In my Near Death Experience many years ago, the Being of Light showed me the true nature of reality, and it was just as you've said. So called hard objects were floating particles you could put your hand through. Everything was made of Love. Trees were pastel colors made of Love. Everything was! Even today, I still remind myself that the tree in front of me is really pink, and that one is blue, and it's ALL Love. I don't want to forget it. When people transfer to the higher realm, they are in for a tremendous experience. Thanks for your video.
Hi Peggy, this is so beautiful. My mother passed away 12 days ago and your description of the afterlife helps me tremendously as I worry about her a lot. Thank you!
@@suzyriding9311 Thank you, Suzy, for your kind words. Try not to worry about your mother. I can just about assure you she is very happy! I even saw and talked to my father who died when I was 12, and he was glowing with joy and happiness. Of course, you'll miss your mother, but I'd bet heavily on her being just fine!! Good luck to you.
@@peggydoglover Hi Peggy! Thank you so much for your very sweet and thoughtful reply! Yes, I miss her very much but, your message brings me much peace. I can't thank you enough! I just read your NDE on your channel. Incredible, Peggy! What a beautiful, transformative experience! I just loved it and learned so much. So much to think about. I wrote much more on your channel, but so grateful that you shared it! Thank you, thank you!! ♥
Beautiful insights as we realize the third dimension is not a trap from which to escape but rather a training ground for consciousness to expand and learn to move and create and live as conscious beings.
Your gentle tone and mannerisms invite the viewer in to sit a spell and listen closely. The wisdom shared is expansive and stays with the viewer long after the video has ended.
Thank you very much. I never had an easy time meditating because my mind would go all over the place. Your illustration finally made perfect sense and help me see my two states of being. One in this world with me the true observer in Brahma! Thank you so much! Peace and love to you my brother!
Tie what together ??? LOL !!! Tied up a bunch of bullshit is still bullshit. There is no such thing as absolute reality, okay ? Reality is always subjective, always temporary or transitional, and always circumstantial or situational. There is no objective reality, no permanent or unchanging reality, and no absolute or unconditional reality. Period. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
Thanks for that post! In 1976 very similar near death experience. Words to no justice. It’s the first time I’ve heard in all these years. Someone explain a near death experience that came even close to mine
Thank you, Swamiji. In Nididhyasana today, your words and Swami Dayananda's - "Brahma satyam, jagan mitya" "Jagat is derived from the roots 'jan' - to be born, and 'gam' - to go. Jagat is 'that which is born and which then goes.'" "Brahma is translated as absolute reality, from the root 'brh' - 'to inrease, to grow large." The noun means 'bigness'. Nothing quaifies or limits that bigness. It is unconditionally big. It has no form or limitation whatsoever. Parambrahma is not limited by space and time, and that is indeed adhyatma, or atma, existence, consciousness, fullness that is the truth of the individual." Respect and gratitude.
Meditation of whichever kind is very useful. After you have reached a certain level of mastery in the ability to focus on your meditation, you may want to consider the following to deeepen your practice. Meditating on "Brahman is real" is more or less a mental exercise. The next level is to consider who is the one that is meditating. This is atma vichara as recommended by Sri Ramana Maharshi. He advocate the question who am I to serve as reminder to get hold of the feeling of one's own being or one own's awareness and try to hold onto it for as long as possible like we do in meditation. In other words, instead of meditating and holding onto a thought, a sound or an image, we are holding onto the sense of our own being. It's a very very powerful meditation.
Swamiji I have listened to your many talks and also read many books but this video my understanding of vedantic concept ब्रह्म सत्यं जगत मिथ्या become more deep and clear. बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद। साधु साधु।thankyou and warm wishes to you.lord Rama blesses you dear Swamiji. Namastey
Anant koti naman Gurudev! Anant koti dhanyvad! Par excellence explanation of the Maya concept! Wonderful meditation! Infinite Thanks 🙏 Gurudev! Infinite salutations at your Lotus 🪷 👣! 🙏🕉🔔🪔🪷🦢🌸🪷🦢🌷🪷🦢🪷🌹🦢🪔🔔🕉🙏
I like this very simple and clear explanation of our sense of reality. I don’t agree that we stop dreaming when we are awake. It’s just that our conscious experiences of the outside world tend to hide our dreaming much like on a clear sunny day the sunlight hides the much weaker light from the stars in the sky. The stars are there. We just can’t see them for the bright sunlight. If you go into a deep well in daytime you can see the stars in the sky. Ancient people understood this. So we are dreaming all the time and when our attention is arrested when we are awake we begin to “daydream”. We think we are consciously controlling the content of the daydream but it’s really that we just became aware of what we were thinking subconsciously. All this came to the fore for me as about five years ago I started to suffer from non spasmodic narcolepsy. I could fall asleep for 30 seconds and dream during that time and still do though I take dugs to stay awake so I can function. This was the result of a stroke that left me permanently compromised on my left side. I think my brain began to function differently too as I can perceive things others can’t. Not that mystifying. I mean my brain interprets things differently and it can be annoying. On a bright day not exactly sunny but also a sunny day like today, Apr 20 2022, if I go outside the whole roadway and sidewalks appear to be sparkling with millions of tiny sequins. I think it’s the sand grains in the pavement. Your brain filters that out. Mine doesn’t. I have to wear sunglasses as it’s extremely annoying. At the same time I have acquired a bit of a calendar memory you might have heard some autistic people have like in the movie “ Rainman”. I see patterns in dates and can project them into the future. I detected the calendar on this iPad is inaccurate going back passed 1905. Check it out yourself unless Apple fixed it. I tried to tell them but it’s impossible to contact them. I discovered a numerical pattern on Feb 22 this year that will never repeat again in the lifetime of the universe. I tried to tell others but they treated me like I was crazy. They couldn’t see it. As they say I might be crazy but I’m not stupid. I stopped trying to tell people these sort of things. Nothing special happened last Feb 22. It was just an average Tuesday or Twos Day. It was 02/22/2022. Nothing special there. What’s for dinner? What do you think happened at 2 AM 02/22/2022? I woke up exactly at that time and looked at the clock when the thought occurred to me. So to sum up. We are dreaming 24/7 but just not aware of it when we are awake. But those dreams do affect our conscious thoughts and decisions. Here’s a rule of thumb about dreams: dreams often tell us what is missing in our lives whether we know it or not. If you are starving you may dream of eating a big banquet. As the Greeks say they are the opposite of reality. But more than that they tell you what’s missing in your life which is why you may dream of a dead relative or friend. You miss them and what they contributed to your life. That could be good or bad. Often it’s hard to understand what it is because our mind refuses to interpret the symbolism out of fear of discovery about ourselves things we don’t want to know. But it’s only in the conscious state you can do anything about it. However our subconscious never sleeps. It’s working 24/7 thinking about problems or our interpretation of the world around us or our social relationships. Sometimes the solution can come up in a dream as mathematical or puzzle solutions have come up in mine. Not the direct solution but symbolically that awake since understand was the answer I was looking for. The thing is such solutions can be far more comprehensive than you thought.
I find your story and stories like yours extremely fascinating. Can you tell me what pattern you discovered? "I discovered a numerical pattern on Feb 22 this year that will never repeat again in the lifetime of the universe." Is there anything else you realized after your stroke that is intriguing? Do you think your brain is simply malfunctioning and "creating" these thoughts, or do you think the brain is like a " window" to the greater reality and your stroke basically opened that window much wider? I'd love to hear more. I keep thinking of writing a book about these stories. There are scientists out there who study situations like yours, like V.S. Ramachndran who is a neuroscientist.
Thank You. I agree. I am an occultist and we know, you know, us all, that the subconscious is driving, and this is why we do magick in order to marry the shadow with the light...shadow work... Please tell me more.
I agree that our subconscious is on 24/7. I also think our inner reality is the Authentic reality reavealed to us through our sensations. Rudolf Steiner wrote of such things in the early 1900s. This Swami seem to explain this reality better than anyone today. I've only listened to him a few times. I will return here with more of my thoughts and experiences, but now it's late. Thank you all for sharing.
These mini dreams you speak of sound like Lucid Dreams that are not so unusual in neurotypical people. It's a state between being awake and drifting into sleep; the dream is brief, only carrying one image before waking again. Much has been written about Lucid Dreams, although very recently Lucid Dreaming has been reconfigured by someone on TH-cam seeking recognition and Followers (IMO.)
thanks for another easy to understand video! i meditated with you at the end of it and i saw interesting things: first i saw many human figures sitting as if they were meditating, but they were silhouettes filled with light and there were rays of light shining upon them. then, i saw surface of water rippling from a droplet that fell into it. next the visuals disappeared and i started receiving thoughts/"bits" of information, its hard to describe. something was telling me that this world is like floating matter that is constantly in motion due to a wave moving it, in a sinusoidal way. the "ups" were light and the "downs" were dark. this something also told me that the light and shadow were only two visual "interpretations" of the matter (or rather an external force that makes us "see" things in the matter that arent necessarily real) and that the matterexists no mater whether the light/shadow are present or not. interesting stuff
Thank you my brother Master for your clarity, simplicity and your deep teachings that point the ultimate reality... the infinite Self! Your light shines on my way....
Thank you Swami Tadatmananda, for pouring profound spiritual wisdom from your lotus feet. For the last couple of weeks if not months I have used many different kinds of meditation from your inner journey playlist and I think this particular Nididhyasana in this video (after having watched the video) is such a blessing. Thank you. One day I want to visit you, love from Germany to all people.
Thank you for your teachings. Last summer i started meditation. I have been searching for more information and here it is. So much beautiful information, wow. I totally understand your teachings and find recognition. A lot i find out myself just by looking at the world in a mystical way. I just found you an few days ago so have a lot video's to watch. Love it. Thank you thank you!! 🙏🍀🦋
I've experienced the exact same examples, precisely. I view psychedelics to be a stepping stone, or door opener to the deeper level of reality. Becoming Conscious is a lengthy, slow process. I like all his examples because they are accurate, from my perspective. I have one Buddhist friend who has become Conscious through studying the Dharma and meditation. We met when in our 20s, both seeking another life experience. In fact, he introduced me to meditation in Boulder, CO. He controls his emotions better than I, and is far more patient and understanding of those unconscious. I attribute these qualities to his years of studying the Dharma. I became Conscious accidentally through pain, suffering, and forgiveness. I believe many people throughout the world are Conscious from having experienced difficult lives; yet, they have had no exposure to Spiritual teachings, or psychological insight. This vid is one of my favorites because of the beautiful descriptions of our sense of Outer Reality and Inner Reality. The reality created from our sensations is difficult to maintain, just as he explains. Sometimes, I just shut it down because going back and forth is confusing; as if one must join a monetary or community of like minded souls. Then what, deny outer reality completely? I have not been able to resolve these concerns, personally.
LOL !!! It's so easy. Don't meditate. Just believe. Let be and never let go. Believe in joy and you shall have joy. Believe in sorrow and you shall have sorrow. So do not believe in sorrow. Let sorrow be and sorry will diminish and fade away quicker. Joy will always follow. Belief in that. Buddha called it detachment. Detachment is not denial. All these amateur Buddhist con men practised is denial, and they are useless and harmful to your well being. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
Pujya Gurudev Swami Tadatmananda ji , the guided meditation at the end of the video is very powerful. It is like , pujya gurudev,holding the hands of shisyas and taking them towards enlightenment! I do it every day! Anant koti naman Gurudev! Anant Koti dhanyvaad Gurudev! 🙏🕉🔔🪔🦢🪷💐🦢🪷💐🦢🪷💐🦢🪷💐🦢🪔🔔🕉🙏
Thank you Swamiji your explanation are intuitive and easy to understand, arising from your experience of presence and awareness, rather than just the mind and theory, we are grateful
The simulation hypothesis encapsulates the concept we live inside a simulation. Like any simulation model, simulations can operate inside simulations. The matrix is like a feedback loop of a guitar amplifier; we only break free of the mistakes on this earthly plane, once we break the cycle. Much like the guitar amplifier, we turn down the volume and go within ourselves to learn to listen. The quieter we are, the more we hear. We only gain higher consciousness through love, the highest frequency and challenging our beliefs.
Thanks for a clear and simple explanation. Once you understand quantum mechanics you realise that this material world is just a quantum field in empty space. However even space time and the quantum field will be realised by science to be an illusion.
This material world we live in is made of the crudest particles off matter, cells. Quite a coincidence, so are prisons. Falun Dafa holds all the keys to all the gates in this prison.
Every time you return to the dream world it’s a different world ; a different dream ,whereas each time you awaken from the dream world the story continues on from where you left off when you went sleep. So the experience is not the same . Is there something here I don’t understand.
I am grateful for this video. I started meditating 1 or 2 times a day almost a year ago. I went from meditating for 20 minutes to meditating for one hour or one and a half hours. Then almost 2 weeks ago I stopped. I'm not sure why. Perhaps because I thought I could have a certain guru who left his body years ago and then I found out I could not. I enjoy meditating most of the time. Thank you for providing a way to meditate with you.
Staying with Daily medications is challenging. I find 20 minutes easier to practice. Yes, I take breaks, too. Yet when not meditating my days are not as good.
@@DM-zb8hw Can you share your thoughts on why Kriya specifically? I’m struggling to just sit at all given poor leg circulation and a weakened back. But I try and am curious about Kriya.
LOL !!! You've been fooled. There is no such thing as absolute reality, just another unreality humans made up in their minds. What we need is to believe. Believe in joy and you shall have joy. Believe in sorrow and you shall have sorrow. It's that simple. Keep your joy last longer and your sorrow more brief is the way to go. All you need to do is to believe. May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
Used to work at a hifi repair shop .Someone brought in a receiver for service . The wood panels on it had a sticker " Genuine Simulated Walnut Veneer " .
I'm not any particular religion but the chanting at the end does put you into a state of meditation without even really trying. I wish he had that chant as a video by itself that we could put on a loop!
@@kaitlinmontgomery2750 The guided meditation at 28:57. If you Google tadatmananda nididhyasana, you will get to an introduction to it and an example. Scroll down the long list of guided meditations and look for the two starting with "Guided Meditation - Advanced Techniques - Nididhyasana".
Thank you so much for the video swamiji. Excellent flow, pretty deep explanations made easy..have not listened to any such pristine videos in the recent times at all 🙏🙏💐. Sheer jewel.
I get it! And its the most incredible feeling you could ever describe. Now how do i stay sane and present watching all these completely miserable people around me who aren't even curious to ask these questions. I have a child Im rising and a family to provide for. Walking thru a store full of zombies is intensely painful. The more i wake up the more the constant misery bothers me. Now What!
I found listening to the explanations at 1.75x speed was more comprehensible than at normal speed. However, I did slow it down to normal speed during the meditation section at the end. The explanations are simple and obvious, and we know all of that when we stop to think about it. The problem is that for most people they never think about it at all because they are trapped in continuous distractions of sensory input from the external world. Meditation is the only cure to break the illusion. Excellent video, especially the first part which explains the nature of “reality” and illusion.
Reality is whatever continuously replicates. The word refers to our external experience in the sense of material consensus. Reality-to-us is the story we tell ourselves about that experience, more or less.
Excellent video and insightful teaching.Thank you. I always wondered what the Eastern paths meant when they said the world is Maya or illusion. You made it very easy for me to finally understand this concept. I experienced different levels of Samadhi during my meditation and contemplation practice. I also experienced Kundalini awakening 22 years ago. It seems there are gradations or levels of samadhi. One level I experienced was a realm of pure Golden Light. The Light radiated love and ecstacy, which pierced every cell of my body, I looked at my body and it was made of Light, I still had form but it was not my human form. I was in the form of a Light Body, I perceived myself as an individual spiritual being (atman) yet I was part of the Source (Brahman) and was made of the same stuff. I think this was a lower level of samadhi because I could still perceive myself as an Individual. There was still very slight subject/object relations. I also experienced the Oneness and I was that Oneness. That Oneness was my Self..my ultimate identity. I think this objectless awareness was a higher samadhi because there was no longer subject/object awareness. I wonder if there are higher levels than this?
Your example of the person repeatedly reminding her friend, "It is only a movie" is very helpful for me. Thank you for this. I'm still puzzled - "Why does the table FEEL solid? The hand is repelled by the table." I'm not clear how the hand being repelled by the table answers the question of why the table feels solid. Thank you for all your teaching and guidance.
If you will allow me to Julia, I will express how I understood his example... Atoms of the hand as well as the table have electrons that are negatively charged and are in a cloud around the positively charged nucleus. Because the electrons in the atoms of the hand, as well as the electrons in the atoms of the table are negatively charged, they repel each other when they get close. When the hand appears to touch the table, what is really happening is an interaction between the electrons of the atoms in the hand and the electrons in the atoms of the table. This is called the electro-static force. The Body (and mind) are designed so that the nerves in the hand sense this repulsive force as pressure, not an electron to electron interaction. Even though the electrons and atoms of the hand and table themselves sense the interactions of the electro-static force, our body and mind operate on a different scale of information. This is why we can only know and describe electro-static repulsion as feeling "solid". Hope that helps : )
Avastatraya Viveka ( vedanta) can help us in understanding too....the table felt solid and the hand was repelled by the table in my dream and when i woke up it became unreal.....my hunger was so real in the waking state but when i fell asleep there was no hunger felt....the three states....waking, dream and sleep are not true... when you are in one of these three, the other two dont exist !!! Please do read on Avastatraya Viveka..! It does help in our conviction that the appearance is not true but the Substratum or the Consciousness is the only Truth !
The experience you speak of that is necessary to "see" the World beyond all illusions is understanding. There are various ways in which we can reach that understanding.
I know many people want or are used to our fast paced world of speech and processing. But not all of us can do it or understand it at that pace. Thank you...for your style, manner, wisdom and heart.
Nearly all near death experience accounts echo that this existence was chosen by yourself to experience it for all it's worth, to be emersed in the movie. You can spend your time deconstructing the theater and audience as well but that seems to be worth about 5% of your time, not the other way around. You paid to watch this movie.
@@WorldInANutshell We are all here to remove the black karma from our souls through suffering. Once the karma is removed, we are allowed back home which is Heaven. We fell here because we sinned....................falundafa
In the 'clay pot' analogy, clay is not an adjective, but it definitely functions like one. Technically, it's called an "attributive noun, noun adjunct, qualifying noun, noun modifier, or apposite noun". But point well taken! Thank you. Subscribed, shared. All are empty names and forms. Aham Prema. 💕 🕊️
I’m really glad I heard this talk, your words might be just a small piece of the overall reality too and yet they stirred within me an understanding of a reality which is greater than we witness under “normal” circumstances. Now I have a better sense of the possibilities without experience. Yes experience will be the ultimate goal but a theoretical understanding of this kind shows that even these normal circumstances are left unexplored by so many of us and how the right words can really stir the pot.
Dreams are real that's why you have feelings when you dream or wake,it's you experiencing another reality,sometimes our dreams give us messages or helps us problem solve,like your dreams this reality is a dream just like your dreams.
"There is no end to the minuteness which can be unveiled through physical investigation, simply for the fact that it's the investigation itself that chops things into pieces." Alan Watts
I have to say here that even though I kind of know the wisdom of ancient Hinduism , for a long while I hadn't seen an intelligent video like this. Please make more videos to help the lost people in this illusionary world 🌎
In my opinion, in your direct experience, there are no illusions other than the thoughts you apply to the situation you’re in. All experiences are real, they just appear differently as you immerse yourself.
Choose your path and stick to it. For everyone it is different. There is no fast or slow journey as you are already there. As swamy says, pierce the veil of illusion.
*The human brain is an "Interface", as well as having other functions, and is NOT aware of anything !* *The only thing that is AWARE of anything, is AWARENESS, that is WHY it is called AWARENESS NOT the Brain !* *AWARENESS is Non-Dimensional, and in NO WAY represents, nor even remotely looks anything like any species, including the human species !*
I have so many questions. I have, over the last few years followed this channel and learnt so many things. It’s explained in a very digestible manner and always leaves me wanting to know more and more. Yet, doubts remain. If only I could have a conversation with the Swami. I also follow J Krishnamurti’s channel (he has been deceased for some time now) and would like to ask him questions. Krishnamurti didn’t believe in a ‘God’ and thought all religions were nonsense and merely superstition. He espoused that meditation (real meditation as he thought) couldn’t be practiced unless one had a perfectly ordered life and no conflict or fear. My doubts tend to err on the side of Krishnamurti, that is that this Advaita Vedanta is just wishful thinking, but the Swami is so compelling and convincing and I want to believe what he is saying is true. It’s confusing to be honest.
both krishnamurti and swami is correct. if u have well ordered mind which is not influenced by the desires ,then u dont need any method of meditation or any guidance to understand the essence .But due to the clutter we carry in the modern times ,we need special time and methods for meditation and proper guidance to reach a state of calm mind
From many of my own, but not consistent, experiences and research, there is a God. God is reality itself. God is not just the image, not just the idea, not just the amalgamation of our combined perceptions. God is reality itself. So here is a link if it works, it is a scholarly study on Krishnamurti and it says this about god: "Krishnamurti believed life itself was God, and every action manifested itself with God." www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673342/ I don't particularly agree with everything Krishnamurti has said, and that isn't because he is wrong, but because he is often asking questions relative to the people around him. He is trying to pull out people's biases, beliefs, illusions, dogmas, limitations, etc. So his diatribes are not necessarily "accurate" descriptions of the real, as non-dual traditions like Advaita are attempting to convey. Many non-dual traditions try to use language to simply describe the infinite unified reality, aware that the words themselves do not suffice. Krishnamurti in my experience of reading and listening to him, is probing the relative humans present to try and get them out of their particular loops/problems. This is beautiful, but it isn't as focused on solid claims about reality as advaita is trying to do. So, God is this (THIS). It is everything, it is beyond all our perceptions and senses, and it is infinite. It cannot be finite, with a start, end, and edge. How did it start? What is outside it? What is leftover when it is done? Did infinite nothing start "finite reality"? Then infinite nothingness is so powerful, that it ought to be considered something, and if there is infinite+eternal nothing when this finite reality is done, what is to say it won't start another reality? Basically, a finite reality instantly brings in the paradox of an infinite reality, this ad-infinitum of infinite nothing to universe, to infinite nothing, to universe to ........ Finitude is paradoxical, and cannot logically be the case (impossible in deduction/reason) and if it were finite somehow, beyond logic, then we wouldn't have the ability to observe that it has ended because we would have ended with it (impossible in induction/observation). It is only reasonable to conclude that reality in and of itself must be infinite, as there is no evidence of legitimate finitude empirically, and no sound argument for it logically, since it always gives rise to it's opposite. Being infinite, it knows no bounds, anything is possible, including the most glorious ever-evolving, neverending bliss, and the farthest never-reaches of pain and confusion. It is both our idea/limited perception of it ("God"), and it is infinitely beyond that (God). The level of intelligence, consciousness, knowingness, etc. of this infinite existence far surpasses our own. It is beyond conscious/sentient, it is infinite; both, neither, either, and beyond these too. ..... This infinite existence is God, that is what the ancients are talking about. It is THIS, right here, right now, and well beyond our own capacities and beliefs about it. Advaita is sharing with us that we are THIS, always have been, always will be. We are reality, we are infinite, we are God; never actually separate. For instance: we may think that a silhouette in the distance is, say, an owl....when we approach it we may realize it was simply a few branches aligned to have a similar shape to an owl and our minds made the mistake. Similarly, we perceive reality as however we do, but when we actually look directly, tear away all those conceptions, we realize it is infinite, consciousness, indescribable, and totally unified. We just mistake it as all these specific parts, memories, separations, sensations, visuals, names etc. But reality itself is not this, and what reality actually is is what yogis call God. I hope this helps you understand God a bit more. When I see JK talk of God, he seems to just want people to get out of the habit of using God with insecurity/fear and as this "savior". That is my interpretation of what he says at least in a bit of reading, doesn't mean it is his whole intention. God Bless :p
4:24 -- Up till now the Swami has been accurate. but here some tendentiousness starts creeping in. The parts of experience of the world supplied by the brain is not only massive, but massively accurate. The reason for this is that the material it supplies in the waking state is a sophisticated distillate of innumerable past experiences that allows it to act predictively on a continuous basis. The occasions when this sophisticated probabilistic machinery misleads us are few and far between, and helps us understand why there are so few good examples of this besides "the piece of rope by the wayside at dusk mistaken for a snake" in Shankara. His immortal "jagat mithyA" is best rendered "the world is an appearance" rather than "the world is an illusion". Then you can begin asking "appearance of what, in what, and for what" as a start toward epistemic discernment.
Wow.. This video hit me pretty hard. It got me thinking of, what if we lived in our "dream reality" our whole lives. We can do anything we could imagine, but not intentionally, like our dreams. Can't feel another person's touch, can do things you really want to in that life but couldn't. I bet any amount of money, most people in that reality, would do anything to somehow be in the reality we are now. We can live, touch, smell, taste, doing whatever we wanted to do with full control. Anyway, I think we take this one we have for granted and don't realize our true potential WITH all this control and give senses most are blessed with and if not, they're usually the ones that are very thankful for the senses and body parts they do have left. I know I take mine for granted.....
In my Near Death Experience many years ago, the Being of Light showed me the true nature of reality, and it was just as you've said. So called hard objects were floating particles you could put your hand through. Everything was made of Love. Trees were pastel colors made of Love. Everything was! Even today, I still remind myself that the tree in front of me is really pink, and that one is blue, and it's ALL Love. I don't want to forget it. When people transfer to the higher realm, they are in for a tremendous experience. Thanks for your video.
Hi Peggy, this is so beautiful. My mother passed away 12 days ago and your description of the afterlife helps me tremendously as I worry about her a lot. Thank you!
@@suzyriding9311 Thank you, Suzy, for your kind words. Try not to worry about your mother. I can just about assure you she is very happy! I even saw and talked to my father who died when I was 12, and he was glowing with joy and happiness. Of course, you'll miss your mother, but I'd bet heavily on her being just fine!! Good luck to you.
@@peggydoglover Hi Peggy! Thank you so much for your very sweet and thoughtful reply! Yes, I miss her very much but, your message brings me much peace. I can't thank you enough! I just read your NDE on your channel. Incredible, Peggy! What a beautiful, transformative experience! I just loved it and learned so much. So much to think about. I wrote much more on your channel, but so grateful that you shared it! Thank you, thank you!! ♥
I see tree's and nature as you said pink and bright now. Thank you for your beautiful post.
These are all names and forms that you keep in your consciousness.
Beautiful insights as we realize the third dimension is not a trap from which to escape but rather a training ground for consciousness to expand and learn to move and create and live as conscious beings.
And you know this how? What drivel.
Well stated.
@@nightfears3005 Either life is about what they stated in the original comment, or it's about eating, sleeping, screwing, and then dying. Pick one.
The bliss and celestial joy , I get from his lucid and excellent lecture cannot be expressed in any human language. Glory to the great swamijee.
Your gentle tone and mannerisms invite the viewer in to sit a spell and listen closely. The wisdom shared is expansive and stays with the viewer long after the video has ended.
@@sophiafake-virus2456 yes
Dress can't change his tone. But his appearance had been changed.
@@sophiafake-virus2456 you are Mithya, the very personification of the illusionary nature of this material world. Thank you for reinforcing that.
I had to listen at 2x speed
Hilarious , You were still influenced only by your five senses
@@brianwood1041 Glad I could bring some laughter into your day. 👍👍
Enchantingly eye-opening... Soothing & Reassuring!
Thank you Swami Tadatmananda
Thank you very much. I never had an easy time meditating because my mind would go all over the place. Your illustration finally made perfect sense and help me see my two states of being. One in this world with me the true observer in Brahma!
Thank you so much! Peace and love to you my brother!
Heartfelt thanks Swami-ji😇 This must be a question in every seeker's mind! Only an enlightened Master can explain such a profound mystery so simply.
This is the best explanation on reality that I’ve seen. I’ve watched a lot of science videos but this does a great job to help tie it all together.
Tie what together ??? LOL !!! Tied up a bunch of bullshit is still bullshit.
There is no such thing as absolute reality, okay ? Reality is always subjective, always temporary or transitional, and always circumstantial or situational. There is no objective reality, no permanent or unchanging reality, and no absolute or unconditional reality. Period.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
Well, here is a better one.......................falundafa
Thanks for that post! In 1976 very similar near death experience. Words to no justice. It’s the first time I’ve heard in all these years. Someone explain a near death experience that came even close to mine
Beautifully lucid and compelling. Swamiji is a clear channel for truth. Many thanks.
Just the first step............falundafa
Thanks Swamiji, I learned a lot from this video.
Thank you, Swamiji.
In Nididhyasana today, your words and Swami Dayananda's -
"Brahma satyam, jagan mitya"
"Jagat is derived from the roots 'jan' - to be born, and 'gam' - to go.
Jagat is 'that which is born and which then goes.'"
"Brahma is translated as absolute reality, from the root 'brh' - 'to inrease, to grow large."
The noun means 'bigness'. Nothing quaifies or limits that bigness. It is unconditionally big.
It has no form or limitation whatsoever.
Parambrahma is not limited by space and time, and that is indeed adhyatma, or atma,
existence, consciousness, fullness that is the truth of the individual."
Respect and gratitude.
Thank you for your input, from another follower of Guru Pujya Sri Dhayanda Saraswathi ji ! Kodi pranams to Swamy Ji🙏🙏🙏
No , the word - Jagat जगत् is NOT derived from Jan and gat गत्
Sorry Gam - गम् To move , to go is correct but Jan is incorrect
Oh my can i say Swamiji is my Guru on Line :)))) these videos are indispensable ! Thank You is simply not enough i am speechless
I’ve really missed your presence in my life. I’m so grateful that this showed up in my feed.
Meditation of whichever kind is very useful. After you have reached a certain level of mastery in the ability to focus on your meditation, you may want to consider the following to deeepen your practice.
Meditating on "Brahman is real" is more or less a mental exercise. The next level is to consider who is the one that is meditating. This is atma vichara as recommended by Sri Ramana Maharshi. He advocate the question who am I to serve as reminder to get hold of the feeling of one's own being or one own's awareness and try to hold onto it for as long as possible like we do in meditation. In other words, instead of meditating and holding onto a thought, a sound or an image, we are holding onto the sense of our own being. It's a very very powerful meditation.
No, all meditation techniques are different but only one works properly...............falundafa, sounds incorrect but it is true.
Swamiji I have listened to your many talks and also read many books but this video my understanding of vedantic concept ब्रह्म सत्यं जगत मिथ्या become more deep and clear.
बहुत-बहुत धन्यवाद। साधु साधु।thankyou and warm wishes to you.lord Rama blesses you dear Swamiji. Namastey
Salutations, Guruji. Beautifully done video and ending. Much gratitude for your hard work. Om Shanti 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Anant koti naman Gurudev! Anant koti dhanyvad! Par excellence explanation of the Maya concept!
Wonderful meditation! Infinite Thanks 🙏 Gurudev! Infinite salutations at your Lotus 🪷 👣!
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I like this very simple and clear explanation of our sense of reality. I don’t agree that we stop dreaming when we are awake. It’s just that our conscious experiences of the outside world tend to hide our dreaming much like on a clear sunny day the sunlight hides the much weaker light from the stars in the sky. The stars are there. We just can’t see them for the bright sunlight. If you go into a deep well in daytime you can see the stars in the sky. Ancient people understood this. So we are dreaming all the time and when our attention is arrested when we are awake we begin to “daydream”. We think we are consciously controlling the content of the daydream but it’s really that we just became aware of what we were thinking subconsciously. All this came to the fore for me as about five years ago I started to suffer from non spasmodic narcolepsy. I could fall asleep for 30 seconds and dream during that time and still do though I take dugs to stay awake so I can function. This was the result of a stroke that left me permanently compromised on my left side. I think my brain began to function differently too as I can perceive things others can’t. Not that mystifying. I mean my brain interprets things differently and it can be annoying. On a bright day not exactly sunny but also a sunny day like today, Apr 20 2022, if I go outside the whole roadway and sidewalks appear to be sparkling with millions of tiny sequins. I think it’s the sand grains in the pavement. Your brain filters that out. Mine doesn’t. I have to wear sunglasses as it’s extremely annoying. At the same time I have acquired a bit of a calendar memory you might have heard some autistic people have like in the movie “ Rainman”. I see patterns in dates and can project them into the future. I detected the calendar on this iPad is inaccurate going back passed 1905. Check it out yourself unless Apple fixed it. I tried to tell them but it’s impossible to contact them. I discovered a numerical pattern on Feb 22 this year that will never repeat again in the lifetime of the universe. I tried to tell others but they treated me like I was crazy. They couldn’t see it. As they say I might be crazy but I’m not stupid. I stopped trying to tell people these sort of things. Nothing special happened last Feb 22. It was just an average Tuesday or Twos Day. It was 02/22/2022. Nothing special there. What’s for dinner? What do you think happened at 2 AM 02/22/2022? I woke up exactly at that time and looked at the clock when the thought occurred to me. So to sum up. We are dreaming 24/7 but just not aware of it when we are awake. But those dreams do affect our conscious thoughts and decisions. Here’s a rule of thumb about dreams: dreams often tell us what is missing in our lives whether we know it or not. If you are starving you may dream of eating a big banquet. As the Greeks say they are the opposite of reality. But more than that they tell you what’s missing in your life which is why you may dream of a dead relative or friend. You miss them and what they contributed to your life. That could be good or bad. Often it’s hard to understand what it is because our mind refuses to interpret the symbolism out of fear of discovery about ourselves things we don’t want to know. But it’s only in the conscious state you can do anything about it. However our subconscious never sleeps. It’s working 24/7 thinking about problems or our interpretation of the world around us or our social relationships. Sometimes the solution can come up in a dream as mathematical or puzzle solutions have come up in mine. Not the direct solution but symbolically that awake since understand was the answer I was looking for. The thing is such solutions can be far more comprehensive than you thought.
I find your story and stories like yours extremely fascinating. Can you tell me what pattern you discovered? "I discovered a numerical pattern on Feb 22 this year that will never repeat again in the lifetime of the universe." Is there anything else you realized after your stroke that is intriguing? Do you think your brain is simply malfunctioning and "creating" these thoughts, or do you think the brain is like a " window" to the greater reality and your stroke basically opened that window much wider? I'd love to hear more. I keep thinking of writing a book about these stories. There are scientists out there who study situations like yours, like V.S. Ramachndran who is a neuroscientist.
Thank You.
I agree.
I am an occultist and we know, you know, us all, that the subconscious is driving, and this is why we do magick in order to marry the shadow with the light...shadow work...
Please tell me more.
I agree that our subconscious is on 24/7. I also think our inner reality is the Authentic reality reavealed to us through our sensations. Rudolf Steiner wrote of such things in the early 1900s. This Swami seem to explain this reality better than anyone today. I've only listened to him a few times. I will return here with more of my thoughts and experiences, but now it's late. Thank you all for sharing.
These mini dreams you speak of sound like Lucid Dreams that are not so unusual in neurotypical people. It's a state between being awake and drifting into sleep; the dream is brief, only carrying one image before waking again.
Much has been written about Lucid Dreams, although very recently Lucid Dreaming has been reconfigured by someone on TH-cam seeking recognition and Followers (IMO.)
Thank you Swami. Love to you and appreciation for your excellent teachings 🙏
Amazing clarity..! What a wonderful exposition
Perfect confrontation between scienze and oriental teachings. Your videos are really a treasure!
Yes, your control of your judgements is the dream of all your listeners. We wish we could do that ALL the time.
Awesome videos Swamiji ! Thank you for your sewa in spreading this wondrous ancient knowledge. Pranam 🙏🌺
thanks for another easy to understand video! i meditated with you at the end of it and i saw interesting things: first i saw many human figures sitting as if they were meditating, but they were silhouettes filled with light and there were rays of light shining upon them. then, i saw surface of water rippling from a droplet that fell into it. next the visuals disappeared and i started receiving thoughts/"bits" of information, its hard to describe. something was telling me that this world is like floating matter that is constantly in motion due to a wave moving it, in a sinusoidal way. the "ups" were light and the "downs" were dark. this something also told me that the light and shadow were only two visual "interpretations" of the matter (or rather an external force that makes us "see" things in the matter that arent necessarily real) and that the matterexists no mater whether the light/shadow are present or not. interesting stuff
Much love to all of you /\. Thank you Swamiji.
Totally absorbing.
Such an experience for the first time in my life.
Life changing experience.🙏🙏
Another larger step..................falundafa
Thank you my brother Master for your clarity, simplicity and your deep teachings that point the ultimate reality... the infinite Self!
Your light shines on my way....
Thank you Swami Tadatmananda, for pouring profound spiritual wisdom from your lotus feet.
For the last couple of weeks if not months I have used many different kinds of meditation from your inner journey playlist and I think this particular Nididhyasana in this video (after having watched the video) is such a blessing. Thank you. One day I want to visit you, love from Germany to all people.
he just scratches the surface...........falundafa
he just scratches the surface...........falundafa
If you keep those 666s, heaven will ignore you.
Thank you for your teachings. Last summer i started meditation. I have been searching for more information and here it is. So much beautiful information, wow. I totally understand your teachings and find recognition. A lot i find out myself just by looking at the world in a mystical way.
I just found you an few days ago so have a lot video's to watch. Love it.
Thank you thank you!! 🙏🍀🦋
It is only elementary school stuff, skip it and move on to a PHD...............Falun Dafa
ब्रह्म सत्यं जगन्मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मैव नापरः । 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Swamiji you are truly a great teacher. Your explanations are so clear.
I always pondered this fact even after reading the scriptures, much of my doubts have now been dispelled. Thank you Swamiji
Try, Falun Dafa, nothing is more profound.
24:55 and the meditation that followed really helped me. Thank you!
I've experienced the exact same examples, precisely. I view psychedelics to be a stepping stone, or door opener to the deeper level of reality. Becoming Conscious is a lengthy, slow process. I like all his examples because they are accurate, from my perspective. I have one Buddhist friend who has become Conscious through studying the Dharma and meditation. We met when in our 20s, both seeking another life experience. In fact, he introduced me to meditation in Boulder, CO. He controls his emotions better than I, and is far more patient and understanding of those unconscious. I attribute these qualities to his years of studying the Dharma. I became Conscious accidentally through pain, suffering, and forgiveness. I believe many people throughout the world are Conscious from having experienced difficult lives; yet, they have had no exposure to Spiritual teachings, or psychological insight. This vid is one of my favorites because of the beautiful descriptions of our sense of Outer Reality and Inner Reality. The reality created from our sensations is difficult to maintain, just as he explains. Sometimes, I just shut it down because going back and forth is confusing; as if one must join a monetary or community of like minded souls. Then what, deny outer reality completely? I have not been able to resolve these concerns, personally.
Adwaita Vedandata and Vajryene have an answer to this schism in perception.
LOL !!! It's so easy. Don't meditate. Just believe. Let be and never let go. Believe in joy and you shall have joy. Believe in sorrow and you shall have sorrow. So do not believe in sorrow. Let sorrow be and sorry will diminish and fade away quicker. Joy will always follow. Belief in that.
Buddha called it detachment. Detachment is not denial. All these amateur Buddhist con men practised is denial, and they are useless and harmful to your well being.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
Thank you for your candor.
@@markgray2962 You are welcomed.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
Drugs are dangerous, all you really need is a great spiritual teacher....................falundafa
Pujya Gurudev Swami Tadatmananda ji , the guided meditation at the end of the video is very powerful. It is like , pujya gurudev,holding the hands of shisyas and taking them towards enlightenment! I do it every day! Anant koti naman Gurudev! Anant Koti dhanyvaad Gurudev!
🙏🕉🔔🪔🦢🪷💐🦢🪷💐🦢🪷💐🦢🪷💐🦢🪔🔔🕉🙏
Thank you! 💛🙏🙏💛
Thank you thank you thank you. Love to listen to your teachings and guided meditations. Thank you. Om shanti shanti shanti
Thank you Swamiji your explanation are intuitive and easy to understand, arising from your experience of presence and awareness, rather than just the mind and theory, we are grateful
The world is my ideas and their representations because what I believe about life and the universe becomes true for me.
The simulation hypothesis encapsulates the concept we live inside a simulation. Like any simulation model, simulations can operate inside simulations. The matrix is like a feedback loop of a guitar amplifier; we only break free of the mistakes on this earthly plane, once we break the cycle. Much like the guitar amplifier, we turn down the volume and go within ourselves to learn to listen. The quieter we are, the more we hear. We only gain higher consciousness through love, the highest frequency and challenging our beliefs.
Absolutely wonderful, Swamiji 🙏🙏
Wow... Amazing.. Many thanks for this clarification.. I now have a better understanding of Avicenna's theory of essence and existence
Thanks for a clear and simple explanation. Once you understand quantum mechanics you realise that this material world is just a quantum field in empty space. However even space time and the quantum field will be realised by science to be an illusion.
Stop trying to twist science to your own biggoted word view . Quantum mechanics has nothing to do with hippy religious cults
Yes . I feel this daily. Check out “History of the Universe channel” it really breaks it down nicely
This material world we live in is made of the crudest particles off matter, cells. Quite a coincidence, so are prisons. Falun Dafa holds all the keys to all the gates in this prison.
Every time you return to the dream world it’s a different world ; a different dream ,whereas each time you awaken from the dream world the story continues on from where you left off when you went sleep. So the experience is not the same . Is there something here I don’t understand.
One has to be well educated like Swamy Tadatmananda Ji to explain science & Vedanta threadbare.
I am grateful for this video. I started meditating 1 or 2 times a day almost a year ago. I went from meditating for 20 minutes to meditating for one hour or one and a half hours. Then almost 2 weeks ago I stopped. I'm not sure why. Perhaps because I thought I could have a certain guru who left his body years ago and then I found out I could not.
I enjoy meditating most of the time. Thank you for providing a way to meditate with you.
You can have a guru in any form
You can get out of your body through chanting, affirmations and being really really present in the moment. I’ve done it twice
Staying with Daily medications is challenging. I find 20 minutes easier to practice. Yes, I take breaks, too. Yet when not meditating my days are not as good.
@@kirstinstrand6292 if you're finding normal meditation difficult then probably you should go for Kriya Yoga. 🙏🏻
@@DM-zb8hw Can you share your thoughts on why Kriya specifically? I’m struggling to just sit at all given poor leg circulation and a weakened back. But I try and am curious about Kriya.
Pranam Swamiji! Thank you is not adequate but constrained by words I will use those very words to thank you for the lucid explanation and meditation.
Very nice teaching Swamiji! Thank-you and Hari Om!
Thanks Swamiji for a wonderful video and the knowledge that you have shared with us.
🙏🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍👍
I listen to guruji at 2x and the experience is much better 🙏🏻
Wow. For sometime I was contemplating "reality" and this explanation was so clear and so direct. I truly appreciate this talk. Thank you 🙏
LOL !!! You've been fooled. There is no such thing as absolute reality, just another unreality humans made up in their minds. What we need is to believe. Believe in joy and you shall have joy. Believe in sorrow and you shall have sorrow. It's that simple. Keep your joy last longer and your sorrow more brief is the way to go. All you need to do is to believe.
May the love and the peace of Jesus be with us.
Used to work at a hifi repair shop .Someone brought in a receiver for service . The wood panels on it had a sticker " Genuine Simulated Walnut Veneer " .
I'm a Buddhist but the chanting at the end is very energising for the mind and brings on samadhi.
I'm not any particular religion but the chanting at the end does put you into a state of meditation without even really trying. I wish he had that chant as a video by itself that we could put on a loop!
@@StrangeScaryNewEngland yes!
The guided nididhyasana was extraordinary. Thank you.
What's that??
@@kaitlinmontgomery2750 The guided meditation at 28:57. If you Google tadatmananda nididhyasana, you will get to an introduction to it and an example. Scroll down the long list of guided meditations and look for the two starting with "Guided Meditation - Advanced Techniques - Nididhyasana".
Thank you Swami Tadatmanada!
Thank you Swamiji! Om Shanti! 🙏
Namaskar Swami ji, Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you so much for the video swamiji. Excellent flow, pretty deep explanations made easy..have not listened to any such pristine videos in the recent times at all 🙏🙏💐. Sheer jewel.
I get it! And its the most incredible feeling you could ever describe. Now how do i stay sane and present watching all these completely miserable people around me who aren't even curious to ask these questions. I have a child Im rising and a family to provide for. Walking thru a store full of zombies is intensely painful.
The more i wake up the more the constant misery bothers me.
Now What!
Most people have chosen to play in the mud instead of seeking the Divine. Do not let these lost souls stop you...........Falun Dafa
Everything come and go, let go at every moment, you will be free😇😘
@@dindongsing6047 No, everyone needs a great teacher.........falundafa
Such a deep teaching.
Guru Bramha Guru Visnu Gurudevo Maheswaraha 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I found listening to the explanations at 1.75x speed was more comprehensible than at normal speed. However, I did slow it down to normal speed during the meditation section at the end.
The explanations are simple and obvious, and we know all of that when we stop to think about it. The problem is that for most people they never think about it at all because they are trapped in continuous distractions of sensory input from the external world. Meditation is the only cure to break the illusion.
Excellent video, especially the first part which explains the nature of “reality” and illusion.
Everyone is playing in the mud instead of seeking the Divine..............falundafa
Extraordinary! 🌅 Thank you so much Swami Ji... Fantastic Video and Precious Meditation 🙏💖🕉 Namasté... we gonna dub to spanish 😊🙏
So beautiful, thank you so much for your instruction and meditation practice!
Reality is whatever continuously replicates. The word refers to our external experience in the sense of material consensus. Reality-to-us is the story we tell ourselves about that experience, more or less.
I enjoy the way you talk, I listen to this to sleep and sometimes while high
Excellent video and insightful teaching.Thank you. I always wondered what the Eastern paths meant when they said the world is Maya or illusion. You made it very easy for me to finally understand this concept. I experienced different levels of Samadhi during my meditation and contemplation practice. I also experienced Kundalini awakening 22 years ago. It seems there are gradations or levels of samadhi. One level I experienced was a realm of pure Golden Light. The Light radiated love and ecstacy, which pierced every cell of my body, I looked at my body and it was made of Light, I still had form but it was not my human form. I was in the form of a Light Body, I perceived myself as an individual spiritual being (atman) yet I was part of the Source (Brahman) and was made of the same stuff. I think this was a lower level of samadhi because I could still perceive myself as an Individual. There was still very slight subject/object relations. I also experienced the Oneness and I was that Oneness. That Oneness was my Self..my ultimate identity. I think this objectless awareness was a higher samadhi because there was no longer subject/object awareness. I wonder if there are higher levels than this?
Thank you, Swamiji! 🙏
This topic absolutely ultimate, thank you Swami for your teaching
The greatest teaching available today...........falundafa
Please start explanation of Ashtavakra Gita.
An wonderful eye opening video. Thanks Swamiji.
Your example of the person repeatedly reminding her friend, "It is only a movie" is very helpful for me. Thank you for this. I'm still puzzled - "Why does the table FEEL solid? The hand is repelled by the table." I'm not clear how the hand being repelled by the table answers the question of why the table feels solid. Thank you for all your teaching and guidance.
If you will allow me to Julia, I will express how I understood his example...
Atoms of the hand as well as the table have electrons that are negatively charged and are in a cloud around the positively charged nucleus. Because the electrons in the atoms of the hand, as well as the electrons in the atoms of the table are negatively charged, they repel each other when they get close. When the hand appears to touch the table, what is really happening is an interaction between the electrons of the atoms in the hand and the electrons in the atoms of the table. This is called the electro-static force.
The Body (and mind) are designed so that the nerves in the hand sense this repulsive force as pressure, not an electron to electron interaction. Even though the electrons and atoms of the hand and table themselves sense the interactions of the electro-static force, our body and mind operate on a different scale of information. This is why we can only know and describe electro-static repulsion as feeling "solid".
Hope that helps : )
Avastatraya Viveka ( vedanta) can help us in understanding too....the table felt solid and the hand was repelled by the table in my dream and when i woke up it became unreal.....my hunger was so real in the waking state but when i fell asleep there was no hunger felt....the three states....waking, dream and sleep are not true... when you are in one of these three, the other two dont exist !!! Please do read on Avastatraya Viveka..! It does help in our conviction that the appearance is not true but the Substratum or the Consciousness is the only Truth !
@@user-nj5jh6xe7q nicely explained 👍🏻
@@user-nj5jh6xe7q Thank you very much. Yes, this is helpful.
@@satpurush2592 Thank you! I have found Avastha Traya Viveka, (Discrimination of the 3 states) and will study it for more clarity.
The experience you speak of that is necessary to "see" the World beyond all illusions is understanding. There are various ways in which we can reach that understanding.
No words, just gratitude x x
the close up shows your kind and happy eyes..
I know many people want or are used to our fast paced world of speech and processing. But not all of us can do it or understand it at that pace. Thank you...for your style, manner, wisdom and heart.
Most people have made speed a virtue when just the opposite is true...............falundafa
Nearly all near death experience accounts echo that this existence was chosen by yourself to experience it for all it's worth, to be emersed in the movie. You can spend your time deconstructing the theater and audience as well but that seems to be worth about 5% of your time, not the other way around. You paid to watch this movie.
@@WorldInANutshell We are all here to remove the black karma from our souls through suffering. Once the karma is removed, we are allowed back home which is Heaven. We fell here because we sinned....................falundafa
I am listening to this daily while I am going through a medical event. Thanks for making this excellent video and meditation.
I hope for your speedy recovery ❤
Pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Fantastic flow! Swamiji
In the 'clay pot' analogy, clay is not an adjective, but it definitely functions like one. Technically, it's called an "attributive noun, noun adjunct, qualifying noun, noun modifier, or apposite noun". But point well taken! Thank you. Subscribed, shared. All are empty names and forms. Aham Prema. 💕 🕊️
I’m really glad I heard this talk, your words might be just a small piece of the overall reality too and yet they stirred within me an understanding of a reality which is greater than we witness under “normal” circumstances. Now I have a better sense of the possibilities without experience. Yes experience will be the ultimate goal but a theoretical understanding of this kind shows that even these normal circumstances are left unexplored by so many of us and how the right words can really stir the pot.
His words directly reflect how deeply he has studied upanishads
Dreams are real that's why you have feelings when you dream or wake,it's you experiencing another reality,sometimes our dreams give us messages or helps us problem solve,like your dreams this reality is a dream just like your dreams.
Thank you so much! ❤️🙏❤️
Thank you so much for what you do! I really enjoy your teaching.
Faith act like tethering process, once connection happen, one get all query aswered easily.
Jai Shri Ramakrishna.
thanq swamigi,excellent explaniation and meditatyion as usal.
"There is no end to the minuteness which can be unveiled through physical investigation, simply for the fact that it's the investigation itself that chops things into pieces."
Alan Watts
Great content! Thanks for a new perspective 🙏🏾
I have to say here that even though I kind of know the wisdom of ancient Hinduism , for a long while I hadn't seen an intelligent video like this. Please make more videos to help the lost people in this illusionary world 🌎
Pranam swamiji. Thank you for another great video. Grateful to you. 🙏
In my opinion, in your direct experience, there are no illusions other than the thoughts you apply to the situation you’re in. All experiences are real, they just appear differently as you immerse yourself.
Everything is made of matter and we live in the realm of the crudest particles, cells, same thing that jails are made up of.................falundafa
Swamiji can you please do a video on Kriya Yoga and it’s claim that its the highway towards self realization.
Already done in the meditation series
This is like mount everest rest all are base camp
Choose your path and stick to it. For everyone it is different. There is no fast or slow journey as you are already there. As swamy says, pierce the veil of illusion.
I’m a science educator. This video is fantastic. Thank you for helping others explore how the brain constructs our experience of reality. ❤
*The human brain is an "Interface", as well as having other functions, and is NOT aware of anything !*
*The only thing that is AWARE of anything, is AWARENESS, that is WHY it is called AWARENESS NOT the Brain !*
*AWARENESS is Non-Dimensional, and in NO WAY represents, nor even remotely looks anything like any species, including the human species !*
it is explained very clearly . thank you a lot to sharing such precious darma knowledge.
I have so many questions. I have, over the last few years followed this channel and learnt so many things. It’s explained in a very digestible manner and always leaves me wanting to know more and more. Yet, doubts remain. If only I could have a conversation with the Swami. I also follow J Krishnamurti’s channel (he has been deceased for some time now) and would like to ask him questions. Krishnamurti didn’t believe in a ‘God’ and thought all religions were nonsense and merely superstition. He espoused that meditation (real meditation as he thought) couldn’t be practiced unless one had a perfectly ordered life and no conflict or fear. My doubts tend to err on the side of Krishnamurti, that is that this Advaita Vedanta is just wishful thinking, but the Swami is so compelling and convincing and I want to believe what he is saying is true. It’s confusing to be honest.
When you seek enlightenment in earnest, truth is your natural guide...
Treat yourself well and others if you can. Enjoy the ride 👍😊
both krishnamurti and swami is correct. if u have well ordered mind which is not influenced by the desires ,then u dont need any method of meditation or any guidance to understand the essence .But due to the clutter we carry in the modern times ,we need special time and methods for meditation and proper guidance to reach a state of calm mind
Possibly because you are looking for “answers” when there are none except the non you?
From many of my own, but not consistent, experiences and research, there is a God. God is reality itself. God is not just the image, not just the idea, not just the amalgamation of our combined perceptions. God is reality itself. So here is a link if it works, it is a scholarly study on Krishnamurti and it says this about god: "Krishnamurti believed life itself was God, and every action manifested itself with God."
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673342/
I don't particularly agree with everything Krishnamurti has said, and that isn't because he is wrong, but because he is often asking questions relative to the people around him. He is trying to pull out people's biases, beliefs, illusions, dogmas, limitations, etc. So his diatribes are not necessarily "accurate" descriptions of the real, as non-dual traditions like Advaita are attempting to convey. Many non-dual traditions try to use language to simply describe the infinite unified reality, aware that the words themselves do not suffice. Krishnamurti in my experience of reading and listening to him, is probing the relative humans present to try and get them out of their particular loops/problems. This is beautiful, but it isn't as focused on solid claims about reality as advaita is trying to do.
So, God is this (THIS). It is everything, it is beyond all our perceptions and senses, and it is infinite. It cannot be finite, with a start, end, and edge. How did it start? What is outside it? What is leftover when it is done? Did infinite nothing start "finite reality"? Then infinite nothingness is so powerful, that it ought to be considered something, and if there is infinite+eternal nothing when this finite reality is done, what is to say it won't start another reality? Basically, a finite reality instantly brings in the paradox of an infinite reality, this ad-infinitum of infinite nothing to universe, to infinite nothing, to universe to ........ Finitude is paradoxical, and cannot logically be the case (impossible in deduction/reason) and if it were finite somehow, beyond logic, then we wouldn't have the ability to observe that it has ended because we would have ended with it (impossible in induction/observation).
It is only reasonable to conclude that reality in and of itself must be infinite, as there is no evidence of legitimate finitude empirically, and no sound argument for it logically, since it always gives rise to it's opposite.
Being infinite, it knows no bounds, anything is possible, including the most glorious ever-evolving, neverending bliss, and the farthest never-reaches of pain and confusion. It is both our idea/limited perception of it ("God"), and it is infinitely beyond that (God). The level of intelligence, consciousness, knowingness, etc. of this infinite existence far surpasses our own. It is beyond conscious/sentient, it is infinite; both, neither, either, and beyond these too. ..... This infinite existence is God, that is what the ancients are talking about. It is THIS, right here, right now, and well beyond our own capacities and beliefs about it.
Advaita is sharing with us that we are THIS, always have been, always will be. We are reality, we are infinite, we are God; never actually separate. For instance: we may think that a silhouette in the distance is, say, an owl....when we approach it we may realize it was simply a few branches aligned to have a similar shape to an owl and our minds made the mistake. Similarly, we perceive reality as however we do, but when we actually look directly, tear away all those conceptions, we realize it is infinite, consciousness, indescribable, and totally unified. We just mistake it as all these specific parts, memories, separations, sensations, visuals, names etc. But reality itself is not this, and what reality actually is is what yogis call God.
I hope this helps you understand God a bit more. When I see JK talk of God, he seems to just want people to get out of the habit of using God with insecurity/fear and as this "savior". That is my interpretation of what he says at least in a bit of reading, doesn't mean it is his whole intention.
God Bless :p
4:24 -- Up till now the Swami has been accurate. but here some tendentiousness starts creeping in. The parts of experience of the world supplied by the brain is not only massive, but massively accurate. The reason for this is that the material it supplies in the waking state is a sophisticated distillate of innumerable past experiences that allows it to act predictively on a continuous basis. The occasions when this sophisticated probabilistic machinery misleads us are few and far between, and helps us understand why there are so few good examples of this besides "the piece of rope by the wayside at dusk mistaken for a snake" in Shankara. His immortal "jagat mithyA" is best rendered "the world is an appearance" rather than "the world is an illusion". Then you can begin asking "appearance of what, in what, and for what" as a start toward epistemic discernment.
I have never heard any swamiji describing the most complex realities of existence, so simply
I'm only 1:36 seconds into the video and I can already tell I like this guy.
Wow.. This video hit me pretty hard. It got me thinking of, what if we lived in our "dream reality" our whole lives. We can do anything we could imagine, but not intentionally, like our dreams. Can't feel another person's touch, can do things you really want to in that life but couldn't. I bet any amount of money, most people in that reality, would do anything to somehow be in the reality we are now. We can live, touch, smell, taste, doing whatever we wanted to do with full control. Anyway, I think we take this one we have for granted and don't realize our true potential WITH all this control and give senses most are blessed with and if not, they're usually the ones that are very thankful for the senses and body parts they do have left. I know I take mine for granted.....
thank you for not being pro drugs
I hate that so many people think drugs will "awaken" them
it's just so wrong