that

in Madhusudan Saraswati's commentary, I had found one sentence

which sort of summed up spiritual life or as spiritual

life we see in Adwaita Vedant, that one.

You know, the Bhagavad Gita has many commentaries.

Well known among them is Shankaracharya's commentary written about 1,400 years ago.

In Shankaracharya's tradition, that is the non-dualist tradition,

Adwaita Vedant tradition, there are other commentaries

such as this one and this one too.

I think Shredarswami's commentaries slightly earlier,

which is a very simple, very nice, balanced kind of commentary.

Shankarachari's commentary is called a bhaasya, which interprets Bhagavata, interprets Bhagavata

in the paradigm of addual Vedantanth, and also seeks to establish the philosophy of nonwaita Vedanth, non-dual Vedantha, and also seeks to establish the

philosophy of non-duality. What that involves is, when you are trying to not only explain a text,

but also establish a philosophy, there will be sections where you take up opposing points of

view, other philosophies, try to refute them, try to

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