O, 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 every day.

Sorry, I mean, I said good morning everybody,

but I was just going to say it's Father's Day.

And it's a beautiful day actually because I was walking It's Father's Day.

It's a beautiful day, actually, because I was walking in the park there, and there was somebody I know who's singing Beatles songs,

and he said, hey, Swami, remember, it's Father's Day.

But it's a beautiful day, that's true.

Today's subject But it's a beautiful day, that's true.

Today's subject, Bhumaananda, you are the vast, you are bliss.

The context is this, that whenever we talk about Adwaita Vedantar,

there is, we describe it as this line we often quote,

Brahma satyam, jagat mithya, Jiva Brahmhaewan-Apara.

Brahmann alone is real, the world is an appearance, and sentient beings, you, you are none other than Brahman. And we quote this often, and people ask for a source, you know, where is it from?

It's attributed to Shankaracharya, to Adi Shankaracharya, and the source is actually a little known work,

again attributed to Adi Shankaracharya, but maybe some scholars say may have been written

by somebody else.

This is called Brahmh Gyanavali Mala, a short work of about 21 verses in which all the conclusions

of this vast literature of non-duality of Adwaita Vedanta is sort of compressed

there in simple powerful Sanskrit it is conveyed in those 21 verses. The 20th verse has this line.

Roman alone is real, the world is an appearance and you or the sentient being is none other than Brahman. However, today's subject, the subject matter is taken from the third verse, the third verse of this unique composition.

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