Ome,

Ahmhā Am,

Ahasatoma,

Sadgamaya,

Tamaso ma Jyotyrgamaya,

Mritiurma amritamgama Amritam Gamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.

Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shantay.

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 everybody and welcome back to another session of meditation and philosophy.

Today we are on home ground, at least it's my home ground, and also home ground for most of us,

because we're going to speak about Vedanta.

I had mentioned just to put it out there that when I talked about Buddhist meditation,

it's something that it is, I'm not initiated into it, not am I authorized to teach it.

It's something that I have studied and academically and also practiced a little bit myself.

That's why I was teaching, but it's good to be clear there. I also made it clear that the Kashmirishev is a tradition,

though it's part of the Hindu tradition, I'm not initiated into it.

There you really have to be initiated into those traditions to teach it.

I have and I am only studying it academically under some very good teachers and also have

practiced a little bit of it myself and that's what I shared. But the devotional tradition we

talked about last time, that's very much part of our tradition. And now we come to the core of our own, my own

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