Grateful to Swamyji for leading us on with a fluency and flow of the teachings of Vedanta even in this late stage of my life giving hope that moksha or at least the alleviation of human ignorance is within even my reach. Hari Om.
Taught One (Advaita) taught (Swamiji) by the Taught One (his Guru) as one and the same revealed the inexplicable explicably! Any appreciation is ignorance but being that One is the real appreciation. Transactionally, Great!
🙏 Swamiji , Vedanta NY team and everyone , we always listen Gaurpada Ji's version or Shankaracharya Ji's version commentry on Mandukya or Advitya Vedanta teaching , now we want Swami Sarvapriyananda Ji's own version of commentry on same Mandukya or vedanta teaching and most importantly, Swamiji's own so long spiritual experience on knowing Brahman - the ultimate Truth and how do Swamiji convey his own understanding of this ultimate truth to us that would be a big prize for this generation and I personally request to NY Vedanta admin please, pass this request to Swamiji as you people are very fortunate to access Swamiji and we just could request through you only and we are also very fortunate to access NY Vedanta team through TH-cam , so big Thankyou to TH-cam and Internet service provider... please do confirm and reply . Lot of thanks for everything ❤️🙏
The end of this tutorial by Sarvapriyananda Maharaaj is so beautiful!! This Universe is an unending verse composed by the Ultimate Reality. In Swami Sarvapriyananda Maharaaj ji's words I find great amount of courage and consolation shedding tears, knowing deep down that this is not weakness of any kind. God knows it all.
Swami Sarvapriyanandaji...you are an unbelievably brilliant teacher, calm, childlike, intelligent & good looking...it is indeed deeply saddening that you are not in India. Please please do organize a talk in New Delhi....
Apart from Vedanta what I have learned is that there is always place right in front of you 😁. You have been such a great influence on my life. Onek dhonnobad apnake Swami.
Someone only recently told me about this Swami & so i have only started to listen to these talks. What a find! His knowledge of the ancient texts is so vast & his manner of explaining them so clear! Plus, an immense gentleness & compassion pervades all. Thank you dear Swami. I am so grateful you have found me. Much love to you for your great service to all, 💖
Seeking liberation is a constant factor determining our thoughts and actions. Thank you swamiji for this sharing this talk to bring light on the subject with so much clarity and lightness.
Not knowing Sat we have desire to exist in limited being Jijivisha Not knowing Chit we have desire to know about little things Jidhyasa Not knowing Anand we have desire to seek happiness in outer world Bhubhukasha
Swami ji, I would like to tell you that I relate to everything that you say. I am thankful to God (Awareness) that I am able to listen to what vedant has to say in your Devine voice. Please give a chance to meet you someday.
You have such a skill and calmness while answering the poor question after such a deep talk ...even in that answer you point towards ultimate truth ...bulls eye !!! _/\_ ramkrusna Hari :)
I am suryanarayan, from Chennai, India. I have N been listening to your lectures on Vedantha particularly On Mandukya Upanishad. That CONSCIOUSNESS exists throughout the first three stages of Waking , Dream Sleep, Deep Slip, and the Last Stage of Turiya is though may be known as the Fourth, it is Turiya which reveals itself through the first three stages also. This illustration throws further light on my understanding till now. Now, my question is this . Just as we sleep and during dream we see all those things which we have been interacting with while walking including we, ourselves, taking a part in their transactions, and after waking up, we could definitely say, Oh! That was all a dream !.....Just like that, is it all possible, that THIS WAKING STAGE itselfcould be visualised as a Brhmaanda Dream spanning as many as 60 to 80 years, and when human life is over, we wake up in OUR CONSCIOUSNESS stage, to feel, Oh! this is one more birth ! My question arises because, as per law of karma, humans, as we are, governed by Law of Karma and destined to have series of births and deaths. Why not this WAKEFUL STAGE OF ONE FULL LIFE itself could be construed as a very long dream, in ONE SINGLE LIFE OF A JEEVATHMA, SPANNING INTO SEVERAL BIRTHS AND DEATHS. !! I HOPE I HAVE BEEN TO EXPLAIN MY QUESTION. PLEASE ENLIGHTEN. meenasury@gmail.com
9 Jay shri Krishna Swamili..I Dr.Ishwar Patel from Indore MP. Listening your all U tube Vedanta Lectures. Made the knowledge of Vedant so clear in stepwise way. So now I addict to your next latest lecture on Vedanta Thanx.to our Almighty God to have you Swamiji. Like to have your Darshan when ever u now at India.. Jay shri Krishna...
I have developed addiction to your lecturers. At time of listening I tried my best to understand the each word, but after that it seems I have not been able to realize that I am BRAHMAN.
Another excellent video. Why is there something and not "nothing"? Because "nothing" is an absolute impossibility. The word exists, but it has no counterpart in reality; it's like "a triangle without an angle", "a ball that isn't round", "1 + 1 = 3"... In other words, if "nothing" existed, it would be something. Therefore, something has existed forever. What? Existence itself. The real question everyone wants to know is this: what is existence?
Buddha's words , Majimma Nikaya 026: "And what is the noble search? There is the case where a person, himself being subject to birth, seeing the drawbacks of birth, seeks the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. Himself being subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeing the drawbacks of aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeks the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less, undefiled, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. This is the noble search.
9:58 - chutz·pah - /ˈho͝otspə,ˈKHo͝otspə/ - "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." - Leo Rosten
In Q&A series the first question was Diane about her experience during the anesthesia. I had something similar but I don’t remember about it but my life and my vision about life are completely changed after the operation. Maybe somebody has something similar or may somebody from Vedanta Society knows this lady Diane and can put me in communication with her? I wish so much to understand what really happened with me during this anesthesia?
Swami Ji Pranam.. In this birth I followed many spiritual and yogic practices which helped me to be more focused and aware. However, the non dualistic teachings from you was a totaly new knowledge for me. I understand that I am pure conciousness and this body I took as per my past Karmas and will eventually leave this body. But my question is when I will take the next body will I have to follow the same process of inventing that I am pure conciousness ? or will my soul be a wiser soul. How does that work ? these are some stupid questions I have been searching for long. Gustaakhi maaf karna :)
Have u studied I Am That of Nisargadatta Maharaj? He says the body is a dream! You can google the pdf copy it's free. Also search ken wapnick on youtube. He's a teacher of A Course in Miracles which was another book. It says the world and body are a dream too.
Pay attention to his lectures. I don't think he mentions anything about karma. If he does, then i'm wrong. However, i can tell you, there is no karma. It's part of a belief system, but it's not a truth or a reality. Your next body is up to you. You may even experience in realms and dimensions you're presently not even aware they exist. Life does not start here nor does it end here. You are an infinite being generating all types of experiences in all types of realities. Life here on Earth is but a spec compared to the infinite possibilities out there that you generate as your experience. Maybe you'll experience as an alien being living in a dimension or universe not know to man? Will you be wiser? Again, it's up to you what you want to experience next. You're not being dictated by anything and no one but your own self. Remember, you are one with Consciousness. Isn't this what the monk on this video teaches? There is no separation but in our limited perception and understanding of such thing. It is you generating all of your realities from birth to death, to after death through the infinity of your existence. On the other hand, i can tell you; within you, you are already wise and you possess all knowledge. This is perception you're experiencing. It's been your choice to experience with a limited awareness of your Self. Everything is a choice for experiencing. Doing so we generate contrast. Was there not contrast we'd not be able to experience anything other than the same continual experience - and this is not how Consciousness work. Nothing is ever static. Limitation is contrast. In another reality, you may choose to experience with a more expanded awareness. Dude, there are no stupid questions.
Honored Swami Sarvapriyananda, In fact, in the book "Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika and Shankara's Commentary" written by Swami Nikhilananda, it says in Chapter III, Vers 33 "The birthless is known by the birthless". Merriam Webster's Online dictionary says that "birthless" is an adjective and that there are two meanings: 1) "ABORTIVE, FRUITLESS" and 2) "having unknown or unimportant parents or ancestors". In addition, Macmillam, Cambridge, Oxford, Pons (from English to German) don't know that word at all. Langenscheidt (English to German) says in the German language just the same as Merriam Webster's dictionary does. Helpfully, Professor Paul Deussen has translatetd the Manduky Upanishad as well as Gaudapada's Karika from the Sanskrit language to the German language in 1905 (see www.forgottenbooks.com). Professor Deussen was a philosopher and he wanted to make the Indian philosophy available for the German students of philosophy. Yet, they would have had to learn the Sanskrit first. To avoid for his students that additional burden, he has gone for timeless, perfect translations of all major scriptures of Indian philsophy. So, he has taken efforts for best translations. Now, his translation of that fourth line of Chapter III's Vers 33 says: "Vom Ew'gen Ew'ges wird gewußt"; This means in the English language: "The Eternal is know from the Eternal". Consequently, Professor Deussen's translation for that what Swami Nikhilananda has translated wrongly - according to the rules and word-meanings in the English language - as "birthless" is "eternal". Admitted, it's your understanding of that verses' meaning, too. Unfortunately, you also have used that wrong word "birthless". According to Professor Deussen, the right translation of that Sankrit's word into the English language would just be: "eternal". "Eternal" means without beginning and without end. "Eternal" doesn't mean anything but "without beginning and without end". Best wishes, namaste, adios, Franz Rickinger, Munich (Remark: I've found that because I've translated the Mandukya Upanishad together with Gaudapada's Karika - as given by Swami Nikhilananda in English language - into the German language in the context of my homepage and I'm trying to avoid any spreading of wrong translations and wrong pieces of information.)
The 3.33, 4th Line is: ब्रह्म ज्ञेयम् अजम् नित्यम् अजेन अजम् विबुध्यते। Transliteration is: Brahma jñeyam ajam nityam ajena ajam vibudhyate. You have raised the doubt about the authenticity of the translation of the word ‘aja’. You want to say that the translation ‘birth-less’ is wrong. The reason you have given is: According to the dictionaries you have mentioned that it means something else. Your Point is right. Because if any person depending on those dictionaries or resources will be mislead. It should be categorically stated that it means ‘having no birth, one without birth, one who has no birth’ etc. This will be the direct meaning and closest to what the word ‘aja’ wants to say. However, if ‘aja’ is translated as ‘eternal’ it will be a wrong ‘translation’. By logical deduction, it may mean ‘eternal’ or many not mean so. That is best left to the readers to conclude what the purported meaning of the word is. I don’t think that the translator should give the deduced meaning or purported meaning as ‘translation’. Since you are dealing the translations of Upanishad, I hope you must be familiar with the Indian Logic too. In Nyaya system, there is one ‘absence’ named as ‘praagabhaava’. It means the absence which has no beginning or which has no birth. Hence, it is ‘aja’. But, it ends once the counter-positive substance is created. Like, a pot has its ‘praagabhaava’ only until the pot is produced. Hence, though having no birth, that absence has end. It renders that absence as non eternal. Hence, a thing ‘aja’ or ‘having no birth’ is not necessarily ‘eternal’. Pl refer to Sanskrit to English Dictionary by V S Apte or Amarakosha’s English translation. And search for the word ‘aja’. Etymologically, ‘jan’ is the verbal root of Sanskrit. It means: to happen, to take birth, to sprout etc. ‘ja’ is the word coming from ‘jan’ verbal root. ‘ja’ has 13 meanings as per ‘vachaspatyam’. One of them is ‘birth’. From this ‘ja’ a bahuvrihi compound is formed. ‘na jah yasya sah ajah’ ‘न जः यस्य सः अजः’ This directly means the one who has no birth. Therefore, instead of going to Shankara or Ananada Giri or Abhinava Gupta better to go to the root and derive the meaning. If they agree to the meaning, well and good. If not, then will be questioned. No one will be taken for granted just because the names are big. You have eulogized Paul Deussen and you don’t have any doubt about his sincerity and hence authenticity of his translation. Therefore, you feel he must be true while translating. Why connect sincerity with authenticity? Sincerity has little to do with accuracy. Yes, there won’t be intentional mistakes by a sincere person. However, mistakes due to lack of competence or training in a particular discipline of knowledge are always possible. Without knowing Sanskrit if one dares to translate any text of Sanskrit, the translations will be little worth. More ignorant than the author or speaker only will find that work of some value.
To say that the universe doesn't exist or it just appears in awareness doesn't answer the big question of why something exist at all. Still the question remains... Why there is in the first place something, some appairence of forms, sensations? Saying that there is nothing does not solve the question....
TS B what evidence is there that anything exist? Awareness, right? The actor, the acting and the action are all in awareness. It is awareness that is aware of awareness. Can u think of anything outside this?
there cannot be a question of why before causation itself !! logical fallacy an infinte recursive .. you search your question and look for answer in vedanta . Swamiji has described it in other lectures .. look it up !! and vedanta takes time ..listen absorb and meditate slowly slowly !! :)
I think the question of "why something at all exist?" still remains. Saying "Nothing exists therefore there is nothing" is not true at least in our senses. I understand logically and scientifically that there is in fact nothing physical and everything physical comes from a void (quantum physics). But anyway, we feel this world, we see , we hear, we touch, therefore something exists. It doesn't help to say "nothing exist". Even only awareness exist. The question is why it (the awareness, one, and ultimate awareness) exists? Why it appeared from the first place?
@@tamy815 well ..you should listen to his Ashtavakra lecture ... And have u ever realised like actually the deep sleep phenomenon which is referred in Vedanta ..??
It's very normal that we ask questions wanting to figure out the source and reason for many things including our own source. One thing i know. When i'm deeply connected and feeling one with the whole, i have no questions. Everything simply makes sense. I experience a sense and feeling of completion within me. My soul is completely satisfied, so to speak. Thus, naturally, without any type of logic or intellectualization, i accept that all and everything simply is. Weird, but that's what it is, what i experience when in that state....the mind is no longer there to ask the questions we usually, naturally tend to ask.
Despite my best efforts i am unable to transcend the step towards ultimate reality Consciousness...till snake and rope i am able to move but beyond that I understand the concept but cannot translate it to am experience...Can someone help..??
here is my understanding of human suffering, purpose of life and maya : imagine we create a movie that has drama, horror, tragedy, humor etc. in it. Then we watch it and we feel the emotions of joy, sadness, fear and laughter. Now, one could say why the hell we put horror and tragedy in our movie. Basically, its the same thing when we ask why the hell god created suffering in this life. Consciousness enjoy suffering the same way we enjoy a dramatic movie. Consciousness has to consider all the possibilities (or possible states). If there is light, there has to be darkness. Logically there is no other way around it. and to top it all, we are the consciousness like the droplets of water are the ocean. So it's up to us to decide the purpose of life. Or in other words, we as consciousness are creating this movie of life. If we so chose, we can simply drop the drama and chose to make it a comedy.
Revered Sir,my doubt about non dualistic approach is, if it is the consciousness alone that exists in all of the four states of awakening,dreaming,deep sleep etc,what is the purpose of such consciousness and where does that consciousness dwell if it is both birthdays and deathless?
My pranam to the saint who is making the unknown, known to us.🙏🏽
Grateful to Swamyji for leading us on with a fluency and flow of the teachings of Vedanta even in this late stage of my life giving hope that moksha or at least the alleviation of human ignorance is within even my reach. Hari Om.
namasthe Swamiji . It is a great pleasure listening to Sri Swamiji
True true true
Always good to hear the highest Mandukya teaching explained from a truly wise person like swamiji :)
Taught One (Advaita) taught (Swamiji) by the Taught One (his Guru) as one and the same revealed the inexplicable explicably! Any appreciation is ignorance but being that One is the real appreciation. Transactionally, Great!
Amazing lecture Swami Ji. Your talks has become an addiction!!
It's a great sign.. You are pacing in the track of spiritual progress..🙏
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Swamyji please take my Pranam
I am really enlightened by you you are real guru
Thanks
🙏 Swamiji , Vedanta NY team and everyone , we always listen Gaurpada Ji's version or Shankaracharya Ji's version commentry on Mandukya or Advitya Vedanta teaching , now we want Swami Sarvapriyananda Ji's own version of commentry on same Mandukya or vedanta teaching and most importantly, Swamiji's own so long spiritual experience on knowing Brahman - the ultimate Truth and how do Swamiji convey his own understanding of this ultimate truth to us that would be a big prize for this generation and I personally request to NY Vedanta admin please, pass this request to Swamiji as you people are very fortunate to access Swamiji and we just could request through you only and we are also very fortunate to access NY Vedanta team through TH-cam , so big Thankyou to TH-cam and Internet service provider... please do confirm and reply . Lot of thanks for everything ❤️🙏
th-cam.com/users/VedantaNY I personally wouldn't be able to pass it onto him. But maybe someone at NY channel can 🙏
But for Swamiji and the Vedanta Society there is no way I would have had access to these profound teachings. Thank you!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Perfect. Thank You Swamiji.🌹🕉🙏
How beautifully the greatest mysteries of my own being and world are explained by Swamiji!!!
The end of this tutorial by Sarvapriyananda Maharaaj is so beautiful!! This Universe is an unending verse composed by the Ultimate Reality. In Swami Sarvapriyananda Maharaaj ji's words I find great amount of courage and consolation shedding tears, knowing deep down that this is not weakness of any kind. God knows it all.
Swamiji has brought us from the ignorance to knowledge. From here we have to commence the journey for self realisation
Koti koti Pranam Swami Ji🙏
Swami Sarvapriyanandaji...you are an unbelievably brilliant teacher, calm, childlike, intelligent & good looking...it is indeed deeply saddening that you are not in India. Please please do organize a talk in New Delhi....
Good looking :)))))
🙏 So inescapably parallel to Taoist thinking 💭 Thanks for posting this skillfully orated video 🌌
Apart from Vedanta what I have learned is that there is always place right in front of you 😁. You have been such a great influence on my life. Onek dhonnobad apnake Swami.
This was so beautifully articulated... A much needed, very potent topic! Thank u!
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Someone only recently told me about this Swami & so i have only started to listen to these talks. What a find! His knowledge of the ancient texts is so vast & his manner of explaining them so clear! Plus, an immense gentleness & compassion pervades all. Thank you dear Swami. I am so grateful you have found me. Much love to you for your great service to all, 💖
Thank you so much Swamiji! You are really a great teacher!
Seeking liberation is a constant factor determining our thoughts and actions. Thank you swamiji for this sharing this talk to bring light on the subject with so much clarity and lightness.
Not knowing Sat we have desire to exist in limited being Jijivisha
Not knowing Chit we have desire to know about little things Jidhyasa
Not knowing Anand we have desire to seek happiness in outer world Bhubhukasha
Jiggyasa.. The middle one.. 😊🙏
Thanking you Swamiji for helping me walk the path of spirituality.Ever grateful for this and am truly blessed 🙏🙏
I enjoyed and transformed the teachings of Swami Sarvapriyananda that in my late age i seen my spiriritual ignorance.
Beautiful ending swamiji. Loved that quote from Rg Veda
sharauro
I Believe
In - Vedas
The Book of Brahma.
Yagurveda 49-V 9 - Brahma
Which is unborn.
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Pronam Thakur Maa Swamiji.
Thankyou so much Swamiji for the beautiful lecture.
Pronam Swamiji
Swami ji, I would like to tell you that I relate to everything that you say. I am thankful to God (Awareness) that I am able to listen to what vedant has to say in your Devine voice. Please give a chance to meet you someday.
True... I too have a great desire to meet Swami ji some day... Pray that it happens soon.
Thankful to God ? Where is His abode? You are not with swamiji.
This is Ramesh from Uttarkashi Swami Ji I am trying to improve my English by your speech
Thank you Guruji.
Jai Sree Ramakrishna
You have such a skill and calmness while answering the poor question after such a deep talk ...even in that answer you point towards ultimate truth ...bulls eye !!! _/\_ ramkrusna Hari :)
No question that arises in a spiritual seeker while present before a mahatma can ever be really “poor “ !
Yeah ..so true !
fullness and bliss :)
#Wanderlust , you are right.
Thank You Swami
I very much enjoy listening and learning from your talks.
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I am suryanarayan, from Chennai, India. I have N been listening to your lectures on Vedantha particularly On Mandukya Upanishad. That CONSCIOUSNESS exists throughout the first three stages of Waking , Dream Sleep, Deep Slip, and the Last Stage of Turiya is though may be known as the Fourth, it is Turiya which reveals itself through the first three stages also. This illustration throws further light on my understanding till now. Now, my question is this . Just as we sleep and during dream we see all those things which we have been interacting with while walking including we, ourselves, taking a part in their transactions, and after waking up, we could definitely say, Oh! That was all a dream !.....Just like that, is it all possible, that THIS WAKING STAGE itselfcould be visualised as a Brhmaanda Dream spanning as many as 60 to 80 years, and when human life is over, we wake up in OUR CONSCIOUSNESS stage, to feel, Oh! this is one more birth ! My question arises because, as per law of karma, humans, as we are, governed by Law of Karma and destined to have series of births and deaths. Why not this WAKEFUL STAGE OF ONE FULL LIFE itself could be construed as a very long dream, in ONE SINGLE LIFE OF A JEEVATHMA, SPANNING INTO SEVERAL BIRTHS AND DEATHS. !!
I HOPE I HAVE BEEN TO EXPLAIN MY QUESTION. PLEASE ENLIGHTEN. meenasury@gmail.com
thanks a lot for kind service to menkind
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So thorough and well said ! Thank you so much !
9 Jay shri Krishna Swamili..I Dr.Ishwar Patel from Indore MP. Listening your all U tube Vedanta Lectures.
Made the knowledge of Vedant so clear in stepwise way.
So now I addict to your next latest lecture on Vedanta
Thanx.to our Almighty God to have you Swamiji.
Like to have your Darshan when ever u now at India..
Jay shri Krishna...
Amazing indeed.
Pranams n Prostrations Pujya Swami ji.
Pranams Swamiji ❤
Wonderful talk ,just blessed to listen this.🙂
স্ত রবীন্দ্র যখন বলেন বলরে আমি কেহই না গো, কিছু্ই নহি,যে হয়িনা ।
Deep and ultimate truth explained very simple and with lotsof jokes to make it interesting .thank youswamiji
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Loved it as usual, I wish they had a longer Q&A segment.
Most important topic. The answers are the best and that too in a humerous way placed.👏🌝🙏
Swamiji
Pronam..your..lecture..on.....
Vedanta...is...so...divine..that....it..has..touched...me...your..
Staying..on..the
.bank...of...Gongotri...staying...in..a..hut
.another...monk..used..to...stay....next...to...your..hut...narrated...you...the...difference..between..
Muddy...Ganges...water.
In..rainy...season..
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Clear.
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Water..has...changed...my....life..
Pronam
Good work swami जी
हरिःऊँ, प्रणाम,स्वामीजी।
I have developed addiction to your lecturers. At time of listening I tried my best to understand the each word, but after that it seems I have not been able to realize that I am BRAHMAN.
Another excellent video. Why is there something and not "nothing"? Because "nothing" is an absolute impossibility. The word exists, but it has no counterpart in reality; it's like "a triangle without an angle", "a ball that isn't round", "1 + 1 = 3"... In other words, if "nothing" existed, it would be something. Therefore, something has existed forever. What? Existence itself. The real question everyone wants to know is this: what is existence?
Amazing ! Grateful to you Swami!
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what insights.. Grazie Brother....This is all a dream. One level is the ultimate reality.
My life is getting changed. Extremely powerful guidance at the same time so simple. No wonder Amogh got so much influenced. Thank you swamiji.
Buddha's words , Majimma Nikaya 026: "And what is the noble search? There is the case where a person, himself being subject to birth, seeing the drawbacks of birth, seeks the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. Himself being subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeing the drawbacks of aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeks the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less, undefiled, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. This is the noble search.
Excellent!
I wish this never ends 😞🙏
Uffff
Just awesome and as always 😄😄
28:10 Monk in Himalayas story. Monk feels he is bound. Lady Answers.
Most brilliant. Most important.
👋👏...TRANCE IN AWARENES, IN WAKEFULNESS👏👋
Namaste, swamiji.
31:35 Tibetan Llama's thinking BRILLIANT!
"I dreamt that I did this or that"... The first "I" and the second "I" in that... perspectives... interesting to think about it isn't it :D
You know the story of King Janakas dream?
9:58 - chutz·pah - /ˈho͝otspə,ˈKHo͝otspə/ - "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan." - Leo Rosten
Music to my ears...🎼🎵🎶🎸
Yes
Pranam, Pujya Swamiji. -Please up load-"Awakening from Waking." Lecture's video.
🙏🙏🙏 guruji
In Q&A series the first question was Diane about her experience during the anesthesia. I had something similar but I don’t remember about it but my life and my vision about life are completely changed after the operation. Maybe somebody has something similar or may somebody from Vedanta Society knows this lady Diane and can put me in communication with her? I wish so much to understand what really happened with me during this anesthesia?
Swami Ji Pranam.. In this birth I followed many spiritual and yogic practices which helped me to be more focused and aware. However, the non dualistic teachings from you was a totaly new knowledge for me. I understand that I am pure conciousness and this body I took as per my past Karmas and will eventually leave this body. But my question is when I will take the next body will I have to follow the same process of inventing that I am pure conciousness ? or will my soul be a wiser soul. How does that work ? these are some stupid questions I have been searching for long. Gustaakhi maaf karna :)
Have u studied I Am That of Nisargadatta Maharaj? He says the body is a dream! You can google the pdf copy it's free. Also search ken wapnick on youtube. He's a teacher of A Course in Miracles which was another book. It says the world and body are a dream too.
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I thunk I know the answers to ur questions. I hv researched spirituality over 15 years. Pls WhatsApp me. Will discuss.
Hi Abhishek JI.. Sure I will listen to those works. Thank you for sharing this knowledge :)
Pay attention to his lectures. I don't think he mentions anything about karma. If he does, then i'm wrong. However, i can tell you, there is no karma. It's part of a belief system, but it's not a truth or a reality.
Your next body is up to you. You may even experience in realms and dimensions you're presently not even aware they exist. Life does not start here nor does it end here. You are an infinite being generating all types of experiences in all types of realities. Life here on Earth is but a spec compared to the infinite possibilities out there that you generate as your experience. Maybe you'll experience as an alien being living in a dimension or universe not know to man?
Will you be wiser? Again, it's up to you what you want to experience next. You're not being dictated by anything and no one but your own self. Remember, you are one with Consciousness. Isn't this what the monk on this video teaches?
There is no separation but in our limited perception and understanding of such thing. It is you generating all of your realities from birth to death, to after death through the infinity of your existence. On the other hand, i can tell you; within you, you are already wise and you possess all knowledge. This is perception you're experiencing. It's been your choice to experience with a limited awareness of your Self. Everything is a choice for experiencing. Doing so we generate contrast. Was there not contrast we'd not be able to experience anything other than the same continual experience - and this is not how Consciousness work. Nothing is ever static. Limitation is contrast. In another reality, you may choose to experience with a more expanded awareness.
Dude, there are no stupid questions.
Swamiji, waiting for a lecture when you are liberated.
30:35 Everything is Impermanent, Momentary and Void. ~ Buddha
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Fantastic presentation.
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Very nice explanation of Ajatvad
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21:39 'Why does this world exist' - book by Jim Holt and the answer.
11:52 central teaching of mandukya upanishad
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Pl pl pl increase the audio sound for viewers on internet.
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if the atman is the brahman, why are we not able to see it? what happen to the brahman?
Honored Swami Sarvapriyananda, In fact, in the book "Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika and Shankara's Commentary" written by Swami Nikhilananda, it says in Chapter III, Vers 33 "The birthless is known by the birthless". Merriam Webster's Online dictionary says that "birthless" is an adjective and that there are two meanings: 1) "ABORTIVE, FRUITLESS" and 2) "having unknown or unimportant parents or ancestors". In addition, Macmillam, Cambridge, Oxford, Pons (from English to German) don't know that word at all. Langenscheidt (English to German) says in the German language just the same as Merriam Webster's dictionary does. Helpfully, Professor Paul Deussen has translatetd the Manduky Upanishad as well as Gaudapada's Karika from the Sanskrit language to the German language in 1905 (see www.forgottenbooks.com). Professor Deussen was a philosopher and he wanted to make the Indian philosophy available for the German students of philosophy. Yet, they would have had to learn the Sanskrit first. To avoid for his students that additional burden, he has gone for timeless, perfect translations of all major scriptures of Indian philsophy. So, he has taken efforts for best translations. Now, his translation of that fourth line of Chapter III's Vers 33 says: "Vom Ew'gen Ew'ges wird gewußt"; This means in the English language: "The Eternal is know from the Eternal". Consequently, Professor Deussen's translation for that what Swami Nikhilananda has translated wrongly - according to the rules and word-meanings in the English language - as "birthless" is "eternal". Admitted, it's your understanding of that verses' meaning, too. Unfortunately, you also have used that wrong word "birthless". According to Professor Deussen, the right translation of that Sankrit's word into the English language would just be: "eternal". "Eternal" means without beginning and without end. "Eternal" doesn't mean anything but "without beginning and without end". Best wishes, namaste, adios, Franz Rickinger, Munich (Remark: I've found that because I've translated the Mandukya Upanishad together with Gaudapada's Karika - as given by Swami Nikhilananda in English language - into the German language in the context of my homepage and I'm trying to avoid any spreading of wrong translations and wrong pieces of information.)
The 3.33, 4th Line is: ब्रह्म ज्ञेयम् अजम् नित्यम् अजेन अजम् विबुध्यते। Transliteration is: Brahma jñeyam ajam nityam ajena ajam vibudhyate.
You have raised the doubt about the authenticity of the translation of the word ‘aja’. You want to say that the translation ‘birth-less’ is wrong. The reason you have given is: According to the dictionaries you have mentioned that it means something else. Your Point is right. Because if any person depending on those dictionaries or resources will be mislead. It should be categorically stated that it means ‘having no birth, one without birth, one who has no birth’ etc. This will be the direct meaning and closest to what the word ‘aja’ wants to say.
However, if ‘aja’ is translated as ‘eternal’ it will be a wrong ‘translation’. By logical deduction, it may mean ‘eternal’ or many not mean so. That is best left to the readers to conclude what the purported meaning of the word is. I don’t think that the translator should give the deduced meaning or purported meaning as ‘translation’.
Since you are dealing the translations of Upanishad, I hope you must be familiar with the Indian Logic too. In Nyaya system, there is one ‘absence’ named as ‘praagabhaava’. It means the absence which has no beginning or which has no birth. Hence, it is ‘aja’. But, it ends once the counter-positive substance is created. Like, a pot has its ‘praagabhaava’ only until the pot is produced. Hence, though having no birth, that absence has end. It renders that absence as non eternal. Hence, a thing ‘aja’ or ‘having no birth’ is not necessarily ‘eternal’. Pl refer to Sanskrit to English Dictionary by V S Apte or Amarakosha’s English translation. And search for the word ‘aja’. Etymologically, ‘jan’ is the verbal root of Sanskrit. It means: to happen, to take birth, to sprout etc. ‘ja’ is the word coming from ‘jan’ verbal root. ‘ja’ has 13 meanings as per ‘vachaspatyam’. One of them is ‘birth’. From this ‘ja’ a bahuvrihi compound is formed. ‘na jah yasya sah ajah’ ‘न जः यस्य सः अजः’ This directly means the one who has no birth. Therefore, instead of going to Shankara or Ananada Giri or Abhinava Gupta better to go to the root and derive the meaning. If they agree to the meaning, well and good. If not, then will be questioned. No one will be taken for granted just because the names are big.
You have eulogized Paul Deussen and you don’t have any doubt about his sincerity and hence authenticity of his translation. Therefore, you feel he must be true while translating. Why connect sincerity with authenticity? Sincerity has little to do with accuracy. Yes, there won’t be intentional mistakes by a sincere person. However, mistakes due to lack of competence or training in a particular discipline of knowledge are always possible.
Without knowing Sanskrit if one dares to translate any text of Sanskrit, the translations will be little worth. More ignorant than the author or speaker only will find that work of some value.
I want to know more about gaudapadas 2 level model of reality.
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To say that the universe doesn't exist or it just appears in awareness doesn't answer the big question of why something exist at all. Still the question remains... Why there is in the first place something, some appairence of forms, sensations? Saying that there is nothing does not solve the question....
TS B what evidence is there that anything exist? Awareness, right? The actor, the acting and the action are all in awareness. It is awareness that is aware of awareness. Can u think of anything outside this?
there cannot be a question of why before causation itself !! logical fallacy an infinte recursive .. you search your question and look for answer in vedanta . Swamiji has described it in other lectures .. look it up !! and vedanta takes time ..listen absorb and meditate slowly slowly !! :)
I think the question of "why something at all exist?" still remains. Saying "Nothing exists therefore there is nothing" is not true at least in our senses. I understand logically and scientifically that there is in fact nothing physical and everything physical comes from a void (quantum physics). But anyway, we feel this world, we see , we hear, we touch, therefore something exists. It doesn't help to say "nothing exist". Even only awareness exist. The question is why it (the awareness, one, and ultimate awareness) exists? Why it appeared from the first place?
@@tamy815 well ..you should listen to his Ashtavakra lecture ... And have u ever realised like actually the deep sleep phenomenon which is referred in Vedanta ..??
It's very normal that we ask questions wanting to figure out the source and reason for many things including our own source. One thing i know. When i'm deeply connected and feeling one with the whole, i have no questions. Everything simply makes sense. I experience a sense and feeling of completion within me. My soul is completely satisfied, so to speak. Thus, naturally, without any type of logic or intellectualization, i accept that all and everything simply is. Weird, but that's what it is, what i experience when in that state....the mind is no longer there to ask the questions we usually, naturally tend to ask.
Despite my best efforts i am unable to transcend the step towards ultimate reality Consciousness...till snake and rope i am able to move but beyond that I understand the concept but cannot translate it to am experience...Can someone help..??
14:36 We miss durya like a fish misses the existence of water.
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36:17 Nobody's bound. Nobody's a spiritual seeker. What does that mean?
Please share the link to the video where Sarvapriyanandaji talks about or refers to Kurt Godel. thank you
here is my understanding of human suffering, purpose of life and maya : imagine we create a movie that has drama, horror, tragedy, humor etc. in it. Then we watch it and we feel the emotions of joy, sadness, fear and laughter. Now, one could say why the hell we put horror and tragedy in our movie. Basically, its the same thing when we ask why the hell god created suffering in this life. Consciousness enjoy suffering the same way we enjoy a dramatic movie. Consciousness has to consider all the possibilities (or possible states). If there is light, there has to be darkness. Logically there is no other way around it. and to top it all, we are the consciousness like the droplets of water are the ocean. So it's up to us to decide the purpose of life. Or in other words, we as consciousness are creating this movie of life. If we so chose, we can simply drop the drama and chose to make it a comedy.
I read somewhere that second bird is also observable? I am not clear the reflected consciousness belongs to the first bird?
Revered Sir,my doubt about non dualistic approach is, if it is the consciousness alone that exists in all of the four states of awakening,dreaming,deep sleep etc,what is the purpose of such consciousness and where does that consciousness dwell if it is both birthdays and deathless?
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40:21 Gaudapada's Answer