Ome Asatomahsatomah,

sattgamaya,

Tamasoma, Jotyrgamaya,

Mritiurma amritamgamaa,

Omhanty, 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.

Good morning.

Could we have the lights back?

Usually the prayer works, lead us from darkness and to light, but this morning somehow.

This morning, the subject is the essence of all Vedantanata. And this is something that I've taken from a phrase

by Shankar Acharya, Adi Shankaracharya, in his commentary on the Mandukya Upanishad and Mandukya

Karika. You see, Vedantah is the teaching embodied in the Upanishads.

The Upanishads contain perhaps the most ancient living teachings on spirituality,

spirituality at its most original and fresh.

That's what you find in the Upanishads.

And the philosophy based on the Upanishads is called Vedantam.

So that's what our Vedanta society stands for.

The teaching is given in different Upanishads.

There are many Upanishads. Among them, Manduqi Upanishad is the smallest.

And the Manduqi Upanishad is probably the most powerful of all of them. In fact, in his commentary on the Manduqqya Upanishad,

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