Swami Ranganathananda Q&A in Berkeley
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- This is an informal Q&A session with Swami Ranganathananda at the Berkeley Vedanta Center, in the 1980s.
See www.VedantaVideo.com for free Video of Swamis of the Ramakrishna Order and Speakers on Vedanta subjects.
I have the greatest respect for this great Soul 🙏🕉️. My principal Spiritual inspiration is Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi 🙏, but I love these monks in the Sri Ramakrishna tradition . They are well educated in many subjects alongside Advaita Vedanta . .
Swami Sarvapriyananda has inherited this Swamiji's mantle as a great spiritual orator 🙏🕉️
My salutations to you Maharaj
Pranam to Shri Thakkur ji and to all.
Jai Gurudev ji🙏🙏
pranam guruji .... The great mahathma of this past years.🙏
Fortunately I got blessings from him.
He is the great pillar of vedanta.
Pronam Swamiji. I was blessed with Diksha from Swamiji at Belur Math.
Swami ji was a great soul. He worked tirelessly throughout his life to spread the wisdom of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. He was an integrated Yogi - integrating karma yoga, jnana yoga, and bhakti yoga in his life. His book on Bhagavad Gita (The message of bhagavad gita) is a masterpiece. He had a great positive influence on humanity. His central message is that all of us are spiritual at the core. We can progress at our own pace, even a little bit of growth is good. We should also work cooperatively and help others to the extent possible - parasparam bhavayantam. "Passion towards God and love towards fellow beings," was his dictum.
Beautiful talk and he draws on the great Swami Vivekananda's life and Sri Ramakrishna's message time and again. Beautiful! Blessed to hear this speech. 🙏🙏🙏
Sri Ramakrishna and Vivekananda's energy and blessings flow through Maharaj to all of us...how blessed are we to listen to him. Eternal pranams!!
We are so blessed to have access to wisdom from such wise gurus!
What a wonderful speech !!! Pranam Maharaj 🙏🙏🙏
Extremely important discourse... thanks for uploading. My thousand pranaam to one of the best stalwarts from RKM
Apurba explanation. pronam Swamiji ma o Thakur. pronam moharaj.
Highest reverence for Swami ji . Speaks to the point .
Okay we are blessed. I am lucky to live in the time of TH-cam to receive this blessing. ❤
The Sea of Faith TV series is available on TH-cam - it is a great series on religion .🕉️.
Knowledge personified.Swamiji was a great visionary and. Noble soul.....Jai guru....
Swamigi bless me gurudev!
Such precise and clear answers.. Blessed to hear this
Amazing. Such a clear vision...effortless, humble yet a proud Indian, candid, humorous, knowledgeable. Pronam Maharaj.
Not a proud Indian, but a complete human being. He argued against limiting spiritualism to particular ethnic identities or political boundaries.
What a fantastic, outstanding, erudite speech this was clearly explaining the Indian philosophy
Gratitude 🤍✨🙌!! Beings like this one should be cloned for the wellbeing of Humanity! What a blessing to be brought to his immense Wisdom...
What a treasure, grateful for this post. Jai Guru
To the Point answers. No verbiage or tedious moralising. Thanks Swaniji
Wonderful every word is philosophical touches heart and gives deep devotion.
1:01:01 in Europe alternating democracy-dictatorship ... in India it was always the middle path, Buddha taught it, Gita taught it .... we have been taught the middle path, acceptance is the ideology of Swamiji .... even after freedom India continued to work together with Britain ... in America after independence there was tremendous anti-British feeling and vice versa ...
Thank you for Uploading ,I am furtunate to hear his speech personally .in Hyderabad
46:41 "Oh Tulasi, when you were born you were crying and the world laughed, when you go, live such a life that you laugh and the world cry..." American youth should listen this
I can see a scientist and also a great spiritual person.
25:02 The fire of knowledge and appetite of devouring experience....
Jai ho ...What logical and inspirational answers.
1:05:42 this thinking and feeling of friendship itself will do wonderful help to people .... thinking is first doing is second
Pronam Gurudev.
20:01 "Eternal Values" book by Swami Ranganathanandaji.
Pronam Gurudeb!!!🌺🌺🌺
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
PRONAM Maharaj ji
Such a wonderful explanation of Karma and its meaning!!
just wonderful!
I am very happy to see this video
55:20 Swamiji's work coming through humanism in America ... America was foundationally humanistic .... religion in America, politics was democratic and freedom, in search of something better ...
22:05 book "To the Seekers of God" by Swami Shivananda conversations
20:01 Swami Shivananda in Ooty!
1:05:30 Russian lecture was on Swamiji's humanism and they liked that idea!
Very interesting and impressive.
Pranam Maharaj 😊
Hinduism is explained by swami vivekananda and vivekananda is correctly understood by swami ranganatanandajji.
Perhaps the last of the great monks who had been the personification of an idea of Vivekananda, in Swami Ranganathananda's case it's the Idea of oneness of science and spirituality
1:09:02 looking at all those people who were listening!
Refer to the Swami's lecture at 33:50 min and then read the following text which contradicts what he says :
द्रोणं च भीष्मं च जयद्रथं च
कर्णं तथान्यानपि योधवीरान् |
मया हतांस्त्वं जहि मा व्यथिष्ठा
युध्यस्व जेतासि रणे सपत्नान् || 34||
droṇaṁ cha bhīṣhmaṁ cha jayadrathaṁ cha
karṇaṁ tathānyān api yodha-vīrān
mayā hatāṁs tvaṁ jahi mā vyathiṣhṭhā
yudhyasva jetāsi raṇe sapatnān
BG 11.34: Dronacharya, Bheeshma, Jayadratha, Karn, and other brave warriors have already been killed by me. So slay them without being disturbed. Just fight and you will be victorious over your enemies in battle.
www.holy-bhagavad-gita.org/chapter/11/verse/34
Perhaps the last of the great monks who had been the personifications of an idea of Vivekananda, in Swami Ranganathananda's case it's the Idea of oneness of science and spirituality which he has preached relentlessly. He had bluntly pointed out to the Marxists that the socialist dictum about: to each according to his needs etc etc presupposes a spiritual judgement, on the part of the administrator, of the whole issue.
47:01 attachment to the world is death .... repeat the Lord's name at the time of death
Pranam Gurudev
1:05:30 what is our responsibility? First of all develop the attitude that we all belong, that the poor and the destitute are my own blood, then based on that feeling share your surplus with them ...
1:02:42 if India was not there there would be no Commonwealth ... Churchill was terribly anti Indian but after freedom when he heard Nehru accepting to remain in Commonwealth tears came to his eyes, despite the oppression and sucking blood ...
Guru kripa hi kebalam
38:01 Reality is that, one shadow of which is life and one shadow of which is death.
EXCEEEEELLENT !!!!
Watching again.
Each swamyji of Ramakrishna order is equal to one atom bomb. Meaning a atom bomb will destroy a whole country where as our Swamiji(atom) bomb will awaken a whole country. Great souls🙏🙏🙏
Absolutely Absolutely Absolutely truth,correct will be lesser in terms of perception and true meaning.
23:22 Indira Gandhi's mother was a disciple of Swami Shivananda
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PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE = RELIGION ....PRONAM SWAMIJI
53:34 Code language Kannada famous language of South India
SHATH SHATHA PRANAM AT HIS HOLY FEET
45:06 Vedanta comes in and teaches us this truth ...
39:00 Socrates conversation before death can be taken as a chapter in any Upanishad ...
Fortunate we are.
Thank You.
Even more important for many Americans, we need science along with our religion. And, when science and religion are in conflict, which should you believe, your experience or your beliefs?
Have seen you so many times 😅 in swami sarvapriyananda s videos. How did you come to Ramakrishna I feel intruiged man.
In case of any conflict , you must believe yourself !!
Rely on your experience, not on belief.
58:20 Tremendous changes .... how long can fundamentalism last? .... Eastern ingredient is very strong, Christianity was originally Eastern ... Roman civilization swallowed Christianity, Eastern religion is accommodative... it's like ingredients piled in a cauldron and final product cooked will be because of forces ...
As the year 2024 crawls to its end but the world with the various wars in Europe and east still in full swing “harmony” seems to be a distant future for mankind. 😢
45:09 Teaching a parrot to chant ... yess then like Socrates we can say so ... with a smile we will go ... Tulsidas Ramayana!
11:37 East and West Berlin!
All saints of Belur math are excellent
1:04:01 Sister Nivedita quote!
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Pranams to his holy feet
44:31 "that is way to enjoy life" obsession with body
1:03:38 if it is not there now (freedom idea) in India, then all we need to do is education....
59:34 Modern atheism and materialism has provoked fundamentalism ... in India the reaction to Western culture was very soon balanced in Swami Vivekananda no anti-anything, everything positive, that maturity India got that through Sri Ramakrishna and Swamiji ... other countries are on poles ....
43:20 St. Paul ... nowadays very little manufacture for mind and soul all for body ...
1:00:41 teaching evolution ...
56:40 "Civil Religion of America" MIT scientist ....
8:52 Maya and magic and magician Doctor hahaha ... hand close and hand tap and flow tape
41:28 Shankaracharya or Sri Ramakrishna allowed themselves to be treated when sick it is no pathological condition ...
37:05 Los Dickinson book "The Greek View of Life"
6:42 Sea of Faith film
51:03 Iran .... it is a frenzy now and Islamic world is passing through all that and old values will have to go .... they cannot preserve every letter of the old tradition ... it is a more closed religion.... Hinduism was always free we honor the mystic not the priest ... Bahai'sm is strong in America .... Bahais in Iran
23:40 what is the nature of Brahman? Science and cannot be studied .... see Swamiji radiates Mukti
He was. great. Orator. SHATH SHATH PRANAM.
1:04:37 no anti-feeling .... the anti- people will be replaced by the humanism not related to any nation
54:48 Trojan Horse story ... India has no such thing everything is open
Vedantic Volcano
16:05 it is a corrosive truth
53:35
I wish such Swamis do cover all Indian universities and institutions too extensively. Indians are going farther away from the spirituality and basic morality…
Er ist ein guter Mensch. Mein Eindruck ist, dass er ein Unpersönlichkeitsanhänger ist. Aber Gott ist ein Lebewesen und nicht nur Energie, so wie wir auch ewige Lebewesen sind; unsterblich. Siehe Gita 10.10; 7.7. 2.13
But how can you destroy your past bad karma?
Pronam Gurudev
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Thank you.