I think we'll start with questions from our virtual audience first.

And today for the first time, we are joined by hundreds of people from across the world

on our live broadcast on the internet.

So welcome to all of you, those who are present in reality here and those who are virtually present.

Let's have a question from the internet audience, yes.

We have received numerous questions on the subject of consciousness.

These are from Shwamani, Musumi, Suresh, Tapas, Shubhadip, Shuman, Pankaj, Shredar, and Lokesh.

Acharias repeatedly say you are that infinite existence. I am the awareness, absolute, etc.

Who is the I and you that the teaching is referring to?

Who or what experiences whom or what?

What is Chitta? What is the difference between chitta and consciousness?

Okay, let's just stop there. We'll take it one way one. Otherwise I'll forget.

I'll reply to these and then I'll go on to the next question. So just wait.

So when the Upanishadik texts say, that thou art, you are that.

Or it says, I am Brahman.

In Sanskrit, Tatuamasi, Aham Brahasmi, these are the Mahavākhas, the great statements you find in the Upanishads.

So if you ask, who is the you, who is the I here?

Very simply said, very simply put, the you means the student, the teacher is telling the student, you are Brahman.

When you say I am Brahman, this Jiva realizes itself, this individual sentient being

realizes itself as Brahman, the absolute consciousness.

What Vedant says it's like this. Our experience, if we look very clearly at our experience,

I am a sentient being and I am looking at all of this, this world.

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