Meditations on Transcendence

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Uddhav was more serious in spiritual life compared to the other members in Chintane club. He had taken Guru asraya - shelter of a spiritual master to seriously advance in Spiritual techniques. It was Monday and Uddhav had to attend Gita discourse that evening. During the afternoon training in his work place he got quite excited about learning the pareto princple. In everything he learnt that 20% of the things are more important than 80%. Quite often we get lost when there is a huge body of information but almost everytime in any subject if one struggles to get hold of the Pivotal 20% core of the subject matter, he becomes an expert in the field. He extended the similar thought to spirituality, what is the pivotal 20% of the vedas knowing which one can know everything? In the evening, after the discourse he put the question to his Guru - " You said that vedas is very huge body of knowledge and one life is insufficient to know the entirety of the vedas, is there simplied way of know