Ome, Asatoma,

Satoamha,

Jota'amaya, Jhutir Gamaya, 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.

Swami Vivekananda in his Ghani Yoga lectures, he gave two talks, the macrocosm and the microcosm, in 1896, here in New York.

And there he takes up the most fundamental questions of humanity.

What is this universe?

What is the secret of this universe?

What are we? What is the purpose and ultimate the destination or destiny of humanity? The purpose of life. How are we to overcome suffering?

So all of these fundamental questions of human existence

he takes up for consideration and he

gave two talks the first talk was called the macrocosm and the second the

microcosm you see our experience of the world is I and this subject and

object all our experience all through our lives is ourselves

and everything else. So this investigation into the everything else, the objective universe,

this is the subject matter of macrocosm. The first talk that Swami Vivekhand gave.

The investigation into the object.

And the investigation into ourselves, that was the subject matter of the talk, the microcosm.

Subject object is basically the structure of our experience.

So all our investigation will be of one or the other. So this vast universe, Swami

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