Ome Vasudeva,

Devam,

Kamshā'anurramadhanu Ramadhan.

Devaki, Paramanandam, Krishna, Vandhya Jagat Kuram.

We are studying the fifth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita.

And in this fifth chapter, the subject was about spiritual practice and our choice of

the way of life and what Krishna has said so far is that whether you're going to be a monk

or a householder you have a choice there but it but it is safer and better to be a householder.

If you are ready to be a monk, you can be a monk, but otherwise you can do, you can

definitely realize God become enlightened even as a householder. But what we have no choice over,

whether you are a monk or a householder no choice over spiritual practice that has to be

gone through and that spiritual practice is threefold there is karmah upasana gana karmah

upasana yoga for purification of mind upasana or worship or meditation for concentration of mind and

yana, the way of knowledge for removing ignorance, ignorance about our reality. So Adwaita Vedantah

is unique in this way. Wachaspati Mishra, the great sub-commentator on Shankara's writings about a thousand years ago. Vazaspati Mishra, the great sub-commentator on Shankarra's writings about a thousand years ago, Vachisputi Mishra, he writes in his commentary, the Bhaamati. He said, see, there are two kinds of achievement. One is, he says, Grama Desha Prapti. That means you go to another village. I'm going from one village to another village. You actually have to walk there. You have to go through a certain process to get there. You are not there yet. You will get there. But you have to put in the effort and the right kind of effort and then you get there. The second kind of attainment, he says, is Galawalaya Praphti.

Galabalya means a necklace. So there's a necklace, which is around our own neck, but we are searching here and there, where is my necklace? These days, more than a necklace, it might be,

where is the mask? Where did I drop my mask? Where did the mask go? It's on your neck. You have pulled it down and you forgot and you're looking here and there. So it's on your neck. Gala Vallea literally means like a necklace, but it can also stand for a mask also.

So the mask which is there right here in our neck and we're looking here and there for my mask or in my pocket for my mask, but it's right here.

Now that attainment of that, how do you get that mask?

Not by doing anything, by knowledge.

You never lost it. It was always there.

The necklace which is on our neck. We have never lost it. It's always there.

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