Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

So in these sessions, Ask Swami sessions, we take questions

which have been sent into us from virtually every corner of the world.

And there are so many questions.

We have a dedicated team of volunteers who select the questions,

compile them, put them together and classify, and present it to me.

And I shorten the list further to the disappointment, inevitable disappointment

of large numbers of people. Sometimes it's not because the questions are not important. The

questions are all good. Sometimes I feel, for example, it's a very good question yet it's subtle

and it cannot really be explained

in one shot.

It would be much easier if the person were present, then we could have a conversation and

then it clarifies matters.

So sometimes very good but very subtle questions have to unfortunately set aside.

But be that as it may, we have a set of questions today.

And Cordelia is going to ask the questions.

Yes, she'll put the questions to me.

And I really don't know if you'll have time for questions from the audience here, but

would you like to ask a question, you have any questions?

See, will you have time at the end?

Let's do maybe half a dozen questions from the internet audience, and then we will see if anybody has questions here.

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