Ome Saha'navavu, Sahaubhunaktu,

Saha-Viriam Karavavah, Tejas Vinavadi,

Tamas Tumavishamah,

Oam shantishanty.

So we are studying the Panchadashi in the first chapter and we are at a particularly crucial juncture

where the individual being after being swept life after life suffering ups and downs, this birth and that birth finally, with lots of punya, merits, good karma,

as a result of a lot of good karma, happens to stumble upon Vedantantha.

And now the Vedantah teacher is going to show him or her the way out of misery and the way is to realize the self

who I am really how does he how does the instruction come through the method of the

discrimination of five sheets there are many ways one of them for example

will be given here just as an example there are many many what what one might

call Vedantic procedures for discovering who we are really all that we need to do

is to realize what the self truly is we think the the self is this, what we experience, and we

have no inkling that it could be anything else right now. Verandah makes the radical claim

that right now your true nature is perfect. If you would only just realize it, I mean,

I would put it in such terms as if you would only just notice it.

It can be as simple as that.

When your problems are solved more or less forever, straight away.

Such a huge claim.

Remember here, I'm not saying that you don't have to do spiritual practices because immediately the question will be,

so what's the use of all kinds of spiritual practices they have

their use the beautiful thing about Vedantah is even this one single chapter of

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