I think systems of philosophy and epistemology should be taught in schools.. but then people will think for themselves .. and that is too risky for the powerful men of the world.
Huuu. U must be knowing, in the schools of West, anti Hindu and Sanatan Dharma is being taught, so as to destroy Hindu and Sanatan Civilization, the longest living civilization n safeguarding the core knowledge of it...though the ups and downs of time and various invasion and invaders hands n still trying to save n maintain it dignity which has been tried to distored by the most Western and even Eastern, little knowledge n understanding authors, who has no clue of Sanskrit, written in brahmic, vedic and Devanagari. Here what u r seeing is a little glimpse it. Hope u know the global agenda of destroying Sanatan.
And here we at last arrive at the pinnacle of the information age. That this ancient knowledge has been transferred into our awareness for virtually no cost makes us realize the good that can come from technology and the internet. It's easy to get lost in a computer and all it can show us but if we can learn things like this it is all worth it. Read Drg-Drysa-Viveka.
Absolutely. "Fire, by itself, is neither good nor evil. When it keeps us warm we say, "How beautiful is fire!" When it burns our fingers, we blame it. Still, in itself it is neither good nor bad. According as we use it, it produces in us the feeling of good or bad; so also is this world. It is perfect. By perfection is meant that it is perfectly fitted to meet its ends. We may all be perfectly sure that it will go on beautifully well without us, and we need not bother our heads wishing to help it." -Swamiji in Karma Yoga And the internet is neither good nor evil. Depending on what parts of it you come in contact with, it can lead you to degrade, or lift you up.
Such clarity. Beautiful transmission of the Dharna Bears watching repeatedly. The finest Advaita Vedanta teacher of our generation. We are truly blessed. Awareness is Brahman. End of story. Bows of gratitude. Bhagavan.
Finest known. But there are many who chose to just be ..... ...... Many such saints exist but are too evolved to speak ..... I bow down to all to make me ME...... Pranams to swami ji🙏
Like most of us I've been watching the Swami for a number of years... This teaching though takes me to a completely different place but in the here and now. I can't stop smiling in simple awareness and consciousness. There is just awareness... I am
Swamiji is a brilliant teacher. He is so articulate and clear. He has this gift of teaching so Humbly and so interesting. Your immense knowledge absolutely shines through. Thankyou swamiji.
Very impressive. ,explanation of Advait fundamentals..Blessed are those who have heard and listened to his teachings..God send teacher Philosopher..Feel proud of him ..Awareness personified in him..
What just happened to me I don't know.. till the end of this lecture I automatically felt so lighter....all complications and confusions just disappeared...this lecture is one of the most strongest and powerful lectures of swami ji.. so much of purity , clarity , love , compassion all is simply oozing out of swami jis face.. So lucky to listen to it..
Dear Swamiji, Eternally indebted to you for imparting such priceless spiritual treasures to mere mortals like myself. Your words simply pierce through the heart directly. Deeply grateful and heartfelt thanks to you and Vedanta New York for sharing this outstanding talk.
Perhaps I was "knowing" some of these. But with each discourse by Swami Sarvapriya anda I sit through and listen, my "understanding" improves little by little. My awareness about the need to know more about the awareness Swamiji is talking about has increased. Many Thanks for this opportunity 👍🙏
Love the way Swamiji keeps ringing the bell. He seems to be enjoying it🙂. This one video is enough to imbibe in this lifetime. And each one of his videos are thus 🙏🏼
Swamiji..the way you explain is just ♥️ There is no object called flower in your experience, all you are experiencing is yellow colour and shape. No Object called flower apart from Colour and Shape. No Colour and Shape apart from seeing. No seeing apart from awareness 🤔 I am that awareness in which seeing happens 🤔 Before the seeing or hearing, awareness was there...during the seeing and hearing awareness is there,....after the end of seeing or hearing, awareness is still there...awareness never arise or disappears, it is always there.. Mind or Individual Ego appears and disappears, but the " Awareness " is always there... No Objective Universe Apart from Experience. No Experience Apart from Awareness. Experience Alone is the Brahman 🤔 Neither Experiencer nor Experienced. IN THE AWARENESS, subject and object appear. Mind as a subject and external world as object. अहम् ब्रम्हास्मी ! तत्त्वमसि
NAMASTE. That which I am is so subtle. It’s so fleeting. I understood because of you breaking it up. Amazing. That thou art. I have NO words to say how you have enlightened me. I am amazed how simple it all is. Why do we find it so hard. Amazing. No wonder we are so vulgar and violent. Unfortunate. May god bless you and may you be a beacon of light. Amen. Love you. NAMASTE.
This is the third time I am watching this video. Each time I see it seems new. Each time I get a new level of clarity that I could not even perceive the previous time.
Pranam Swamij."Anything that's not there in your deep sleep is not worthy of your attention" what a profound truth which hits like a bomb in to the material world.
The video is a discourse on non-dual meditation by Swami Sarvapriyananda. He explains the concept of Advaita Vedanta, which posits that the ultimate reality is awareness or consciousness, and everything else is an appearance within it. He guides the audience through two exercises, focusing on the perception of a flower and a sound, to illustrate that objects are nothing apart from our experience of them, and our experience is nothing apart from awareness. He emphasizes that this awareness is limitless, all-inclusive, and the true nature of the self. Timestamps: 01:21 Introduction to Non-dual Meditation 01:21 Question about the difficulty of experiencing ultimate reality despite its omnipresence. 02:33 Advaita Vedanta's perspective on the availability of ultimate reality and the role of ignorance and superimposition. 04:35 Analogy of ten people crossing a river to illustrate the hidden nature of the subject (awareness). 06:10 Exercise 1: Flower Perception 06:10 Instructions to focus on experience and treat the discourse as a pointing. 10:11 Observing the flower and questioning the existence of a separate object apart from color and shape. 12:04 Realization that there is no object called flower in experience, only color and shape. 12:54 Understanding that color and shape are dependent on seeing, and seeing is dependent on awareness. 20:19 Exercise 2: Sound Perception 20:19 Shifting focus to sound and questioning the existence of a separate object apart from the sound heard. 20:54 Listening to a sound and realizing that there is no object called sound, only the experience of sound. 22:01 Understanding that sound is dependent on hearing, and hearing is dependent on awareness. 23:37 Synthesis: Awareness as the Common Ground 23:37 Recognizing the distinction between flower and sound, seeing and hearing, but the unity of awareness. 24:14 Affirming that the self is the awareness in which seeing and hearing arise. 25:57 Observing the impermanence of sound and hearing, but the permanence of awareness. 27:48 Expanding the Scope of Awareness 27:48 Recognizing that all experiences, including tasting, smelling, touching, thinking, are within awareness. 28:29 Understanding that the entire universe of experience is nothing other than awareness. 29:38 Emphasizing the limitless nature of awareness, encompassing all beings, events, and objects. 32:49 Implications of Realizing Awareness 32:49 Addressing the concern that realizing awareness leads to disregard for the world. 37:01 Explaining that realizing awareness leads to inclusivity and unconditional love. 38:09 Emphasizing the immortality and freedom of awareness, unaffected by old age, disease, or death. 40:55 The Nature of Practice 40:55 Distinguishing the approach of reducing the universe to awareness from the traditional method of negating what the self is not. 44:56 Highlighting the importance of recognizing the universe as an appearance within awareness to avoid alienation. 47:54 Encouraging the integration of both approaches to understand Advaita Vedanta experientially. 51:08 Living as an Awakened Being 51:08 Emphasizing that realizing awareness is not a practice but a recognition of an ever-existing reality. 51:33 Describing the state of Jivanmukti, living as a liberated being while still embodied. 53:17 Acknowledging the possibility of a permanent shift in perspective where awareness becomes the natural state. 56:55 Q&A Session 57:14 Addressing questions from the audience on various aspects of Advaita Vedanta, including the nature of experience, the role of samsara, the relationship between awareness and knowledge, the implications for morality and ethics, the motivation for action after realizing awareness, and the transition between absolute and transactional realities. This session with Swami Sarvapriyananda offers profound insights into non-dual meditation and Advaita Vedanta. 🌼🕉
Amazing, I have not words to describe this feeling of seeing me as this "awareness " . I don't even know what I really grasped, but, some thing new seems to be awakening.
I love the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding Swami Sarvapriyananda's lecture provide. It is interesting that he associates experience with vision. I am assuming that he is a visual person. Sight, Hearing, Tasting, Touching, Smelling. I do know that a dog sees in a different spectrum and hears in a different spectrum than humans.
Vision was taken as the simplest and most obvious sense to start with by the ancients. The basic texts refer to the See-er and the Seen. Suspect he just follows traditional examples for ease of understanding.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is a wonderful gift to us, teaches Vedanta with such great energy and he is never tired to repeat the truth million times to reach- us the audience, and followers. I feel blessed to hear this truth. Forever grateful 🙏
Hari om swamiji ....u brought tears in my eyes .....I prayed thakoor to get in contact with you ... I stay in india so watch ur discourses at late night or next day after finishing all house hold work ...I called u no of times now even contacted Belur and sent u email and this all is for this video .it was appearing as private ...and see how thakoor helped me instantly .He is always the r to provide helpppp❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thakooor
55:36 feel that silence from Swami and the key message that comes after it. "Try to do one thing. I am awareness and everything is an appearance in me. The moment you give physical reality to the world outside, I repeat, the moment you give physical reality to the external world outside, you immediately will be the body, the body will also become real, and awareness will become embodied, a feature of this body"
True, He is really gift to humanity, He is trying to explore the value of life. If who are learning his teachings, atleast some of them impplement and follow in our practical life, we can hope, certainly changes will come in our society.
Thank you so much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏 Learning so much on Advait Vedanta and this video is just sublime🙏 I have been following most of your videos and really enjoyed them. I feel blessed by Thakur🙏🙏🙏
Kia ora (thank you) Swami. I have enjoyed listening to you over years. I have loved noticing your shifting into realisation. So beautiful. Namaste and arohanui (love).
Swamiji... listening to this lecture on this auspicious night of MahaShivaratri has given me a great boost in understanding the final nuances of Adwaitha Darshanam. The Anubhuthi is the required . Ever grateful to you. 🙏🙏🙏
I have seen the same videos of Swamiji many times and always I find something new in them. Today I got shocked by the fact of the relationship between the reality we give to matter and our moral and Ethic behavior. The more we believe that we are an individual encapsulated in this body mind the more selfish we will behave The more we feel that we are this bast emptiness of pure consciousness the more unselfish we behave. Thank you swamiji for being this lamp of pure light in this turbulent world. God Bless You
Testimony to the greatness of Indian dharmic spirituality and the common spiritual substratum that Buddhism shares with Hinduism! Brahman alone is the ultimate truth! In Buddhist parlance, the innate clear light alone is the ultimate truth!
Heard read and understood about Truth. ...changing into revelation... after listening to You. Swamiji no words left to express this Wonder . Transience of each and every object against unmoving Presence everywhere...No in and out Pranam 🙏🙏🙏
Hari Om Swamiji Humble Pranams Excellent explanations. Very well explained with so much reality. This understanding will help us in meditation. Thank you very very much Our Sincere Gratitude always. Grace of God
Ah, Swami, again turning to you brings harmony and great ease. Thank you, thank you! Friends, isn't it so that all can rejoice in Swami'ji's blessedly open-hearted offerings, each of which he so astutely and fluidly targets to help us to shake off the burdens of blinding egotism, the distortions of conventional thinking and behavior? For just that, this talk is as clear and helpful as any I've ever seen/heard. And yet here, he seems also, to me, to unhestitatingly affirm (I may be wrong and misunderstand) an anti-materialism that is untenable in monism. The talk exposes, I am troubled to be recognizing, advaita vedanta's tacit, anti-materialist invitation--if not imperative--to abandon delight in the glories of the natural world, as well as in the world's achievements--largely sense-derived-- in music and the arts and in scientific knowledge. That is troubling--for surely the divine is omni-present--in the flower, the pebble, the bell, the enemy, the jar, the war. Swami cites Kashmir Shaivism's Abhinava more and more often, but mistrust of the Kashmiri Shaivist view that the "awareness" or consciousness that we divinely share, generate, participate in is truly ubiquitous(so Somananda says that the jar knows as I know, witnessing the jar) may still, perhaps, be tied to ancient brahmin fear of tantrism. The 17th Century Puritans taught that "the Creatures'--the senses and their comforts--were to be mistrusted, and greed and vanity have endless appetites, but appreciated reverently, isn't it all holy rather than tempting, captivating, distorting? Would be grateful to hear of any insights anyone has on this.
As a Vedantin, I would like to chime in with a different perspective than yours as I understand it. A non-dual being cannot logically be “anti” or “pro” anything or anyone since that would require something or someone apart from the non-dual being which cannot be. As I see it, Advaita Vedanta tell us that enjoyment and appreciation of this bounteous world as the ego is not impervious to suffering, but enjoyment of the same as a non-dual being is undeniably so.
@@rsr9200 That is helpful. Thank you. Tricky business, assessing the adequecy of the logical and keeping in mind its difference from the experiential or spiritual. Seems this is so much a matter of language, terms, and even adaptability of metaphor. The lovely 'turn' in what you offer, as I understand it, is that because "I am that" ultimately, the historical/person this body carries suffers and rejoices because delimited in time and space, but the atman in us rejoices in the world because fully at one in a fluidity ("all made of light," as Swami offers here) in which the perspective of time and place falls away. Here KS and V are in accord, I think. My guess is that, in the logic of "Only Brahman/Shiva is real." the V is more likely to end up saying that behind the appearances Maya provides, the world as we know it does not exist, while the KS a bit more reliably asserts that it's Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, top to bottom and as far beyond as we might glimpse. The creation story in KS and its highly articulated ontology are a help, but even Abhinava and the other 10th c luminaries in the tradition falter, fall into desanctifying the material world. Having spoken little of these matters, it's unlikely that I've been at all clear here, but sitting with these matters and really reflecting is always good. And clarity often grows with trying to spell things out. Thanks again.
@@michellevonkoch5570 I share your sentiments that KS and V are not that far apart. So, while KS asserts “it's Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, top to bottom and as far beyond as we might glimpse”, V would assert “it's Ishvara, Ishvara, Ishvara, top to bottom and as far beyond as we might glimpse”. What V further adds is that non-dual being is the ultimate reality of Shiva/Ishvara and non-dual being is what you are.
This is the 2nd time I'm hearing this talk. I lack words of gratitude. Walking into infinity each time.. hoping to stay in it or with it. My humble pranams Maharaj.
Beautifully explained by Swamiji what we really are. Out of millions of creations on this earth only humans are endowed with real understanding of the "SELF". Shed "Dhehaabhimaana " and realise we are the" INFINITE or BRAHMAN". Says Swamiji very clearly. I Don't think so simple and lucid explanation anybody else could give.Thank You Thank you so much Swamiji.🙏NASHTO MOHAHA SMRITHIR LABHDHVAA.... ..STHITHOSMI GHATHA SANDHEHAHA KARISHYE VACHANAM THAVA..🙏
Many of my doubts seem to be answered in such a simple manner. What a clarity Swamiji.I liked teh one in 46 odd minutes when the differentiation between sankhya and advaita was clearly explained waves and water. Always wondered about this which was very clearly explained by Swamiji.
In this vast universe with so many things it may sound strange , but in reality the moments I spend listening to Swamiji are probably the best moments of life ... it is hard to express gratitude in words for such a wonderful , motivational teacher ... Pranams Swamiji
Public comments. It is always reality. I am not the physical body but the eternal soul. Pure awareness. One of the greatest gift is knowledge and inspiration to discriminate right from wrong. One is face with his enemy is lust greed and anger false pride and attachment and jealousy. Don't allow them to control your mind. Using the inner ability to control your taught and action base on how you preceive life journey begins with you the devotees of god creation. Meditation and yoga and prayers every day allowing you to achieve success in words taught or deeds weather physical mental or emotional self realisation is the key to success. Pure taught and pure action. Giving thanks to almighty God.
In the awareness, appearances come and go but the experience continues...you experienced the flower and now you are experiencing absence of flower, you experienced sound and now you the awareness, experiencing absence of sound..." Separate Identity as Me, appears and disappears in me the awareness.🤔 EXPERIENCE ONLY IS THE BRAHMAN.
This kind of knowledge should be taught in schools. Thank you 🙏
I think systems of philosophy and epistemology should be taught in schools.. but then people will think for themselves .. and that is too risky for the powerful men of the world.
I do also agree wid u
Before worldly knowledge one should know ones own true nature
If its taught at school... then we all know our true nature, how the goverment all around d world going to be able to control us .....
Huuu. U must be knowing, in the schools of West, anti Hindu and Sanatan Dharma is being taught, so as to destroy Hindu and Sanatan Civilization, the longest living civilization n safeguarding the core knowledge of it...though the ups and downs of time and various invasion and invaders hands n still trying to save n maintain it dignity which has been tried to distored by the most Western and even Eastern, little knowledge n understanding authors, who has no clue of Sanskrit, written in brahmic, vedic and Devanagari. Here what u r seeing is a little glimpse it. Hope u know the global agenda of destroying Sanatan.
As a man think he is. The guy who said that ruin the west, but we gotta catch up.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is a gift to humanity.. Forever Indebted and Grateful 🙏🙏🙏
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The mindfulness book "30 Days to Discover Who I Am" by Harper Daniels is a good resource.
Absolutely correct
He is indeed a gift to humanity
And here we at last arrive at the pinnacle of the information age. That this ancient knowledge has been transferred into our awareness for virtually no cost makes us realize the good that can come from technology and the internet. It's easy to get lost in a computer and all it can show us but if we can learn things like this it is all worth it.
Read Drg-Drysa-Viveka.
Absolutely.
"Fire, by itself, is neither good nor evil. When it keeps us warm we say, "How beautiful is fire!" When it burns our fingers, we blame it. Still, in itself it is neither good nor bad. According as we use it, it produces in us the feeling of good or bad; so also is this world. It is perfect. By perfection is meant that it is perfectly fitted to meet its ends. We may all be perfectly sure that it will go on beautifully well without us, and we need not bother our heads wishing to help it." -Swamiji in Karma Yoga
And the internet is neither good nor evil. Depending on what parts of it you come in contact with, it can lead you to degrade, or lift you up.
Such clarity. Beautiful transmission of the Dharna Bears watching repeatedly. The finest Advaita Vedanta teacher of our generation. We are truly blessed. Awareness is Brahman. End of story. Bows of gratitude. Bhagavan.
Yes he is very nice teacher. I also find Rupert spira sir fabulous on non dual teachings.
Finest known. But there are many who chose to just be ..... ...... Many such saints exist but are too evolved to speak ..... I bow down to all to make me ME...... Pranams to swami ji🙏
🙏🙏🙏✔️☑️
Yay, Dharma Bears forever!
Like most of us I've been watching the Swami for a number of years... This teaching though takes me to a completely different place but in the here and now. I can't stop smiling in simple awareness and consciousness. There is just awareness... I am
Swamiji is a brilliant teacher. He is so articulate and clear. He has this gift of teaching so Humbly and so interesting. Your immense knowledge absolutely shines through. Thankyou swamiji.
Yes truely sir🙂
Very impressive. ,explanation of Advait fundamentals..Blessed are those who have heard and listened to his teachings..God send teacher Philosopher..Feel proud of him ..Awareness personified in him..
I and awareness are same) am fortunate to hear your high philosophy
@Greg LeJacques why would you dismiss a teacher like that??
What just happened to me I don't know.. till the end of this lecture I automatically felt so lighter....all complications and confusions just disappeared...this lecture is one of the most strongest and powerful lectures of swami ji.. so much of purity , clarity , love , compassion all is simply oozing out of swami jis face..
So lucky to listen to it..
Dear Swamiji, Eternally indebted to you for imparting such priceless spiritual treasures to mere mortals like myself. Your words simply pierce through the heart directly. Deeply grateful and heartfelt thanks to you and Vedanta New York for sharing this outstanding talk.
I saw Swami in dream today. Yeeiii I am so so happy to have talked to him one on one and take his blessings. Best dream ever. 🙏❤🌷😊
You're the blessed one. 😌🙏
Maybe you are ready for becoming spritual person.
Perhaps I was "knowing" some of these. But with each discourse by Swami Sarvapriya anda I sit through and listen, my "understanding" improves little by little. My awareness about the need to know more about the awareness Swamiji is talking about has increased. Many Thanks for this opportunity 👍🙏
Love the way Swamiji keeps ringing the bell. He seems to be enjoying it🙂. This one video is enough to imbibe in this lifetime. And each one of his videos are thus 🙏🏼
I’m grateful for this amazing, powerful talk! This is such excellent information, presented with authority and grace. Beautiful! 🙏🏻
Swamiji..the way you explain is just ♥️
There is no object called flower in your experience, all you are experiencing is yellow colour and shape.
No Object called flower apart from Colour and Shape.
No Colour and Shape apart from seeing.
No seeing apart from awareness 🤔
I am that awareness in which seeing happens 🤔
Before the seeing or hearing, awareness was there...during the seeing and hearing awareness is there,....after the end of seeing or hearing, awareness is still there...awareness never arise or disappears, it is always there..
Mind or Individual Ego appears and disappears, but the " Awareness " is always there...
No Objective Universe Apart from Experience.
No Experience Apart from Awareness.
Experience Alone is the Brahman 🤔
Neither Experiencer nor Experienced.
IN THE AWARENESS, subject and object appear.
Mind as a subject and external world as object.
अहम् ब्रम्हास्मी ! तत्त्वमसि
So effectively explained.Certainly this is one of the most precious gift we ever received.
Kindly accept our pranam Swamiji.
Swamiji is a reincarnation of vivekananda for this age
NAMASTE. That which I am is so subtle. It’s so fleeting. I understood because of you breaking it up. Amazing. That thou art. I have NO words to say how you have enlightened me. I am amazed how simple it all is. Why do we find it so hard. Amazing. No wonder we are so vulgar and violent. Unfortunate. May god bless you and may you be a beacon of light. Amen. Love you. NAMASTE.
This is the third time I am watching this video. Each time I see it seems new. Each time I get a new level of clarity that I could not even perceive the previous time.
SwamiSarvspriyanandaji is my most favourite teacher of Vedanta.He is versatile and a gift to us by Sri Ramakrishna himself.
The real treasure of world which is to live happily and calmly and ....is encrypted in Hinduism
Pranam Swamij."Anything that's not there in your deep sleep is not worthy of your attention" what a profound truth which hits like a bomb in to the material world.
The video is a discourse on non-dual meditation by Swami Sarvapriyananda. He explains the concept of Advaita Vedanta, which posits that the ultimate reality is awareness or consciousness, and everything else is an appearance within it. He guides the audience through two exercises, focusing on the perception of a flower and a sound, to illustrate that objects are nothing apart from our experience of them, and our experience is nothing apart from awareness. He emphasizes that this awareness is limitless, all-inclusive, and the true nature of the self.
Timestamps:
01:21 Introduction to Non-dual Meditation
01:21 Question about the difficulty of experiencing ultimate reality despite its omnipresence.
02:33 Advaita Vedanta's perspective on the availability of ultimate reality and the role of ignorance and superimposition.
04:35 Analogy of ten people crossing a river to illustrate the hidden nature of the subject (awareness).
06:10 Exercise 1: Flower Perception
06:10 Instructions to focus on experience and treat the discourse as a pointing.
10:11 Observing the flower and questioning the existence of a separate object apart from color and shape.
12:04 Realization that there is no object called flower in experience, only color and shape.
12:54 Understanding that color and shape are dependent on seeing, and seeing is dependent on awareness.
20:19 Exercise 2: Sound Perception
20:19 Shifting focus to sound and questioning the existence of a separate object apart from the sound heard.
20:54 Listening to a sound and realizing that there is no object called sound, only the experience of sound.
22:01 Understanding that sound is dependent on hearing, and hearing is dependent on awareness.
23:37 Synthesis: Awareness as the Common Ground
23:37 Recognizing the distinction between flower and sound, seeing and hearing, but the unity of awareness.
24:14 Affirming that the self is the awareness in which seeing and hearing arise.
25:57 Observing the impermanence of sound and hearing, but the permanence of awareness.
27:48 Expanding the Scope of Awareness
27:48 Recognizing that all experiences, including tasting, smelling, touching, thinking, are within awareness.
28:29 Understanding that the entire universe of experience is nothing other than awareness.
29:38 Emphasizing the limitless nature of awareness, encompassing all beings, events, and objects.
32:49 Implications of Realizing Awareness
32:49 Addressing the concern that realizing awareness leads to disregard for the world.
37:01 Explaining that realizing awareness leads to inclusivity and unconditional love.
38:09 Emphasizing the immortality and freedom of awareness, unaffected by old age, disease, or death.
40:55 The Nature of Practice
40:55 Distinguishing the approach of reducing the universe to awareness from the traditional method of negating what the self is not.
44:56 Highlighting the importance of recognizing the universe as an appearance within awareness to avoid alienation.
47:54 Encouraging the integration of both approaches to understand Advaita Vedanta experientially.
51:08 Living as an Awakened Being
51:08 Emphasizing that realizing awareness is not a practice but a recognition of an ever-existing reality.
51:33 Describing the state of Jivanmukti, living as a liberated being while still embodied.
53:17 Acknowledging the possibility of a permanent shift in perspective where awareness becomes the natural state.
56:55 Q&A Session
57:14 Addressing questions from the audience on various aspects of Advaita Vedanta, including the nature of experience, the role of samsara, the relationship between awareness and knowledge, the implications for morality and ethics, the motivation for action after realizing awareness, and the transition between absolute and transactional realities.
This session with Swami Sarvapriyananda offers profound insights into non-dual meditation and Advaita Vedanta. 🌼🕉
Amazing, I have not words to describe this feeling of seeing me as this "awareness " . I don't even know what I really grasped, but, some thing new seems to be awakening.
Grateful eternally for your appearance in my awareness. I understand now what non-duality means, and what maya is.
I've never heard these concepts explained so clearly. What a talented teacher 🙏
Pranam swamiji thank you Vedanta New York 🙏
I love the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding Swami Sarvapriyananda's lecture provide. It is interesting that he associates experience with vision. I am assuming that he is a visual person. Sight, Hearing, Tasting, Touching, Smelling. I do know that a dog sees in a different spectrum and hears in a different spectrum than humans.
Vision was taken as the simplest and most obvious sense to start with by the ancients. The basic texts refer to the See-er and the Seen.
Suspect he just follows traditional examples for ease of understanding.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is a wonderful gift to us, teaches Vedanta with such great energy and he is never tired to repeat the truth million times to reach- us the audience, and followers. I feel blessed to hear this truth. Forever grateful 🙏
Swami Sarvapriyananda is our Vivekananda!
Was getting this on my own and this explanation makes it clear,all consciousness awareness all one
I can't stop listening to this swami... drug like attraction :)
Swamiji is providing infinite light to us with his lucid and beautiful lectures . Pranam.
This teaching is perfectly clear and perfectly simple. ♥ 🙏
Hari om swamiji ....u brought tears in my eyes .....I prayed thakoor to get in contact with you ... I stay in india so watch ur discourses at late night or next day after finishing all house hold work ...I called u no of times now even contacted Belur and sent u email and this all is for this video .it was appearing as private ...and see how thakoor helped me instantly .He is always the r to provide helpppp❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thakooor
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Awareness of Awareness = An epiphany. Namaste Swamiji
55:36 feel that silence from Swami and the key message that comes after it. "Try to do one thing. I am awareness and everything is an appearance in me. The moment you give physical reality to the world outside, I repeat, the moment you give physical reality to the external world outside, you immediately will be the body, the body will also become real, and awareness will become embodied, a feature of this body"
Swamiji your sense of humour is so refreshing unlike other gurus. Thanks and namaste.
True, He is really gift to humanity, He is trying to explore the value of life. If who are learning his teachings, atleast some of them impplement and follow in our practical life, we can hope, certainly changes will come in our society.
💘swamiji thanks for being a game changer in my life, pranam
Thank you so much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏 Learning so much on Advait Vedanta and this video is just sublime🙏 I have been following most of your videos and really enjoyed them. I feel blessed by Thakur🙏🙏🙏
Kia ora (thank you) Swami. I have enjoyed listening to you over years. I have loved noticing your shifting into realisation. So beautiful. Namaste and arohanui (love).
The word syllables have a pleasing quality. Which language is it?
Thank you very much swamiji. It's so soothing. Lokha sangraha is your objective.
Swami ji ,we feel blessed to see your videos and the deep Vedanta knowledge given to us in such a simple manner.
Thank you Swamiji, pranams ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Swamiji... listening to this lecture on this auspicious night of MahaShivaratri has given me a great boost in understanding the final nuances of Adwaitha Darshanam. The Anubhuthi is the required . Ever grateful to you. 🙏🙏🙏
Many of my doubts got cleared from this session, thanks Swamiji ❤
Swamiji Lecture....then Even comments are of so much meaning...each speak of thier experience....great
हरी: ऊॅं तत्सत् 🙏🏻
श्रीरामकृष्णार्पणमस्तु 🙏🏻
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji 🙏🏻
Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this video 🙏🏻
Thank you Swami for such illuminating lecture We are just like a child in our learning journey
I have seen the same videos of Swamiji many times and always I find something new in them. Today I got shocked by the fact of the relationship between the reality we give to matter and our moral and Ethic behavior. The more we believe that we are an individual encapsulated in this body mind the more selfish we will behave The more we feel that we are this bast emptiness of pure consciousness the more unselfish we behave. Thank you swamiji for being this lamp of pure light in this turbulent world. God Bless You
Testimony to the greatness of Indian dharmic spirituality and the common spiritual substratum that Buddhism shares with Hinduism! Brahman alone is the ultimate truth! In Buddhist parlance, the innate clear light alone is the ultimate truth!
Heard read and understood about Truth. ...changing into revelation... after listening to You. Swamiji no words left to express this Wonder . Transience of each and every object against unmoving Presence everywhere...No in and out
Pranam 🙏🙏🙏
This is another peak in the clarity if explanation of the awareness. Thank you enlightened Swamyji. Humble Salutations oh Guru. Hari Om.
Wonderful swamiji - ever grateful- Kodi Pranams
Swamiji thank you for your lovely talks. We follow you closely n are very much inspired, hope you do come to Fiji n grace our home. With best wishes 🙏
Respect to Swami Sarvapriyananda!
This will be right up there in terms of his best speeches
Hari Om Swamiji Humble Pranams
Excellent explanations. Very well explained with so much reality. This understanding will help us in meditation. Thank you very very much
Our Sincere Gratitude always. Grace of God
Wah.wah.Aha.Aha.wonderful.bahut.bahut.gretitude.Swami.ji.thanks.
Beautiful beautiful truth-pranam with love & gratitude.
Namaste Swamiji ! Thanks so much
for everything. Om
So beautifully explained about Object and Subject. Thank you Swami Ji
A teacher for our times. Every scripture is lit up in each talk. Humbly, thank 🙏 you.
Excellent teacher, very articulate and beautifully presented. My favorite teacher on Vedanta . God Bless You.
AWARENESS! Awareness is beyond the senses, body, mind; it is eternal. Beautiful! Thank you, Swamiji.🙏
Ah, Swami, again turning to you brings harmony and great ease. Thank you, thank you!
Friends, isn't it so that all can rejoice in Swami'ji's blessedly open-hearted offerings, each of which he so astutely and fluidly targets to help us to shake off the burdens of blinding egotism, the distortions of conventional thinking and behavior? For just that, this talk is as clear and helpful as any I've ever seen/heard. And yet here, he seems also, to me, to unhestitatingly affirm (I may be wrong and misunderstand) an anti-materialism that is untenable in monism. The talk exposes, I am troubled to be recognizing, advaita vedanta's tacit, anti-materialist invitation--if not imperative--to abandon delight in the glories of the natural world, as well as in the world's achievements--largely sense-derived-- in music and the arts and in scientific knowledge. That is troubling--for surely the divine is omni-present--in the flower, the pebble, the bell, the enemy, the jar, the war. Swami cites Kashmir Shaivism's Abhinava more and more often, but mistrust of the Kashmiri Shaivist view that the "awareness" or consciousness that we divinely share, generate, participate in is truly ubiquitous(so Somananda says that the jar knows as I know, witnessing the jar) may still, perhaps, be tied to ancient brahmin fear of tantrism. The 17th Century Puritans taught that "the Creatures'--the senses and their comforts--were to be mistrusted, and greed and vanity have endless appetites, but appreciated reverently, isn't it all holy rather than tempting, captivating, distorting?
Would be grateful to hear of any insights anyone has on this.
As a Vedantin, I would like to chime in with a different perspective than yours as I understand it. A non-dual being cannot logically be “anti” or “pro” anything or anyone since that would require something or someone apart from the non-dual being which cannot be. As I see it, Advaita Vedanta tell us that enjoyment and appreciation of this bounteous world as the ego is not impervious to suffering, but enjoyment of the same as a non-dual being is undeniably so.
@@rsr9200 That is helpful. Thank you. Tricky business, assessing the adequecy of the logical and keeping in mind its difference from the experiential or spiritual. Seems this is so much a matter of language, terms, and even adaptability of metaphor.
The lovely 'turn' in what you offer, as I understand it, is that because "I am that" ultimately, the historical/person this body carries suffers and rejoices because delimited in time and space, but the atman in us rejoices in the world because fully at one in a fluidity ("all made of light," as Swami offers here) in which the perspective of time and place falls away. Here KS and V are in accord, I think.
My guess is that, in the logic of "Only Brahman/Shiva is real." the V is more likely to end up saying that behind the appearances Maya provides, the world as we know it does not exist, while the KS a bit more reliably asserts that it's Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, top to bottom and as far beyond as we might glimpse. The creation story in KS and its highly articulated ontology are a help, but even Abhinava and the other 10th c luminaries in the tradition falter, fall into desanctifying the material world.
Having spoken little of these matters, it's unlikely that I've been at all clear here, but sitting with these matters and really reflecting is always good. And clarity often grows with trying to spell things out. Thanks again.
@@michellevonkoch5570 I share your sentiments that KS and V are not that far apart. So, while KS asserts “it's Shiva, Shiva, Shiva, top to bottom and as far beyond as we might glimpse”, V would assert “it's Ishvara, Ishvara, Ishvara, top to bottom and as far beyond as we might glimpse”. What V further adds is that non-dual being is the ultimate reality of Shiva/Ishvara and non-dual being is what you are.
This is the 2nd time I'm hearing this talk. I lack words of gratitude. Walking into infinity each time.. hoping to stay in it or with it. My humble pranams Maharaj.
Awareness is experiencing that which is not and that which is not is experienced by awareness.
Pranam to Shri Thakkur Ji and to you All
Your wisdom is very transformative
The power of Swamiji to us all the time🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏🧘♂️🧘♂️🧘♂️
This is such a beautiful awareness opening exercise, an easy realisation of the sense of self
Beautifully explained by Swamiji what we really are. Out of millions of creations on this earth only humans are endowed with real understanding of the "SELF". Shed "Dhehaabhimaana " and realise we are the" INFINITE or BRAHMAN". Says Swamiji very clearly. I Don't think so simple and lucid explanation anybody else could give.Thank You Thank you so much Swamiji.🙏NASHTO MOHAHA SMRITHIR LABHDHVAA....
..STHITHOSMI GHATHA SANDHEHAHA KARISHYE VACHANAM THAVA..🙏
Beautiful Swamiji . Found it so real and smooth to understand . Feel blessed to have you as a spiritual teacher 🙏🏼
Brilliant simplicity...it’s all awareness!
Indebted forever to Swami sarvapriyananda ji for his lucid explanation 🙏🙏🙏
Maharaj it's bliss all around! Pranam and Regards for enlightening the world!
Swamiji. Yes and yes to all that you have made me experience. Thank you so much. So simple. I can’t imagine how ignorant I was.
Great guruji, I salute to you and the knowledge that you are imparting for us through the videos. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Many of my doubts seem to be answered in such a simple manner. What a clarity Swamiji.I liked teh one in 46 odd minutes when the differentiation between sankhya and advaita was clearly explained waves and water. Always wondered about this which was very clearly explained by Swamiji.
Initially I found this hard to follow. However, midway it suddenly clicked. How profound. I hope I can internalize it. Thank you swamiji.
Pranams Maharaji! Thanks for very precise explanation of important thoughts in philisophy.
Sir, You are in the maya of spirituality..
And You are the Maya, the illusion.
Thoroughly understood. Only your blessings now required. 🙏🌳
One of the most important lectures I ever heard. Thank you so much!
What a wonderful explanation!
Gratitude and pranams
Thanks Dear Swami Sarvapiriyananda with my all heart🙏💎
Feeling very blessed n grateful to swamiji n vedanta society 🙏 🙏🙏
Thank you Swami ji for the all understanding and dragging me smoothly to my real nature.
Very much gratitude for making to know about awareness, thank you very much
Beautifully articulated. Thank you.👍💛🙏
I am going to have to listen to this again and again - what a treasure.
Jai guru Swamiji 🙏 As always grateful for such a profound lecture ❤🎈🌹💐
In this vast universe with so many things it may sound strange , but in reality the moments I spend listening to Swamiji are probably the best moments of life ... it is hard to express gratitude in words for such a wonderful , motivational teacher ... Pranams Swamiji
Amazing explanation of reality. Thank you Swami.
So Beautiful ...So Profound ......!!! Really It's Miracle .....................!!!
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Public comments. It is always reality. I am not the physical body but the eternal soul. Pure awareness. One of the greatest gift is knowledge and inspiration to discriminate right from wrong. One is face with his enemy is lust greed and anger false pride and attachment and jealousy. Don't allow them to control your mind. Using the inner ability to control your taught and action base on how you preceive life journey begins with you the devotees of god creation. Meditation and yoga and prayers every day allowing you to achieve success in words taught or deeds weather physical mental or emotional self realisation is the key to success. Pure taught and pure action. Giving thanks to almighty God.
It was really great enjoying learning and awakening from this practical Vedanta class.
In the awareness, appearances come and go but the experience continues...you experienced the flower and now you are experiencing absence of flower, you experienced sound and now you the awareness, experiencing absence of sound..." Separate Identity as Me, appears and disappears in me the awareness.🤔
EXPERIENCE ONLY IS THE BRAHMAN.
Namaste.... 🙏🏼 Thank you for the fabulous teaching! 🥰
स्वामीजी, सादर साष्टांग प्रणाम।
Swamiji.. 🙏🙏🙏
This video deserves more views
Very well explained. Thank you. 🙏
I really liked how atman is proceed in a positive way (rather than saying what it’s not, like drik drushya Vivek) felt very peaceful