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.

Good morning. Good morning.

This lecture today is the second in a series of talks on Swami Vivekananda's Ghyana Yoga.

So the first one was last month. I think it was called Our Real Nature.

And this one is Maya.

I've never spoken on this subject earlier.

It's perhaps the most difficult subject that I have ever taken up.

So be ready to go away with a headache.

Brahman is very simple.

Maya is complicated.

Swami Vivekananda devoted three whole lectures on Maya

in his series of talks on Gana Yoga in London.

In fact, the house where he gave those talks is still

there. And if you go there, they have a blue circle system in the United Kingdom where it's a

heritage place. It says the Hindu philosopher and monk gave talks here in this house. It's

there in London.

Manmatanat Ganguli,

one of Swami Vivekananda's disciples,

approached him once.

Swami Vivekandha was very happy with him and said,

ask for something,

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