Live Satsang (Q&A) with Swami Tadatmananda (26 May 2024)
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0:00:00 Intro
0:01:21 What is Atma vichara? Do we have to be an uttama adhikari to perform Atma vichara?
0:04:42 How can I fulfill my responsibilities in life while being connected to God?
0:07:17 Are there various degrees of ahimsa?
0:12:00 How is it that the scriptures describe Atma with size?
0:18:04 What is the Vedantic perspective on the "dissociated alters" narrative of Bernardo Kastrup?
0:21:56 What is the difference between the terms upadhi and adhyasa?
0:26:52 What is the meaning of mithya in Advaita Vedanta?
0:32:36 What is the source of the aham vritti in our mind?
0:36:35 Isn’t it rajasic to want moksha? Shouldn’t we be sattvic?
0:43:50 Isn’t the craving for moksha a sign of vanity?
0:47:08 What is the relationship between Ishvara and free will?
0:57:15 Is the word Hindu mentioned in the Vedas?
1:04:20 Outro
ओम् श्री तदात्मानन्दाय विद्महे श्री गुरुदेवाय धिमहि तन्नो दक्षिणमुर्तिः प्रचोदयात् ।
Thank you, Sir. I dont know any other words to express my gratitude.I feel at peace just to hear and see you......❤
प्रणाम स्वामी जी 🙏🙂
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Great Q&A! Thank you, Swamiji, and to those who asked the questions 🙏
0:43:50 - About vanity, I remember the time when I was feeling like a peacock and acted like one 😂 I think what worked on managing it was catching the thoughts that would eventually turn into actions. And then I try to both introspect and tinker with the thought to make it quicker to catch and brush off when it arises. I like the word hypocrite in terms of usability as it means I better be consistent both ways. This means when I see someone acting all high and mighty, it becomes an easy reminder to not act like one and in most cases eventually evolve into feeling nonchalantly about the person's act as it's all the same from the "viewpoint" of Atma.
But overall, it always seems easier to see things I don't like about others rather than to see things that I need to work on myself so I think the Q&A is important as it is about being aware of what can become so one can catch it before it happens. It's good forward-thinking and awareness of oneself 🙏
🙏 Thank you Swami ji.
Shanti, shanti, shanti 🙏🏼
אדם, נחמד לדעת שיש עוד מתרגל מישראל :)
Thank you swamiji. You answered one of the questions that I had. I wanted to ask you in person (but the satsang was cancelled and I returned back to Seattle). I used to be very self driven in my career and I can see clearly that the drive is slowing down. I can see that I am spending more time in the spritual path, but it isn't being as driven as the other. So in effect I am getting lazier. Your answer is very clear! I can see I am not all alone here!
Great session by swamiji. Cleared many doubts. Thanks again
Oh Swami, I wish I had your wisdom and grace. I am glad I found you such that I learn more humbly then thus far. Thank you.
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I really liked the concept of Justice example for ccomprehension of concepts. In fact our lives and the human civilisation is more conctrolled by non-measurable formless concepts like love, hate, order, justice, ethics, morality etc etc. and they vary from one to the other. What is ethical for one can be different to another. As you have rightly said that if we have no problems with them, then why we have issues with concepts like Singularity?
We are so much conditioned with my small something that we are afraid to lose that, and hence arises all emotions starting with fear, then anger etc etc. But if we can orient with the large, with the infinity, with everything, then nothing to lose or gain. Atman or Brahman is just a word for that equivalence, as I see it.
My respectful pranams.
Intrigued by the question at 0:12:00 which cites Svetasvatara 5.8 and 5.9, I looked up those mantras. My understanding of these mantras confirms Swamiji’s observation that these mantras cannot be understood as they are meant to be understood by looking at them in isolation from the rest of the Upanishad in which they are presented. For those who may be interested, I reproduce the English translation of these mantras as well as excerpts from the commentary on them by Swami Tejomayananda.
_Svetasvatara 5.8: Of the size of a thumb and bright like the sun, associated with wishful thinking and individuality, and also with the qualities of the intellect, the mind and the body, the jiva is seen as if different, like the tip of a goad (pointed rod)_
_Svetasvatara 5.9: The jiva, the size of the tip of a hair imagined to be divided into a hundredth of its hundredth part, is capable of infinity and is to be known_
_Excerpted commentary: It was earlier said (in Svetasvatara 3.3) that God/Truth is seated in the heart-space and is the size of the thumb. He is of the nature of pure Consciousness and illumines the mind and the senses. Now it is said that the individual being is also the size of the thumb and is self-shining like the sun. How can two entities of the same size occupy the same space simultaneously? It means that they are essentially one and one is only superimposed on the other ……… However, being essentially infinite, it (the individual) can by giving up its finitude realize its infinite Self. The size of the individual is initially said to be of the size of a thumb and later the tip of a needle and finally the thousandth part of a hair tip. As the mind tries to conceive its size, the mind and the individuality disappears in the realization of the infinite Self_
Also, regarding verses 15.7 and 15.8 of the Bhagavad Gita which were cited, I view those verses as Sri Krishna’s teaching for those of us who have a seeming need to appear solely as part of maya. Later in that chapter, in verses 15.18 and 15.19, Sri Krishna directs his teaching to those of us with a seeming need to be free of maya altogether. So, I would echo Swamiji’s observation that the scriptures cater to the seeming differences among us. Thus, we are free to take from the scriptures what we believe we need.
Is aatma and parmatama/brahman are one and the same why two different names. Why can we not say that inside every living being brahman resides instead of using the word aatma.
Om Swamiji, Can we define mithiya as: as though real ?
as per swami ji’s teachings from other videos… mithya is something that depends upon something else for its existence… अनुष्ठान अनन्यतम
and since brahm is the absolute fundamental reality of all and everything… everything else is mithya 🙏
Maybe less real. Not an illusion. That which exists but less real than the absolute reality. Again he said there could be multiple levels of reality
Swami ji Islam came to India 1364 years back when the Baghdad Chaliphate conquered Sindh in 710 AD. It was the first Islamic conquest in India. Hence Sindh was called as Darul Hind in the Islamic world meaning Door to India. Then came all the Chistis, Qalandars, Nizzamuddin who were all from Baghdad.
There was never an islamic conquest. Just savage islamic invasions!!
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