So,

Ahandam Satchidhanandam,

Avang Manasagocharam,

Aitmanam Akhila Dharam,

Ashray Bhishda Siddhai. So in Vedantasara, we were on text number, 39, we had done up to 39.

It's important to take a quick look back and see what we have accomplished so far.

Vedantra says that it will be taught by the method of Adhyaropa,

upavada, which means superimposition and desuperimposition.

So what is adhyaropa and what is upavada, what is superimposition?

It is taking the reality to be not what it is, taking the rope to be the snake, for example. So you take the absolute Brahman to be not what it is taking the rope to be the snake for example so you take

the absolute Brahman to be this world we are the absolute but we take ourselves to be

this body mind these persons so that's superimposition and that's an error and that has to

be corrected what is the correction the negation that is called apawadda de-superimposition what is the correction the negation that is called upavada de-superimposition what is that like

it's like recognizing that it's not a snake it's a rope recognizing that it's not a universe it is

nothing other than brahm the absolute i am that absolute so that is the negation that is

de-superimposition that's going to be the whole process. And that's the heart of all that goes on in Agroita Veylantha. For that, the author, so first has to define what he means by real and unreal. Note that the process is always he introduces new terms and then immediately defines them.

And that's the importance of this text. Why are we at all doing this particular text? We have already

done Dregdrisya Vivekha or Aparokshana which are wonderful teachings of, you know, that they

present adwaita Vedantina. I would say much more interesting than this dry little textbook.

But what is important about this textbook is, it just is a book of definitions.

So when we talk about Adwaita Vedant, we need to know very precisely what are we

talking about.

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