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Daśamastvamasi

It is a radio talk ( text prepared in advance ) in Malayalam. Explains the dictum "Daśamastvamasi" , popular in Advaita Vedanta system. It means " you are the tenth." It is an anecdote which helps one easily understand how one is simply unaware of himself. Ten people swam across a river. They wanted to verify that nobody is drowned in the river. One of them counted the number. He found that one was missing. What actually happened is that he forgot to count himself. they were in deep distress. Then a passerby made them realise that the man who counted forgot himself, which caused the distress.