Ome, Vasudeva, Sutam, Devam, Kamsachanuram Ardhanum,

Devaki, Paramanandam, Krishna, Vandhya, Jhaeghruh. Krishna one day Jagad Guru One of the things that I liked and I noticed in my short time at Harvard

is that people are open to questions.

So you're expected to think differently, think out of the box, and ask different questions.

I think I am much more in all of the professors than the kids are.

The other students, for them, these are just some old men who are saying something.

They are free to ask questions.

That's good.

There are two different approaches to this in Indian philosophy and in Western philosophy.

The difference is this.

Two of professors in Buddhism pointed this out.

When you look at textbooks in when you look at the texts of Indian philosophy, you will find some

core texts, but you will find a lot of commentary. So you have the Upanishads, and then you

have the commentary of Shankar Achari or somebody else, and then you have a sub-commentary on

the commentary. So for example, the Upanishads

are there and they are systematized in the sutras called the Brahma Sutras, which are composed by

Vyasa. And the Brahma Sutras, which are aphoristic, they are explained in the commentary of,

say, for example, Shankaracharya. There are other commentaries, Ramanuja's commentary,

Madhwar's commentary and so many commentaries. And Shankara's commentary is commented upon by,

the sub-commentary by Padma Padha, whose commentary is commented upon in a sub-sub-commentary

by Prakashatma Yati. And so it goes.

Now, in the Western tradition,

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