Ome, Asatoma,

Sadgamaya,

Tamasoamaya, Tamasoma, Jotyrgamaya,

Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya,

Ome, Shantay, Shanty, Shanty, Shanty. Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real,

lead us from darkness and to light,

lead us from death to immortality.

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

Namaste and good morning.

It's a particularly cold day.

Winter is already here, one feels.

And so here are the brave souls who have come up here.

Good.

Thank you. brave souls who have come up here. Good. You must have seen the subject for this morning's talk.

Somebody was saying it's always the same talk. Well, again, you're right. It is the same talk but different occasions different prompts for it the subject is always awake always awake and I thought that's a particularly apt subject for

for Manhattan for New York the city that never sleeps.

The prompt for this particular talk today was something that we were reading with Swami Abhuthanandhi.

Swami Adhbutananda, you know, was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.

And Sri Ram Krishna used to call him Lato, or he would sometimes say in his

Bengali accent, Lato, he would say.

And Swami Vivekanth later teased him by calling him Plato.

The reason being Lato Maharaj,

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