Ome, Vasudeva,

Suttam-Dev, Kamshachanurramadanam,

Deva ki paramanandam, Krishna, Vandehagad Guru. So welcome back to the Bhagavad Gita class. We had a one month break. So just to remind everybody, we have

we have been studying the seventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita and we completed that last time.

I think we're entering the eighth chapter.

And remember that one general way of making an outline of the Bhagavad Gita, according to some scholars,

is that the 18 chapters can be roughly

divided into three parts of six chapters each. The first six chapters were about the self, about

ourselves. The next six chapters where we are right now is about God, the ultimate reality of this universe,

the God of religion, basically. And the last six chapters will show us how we and God are the same

reality. The Vedantic, the great sentence, Mahavakia, Tatwam Asi, that thou art. That is Saguna Brahman or Ishwar or God. Thum is you, us. And what is the identity,

that thou art, that is the identity of the individual and the cosmic of the Jiva, sentient being and

Eshwar of God, that will be expressed in the last six chapters. But it's a very rough way of

putting it, because you find Vedantic inquiry in the first six chapters, again in the last six

chapters. But it's also true that to some extent, these middle six chapters from chapter

seven onwards, they are mostly about, there's a preponderance of devotion. There's a preponderance

of theism. And we will see more of that in this particular chapter. Before we go into this chapter, it's a short chapter.

And the central takeaway from this chapter, from the eighth chapter is that one must remember God at the time of death.

So that's the, if you want to take one line takeaway from this chapter, one must remember God at the time of death.

If you want to take one line take away from this chapter,

the importance of being centered in God at the time of death.

And therefore, in order to be centered in God at the point of death,

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