So in the Bhagavad Gita, we are studying the fourth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.

The big question, the grand question here was that not only how to become spiritual, how to become

enlightened, how to realize God, but how does it impact our lives? How do we manifest that

spirituality in our day-to-day lives? How do you combine your daily

life with your spirituality? So that is the big question. And that synthesis is done by Sri

Krishna. He gives that remarkable verse, very paradoxical language,

where it shows us the secret of action, seeing action in inaction and inaction in action.

So that verse shows us the very heart of Advaita Vedanta as applied to our karma, our work-a-day life.

And that section culminated in the grand vision,

Brahmharparn-Bramha-Pra-Havvy, of the experience of Brahman

everywhere, in the midst of all activity.

It is not that spirituality and our daily lives are divorced that there is something else called

spiritual and something else called secular but it's actually the spiritualization of what we call

our secular lives so that's it now after that Sri Krishna has been giving us a series of spiritual practices, 12.

And he has been telling us about these spiritual practices in a special way, using the language of yagya.

Yagya is the term which means the Vedic fire sacrifice, the kind of ritual that people at that time were familiar with.

So Sri Krishna uses that language.

And in fact, the highest adduaitic teaching, Brahmhar, Paramha, Brahmhavi, that was taught in the format of a yagya.

No, Brahman is the offering, Brahman is the ladle by which you make the offering, the fire is Brahman.

He is drawing the picture of a Vedic ritual, but he does not mean the Vedic ritual itself.

What he means is how do you manifest your non-dual realization in day-to-day life, in the midst of activity.

So, after that, he has given a list of several spiritual practices, several disciplines, which are

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