Ashatoma,

Amrata,

Amritya,

Mritiurma, Amretam Gamaya.

Ome, shanty, 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.

Namaste and welcome another brilliant day here in Manhattan.

Today the subject is Purnam.

It's a Sanskrit word which means the whole, the full, infinite, limitless.

This actually forms a pair with last Sunday's talk, which was titled Shuniam, which means

the void or emptiness.

So emptiness and fullness.

In fact, just a little correction for last Sunday's talk.

I mentioned a particular book, Progressive Stages of Meditation on Emptiness.

And I said somebody who had recommended it to me, but it turns out somebody else had recommended.

And he wrote, no, no, no, it was me.

I recommended it to you.

So it was Jackson Peterson, who is a Tibetan Buddhist master and teacher in this country and abroad also, many places abroad.

So we are very grateful to him because that book really put a lot of things in place for me.

Purnam, why I selected this as, this is sort of for me. Purnam, why I selected this as, this is sort of, for me, this is a word which, which encompasses

the vision of Vedantah in its entirety and its depth.

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