I'm Akhandam Satchidhanandam,

Avang Manasogocharam,

Atmanam Akhila Dharam, Ashray Bheistasidhya.

I take refuge as 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.

Now we have reached a natural high point, a kind of climax in our study.

That is the study of the analysis of the Mahavakia, the great sentence, that thou art.

We were on text number 169, which concludes the study of the analysis of the profound statement, the great sentence that thou art.

I have said earlier that all of Adwaita Vedant can be summarized by these great, quote unquote, great sentences.

And these great sentences, they all mean the same thing,

that the identity of the individual and the cosmic, the Jiva and Brahman,

or more directly, they mean that you are this infinite existence consciousness bliss.

So this is the central teaching of Adwaita Vedantah and the way we studied it was we were given the sentence

Tatvam Asi that thou art and this is from the Chandogya Upanishad, where the father is teaching the son, and through several examples and arguments that you are that ultimate reality.

To understand this sentence, we had to go through three stages, a process with three steps of stages. And these stages are

actually relationships, three kinds of sambandha relationships. What are these relationships? One

relationship is the saman adikaranyam between the words themselves. That, thou art, so that and thou

between these two words, what is the relationship? Saman adikaranyam. So what's the issue here?

When you have a sentence, a sentence has many words and those many words will usually refer to many objects.

And if the many objects are referred to by a sentence, then you are not talking about non-duality there.

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