Introduction to Vedanta Part 1 - Swami Sarvapriyananda Jan 12 2016
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In a series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda lucidly unfolds the fundamentals of Advaita Vedanta presented in Drg Drsya Viveka. This talk - delivered on January 12, 2016 at the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, CA - covers verse 1 in "Drg Drsya Viveka: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Seer and the Seen by Swami Nikhilananda".
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I watch this 4 years ago sparked me on a massive journey .Thank you
Swami you are a true TEACHER, a true GURU.
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Swamiji explained so vividly, it's is unparalal. 🙏
Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher, bless me.
Thank you Swami ji, this is eye opener.Naman🙏🙏🙏
Very deep and satisfying. Very good initiation into the world of Vedant.
Sairam Swami Sarvapriyananda JiAs the clarity is coming in mind, experiences are coming too. Understanding the real meaning of Self by your simple and easy explanations, unconscious statement made by my mind " I would like to withdraw into myself " gave a very pleasant surprise. Oh what was that I and Myself !! The mind then went straight to the thought "MySelf" is the Consciousness that illumines the mind and all there IS. Interestingly enough the mind pondered on all that you told about the Consciousness for a beautiful length of time. With Infinite Love and Gratitude and many thanks. saiasha.
an excellent teaching, which is taught and explained brilliantly by swamiji thank you Namaste
Remarkable and thought provoking speeches. I am listening to them every day repeatedly. Awaiting to hear many more in future. Thanks for the uploading to TH-cam.
Thank you so much Swamiji. So looking forward to the rest of this awakening series. 🙏
Love the way Swamy explains the subject and makes it so simple for us to understand. Thanks a lot.
A wonderful way of explaining the Mind and the witness. I love his sense of humor.
His explainstion is clear as water with minute detail
This is the REAL hinduism, modern hinduism is vedanta. This needs to be shown and need to be the display of "What is Hinduism ?"
You are the God is easy to say than to realise and this lecture on Vedanta will ultimately take us to that awareness.The examples of Monk and Monkey are great and help in understand the Vedanta yet looks certain intricate and deep to get the crux of the discourse. Better it is made more simpler in consonance with our average way of living style in this selfish world. Above all it is good and attractive discourse to start the journey.
Swamiji, Shat Shat Pranam . Your lectures and publications will help generations to come. Please publish lectures in form of e-books. If possible.
Awesome experience of eternal horizon.
Vedanta doesn’t change or make the world of appearances disappear.It makes you accept them knowing that you are atman and that everything is atman,consciousness.I am separate from the body and mind which is a anatman,sentient and different.
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It is great with lot of learnings
Pranam Swamiji .
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
amazing stuff. I personally "experienced" that true state of existence must be ironic - which is true is untrue and what is untrue is true. Human being able to experience this state of neutral existence, knowing and keeping equi-distance from both sides is what, I felt, the gist of this introduction.
Atman illumines the mind and makes it cognise things.
🙏🙏🙏 Guruji
Thank you Swamiji. So well explained interspersed with humour.
Amazing and fantastic lecture! Pronaam maharaj!
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pranams gurudev
Excellent Sir, Pronaam
I enjoyed the video, thanks
Witness is different from mind,hence it doesn't violate the principle that seer must be different from the seen.
Pranam maharajji .........
I like this Swami !
I c Swamiji in him🙏🙏🙏
wonderful .
when a very bright whie tpure but strong light ( different from even sunlight)with a violet tinge in it seen by some person for a fraction of a moment, who was the seer there.
I am wondering for the answer.Please explain it. Thank you very much
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very important in my life to parabhaoti
Thank you very much
The entire universe including everybody living in the universe is seen and consciousness is the seer which is true nature of the person who is observable in the universe as a person (bode -mind)
Is it true Swami ji?
Well sytamatically explained Thanks very much
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The entire universe including everybody living in the universe is seen and consciousness is the seer which is the true nature of the person who is observable in the universe (body- mind)
Is it true Swamiji?
my mind is swimming in the swami river.
Sir, why don't you come to India and teach us too...
Awaken the world ki samadhi movie... Jarur dekhe
Here the Buddhist objection is: "Something unchanging can't witness changing objects. In order to witness changing objects, something must keep changing accordingly. Hence there can't be any unchanging Witness Self."
For example, in order for you to be the witness of some tea being poured into a cup, you must keep changing accordingly as the level of tea keeps rising in the cup. If you remain unchanged, you can't witness the change, i.e. the tea level rising.
Swamiji, would then the seer be the same as Turiya as explained in Mandukya Upanishad
I wish you had the better marketing team than Sadhguru. All the best. (Y)
Gaurav Grover the problem is people are not interested in the direct path
He is quite young
He have much more time
Essence is important not person
As Vedas dont have any author
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Swami ji, Dandwat pranam. How can I read or get the book u hv in ur hand,Plz ?I m from Himachal India.
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namaste
Maharaj,pranam, have a talk on adaitva makaranda ( nector of Vedanta) written by a odiya laxmidhar kabi
Lifted Munda from boby what does it means ??
Good Lecture. Lot of insights.
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govindo hare Krishna
Swamiji, is consciousness associated with my personality in the dream is the same as the consciousness associated with my personality in the universe?
Yes
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Can someone tell me the name of the mantra at the beginning
Aum sahan bhavatu sahanau bhunaktu...
Shankaram loka Shankaram
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Maharaj name of book plz
When we know the saakshi is different from mind and body. Can we detach it from this mind and body?
Hi Aditya. Sakshi is the Witness. The Witness is Consciousness. Consciousness is that which is conscious of mind and body. Consciousness is always detached from mind and body. Never conditioned or affected. But we have to discover this experientially.
If you would like to reach this fact experientially; here is a short exercise:
1. Are you conscious of the world?
2. Are you conscious of a thought in the mind?
3. Are you conscious of a sensation in the body?
4. Are you conscious of being conscious?
Your answer to every question is "yes". Right? In order to get the "yes" you have to be conscious. Right? That which is conscious is Sakshi, Consciousness. In question 1-3 Consciousness is conscious of world, body, and mind. In question 4 Consciousness is conscious of itself.
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Can we get the book name which is being used here. Or some links where i can buy the,.
vivekananda.net/PDFBooks/Others/DrgDrsyaViveka1931.pdf
you can get free copy here!
Thank you so much🙏🏼
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Only problem is, the observer and the seen are both the same and different. As such they are an illusion since nothing can be the same and different at the same time. Naturally the observer and the observed are different. But the problem arises that if the observed and the observer were actually different, the observed could appear at one place and the observer at another. Problem is, the observer never appears without some observation. Consequently they can't be separate. The highest realization of Vedanta (Brahman) as well as Mahayana Buddhism (emptiness) is that the observer and the knowledge of the observed are one and the same in Ultimate Reality -- monism.
Not sure what you're trying to describe here. But according to this branch of Vedanta, it simply states that the real self is enveloped by ignorance and such a mind perceives this universe to be real. It is like an observer mistaking a rope for a snake in dim light. It doesn't mean the snake is real. It is due to ignorance (due to dim light ) that the observer perceived a rope as a snake. Similarly advaita says that If this ignorance enveloping our mind is removed through knowledge (Jnana), then the real nature of self is perceived.
The true self is not seen by ordinary people. In order to realize it, it's necessary to be in the 4th state - TURIA! My remarks are directed to the false self - the ego - “Ahamkara!” It is a false self. The reason it''s a false self is because it's logically unsound. If we examine Ahamkara as an observer, it is either separate from that which is observed, or it is the same? There is no 3rd possibility. By observation we all say we are separate from that which Ahamkara observe. That is Ahamkara is different from that which is observed. But this makes no logical sense because Ahamkara never observes itself without observing other. This proves that Ahamkara is both different and the same. BUT! Nothing can be the same as and different from itself at the same time. Therefore Ahamkara is an illusion. From commentaries Mundakya Upanishad Gaudapada's Karika. Only the real self, Autaman,” actually exists. Autman and Brahman are the same. In Turia (Samadhi) Autman the real self observes itself, and the knowledge of other as being the same (Oneness!). Brahman alone is real. All else is an illusion. Ahamkara is an illusion for the reasons stated above.
Correct...I don't know if I understood this right, but "Ahamkara" is not the observer. The witness, observer or the "Sakshi" is the real self (Brahman or sat-chit-ananda). "Ahmakara" will make an individual perceive this world in terms of observer(subject) and observed (object). The non dual Brahman appearing as subject and object. You're correct that Ahamkara is an illusion or ignorance.
One last time. you got it a little wrong. Ahamkara is the ego, the state of the ordinary person. The ordinary person observes. The observation is an illusion of duality. The duality involves an observer and the observed: that is, duality! The Ahamkara observer thinks he or she is separate from what is observed. Do you think you are separate from or the same as what you observe? The ordinary person will say I am separate from everything. This is the normal perception of the ego, the Ahamkara. But this is an illusion which defies logic. The logic is: the observer is either separate from what is observed or the same. THERE IS NO OTHER POSSIBILITY! Logically it has to be one or the other. It can't be both because nothing can be the same as and different from itself at the same time. This is just common sense. But is the observer really separate from the observation? No! He or she is not separate! That's because logic proves the ego wrong. If the ego were really separate from what it observes, the observer could appear alone by itself. But it can't. Examine your own life. Does the observer ever appear by itself without an observation? When I examine my own life, it never does. Therefore, logic tells us the realizations of the Yogies in Samadhi makes sense. By meditating on the logic that the observer and the observed are the same, the Yogie becomes Brahman and sees the world as it really is: that is, the observer and the knowledge of the observed are exactly the same. But the ordinary person doesn't see it that way. He or she sees themselves as separate from everything they observe. He or she sees their own head, cows, dogs, people, and everything else as separate from their observer. But Brahman the real observer sees it all as one - no duality anywhere. Brahman alone is real - all else is illusion.
You say Brahman is the real observer. But Brahman is
actionless. So it is impossible Brahman to be the observer. Buddhi is
the observer.
Of course the Buddhi borrows the light of Brahman in order to be able to
observe.
The Union of Buddhi with Brahman makes the observer.
Brahman in itself cannot be aware of anything, neither of Itself.
Brahman is the witness not in the sense that perceives the contents of
the mind and buddhi but in the sense that is always present in all
experiences but doesn't experience anything.
The experiencer is the Buddhi thay watch and perceives the thoughts ,
imaginations, emotions etc..
The sense of 'Iness is inherent in the Buddhi and so we feel I perceive,
I watch, I know, I understand.
The true self is not seen by ordinary people. In order to realize it, it's necessary to be in the 4th state - TURIA! My remarks are directed to the false self - the ego - “Ahamkara!” It is a false self. The reason it''s a false self is because it's logically unsound. If we examine Ahamkara as an observer, it is either separate from that which is observed, or it is the same? There is no 3rd possibility. By observation we all say we are separate from that which Ahamkara observe. That is Ahamkara is different from that which is observed. But this makes no logical sense because Ahamkara never observes itself without observing other. This proves that Ahamkara is both different and the same. BUT! Nothing can be the same as and different from itself at the same time. Therefore Ahamkara is an illusion. From commentaries Mundakya Upanishad Gaudapada's Karika. Only the real self, Autaman,” actually exists. Autman and Brahman are the same. In Turia (Samadhi) Autman the real self observes itself, and the knowledge of other as being the same (Oneness!). Brahman alone is real. All else is an illusion. Ahamkara is an illusion for the reasons stated above.
You say In Turia (Samadhi) Autman the real self observes itself.. Without a buddhi the turiya state is impossible.
If yes, then all creatures, inclunding stones, plants and animals would be in tutiya state, but this absurd and no sense. Only humans can achieve the Turiya state because they have Buddhi.
In Turiya state the Self or Atman perceives itself due to the capacity
of buddhi to reflect the light of Brahman clearly. That's why for
self-realization is necessary a buddhi (that have only human beings, that’s why only human beings can achieve enlightenment).
And this buddhi must be totally pure, because only a pure buddhi can reflect without distortion the Brahman.
Ok, since the buddhi emanates from Brahman and is also Brahman then we can say that Brahman experiences itself.
You say, "Experiences itself." Experiences is a verb. Brahman is changeless and motionless. According to your buddhi theory Brahman can not be realized at all. Your argument comes from somewhere other than the Ramakrishna Order. Maybe its' correct???? I personally believe I have realized Brahman. When this happened I had knowledge of Brahman and at the same time realized that they world and everything in it is an illusion. Buddhi as a separate factor must not be important in actual practice.
+Doug Remington Your realization and everything you practiced has happened because you exist as a human being. and as a human being you have buddhi otherwise you would be animal or plant or nothing.
your realization happened because you exist first. without your existence as a human being this realization would be impossible. anything you write now it is because you exist here and now. Without you there would be no talk neither about the world nor about Brahman.
Doug Remington: "I have realized Brahman" is a illusory state. There is no "I" left in Realization. Ramana Maharshi used to say "There is jnana but no jnani". In Realization there is only Awareness but no one to experience the Awareness. That is why it is called the NonDual state. NonDual implies there is no experiencer called "I". A realized person will never make a claim "I am Realized". Your statement shows your aspiration but not Realization.
I agree again. Both the false self, which doesn't really exist and the real self according to Ramana Maharshi, which does exist are Brahman. In this case Brahman and Autman (the real self) are the same. But to say that there is no one to experience the awareness is not the teaching of Ramana Maharishi or the RamaKrishna Advaita Vedanta site upon which we are blogging. Once the false self disappears, a selfless self appears who is the observer. This observer never disappears. Ultimate reality is realized when this observer who never disappears discovers that the knowledge (Jhana) of the observation are one and the same: that is Brahman. So in this context there is no Jnani. But this context is confusing. There is no observer only knowledge -- Jhana. But you quote Ramana Maharshi. As I understood or misunderstood him, he makes it quite clear that the self the real self (Autman -- Brahman, etc.)( the observer) never goes. In your case Brahman and Knowledge are the same. The people who host this site rely upon the teachings of RamaKrishna who perhaps differs with you using the concept, (The Selfless Self) in a book called the teachings of Ramakrishna. Don't know the page -- in the back somewhere. But if you have seen a quote of Ramana Maharishi saying only jana exists -- not the jani, that's what he believes. But I prefer the idea of a selfless self. That was my experience with a direct realization of Brahman. In my own case, knowledge (Jana) is also Brahman but an illusion. Jhana is the path. I discovered the path or snake was unreal -- only I the selfless self really exist -- all else is an illusion -- but still Brahman. In this case jana and not real even though it's still Brahman.
Brahman can't be described in words because there is no analogy in samskara by which it can be described. Brahman is knowledge (Jana) but it's everything else too. Saying Jana is Brahman is correct but not really. It's like saying samskara is branman. Jhana is samskara. Anyway what do i know ? Good luck to you.
theres one sound,that noone knows..whatdoes the verse say?
How does one contact Swami Sarvapriyananda?
Please contact www.vedanta.org
The mind watching itself- doesn't this violate the principle that witness must be different from the seen?
That's why it is called non duality..seer and seen becomes one...to understand the complexity of philosphy it is treated as different earlier
Per the Drg Drsya Viveka, there are many forms of mind itself- Buddhi (I guess intellect), Chitta (??), and Ahamkara (Ego). I can accept this- just like there are different sense organs, there are different "types" of mind. And one type can "witness" the other. So, I think, in this case, it is the Ahamkara that is "witnessing" the "Chitta", or "Buddhi". The final "Seer" or "Sakshi" that is witnessing the various forms of mind, and thru them, the rest, is being called the "Atman". Note that the Drg Drsya Viveka itself does not say "Seer", but calls it "Perceiver".
I gathered the above rudimentary understanding from reading the explanation of the first few verses, not the entire text!
I guess he said that the Sakshi watches the mind, not mind watches mind
Mind is the object which does not watch
Mind can watch itself, but it is ultimately watched by Atman. Atman is not watched by anyone else.
Sir, I am from Agra and I too want to attend your classes on the regular basis. How can I do that?
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"The seer and the seing are different" is not an universal principle. In fact the mind can see itself. If it couldn't psychology, philosophy, literature and so on wouldn't exist. :)
Swami I am 11 years old. Namaskaaram. My eye sees you. My eyes are the seer. You are the seen. But your eyes see me as well. So your eyes are the seer and I am the seen. Can one seer be another's seen?
Hi Gayatri
Try this: Have a friend look at you while you are looking at her. You are both looking at each other at the same time, are you not?
Then, while you continue to look at your friend, have her close her eyes. Now you can see her but she cannot see you.
Further, you can reverse the test. You close your eyes while she opens hers. Now she can see you even though you can't see her.
You thereby prove that each of you are seeing the other , irrespective of whether the other can see you or not.
Thus you will see that you can be my seer while I, your seen, can also independently see you, and you are my seen at the very same time.
My seeing you and you seeing me are independent and both can occur at the same time (when you and your friend are looking at each other at the same time.)
I hope this helped you. 😊
There is only one "seer" in all of us.
Check out these Videos, "The Nature of Self" th-cam.com/video/tJfM0tyOwjc/w-d-xo.html
"The Divine Artist" th-cam.com/video/5edAZTeEH7w/w-d-xo.html
"The Ultimate Truth" th-cam.com/video/goNIy6RDfX8/w-d-xo.html
There it is explained.
Wise question, not so wise replies. With scene a seer arises. System is there and is the same in all beings with senses.. prescence of "me"makes it a live experience, an individual's experience. The Scene is seer expressed in nature-Prakriti .
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Witness = brain ? 😑
Munda no it is mind
Looks like he eats too much Bombay mix...nuts oh hazelnuts!!!!
bhai first 13min is avoidable ...total blah blah
punit srivastava hehehe so true hehehe ☺️
Dear Swami Ji @
Indeed, I created man from a sperm-drop mixture that I may try him; and I made him hearing and seeing.
Indeed, I guided him to the way, be he grateful or be he ungrateful.
Quran 76-02 & 03
Shut-- Up
Go & Eat Pulses.
You Stinky.
Quite agree.. Reconciliation with science is not the strength of any Abrahamic religions.. Their world was created in 7 days, history of earth is 6,500 years, created man from sperm drop mixture, man created in the image of God, etc.. they all fly in the face of facts like evolution of life, anthropology, neanderthal race, millions of years old dinosaur bones, etc..
Never could understand why these guys come out and troll on a video on Vedanta, a highly intellectual and rational sermon....All they do is come out as jokers..
What is Science According To Your Mind.
Quran 21-33 >>And it is He who created the night and the day and the sun and the moon; all in an orbit are swimming.
Quran 22-05 >>O People, if you should be in doubt about the Resurrection, then consider that indeed, I created you from dust, then from a sperm-drop, then from a clinging clot, and then from a lump of flesh, formed and unformed - that I may show you. And I settle in the wombs whom I will for a specified term, then I bring you out as a child, and then I develop you that you may reach your time of maturity. And among you is he who is taken in early death, and among you is he who is returned to the most decrepit old age so that he knows, after once having knowledge, nothing. And you see the earth barren, but when I send down upon it rain, it quivers and swells and grows something of every beautiful kind.
The First Man Was Not Created of Sperm.
Q 15-26 >>And I did certainly create man out of clay from an altered black mud.
Q 76-02 & 3 >>Indeed, I created man from a sperm-drop mixture that I may try him; and I made him hearing and seeing.
Indeed, I guided him to the way [ HIS BOOKS] Be he grateful or be he ungrateful.
EVERYTHING TAKES TIME.
7 Days !
Who Long Was You In The Mother's stomach.
LIMITED OR UNLIMITED.
USE YOUR HEAD TOO.
BJP?
Ricebag or peaceful?
Vedas is A Book of One God.
But You Are Boring -- Swami
You Are Making ---- Mosquito elephants.
Quran 40-64 & 65 >>It is God who made for you the earth a place of settlement and the sky a ceiling and formed you and perfected your forms and provided you with good things. That is God , your Lord; then blessed is God , Lord of the worlds.
He is the Ever-Living; there is no deity except Him, so call upon Him, being sincere to Him in religion. All praise is due to God , Lord of the worlds.
If god is the one who made sky the ceiling then how come humans cross that imaginary ceiling to space?
The internet service you used now to comment is from the radio wave telecommunication from satellites which are beyond your imaginary ceiling.
And good things are based on perspective and situation.
And good things happen not because of god. But if you believe good things are happening to you and others since you are believing in it then why do you comment bad in here because according to you this should be the good thing right?
And if at all there is the lord of worlds then he should have the complete knowledge of past present and future which means whatever you do is prefixed and so there should be no difference between good or bad things outcomes since they are not your decisons as they are prefixed.???
Stop acting naive. I dont ask you to believe it or not. You watched the video by yourself. Advaita vedanta says that god is based on the definition. It is the ultimate consciousness, the universe itself. It has no complete knowledge of future or the past but acts similarly to the smaller consciousnesses but with greater knowledge, intelligence and capabilities. It is just the result of phenomenon of the smaller consciousness. People do not pray. People gain the knowledge of the philosophy of the universe in here. People respect the consciousness actions and consequences and the phenomenons.
If your religious view forces you to deny basic science, you should probably re-evaluate your religious view.
When it comes to what Swami is talking about, modern science is just now catching up. Myself I was studying quantum physics when I found vedanta, and vedanta has a unique attribute in that it can actually explain much of quantum mechanics.
That's why the abrahamitic religions are dying in modern societies, while things like vedanta, yoga and so on - is growing fast.
We want Vedanta without Hinduism, and Swamis who can speak English without a cute Indian accent.
Go elsewhere, why come here?
You know what is Utopia?
we want youtube with commenters without their cute little cynicism
advaita vedanta is a sect of of hindu dharma
yin taichi
There is NO vendanta without Hinduism .
Swamiji, First reach the destination then preach. PLease..... SPecially subjects like vedanta cannot be taught like english literature. Lol.
You say some swami was able to completely withdraw his mind from body.... that swami says some other swami was able to do that... and ... so continues the story. ... Boring non sense. If you can speak this... just hold a practical demonstration just there... else.. .you have't reached your destination yet... so better focus on getting there..... With all humility and fear for sin i am comitting i am saying this is non sense.
Kus Gow plz dont listen. You have no pressure. Please!
People with sense will understands it..😀😁
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