I'm

Akhandam Satchidhanandam

Iwam Manasagocharam

Aitladaharam Ahthila Dharam,

Asrae Bhaistasidhai 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 were for the attainment of my cherished desire.

So we were on text number 192,

which is meditation, Vedantic meditation. So the subject we are discussing are the practices.

What do you do? We do three things in Vedantanth. The core practices are Shavana, Manana, Nidhyasana, which literally mean hearing, reasoning and meditation.

By Shavana, we have understood that it is to study the text systematically. And the system also we looked at, what was the traditional system of interpreting

Vedantic texts.

So with the help of a competent teacher,

you go through the basic Vedantic texts.

And that gives you the idea, that gives you clarity

that the central teaching of all these texts

is that you are Brahman. What is Brahman? What are we exactly

and how are we Brahman? All these things are clearly mentioned there. So we understand the meaning

of the text or the teaching of the texts. And then the question might be that I have many,

many questions about all of this, many doubts.

And that is clarified in the second step, which is reasoning, which is mananam.

We saw last time, mananam is mananam to shruthasya advithiya-estunah, Vedanthan yukti bha,

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