Ome Akhandam Satchidhananandam,

Avang Manasagoccharam,

Athmanam Akhila Dharam,

Ashraibhistasidhdi 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 studying the means for enlightenment in Adwaita Vedantah and the means are Shravana Manana Nidhyasana.

Literally if you translate them, they mean shravana means hearing, manana means reflection, reasoning,

and Nidhythana means meditation.

More specifically, Shravana means systematically studying Vedantanth, means primarily the Vedantanthakest, which we will take up soon, but also all the other texts based on the Upanishads.

The Brahmasutras, the Bhagavad Gita, and indeed all of these texts, including the Vedantasara.

And they say, it's not that you have to study all of them and put them together, then only you know what Vedant says. No, each of these texts independently points to the truth.

Core texts, of course, the root texts are the Upanishads.

So what you're learned in Vedan Tasara is exactly what we will learn when we study the Upanishads.

Just the approach is different, language is different, and a variety of approaches,

variety of ways of trying to point out the same truth.

Now when I say systematically studying Vedantha, and a competent student from a competent teacher. But what is the

system? The system is what we were looking at last time. The six-fold method of interpreting

a text. Upakrama upasanghar, the beginning and end of the text. Then abhasa, repetition, then Apurvata, the uniqueness, the unique message of that particular text.

Then, Attawada, what is praised, what is the eulogies there.

Then there is the psalam, the result.

What are you going to gain out of all of this?

What's the purpose of the point of this entire exercise?

That, if you look at that, that also tells you the meaning of the text and points to the meaning of the text.

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