So,

So you're a mitham, tapta, jivanam, kavi-vidya-khalma-champaham, Shrevanam

Shrema-Garhadha, Thubhidhryananan.

So reading from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, last time there was a discussion on the levels of the Brahmagiani.

So one gets enlightenment and then there are several levels.

What are these levels? What really happens? These are all advanced stages of spiritual

realization. So, so Ramakrishna talked about it from a yogic and Vedantic perspective. Now, I'm going

to read to you from this book. This is the Vivek Chudamani of Adi Shankaracharya,

but it has a specialty.

It has a commentary by Sri Chandrashikar of Haredi,

who was the great Shankaracharya of modern times.

She was the head of the, the Sringeri. In the 20th century, he was the head of the Shringeri Peter. That means the monastery there.

So he is one of those those who hold the lineage of Shankaracharya. He is also called the Shankaracharya.

And Sri Chandra

Shikar Bhati wrote a Sanskrit commentary on the Vivek Chudamani. And this Vivek Chudamani

has a Sanskrit commentary with an English translation also. So here the original verse plus the English translation of the Sanskrit commentary is given.

At the end of it, seven stages are discussed and the sources from where the seven stages

are taken are from Vidyar and Yaswami's Jivan Mukti Viveka.

And there the source is taken from much older text called the Yoga Varshista.

So these seven stages just for the sake of discussion.

Siddharamakrishna discussed seven stages of deeper and deeper absorption.

See, enlightenment is the same, but the last few stages are deeper and deeper levels of

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