Ome, Asatoma, Sadgamaia, Tamsoma, Jyotyrgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.

Ome, shantay, shanty, shanty.

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.

Namaste and good morning everybody.

Although for everybody it may not be good morning because people from all over the world in our virtual audience.

We gathered together here occasionally to discuss questions which come from all over the world,

from our virtual audience across the world.

So these Ask Swami sessions.

Today, Dr. Tulsi Ram Janardin will read out the questions

and I'll try to answer them.

Yes.

The first question from Nagaraj Desai from Germany.

He asks, in one of your classes, he showed how we can understand the real nature of the

self.

You mentioned that one can understand this by asking the question, who am I?

He showed that the answer for it can be understood by following the principle

that whatever is an object in my awareness is not the real self. My body, my breath, my thoughts,

my intellect and memory are all objects in my awareness and therefore not my real self.

If we go even deeper, there is a blank, and because we are aware of this, even this is not the real me. Does attaining

enlightenment mean experiencing the real nature of the self? If it experiences itself or if it becomes aware of itself,

does it mean it is not the real self? Because it becomes aware of itself.

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