The student, the little boy in educator, asks yama, the lord of death, a question about the nature of the self. Who am i or what am i? The fundamental question in vedanta. And then yama is very happy, and he is going to teach vedante. Now, but before that, he makes some preliminary observations about the spiritual path,. About spiritual knowledge, about the student, about the teacher. This will go on up to the twelfth, thirteenth month in this section.