Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | June 18th, 2023
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- Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Jun 18th, 2023. List of questions with timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
04:17 - All knowledge depends on the knower, known, and instrument of knowledge, yet we are taught that we are none of these. How can this be reconciled?
19:48 - If science can be used to know the self, does this mean that Vedanta is not a unique instrument for self knowledge? How can science be used for the study of something without objective qualities?
30:24 - How can we remove doubt? How is one guided to know Brahman clearly and continuously?
46:43 - How does one become a monk or nun?
48:56 - How do you explain the problem of evil within the realm of consciousness?
01:01:00 - Is Purusha the same as pure consciousness? When we say “I am imperishable”, how do we know?
01:09:00 - Is consciousness everywhere, not just in living things? What is the glue that binds Brahman and Maya together?
01:18:35 - We are told we are one consciousness. Where does Karma come in?
01:25:49 - Will the witness, sakshi, register anything?
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List of questions with timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
04:17 - All knowledge depends on the knower, known, and instrument of knowledge, yet we are taught that we are none of these. How can this be reconciled?
19:48 - If science can be used to know the self, does this mean that Vedanta is not a unique instrument for self knowledge? How can science be used for the study of something without objective qualities?
30:24 - How can we remove doubt? How is one guided to know Brahman clearly and continuously?
46:43 - How does one become a monk or nun?
48:56 - How do you explain the problem of evil within the realm of consciousness?
01:01:00 - Is Purusha the same as pure consciousness? When we say “I am imperishable”, how do we know?
01:09:00 - Is consciousness everywhere, not just in living things? What is the glue that binds Brahman and Maya together?
01:18:35 - We are told we are one consciousness. Where does Karma come in?
01:25:49 - Will the witness, sakshi, register anything?
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But this advaita make me more ego person what is the solution
Each "Ask Swami" episode is an eagerly awaited event and Swamiji never fails to elevate and enlighten. To me, the show also gives a feeling of connectedness with seekers from all over the world. Though there are a number of questions and answers in each session, the common thread of Advaita helps in reinforcing the central concepts again and again from different angles. Thanks to Swamiji and the Vedanta Society of New York!
Happy Guru Purnima to the Swami Sarvapriyananda ✨
Pranaam Swami Saravpriyananda ji. Always stay blessed 💞
I cannot thank you enough swami. I am deeply humbled and amazed by this channel, it's like finding a box of elixir in the ocean of poison! Greeting from Vadodara, Gujarat, India
10:00 Reflected Consciousness
When you look for the "I" and you don't find it, it is because the "I" has found itself in pure consciousness.
Thank you Swamiji for sharing these precious and luminous words.
गुरु ब्रह्मा गुरु विष्णु गुरु देवो महेश्वरः। गुरु साक्षात् परब्रह्मा तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः॥
Dear swami ji 🙏🏻. On today’s auspicious occasion of guru poornima, I would like to express my gratitude to you for imparting knowledge which really matters 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
প্রণাম মহারাজ!
Swami S showed incredible wisdom in his answer to the children. Tears in my eyes.🙏❤️❤️❤️
Grateful Swami Ji for this profound knowledge wrapped with love🙏🏼❤️
Thanks to Swamiji's beautiful and clearly articulated answers/explanations, I had several "ah...got it" moments in this Q&A session.
Very beautiful satsang 👍🏾🙏🏾❤️
कूलच❤❤❤
Fear of pain untouched by experience?
Pure consciousness as it becomes contacted with the sound of Wisdom.
Pranam Swamiji ❤, Your very Existence is God Himself, what else is there other than Him.Where IAM not You don't exist !!!
Nectar of Nonduality....🙏
JAI SHREE RAMAKRISHNA
JAI DEVINE HOLY MOTHER SHARADAA MAATHAA🌹🌹🌹🌹
Fantastic inputs Swami ji
Perhaps Karma is the duty which one self must be responsible for throughout the quest to destroy evil.
A this point!!! The crowd becomes, my lovely friend; Bloodthirsty.
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Drive safe dear swami, i love u
My humble obeisance at your lotus feet Maharaj on the auspicious day of Guru Purnima 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for everything Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj.🙏🏻
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Om gurubhyo namah 🙏🙏🙏🙏
46:43 you don't wanna miss the best question asked by the little one !!
Gratitude to you Swamiji on this guru poornima 🙏 I feel truly blessed to have an opportunity to hear your discourses
Thank you 🙏🌹
SWAMI SARWAPRIYAANANDA❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹
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डार्लिंग आनंदी गुरुपौर्णिमा🙏🙏🙏
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻
As you mention always doubts which are asked by others clear my doubts also.
Your explanations are always very insightful…
Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this very useful session of Q& A🌹
"Everywhere is in you Conciousness " ...love that !
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Many many Respects & pranaams to you swamiji on the auspicious occasion of guru purnima today 🙏🌺. Your teachings are priceless🙏🙏
Happy Guru Purnima Swamiji❤
Pranam Swamiji! 🙏🏻
Amazing session. There is nothing left to say really.. it is just gratitude for having lifelong questions answered with such clarity and elegance. God bless swami, the vedanta society and even TH-cam for allowing this gems to be shared.
Charana Vandana Swamiji!
Jai Guru Swamiji 🙏🌹❤️
19/08/2023. Saturday. Om Satyam Gnyanam Anantam BRAHMAH.🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳⛳⛳🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Swami that was fire, I kindly offer my most heartfelt and sincere gratitude!
Just Awesome session on knowledge based philosophy
Pranam guruji 🙏🙏
Pure gold, as always.
Probably a better use of my two hours than watching Das Boot, though I'll do both. I'll do both you bet.
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Yes pure gold and pure awareness
HAR HAR MAHADEVVVVVVVV❤❤❤
Always an enlightening talk, the questions asked and the answers and guidance Swami provides. Thank you!
At 48:00 Swami tackles the question of evil again, and mentions (as he has before), at 52:00, the book *The Problem of Evil and Indian Thought* (it's not "in" Indian thought). Anyone looking for this book--the actual paper version--will face a challenge. There don't seem to be current editions of the book. Various original copies are out there but they are expensive (I'm not going to pay $80 for an edition, plus shipping, for example). I use soft copies/e-versions, but I'm still a person who likes to sit down with a book. As well, this is the type of topic where I don't want to be reading the bulk of it through a screen.
You can find a copy of the book online, gratis. I found the First Edition: Delhi 1976, printed in India (in English). It's about 343 pages. I sought out the cheapest printing in my city (which happened to be near the major university, no surprise; cheaper than the city's libraries and any other printing outfit), put it on a USB, and had it printed. I even enlarged the pages so it's a little easier to read, and did 2-sided printing. With a clear cover and a nice back, and the "good binding" (coiled), it came to under 20 dollars. Cheaper than if I tried to get my hands on any edition I've seen online, and they are rare. (I'm surprised even my city's local library didn't have a copy of this, they have everything.) I should have done this sooner! Eager to read it, even just looking at the table of contents and skimming some of the content. Now I can sit down with the book and really dive in. And I have the PDF that I can have handy when I can't carry the book and have a moment to read, am waiting for something or someone etc. Cheers
Sita Ram Swami thank you so much , i cant go a day without your teaching ,God bless you.
It's cristal clear yet the questions ll arise later in time. That's why continuous hearing, dwelling are the prescribed sadhana in Advaita. In yoga/samkhya asanas and meditation are the prescriptions. Combining both is satisfactory because if I can't practice Meditation (samkhya) due to some urgent work I can still hear these teachings while driving meaning one way or other I am keeping track of my Sadhana pranmas swami🙏
Charan sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so very much for breaking down so complex concepts into simple and understandable points. We are forever grateful to you.
Very righly said swami.
Help others will cleanse your mind and body ultimately soul realisation.
Pranam swamiji on gurupurnima 🙏
Pranam Maharaj
Koti Koti Pranams!!!
Questions is properly solved when it dissolve.dhanyawad swamiji.
Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🌟🙏🌺
Everytime hear poojya swami ji I discover something new 🙏
Amar pranam neben🙏
Pranam Guruji 🙏
Humble Pranams Swamiji 🙏
Very nice session, really enjoyed, thank u so much for ur wonderful insights 🙏🙇💐
Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🙏 💐 Jai Maa 🙏💐Jai Sri Swamiji 🙏💐
The ultimate knowledge 🙏
God bless you
I absolutely loved this video; thank you, Swami Sarvapriyananda. I particularly enjoyed the part at 1h 20, in which you shared the account of King Janaka--so relevant! Deep gratitude for all of the insights you share. 🙏🏻
What a good talk!!! One of the best I ever heard in my life!! packed with profound concepts and examples. Good humor also!!! Blessing to you Swami!!!
Nanyah pantha vidyate ayanaya......pranam
Haha the questions are good and Swami just cuts through the confusion. Amazing ❤
Pranam thakur pranam maa pranam Swamiji
Pronams Maharajji 🌷 🌷 🌷 🌷 🌷 seek your blessings.
Namaskar Swamiji.
powerful talk, thanks swamiji
Sidenote: A totem has a front and a back side. A chakra has two sides. Each totem has seven chakra.
Samrasta
Oh, wow! Really good questions. Thank you very much Swamiji
Pranams Maharaj.
Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Pranam Swamiji.🙏🙏
Thank you Swami and Diane🎉!! All the talks and q&a have been extremely helpful along this journey. We are free!! Happy 4th❤
Aatmiya DIVINITY
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Experiencing amazingly JOYOUS AWARENESS participating in this session...... So many Questions and Answers......
# Unified field of Knowledge
# Unified field of Awareness
# Unified field of
Consciousness
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Gracias Swami
Excellent answers to such intelligent questions... Pranaams Swamiji 🙏
Such a beautiful man.
Swamiji 🙏
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namaskaram sri Swami JI 🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful 🙌🙌✨
❤️ Thank you ❤
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Pranam Swamiji
I have it, this answer too.
Akoshic Records are completely different and unattached to Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality is an alchemical process. Akoshic Records are sensory vibration of memory filter. With common and dissimilar outcomes yet the average experience is vastly paradoxical as compared.
I often wonder why the 'dream state' exists & what purpose it serves for the jiva.
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4:17. Q. 👌
9:47. CRUX 12:10 13:30 14:05
15:12.Sunlight,moonlight ,earth at night
18:00. 😆
19:00. Summary
19:48 Q
21:00. A 23:07 23:55 👏
25:30. RXXXXX
27:30. AI 28:28
29:15. CS function
30:34. Q
31:54. A
33:32. Q
34:37. RXXXXX 36:05 I AM
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38:00. How do I know I am?38:48
41:00. Self evident+Self-luminous nature of “I am”/Pure Awareness. RXXXXX
45:04. RXXXXX. Understanding > clarity > conviction >manifested effortlessly
49:00. Q. Oneness and evil 49:50 A 51:20. 54:22 Karma. Evil’s cause is ignorance 56:00
57:35. Help 58:55
1:01:00. Q 1:01:30. Purusha Prakruti 1:03:09 1:04:45 1:06:45. 1:07:45
1:09:58. CS connection with life 1:11:10 SS
1:11:55. CS is everywhere, time, space
1:13:15. Q Glue between I and Maya 1:14:30. 1:15:30. RXXX
1:18:40. Q. A. You only exist! 1:20:10 Selling yourself short RXXXXX
1:21:30. Even karma is an illusion ( movie) per Advaita. RXXXXX 1:24:15
1:26:10. Q. Registering 1:26:30. Sankhya v Advaita
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Swami! You recently came to Mumbai for an event. If time permits do come to Madras we would love ❤ to have your darshan.. 🙏🙏
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A spiritual journey and a spiritual practice. Experienced in this world of good and evil. Samadhi the journey or study; is a quest. Sadhana the practice or activity is dharma based. The possibility or opportunity anywhere dharma exists is attached to the light of modern sadhana. This is both good and bad. Therefore Samadhi is both good and bad. This is karma based.
Duties and the pair of attachment and release this is samadhi. Dharma. So therefore karma comes from dharma.
Action and consequence. Now, good and evil.
Swamiji’s explanation of Sat and Chit aspects of Brahman while answering the question how do I always be one with Brahman was excellent.
But there is a third aspect “Ananda” - this cannot be just ‘understood’ intellectually. Lord Krishna crearly calls out “sukham atyantikam” and “aparam labham” - supreme bliss and gaining which no other gain is considered higher.
This means the person who has “achieved “ the one ness will also experience the supreme ananda.
Consequently if somebody intellectually claims they have understood the one ness without an iota of doubt, still feels not unfulfilled, then it is back to the drawing board.
I just read a quote by quite an eminent historian [George Grote (1794-1871)] who says, "In the natural process of growth in the human mind, belief does not follow proof, but springs up apart from and independent of it; an immature intelligence believes first, and proves (if indeed it ever seeks proof) afterwards." My question is what it means and whether there is any contradiction between this and the teachings of Advaita Vedanta.
Vedanta never asks one to believe. Vedanta wants one to realize Brahman!🙏
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Meso American Yoga. So like three empires and a vast wilderness of tribal totems. Then this Yoga and a Confederation of Totemic Knowledge. The wilderness of Totem is the four corners of the Tantric Scriptures. The Great City Square of Akoshic Splendor. These Four Corners. This place is where three empires were United through Totemic Divination. You can recognize it as the Gift of the Sun; derived from the scriptures of the three empires. America and Canada are the physical world environs of the Four Corners.
Namaste