Ome, Vasudeva, suttam, Devam, Kamsachanuram Ardhanum,

Devaki, Paramanandam, you, I think all of you taking off your shoes, you know that it's not necessary.

So if you, I know some feel uncomfortable if they don't take up their shoes, but if you are comfortable with it, then you can come in with shoes.

Just accept this prayer area.

You can sit there with shoes also.

That's all right.

So we are studying the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita

where Sri Krishna is giving the central teaching about the Atman, about the self, what we really are.

This is, maybe this one thing that you can take away from the Bhagavad Gita, it would be this one.

The teaching about the Atman, that we are this immortal spiritual being.

That old saying, we think we are human beings in search of spiritual experience,

but the truth is that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

So what have we learned so far?

Sri Krishna has said

verse 11, 12, 13,

that the Atman is immortal,

not subject to birth and death.

One very big teaching.

The body dies, the Atman you, the self, the Atman does not die.

Then the 16th verse, even more stunning, the Atman alone is real. The world of appearances, this world is a world of appearances,

including the body and even the mind, they are not independent realities.

I will not explain, we have gone through it in detail.

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