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

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

As Diane just said, we have the Ask Swami session today.

And the idea being that so many questions come into us from all over the world

and it's really impossible to answer them individually.

So we thought of having this online forum.

The advantage is the questions and the answers can be shared with the whole world.

Often it's not so much that it is my question

I'll have to wait for my question to come up

no

often these questions are

something that everybody has

a lot of people have these questions

sometimes when we listen to the questions and answers

we get benefited

so

I was also told that the virtual audience might be a little less today.

There is an India-Pakistan cricket match going on.

So people from India might be distracted. So if it's cricket and Vedant, Vedant

always loses the match. But that's why you see the importance of the preliminary

qualifications. We call them Sadan Chathustay, the four-fold qualifications for Vedant, Vivek, Vyvehaka, Vairagya and so forth.

Vairagya means dispassion. That which is non-eternal, that which is not the ultimate goal, purpose, destiny of humanity, that you'll have to step aside from that in favor of spirituality, in favor of Vedanata.

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