The Language of Paradox in Advaita - Swami Sarvapriyanada
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- This talk was given by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Hollywood Temple on 15th May 2016. He discusses the apparent paradoxes in the language of nondualistic Advaita philosophy. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the Assistant Minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California
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It is a blessing to be able to listen to Swami Sarvapriyananda. Such simple truths and yet, we are lost in the illusion of self.
Swami Sarvapriyanada is a brilliant spiritual academic, beautiful inspiring lecture.
I enjoy the clarity of subject his lectures r perfect he is humerous
This lecture is great. I am a student in college studying chemistry but have a course in world philosophy. The philosophy of Advaita is a conclusion that many modern western philosophers have come to as well. It just feels like this is the truth.
I would like to see him give a lecture at my university.
Advaita is not the truth. It points to the truth. :)
Cmon guys hahahah
Somebody: uses the word truth in context
Everybody: Ah shit, here we go again.
Yeah, I agree: this lecture is great. Moreover, it's unfortunate that the minority of Western philosophers that have, independently, come to Advaita (i.e., undivided) are largely ignored in comparison to their Dvaita (i.e., divided) colleagues. Dualistic philosophy is the dominant and default philosophical position in the West. Though, it would be something rather inspiring if non-dual philosophy really took hold in the West.
@@sunflah No, Truth is the observance of Truth appearing to exist as Advita. (And Iam the observance of this Truth)
With all humility can I ask why such brilliant and spiritual teachers like you Swamiji are in the West. We in India need you Swamiji more than the West.
Cannot thank you enough Swamiji for your incredible lecture. Such clarity of thought in your talk and the way you distilled the complex into simple - even a layman like myself felt like I got the essence of what you had to say. Your service to the mankind is beyond words and I consider myself incredibly lucky to have had the opportunity to listen to your pearls of wisdom.
After Swami Ranganathananda Maharaj my Guru I have not found another Swami that’s well read on wide range of subjects We are blessed that he is in US 🙏
Such a great teacher.
Very enlightening speech. Clear and simple presentation of highly complex philosophical concepts
28:07 one of my favourite Swami anecdotes: negation and the Buddhist lamas
Swamiji, it is really our good fortune we came across your name through my daughter in Canada -and she is an ardent "fan" of Swami Vivekananda- and then started listening to your talks. Recently, we completed your set of 12 lectures on Drk Drushya Viveka and have now started Aparoksha Anubhuti. In your 3 or 4th lecture you referred to your talk on The Language of Paradox.
Being a retired professor of English Literature, I was immediately interested in what you had to say on this topic as the well-known American literary critic and a great teacher of poetry, Cleanth Brooks, has an essay with exactly this title where he argues that the language of poetry is necessarily ironical and paradoxical. And he buttresses his contention with examples deliberately from the supposedly 'simple' and unironical Romantic poets like Wordsworth.
So naturally I wanted to find out what a Vedantist had to say on this. Of course, your realm was different from that of Brooks. But I was delighted to find that you also so lucidly showed how paradox plays an important part in the language of philosophy also.
While teaching T. S. Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral - on the martyrdom of St. Thomas- I had to explain often the concept of Actio-in- Inaction and vice versa. I found the example of a spinning top useful. Physics tells us that the centre of top is still and yet it's that that generates all the motion. Eliot in his poetry too often speaks of God as "the still point of the turning world". Similarly, in his famous speech "Action is suffering and suffering is action" Thomas says, "That the wheel may turn and still be for ever still". I found all these ideas very close to the Gita and now I find through your talk I was on the right path!
Let me finally say that you must be a great teacher seen by the way you explain abstruse concepts with such clarity of thought and simplicity of language and I'm eternally grateful to our technological advancement that though we can't be physically present from India for your talks in America yet we can get connected through the TH-cam! Thank God!
I had a similarly thrilling experience listening to Swami Rangnathanananda on Vivek Chudamani.
We feel, Swami ji, blessed in your presence.
Good that you wanted to show respect to others' sentiments in this channel, but why belittle your own daughter's sentiments by striking out her words? The central idea conveyed in this channel is Oneness. Please respect all equally.
@@godblissfulfun Dear Sir, thanks for your response. Let me tell you that it was not I who struck out the reference to my daughter. I'm not a very techno-savyy person. When I finished writing my reaction and started re-reading it, that line came out as struck and I didn't know how to undo it. So, believe me it's not so much a matter of disrespecting sentiments of others as of technological naivete!
@@vmmadge Oh, okay, Sir😅... I'm sorry! Glad that that was the case! P.S. I'm not a 'Sir', just a young girl😌
Also happy for your spiritual progress! All the very best to you!💫💫💫
@@godblissfulfun Oh, I thought so but by that time it was too late. After re-reading your name I realized you must be a girl and not a "sir"!
Anyway, glad to know you. Let me tell you, my daughter and I enjoy a very close spiritual affinity.
Yet another brilliant and supercharged talk by Swamiji!
these seams are great, because they teach a provisional truth, and know it's provisional. sacrificing personal attainment for the benefit of others, Sri Ramakrisna, thank you for the genius establishing this path
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Thank you Swamiji..
3 excercises indicates who we are and brahman thank you o blessed soul
Invaluable contribution of the Indian Wisdom. Pranams to Revered Maharaj
The only truth of life...but language always will fail to express it...and the ref of witgeinstien is perfect here...we are blessed by such talks...
Swamiji,
Spell bound . When you finished than only I set aback.
Can any devotees of the Ashram please compile all the talks of Swami Sarvapriyanandaji and publish it in volumes of books? The published articles must contain his talks exactly as he talks, with the quotations he uses, the jokes and the stories he narrates and so on. It would help hundreds of people.
माया का मारण हरि नाम है। How swami ji's lectures destroy maya which is inside. Like काम क्रोध लोभ मोह अहकार।
A enlightened Guru is required.
Vimal Lakhani by removing ignorance, once self is realised then Maya is displaced
wannabe withgod they indeed need to be written down. He speaks very clearly so perhaps an automated software could even do it.
Why not just download the talks you want to save? No one else needs to do this for you.
It always thought to get a feel of what 'Advaitha', it is only through experience. But your this lecture has made it simple to think on those lines. Thankyou so much..
Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher, bless me.
Just wonderfully taught. I feel I have not understood, yet understood...
The mirror..the ocean..the sky...oneness amidst opulence..tranquillity amidst chaos..dhonyobad swamiji..
Sir I just love u as much as I love my myself, I don't have any other words to say about u sir,
Deepest treasure of knowledge is explained using brilliant examples and reflective words!!!
This is truly amazing and all what you speak is truly Divine my pranama at your feet swamijee
excellent talk, very clear.....but I want to know what was the surprise?
Oh Swami ji, You take and make us to truly What We Are. What an amazing Experience ! Am speechless. Infinite Pranam to you. 🙏🙏🙏.
Jai Shree Krishna. 🙏🙏🙏
"What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thank you swami for the clarity shed on the subject.
Beautiful! Thank you.
At 50:32 magic starts and happens....Thank You Swami !!
Swamiji Maharaj,Salutations at Thy Lotus Feet for giving us most beautiful lectures.
Namaste Swamiji...... OM ....The answer to the three questions are : 1. The sky is the witness consciousness and the little pot where I and the universe etc are, is being watched by the eyes.... 2. the waves are the thoughts that go on in my mind... my mind is interacting with all the objects around me... all thoughts merge back to the mind, but the ocean is the silent witness
consciousness...... 3. the mirror is the reflected witness consciousness watching all the activities of the city ..it means that everything is happening around me, the mind and the sense organs are at play, but the reflected witness consciousness which is in me and which is represented by the mirror remains unaffected....
www.iep.utm.edu/ismaili/
Ismaili looks like it is trying to interpret a very simplified form of vedanta for people who wouldn't otherwise understand (or sure they understand even now...)
Feel very good when we are hearing the lecture.🙏
Beautiful thanks
This is life changing for me.
I understand that I can't understand.
Too Good. Brilliant as always. Thank you Swamiji
Amazing talk, Maharaj. Pranams 🙏
Thank you for breaking this all down, I appreciate you. Namaskar Swami ji🌱
how does it help us spiritually, removes the blockages to the awareness of lives presence,
Sri Ramakrisna demonstrates this,,,,in physical reality,
love, spell check we're are you,,,,,
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Namaste!
Amazing Teaching !
Coverage, Detail, Clarity!
Thank You!
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Hari Om Swamiji... my pranams to your lotus feet 🙏🙏🙏🙏
V imp lecture.. the best one
The superset is Brahman. All existence, all qualities, all speech, all everything in the world we speak in is a subset inside of Brahman. By definition the subset cannot describe the superset. The information beyond what overlaps the subset is unavailable within the subset.
You can't accurately depict Brahman in it's totally within the subset.
"He is" ONE alive - the all with the form of nothing. (He am experiencing) rather than isnes - amness. You can not know it but you can be it, at ease. Just realise where you come from.
Great Teaching Swami Ji🙏
Fantastic! Thank-you Swami and Hard Om!
Great!! Got the answer to my earlier question in his explanation of "Incidental Characteristics". Thank you Swamiji!
Arjun Rathore to be a Mooji
What a great talk ..thak you Swamiji
On Baba kanochar
Very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for explaining this so clearly. You talked me out of it. I don't find it quite imaginative enough and doesn't match my own experience. I accept most of it though. You have helped me beyond measure. Thanks.
brilliant!
Namaste!
“..........whatever that does not stay with you in deep sleep is not you, nor is it yours......."
I was reminded of a film song in Tamil about death that translates as -
"Your friends will stay with you upto your house
Your wife will stay with you upto the gate
Your child will stay with you upto the crematorium
Who will stay with you to the end beyond?"
Amazing how the profoundest thing can come from unlikely sources!
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Dhanywad Swamiji
Vedanta blazes here in the form of Swami Sarvapriyananda. Sarva (means All) Priya (means dear). Swami is always dear to us 😇🙏🏼so as Advaita Vedanta ❤
Thank you Swamiji
pranams gurudev
From inertial frames of reference motion is relative.
Rhythm of the breath brings rhythm of life.
Who is the Malayalam poet mentioned in the lecture?
One of the swamiji who talks Malayalam wrote the Poem
5 factors:
1. Class: Like species of cows and class. But there is no class of Gods.
2. Quality: Like red flowers or a tall man. Ultimate reality is beyond all qualities - it is qualityless.
3. Function: A driver drives. A speaker speaks. You can be indicated by the function. You can’t point out Brahman becomes it is beyond action.
4. Convention: Naming somebody John or Ram etc. Brahman can’t be pointed at with your fingers.
5. Relationship: Requires two but there are no two in this case. It is non-dual.
Thank you 🙏🏻 💕
Buddhism uses terms like ordinary truth, ultimate truth, very useful,
If that which is truth then who is lie?
@@drawnshare Nothing is actually a lie, it is just away from the truth, every thing is true but the true is nothing like anything.
The Truth is like that Shunya which is summation of all that is possible ( like summation of minus infinity to plus infinity everything is zero, it always remains zero that's true but everything inside it is also true). It's like everything is it's description but nothing is complete description of it and it can't be completely described, that's its called maya, it feels true but is not..
36:03 for the answer. Worth watching the whole thing though, good discourse
Thank you very much for my mind is blown once again; you eez good.
Mind-blowing 👌👌❤️❤️❤️ someday this knowledge will be used to develop powerful AI algorithms......
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Wonderful. The zen koan goes to right here. Sometimes with zennies you hear that "not knowing is most intimate." And yet knowing but not saying may be neither intimate or not intimate. The zen master refuses to say whether the old priest on the pyre is dead or alive: "I won't say, I won't say!" That master holds the flower that the Buddha held up without comment.
Reminds me a lot of Spinoza's Ethics book.
There is one more method of expressing ultimate reality "Sarvam Khavidam Brahma", which is the most suitable method to explain Brahman ."Neti Neti" explains the concept of maya, not being there in Brahman."Maya" itself means not existing. Paradox language is used just to explain action and inaction. It is just a check if you are aware of both. If you are aware of both even then you do not know reality because it is neither action or inaction.
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Superb
🙏🙏🙏 Guruji
OM
Waah Maza agya !
Swamy
I see in you an avatar of Sankara as u are able to convince the logic in non dualism.
Can u pl also explain one ignorance of mine ie
The infinite conscience is it revealed to my mind or is it that I see myself in/ from infinite consciousness .In the later case can my mind be returned.
In other words when I shut my mind to this unreal even go beyond sushubti and once I transcend to the real can I be back to unreal.
How Sankara or vivekananda would have come back to their unrealness.
Regards and thanks for ur lectures.
Good question. Answer - you need to learn Samkhya darshan for that. 👍👍
Love you man
Isn't *neti neti* sandhi for "na + iti" twice? So, rather meaning *not thus*??
Om Tat Sat Swami ji🕉💖◼🔴🤲
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Cool
55:35 is mirror more like a television - you are just seeing things there? If it is ‘reflection’ there must be something real that the mirror is reflecting? What am I missing?
swamiji, I agree with the invocation of wittgenstein. however, the first proposition of TLP isnt what you said it is. 1. The world is all that is the case.
Thumbs up! like the Buddhist Chan Sect (Zen) Language Culture Paradox...haha.
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Pl atleast provide good loud audible audio facility for such wisdom monk ??
Thank you!
Swamiji I have a question.
please answer
you have been saying in most lectures ' तत् त्वम् असि '
so if Vedanta says that we are God, god can't be seen, then what is the logic behind मूर्ति पूजा if we are god and everything is God?
why monks worship idols if they already know that they are Brahman?
Aryavarta Bharat sir please read my whole question
Why not if they already know that they are not Brahman.....
Advaita in practice treats the idol as a means - you can take a supari and use it as an idol too - to focus one's energies.
Who knows they are Brahman? I think you have misunderstood. The monks know they are _not_ Brahman - no, it is only "I" that is Brahman. The monks have duties, obligations, emotions, thoughts, and many more limitations, so they cannot be Brahman who is limitless and not attached to anything.
vatsal desai think deep.. you will find your answer
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Wrongly Interpretated by Most of Us. Kenopanishad Says that. Those who have not understand fine, they are seeker's and may know in future and get self realized.
However those who Say I know it or I have realized it have to actually explain the reason why he or she feels that he has known and if his or her explanation is as very well and clearly explained in the Texts Scriptures and Upanishads. The explanation is very long and it requires patience and time to actually explain it. Then if the Teacher Master or Guru tries to Test the Student by asking Him or Her different types of queries just to know whether he or she has known that Pure Soul or Aatman as Best possibly described by Upanishads. And there isn't any ego or lust or greed or hatred or any other type of impurity then the answering student may have theoretically as well as practically correctly realized it understood it and answered all questions asked by the Teacher Master or Guru to satisfaction.
However it has to be understood even if the replying student has half understood then Also it's quite decent progress because he has at least tried it and is definitely much better than those who Say I don't know it.
So Kenopanishad actually supports and encourages students to have a look at what the Scripture or Upanishads wants to say.
And are definitely much better than those who Say I don't know it.
So it is opposite and most of us feel a trying student who actually may or may not have 💯 percent understood his or her true Pure nature the Perfect Soul or Aatman of course different from physical form as well as the Mind, but also is the source of power and inspiration to the body and mind. Such a Pure Powerful as well as calm and peaceful consciousness is I am. Would definitely inspire or please the teacher or master or the Guru. Thank you. Om.
Jay Shree Krishna Ji
Jay Shree Radha
Swamini Ji
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But Buddha did speak about permanent self during his death
Mira Sarma;
I wish swamiji explains this philosophy with the reincarnation and rebirth of unenlighted people, I mean no brahmah-janii, who donot have rebirth.
Mira Parai to
greetings from Indonesia I have one question why if we are brahman now we don't have the power of maya
Because we have only heard that we are bramhan and not realised that we are so. When realised it might not be so. Hence we see spiritual masters doing miracles.
When It is imperceptible then how come the writers of Vedanta/Upanishada percevie this idea of imperceptible? Or Are they different from human being and did they know that what is perceivable for them is imperceivable by human intellect generated by their weak DNA structure?
28:16 story of buddhist lamas
quest is, did albert einstein study vedanta # general relativity