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BHAJA GOVINDAM "Hammer Blows to Delusion" : Slogam - 23: Swami Sri Adi Sankaracharya.

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==================================================================================== Friday 20, September 2024, 05:30.  Bhaja Govindam Slogam - 23: Enquiry into the Self  ==================================================================================== Slogam - 23: Enquiry into the Self 1  kastvam ko’ham kuta aayaatah = Who are you? Who am I? From where did I come?  2   kaa me jananee ko me taatah; =Who is my mother? Who is my father?  3 iti paribhaavaya sarvam- asaaram = Thus, enquire and find that all is essenceless:  4  vishvam tyaktvaa swapna vichaaram. = abandon the entire world as a mere dream, born of imagination!  =============================================================================================== In this slogam we are taken into the most important step in Vedantic Sadhana. The  very heart of Vedantic Sadhana lies in making a deep enquiry as outlined here. What  digestion in the stomach is to the whole process of alimentary system, this Self-enquiry is to  the who