Ome, Asatoma,

Sadgamaya,

Tamasoma, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaia.

Ome, shantay, shanty, shanty, shanty.

Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness and to light, lead us from death to immortality.

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

Good morning and namaste everybody.

Very nice weather.

I've been getting concerned emails from across the world.

Like, are we still above water?

The way the news has been shown across the world, it's like we are all drowning.

So I said to them, no, it's very nice that downpour has ceased and we are still above water.

And it's a sunny day here in Manhattan.

So you are limitless, just a subject today. And it's a sunny day here in Manhattan.

So, you are limitless, that's the subject today.

And what we are going to talk about where this comes from is there's this text called Adwaita Makaranda, which translates roughly as the nectar or the honey of non-duality.

It's a very sweet name, the honey of non-duality.

It's a relatively minor text, and it was written by this poet,

Lakshmi Dharakavi a few hundred years ago.

Now, the uniqueness, I mean besides it's being very poetic because he was a Sanskrit poets, so the language is wonderful. But besides that, the real uniqueness of this text, which is a minor text in the whole canon of Adhwaitic literature,

but the uniqueness of this text is it's entirely based on reasoning.

It aims to convince us through reason that right here, right now, you are Brahman.

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