“You Are That — To Be Known, Not to Be Attained”“# (Tat Tvam Asi)”Bhagavad Gita – Day 24 DiscourseFirst Shatkam – Overview (Simhāvalokanam) 🙏

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“You Are That — To Be Known, Not to Be Attained”

“You Are That (Tat Tvam Asi)”

Bhagavad Gita – Day 24 Discourse 🙏

🌿 Part 1 — Krishna–Arjuna Dialogue (Overview)

🏹 Arjuna:

O Krishna! 🙏

So far, six chapters of the Bhagavad Gita are completed. Why are they divided like this?

🕉 Sri Krishna:

Partha! Listen 👇

👉 The entire Bhagavad Gita

is an explanation of the Mahavakya: Tat Tvam Asi

👉 It has three words:

✔ Tat

✔ Tvam

✔ Asi

🏹 Arjuna:

What do they mean, Krishna?

🕉 Sri Krishna:

👉 Tat = That (Paramatma)

👉 Tvam = You (Jiva)

👉 Asi = Are (Unity)

👉 Partha! You are God

👉 Not newly becoming

👉 You are already That

👉 In all three times, you are Ishwara

🏹 Arjuna:

Then why don’t I experience it?

🕉 Sri Krishna:

👉 Upanishad is not wrong

👉 Your experience is mistaken

👉 You have taken on

qualities opposite to Ishwara

👉 That covers your true nature

👉 “I am a limited being” — this is the error

👉 That alone is sorrow

👉 Ishwara is not elsewhere

👉 You yourself are Ishwara

👉 Only ignorance stands in between

👉 Like darkness hiding an object

👉 Lamp does not create the object

👉 It only reveals what is already there

👉 Similarly:

Sadhana is not gaining

It is knowing

👉 Inquiry removes ignorance

👉 Not creating reality

👉 Rope–snake example:

Snake is illusion

Rope alone is real

👉 Likewise:

Jiva is illusion

You are Ishwara

🔥 Summary – Part 1

👉 First Shatkam = Tvam explanation

👉 Jiva = Ishwara

👉 Sadhana = removal of illusion

🌿 Part 2 — Krishna–Arjuna Dialogue

🏹 Arjuna:

Krishna!

If I am not born, do not die, not doer, not enjoyer…

Then who am I?

🕉 Sri Krishna:

👉 When beginning, middle, end disappear

👉 What remains is infinite

👉 That is you

👉 Problem is not reality

👉 It is your vision

👉 Rope is seen as snake

👉 Error is in seeing

👉 Snake never existed

👉 Rope never changed

👉 Similarly:

Ignorance appears and disappears

👉 You are the witness

👉 Knowledge & ignorance come and go

👉 You do not

👉 Two types of knowledge:

✔ Changing (mental)

✔ Witness (unchanging)

👉 Your nature is ever pure

👉 Impurity never really touched you

👉 Like dream:

It appears

It disappears

👉 You don’t remove dream

👉 Waking removes it

👉 Sadhana = change of vision

👉 Same vision:

Sees world as world (ignorance)

Sees world as Brahman (knowledge)

👉 You are the witness of:

Waking

Dream

Deep sleep

👉 You are Turīya

👉 Ultimately:

No bondage

No seeker

No liberation

👉 Only Brahman

🔥 Summary – Part 2

👉 Birth, death, doership = illusion

👉 Witness alone real

👉 Dream disappears by knowledge

👉 Vision change is sadhana

🌿 Part 3 — Krishna–Arjuna Dialogue

🏹 Arjuna:

Krishna!

I see world, time, objects, actions…

Are they real?

🕉 Sri Krishna:

👉 They appear

👉 But not real

👉 Only one reality exists:

👉 All-pervading Consciousness

👉 It does not newly spread

👉 It always is

👉 You are already That

👉 But you think you are not

👉 So you appear as Jiva

👉 Consciousness = Existence + Awareness

👉 It is:

Formless

All-pervading

Unmoving

👉 Due to wrong perception:

👉 Knowledge → becomes mind

👉 Power → becomes prana

👉 Then comes fear, suffering

👉 You limited infinite to body

👉 Like pot-space and total space

👉 Body may go

👉 You remain

👉 Karma Yoga → purifies mind

👉 Samadhi → gives focus

👉 But:

They do NOT reveal Brahman

👉 Only knowledge reveals

👉 Sadhana removes obstacles

👉 Realization = recognition

👉 Entire journey is like dream

🔥 Summary – Part 3

👉 Consciousness alone real

👉 Mind & prana are distortions

👉 Karma & Samadhi = preparation

👉 Knowledge alone reveals truth

🌿 Part 4 — Krishna–Arjuna Dialogue

🏹 Arjuna:

Krishna!

People say mind must dissolve to realize Brahman. Is it true?

🕉 Sri Krishna:

👉 Big mistake 🔥

👉 If Brahman exists only after mind dissolves,

does it not exist before?

👉 Brahman is always present

👉 “Transcending” is wrong idea

👉 If you must cross something,

then before crossing Brahman is absent — wrong!

👉 Bondage, practice, liberation —

all are Brahman

👉 Mind also is Brahman

👉 Nothing to cross

👉 All stages:

Before practice

During practice

After realization

👉 All are Brahman

👉 Division is only for teaching

👉 Like scaffolding:

Used to build

Removed later

👉 Karma, Bhakti, Samadhi — helpers

👉 Final truth:

👉 Knowledge alone remains

👉 Brahman = Pure Consciousness

👉 Forms change

👉 Formless remains

👉 Wave dies

👉 Ocean does not 🌊

👉 You are the deathless

👉 Seeking fails because:

👉 Seeker = Sought

👉 When you search, it appears distant

👉 When you know, it is yourself

👉 Final teaching:

👉 What you seek is YOU

👉 Just know

🔥 Summary – Part 4

👉 No need to dissolve mind

👉 No need to transcend

👉 Everything is Brahman

👉 Knowledge alone reveals

👉 You are That

🕉 Final Mahavakya

👉 You are That

👉 Not to become

👉 Only to realize

🕉 Om Shanti Shanti Shantiḥ 🙏