Ome Asatomahsadhāmah,

Jhothir Gamaya,

Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaia

Ome, Shanty, Shanty, Shanty, He

Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real,

lead us from darkness unto light,

lead us from death to immortality,

O peace, peace, peace.

So the subject of four yogas, it covers the entire range of spiritual life.

One way of understanding the four yogas is this.

See, the answer to spiritual life, the question of spiritual life depends on how one conceives of the problem. Karma Yoga, the way of work or service.

Bhakti Yoga, the way of love, devotion, Raja Yoga, the way of meditation, and Ghani Yoga, the way of knowledge.

What is the problem and what is the solution?

All of these are about spiritual life. In themselves, they are paradigms of spiritual life.

In Karmayoga, it is understood as the problem is selfishness and the solution is unselfishness.

It is selfishness that ties us to this little body and mind, this little personality.

So all the efforts that I do in life, all the work that I do, all my thoughts, everything through the days and months

and years of my life is directed at making this happy. Why? Why this? Why particularly this?

Because I am this. I am this. We never question it. It goes without question that I am this thing.

I'm reminded of a couple of very interesting incidents. Today I received an email from a doctor in Edinburgh.

He says, all my life, I've never been particularly interested in spirituality or religion. Oncologist.

Yet recently, just a few days ago, some time ago, what he did was, he says we are examining, I was looking

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