Ome, Vasudeva, Suttam, Devam, Kamshachanurramarthan,

Devaki, Paramanandandam, Krishna, Vandeh Jagad Guru.

Good evening everybody and Namaste.

So we are studying the Bhagavad Gita, chapter 4.

And we were on verse, as far as I remember, on verse number 33 we were doing.

Remember that Sri Krishna had described spiritual practice as yagya.

He had used the format of a Vedic fire sacrifice, but to describe all sorts of spiritual practices.

Now, he concludes that section in the 33rd verse.

33rd verse.

Shreyaandrabya mayat, yaggyaa ygya fparnata,

Sarvank karma khylam, partha, ghani, parisama piety.

The sacrifice through knowledge is superior to sacrifice.

Performed with materials or sculpture of foes, all actions in their entirety of Partha are comprised in knowledge.

All right.

Here he is making the point. There's a point of all of these spiritual

practices is ultimately knowledge. Our whole problem is that we do not know the reality, reality about ourselves,

reality about the world, and that's the source of our problems. Shankaracharya's phrase,

Avidya karma.

Avidya means ignorance.

Karma means desire.

Karma means action.

This is the chain.

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