O'm, Vasudeva,

Son Deva,

Kamsachanuram Ardhanam,

Devaki, Paramanandam,

Krishna, Vande Jagad Gurum.

If I remember correctly,

we had studied the seventh verse of the seventh chapter.

Right.

So that's an important verse.

Matta parataram Nanyat, Kinchidasti, Dhanan Jaya.

May, Sarvamidam Protham, Sutre, gana iva there's nothing higher than me oh adjuna in me is all this all this strung like gems on a string so he gives an example of a necklace So we have all sorts of precious stones in necklace,

but what is often not string is seen is there is this string which threads the necklace together,

like the thread on which all the gems hang. Or in his commentary to this verse,

Shankaracharya gives the example of a cloth, which is nothing but the thread,

which is woven into the cloth.

So when you inquire into, look into the cloth, you find just thread.

It's woven back and forth up and down and that's the cloth.

Here one must not make the fall into the mistake of thinking, oh, so the gems

are something different and the thread is something different. It's true that the thread

keeps the gems together, but they are different things. In this case, for God and the universe,

they're not different things. The universe itself is a

manifestation exists because of God, because God is existence itself, sat, being itself. Without God,

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