The Importance of Awareness

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In our case as Brahman, we must have this awareness of names and forms. Then a mistake will come that I am body-mind. And this is an external world because I don't know myself as not rope in the first place. So there must be some kind of basic knowledge. The person must have seen a snake in a movie or a zoo or somewhere. We have been conditioned somehow to act as limited beings... An enlightened person doesn't make this mistake. This duality is a common way of dealing with the world. It's natural to everybody. To Pandit hato ku ineji sbatya. Duality is real. That I am different and the

Adhyasa Bhashya is Adi Shankara’s introduction to the Brahma Sutras. Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a brief overview of this commentary, over three sessions. Reference material for this series: - Adhyasa Bhashya in Sanskrit: https://arshavidyacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Swamini-Svatmavidya/collateral/Adhyasa-Bhashya.pdf - Swami Gambhirananda's translation: preamble in chapter 1, section 1 of https://a.co/d/hEj8iQr - Translation of the lectures of Dr. Mani Dravid Sastri: https://sanskritdocuments.org/sites/snsastri/adhyasabhashya.pdf ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: www.vedantany.org/donate