List of Questions with Timestamps: 0:08 - How do the desires transmigrate after death? 11:50 - A step-by-step examination of the challenges one faces in grasping the ‘Witness’ 23:03 - The spiritual heaven in Vedanta. 25:16 - How to manifest the knowledge of Advaita? 46:00 - Who made God?
What an enormous service. It is like an enlightened shankaracharya in some peedam (with an MBA and intelligent brain and such) coming out and teaching the whole world instead of "i will meditate and get this for myself". Pranams to Swami! Pranams!!!
Awesome, Swamiji : ) 19:50 Say to mind: "O mind, whenever you are unhappy refer back to me." You will see that your unhappiness will go away... in a flash. 21:27 O mind, anytime you are not serene, not trouble-free refer back to me. Thank you!
Pranam swami ji. I was curious hence I started reading vedas . But you made me fall in love with vedanta. You are a blessing for human kind and I want to be like you. Oh my God . Your solution of asking the kind refer back to me . I will also try it and come back .
I cannot claim to have reached the stage that Norbert is in, but I feel this technique - "refer back to me" - can be put to use for my own low brow struggle - outbursts of anger and exasperation with people...
Swamyji please bless us attain moksha here and now. You are the utmost we can hope to have. A local small time guru shed tears for me that I do not read and understand local language and only English to read our scriptures. He was sincere. You are a saviour for the likes of me. Hari Om Swamyji.
Bless us attain moksha here and now? As swamiji explained even advaitha Vedanta says ur mind, intellect and sensory system need to go through rigorous training and then ultimately one day u get realization. So even if we heard stories where some one instantly enlightened. It is with our practice from life times
Pranam maharaj. Thanks to the person who asked third qst . He phrased the doubt in a wonderful manner , once I heard him saying that he finds it difficult to concentrate on Brahaman excluding all external things. I too have a doubt here, if I know Brahaman is everything, this shines everything else shines, this is bliss itself. If we were raised from babyhood that we do not have any personal identity, and we work for others and this body and mind all are instruments, and certainly someday just like today we get to know all this is Brahaman , would this way of growing up help much faster manner in God realization? I understand there is causality but just curious because then what exactly would attract a person to realize God or Brahaman who does not have any desire for body mind( ego is what obscures first in realization of reality as you teach). One more qst what he is saying you advice many a times that if God realization become our goal , even leading a household life we can do that. But honestly everything needs our attention. You also became monk for realizing god not to avoid suffering I believe. Is it really possible to realize god alongside a work or for a student who is studying. Both requires concentration rather god realization much tougher cause we have past conditions. Sometimes it seems that there is some extraordinary understanding or realization or may be this ordinary awareness is too much intense to a realized soul cause he or she had practiced only concentration to awareness excluding this world. You explain it easily cause you have got it. I can't explain my awareness to you neither how I percept the world. Through my happiness certainly I can't explain your happiness like you mentions for one has mind one can't experience all others minds. But there are certain words which can explain a feeling as sw Vivekananda explains beginning there was God and word. Word of god. I am not sure how to explain I know you can. So can you please explain how to exactly consciousness is not an object , object is also a word. I can ask why 2 is written like 2 why don't we call 2 as 1. Just because my 1st person experience can't be explained yet that's why is this beyond word? And if possible can you explain what is Superconsciousness and Ultraconsciousness. I have request without (swaguna brahman)god's creation will you please explain this objective worlds existence. I am not accepting that any god with form exists. I believe man with desire to know brahman comes and shows that only by knowing Brahman all desire subsides. Correct me if anywhere I am wrong. Pranam again to you.😊❤🙏
Dear Hindu brothers, It is high time that all of us should unite and stay stronger. Doesn't matter how much Indian left liberals tell you otherwise, Unity of India lies on the unity of Sanatan Dharma followers (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs etc). Our Sanatan Dharma has always been contributing to the entire humanity. Preserving the dharma is protecting not only India but the entire humanity. DO NOT CONFUSE or let anyone confuse you about your own dharma.
Such a beautiful definition of enlightenment ( 41:55 ) .... "where you can finally stop being somebody else. " but maharaj ji we are always forced by the world, and our society, family and friends to be losse our real identity, the indentity which vedanta terms as the devine identity. In this world where having wealth, power , social position and academic accomplishment are the parameters of being successful please suggest us a way where we can break through the shakels of different societal pressures and find the brahman within us???
I think he gave the example of elephant and the rider ,u have to train the elephant(body/mind) and then u may be able to control it which would help to apply the spirituality in life and also to know thy self.
Thank you, the compassionate answer to our query of how bring peace to ones mind through Vedanta chintan is so helpful. In Buddhist thought, the fundamental darkness is rooted in our ignorance of our real nature. I too find helpful to step back from time to time from our our inner tyrant, the mind, through conscious thought, meditation etc . Over time, it is hoped, cloud of delusion covering the mind is polished through our practice, and our inner reality is reflected clearly from our mind.
My heartfelt gratitude and pranam to Swamiji on this holy day of guru purnima 🙏 Thank you Swamiji for being with us and guiding us through the night of illusion and leading to the light that we are.
Namaskar🙏🙏 This time swamiji is looking different and the way he is delivering his speech and contemplating the questions everything is looking and sounding different he is not the way he would be..i don't know it's only my observation or others finding it too
Pranam Swamiji, at 7:00 the water is poured to the other pot. Is it the Atman which makes it possible the subtle body to move to the other body? Namaskar!
I have noticed that what helps me the most when my mind sometimes slips up or is confused is to say I am pure consciousness. I have noticed that saying I am brahman or vastness doesn’t work as efficiently. It takes a step in my mind to go from what Brahman means to what vastness means. This is pure consciousness. From there I can then center myself in it. I’m thinking this has to do with a language sort of barrier. If any of you have a similar experience or insight I would love to hear it. :)
Where does a realized person set his limits in this material world, should he walk, drive a Maruti or a BMW. Should he just survive on two meals a day to keep the body going or can he build a fortune?
I have watched swamiji's videos & he sounds very sincere, so I would like to ask this question. A famous scientist Sam Harris asks this question about soul. If the information is getting stored in soul & not in brain alone, when a part of the brain is damaged, why do people cease to recognise so many words & colours? And if it's damaged more they will cease to recognise even human beings. But when death happens, when the whole brain is gone, they recognise their grandmother, this that etc. What's that? When the brain was damaged, the soul was still in the body. So this way it challenges the existence of soul isn't it.
The information is not in soul, it is in the subtle body. When the brain is damaged the subtle body is intact but it has lost the means to interact correctly through the gross body.
@@aeonsleo2 so once the person dies, information stored in the subtle body can again start working even though it didn't work while the brain was damaged n the person was alive? How's that possible? I'm very seriously asking this question. Thank you.
Swami ji the Pranmaya Kosha remains on Earth as a ghost body and dissipates over number of years and does not go along with subtle bodies to the astral world. I think it is so. Is not it so please reply. My regards!
oh what a lovely soul, enjoyed very much the way he explains. he uses very often an expression i never heard ‚sravana m...‘ i dont know. can someone tell me?(:
simitha : The three pillars of vedantic practice (abhyasa krama ) are Sravana , manana , Nidhidhyasana . They refer to first hearing the truth ( Sravana) then contemplating about the heard truth ( manana) and then Sravana-Manana should result in a continual living and breathing this truth in all actions every moment ( Nidhidhyasana).
Pronam Maharaj Ji... usually we often hear to understand "Maya" we have to go beyond "Maya", I have one question; Is enlightenment means going beyond "Maya" ???? but after enlightenment still transaction world appears to that person although that knows himself as "Nirguna Brahman". To put this question in another way, why "Nirguna Brahman" remains as existence?? like after waking up from the dream we all realize the reality of dreaming?
Namaste, Could you please pass this question to Swami ji, " As the subtle body still survives after death, is it eternal? If in case the subtle body is not eternal, when does it dies?"
Just after a dream, I am able to say I HAD A DREAM and IT WAS A DREAM , why immediately on birth and immediately perhaps on recognizing our own ability to perceive ourselves as different from others, I am not able to perceive , OH ! this is only a new body through a new birth !
Sir, if Atman is experiencer and it is infinite, then while I'm awake I ( Atman) experiences body and mind, in dream state I experience mind, and in deep sleep my mind shuts off according to Vedanta and I experience silence, but since Atman is infinite and in deep sleep my mind has shut down why i (Atman) do not experience other people's mind who are awake or I do not experience other people's dreams who are dreaming?.
Becz you are expereincing this world through the persona bosymind combo ur holding The example given by swamiji earlier the sun is shining in the dark room through a mirror and is reflecting the sun and brightens the room and same thing is happening with other mirrors in the room each one of them believes they are responsible to lighten up the room and each other too now to look at the atman the main sun they don't have to reflect back to the sun... He his self revealed
When you say I Atman, you cannot say other. If you get self realization you can know your past lives, other people's lives and past lives. That is when you are freed from the clutches of Maya
List of Questions with Timestamps:
0:08 - How do the desires transmigrate after death?
11:50 - A step-by-step examination of the challenges one faces in grasping the ‘Witness’
23:03 - The spiritual heaven in Vedanta.
25:16 - How to manifest the knowledge of Advaita?
46:00 - Who made God?
Thanks.
Thanks
Thank You for listing the questions.
Also please list the Spotify Podcast link for this session. Pranam!
@@saum also please list the link to the vedanta realisation...
Vedanta NY 🙏
Swami is truly a gift to the planet and beyond.
Today, I am realized that he is a genuine person. 🙏🙏
One of the most insightful session. How much attension swami ji giving in listning the question that itself is thing to learn.
What an enormous service. It is like an enlightened shankaracharya in some peedam (with an MBA and intelligent brain and such) coming out and teaching the whole world instead of "i will meditate and get this for myself". Pranams to Swami! Pranams!!!
Awesome, Swamiji : )
19:50 Say to mind: "O mind, whenever you are unhappy refer back to me."
You will see that your unhappiness will go away... in a flash.
21:27 O mind, anytime you are not serene, not trouble-free refer back to me.
Thank you!
Beautiful! I needed this🙏🏾
@@dabeezkneez8716 Thank you : ) Namaste
Even more interesting on second viewing. Thank you Swamiji.
Charan Sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so very much for this wonderful video and your wonderful presence with us.
"I am the light, whatever the light falls upon, I am not it."
Can someone nominate swamiji for UN inner peace prize...ur presence radiates Brahman swamiji....thanks for shining ur radiance on us....Pranam
It shrabana (listening to), manana( conceptualizing), nidhidhyasana(assimilate, put that into practice)
Thank you Swami and the Vedanta society, you are light for the world
Pranam swami ji. I was curious hence I started reading vedas . But you made me fall in love with vedanta. You are a blessing for human kind and I want to be like you. Oh my God . Your solution of asking the kind refer back to me . I will also try it and come back .
Direct answers from the divine himself 🙏🙏🙏
Your answer to the little one comforts me well !! ....the wood do not make the furniture!! Many thanks Sarvaji !!☺️🙏🙏
Brilliantly explained on how to handle the mind. Thank You 🙏 Swamiji !! ❤️❤️
I cannot claim to have reached the stage that Norbert is in, but I feel this technique - "refer back to me" - can be put to use for my own low brow struggle - outbursts of anger and exasperation with people...
The last question was bliss. Love to all, all the time.
Pronaam Moharaj, ki shundor apna r bani.
Ei pare-te ei bheshe
oyi parte-te bina bheshe.
Joy thakur, joy ma!
Knot of mind and atman....great explanation. ...often happens this confusion with me 🙏🙏
Excellent and wonderful answers swami hi, thank you so much
Swamyji please bless us attain moksha here and now. You are the utmost we can hope to have. A local small time guru shed tears for me that I do not read and understand local language and only English to read our scriptures. He was sincere. You are a saviour for the likes of me. Hari Om Swamyji.
Bless us attain moksha here and now? As swamiji explained even advaitha Vedanta says ur mind, intellect and sensory system need to go through rigorous training and then ultimately one day u get realization. So even if we heard stories where some one instantly enlightened. It is with our practice from life times
What a wonderful video, complex matters explained in a crystal clear and simple mode.
❣️It would be great to know swami sarvapriyananda's daily routine..hope someday this video will come✌️
Thank you for your clarity and love, ❤️🙏❤️
Blessed to hear this..Many Many Pranams to swamiji.
Pranams to Swamiji.
Utmost clarity . wonderful Guru !
Great insights..senses have to be trained...elephant example wonderful..
Pranam swamiji and thank you everyone at Vedanta NY!
Excellent answers
I have saved this ... Because same problem I was dealing with ... listen this ans again and again once in a day atlist to remain in Atman...🙏
So wonderful
Excellent answers Swamiji.
బేహాద్ కే బేహద్ కీ పరం పరం పరం మహా శాంతి హై మహా శాంతి హై మహా శాంతి హై.
కోటి కోటి ధన్యవాదములు బేహద్ బాపూజీ మరియు బ్రహ్మ, 'మా' 🙏🙏♥️🙏🙏♥️🙏
Pranam maharaj. Thanks to the person who asked third qst . He phrased the doubt in a wonderful manner , once I heard him saying that he finds it difficult to concentrate on Brahaman excluding all external things. I too have a doubt here, if I know Brahaman is everything, this shines everything else shines, this is bliss itself. If we were raised from babyhood that we do not have any personal identity, and we work for others and this body and mind all are instruments, and certainly someday just like today we get to know all this is Brahaman , would this way of growing up help much faster manner in God realization? I understand there is causality but just curious because then what exactly would attract a person to realize God or Brahaman who does not have any desire for body mind( ego is what obscures first in realization of reality as you teach). One more qst what he is saying you advice many a times that if God realization become our goal , even leading a household life we can do that. But honestly everything needs our attention. You also became monk for realizing god not to avoid suffering I believe. Is it really possible to realize god alongside a work or for a student who is studying. Both requires concentration rather god realization much tougher cause we have past conditions. Sometimes it seems that there is some extraordinary understanding or realization or may be this ordinary awareness is too much intense to a realized soul cause he or she had practiced only concentration to awareness excluding this world. You explain it easily cause you have got it. I can't explain my awareness to you neither how I percept the world. Through my happiness certainly I can't explain your happiness like you mentions for one has mind one can't experience all others minds. But there are certain words which can explain a feeling as sw Vivekananda explains beginning there was God and word. Word of god. I am not sure how to explain I know you can. So can you please explain how to exactly consciousness is not an object , object is also a word. I can ask why 2 is written like 2 why don't we call 2 as 1. Just because my 1st person experience can't be explained yet that's why is this beyond word? And if possible can you explain what is Superconsciousness and Ultraconsciousness. I have request without (swaguna brahman)god's creation will you please explain this objective worlds existence. I am not accepting that any god with form exists. I believe man with desire to know brahman comes and shows that only by knowing Brahman all desire subsides. Correct me if anywhere I am wrong. Pranam again to you.😊❤🙏
“Oh, mind whenever you are stressed thy know my doors are always open for thee!”
Atman
Swami sarvapriyananda.
Most under rated a viewed video
A genius Saint after Swami Viveknanda ...pranamam guruji
Jai gurudev 🙏
🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you
Lovely interpretations.
Amazing. Thank you. 🙏🕉
Great.
Very nice👍👏🌹.
Dear Hindu brothers,
It is high time that all of us should unite and stay stronger. Doesn't
matter how much Indian left liberals tell you otherwise, Unity of India
lies on the unity of Sanatan Dharma followers (Hindus, Jains, Buddhists,
Sikhs etc).
Our Sanatan Dharma has always been contributing to the entire humanity.
Preserving the dharma is protecting not only India but the entire
humanity. DO NOT CONFUSE or let anyone confuse you about your own
dharma.
Yes 🙏🌺🌺🌺
My manasika guru 🙏
The examples are always powerfully enlightening even by themselves let alone the rest of the lectures.
this is nice
🙏🙏🙏🙏thank u swami ji
Such a beautiful definition of enlightenment ( 41:55 ) .... "where you can finally stop being somebody else. " but maharaj ji we are always forced by the world, and our society, family and friends to be losse our real identity, the indentity which vedanta terms as the devine identity. In this world where having wealth, power , social position and academic accomplishment are the parameters of being successful please suggest us a way where we can break through the shakels of different societal pressures and find the brahman within us???
I think he gave the example of elephant and the rider ,u have to train the elephant(body/mind) and then u may be able to control it which would help to apply the spirituality in life and also to know thy self.
Doing Good karma is the main door in the path of realisation. Shravana manana nidhiyatsam swamiji is nothing but that...
@@jorbamax1080 absolutely true.
@@sundarnarayanan3511 hmmm. But then sometimes we do good karma in order to be appreciated by others atleast it happens with me. But that's bad.
@@Shreya8b no worries. Do it more and do it wide-spread. Doing widespread is the key...
Sweet question Aneesh 🙌😊
Superb 👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you, the compassionate answer to our query of how bring peace to ones mind through Vedanta chintan is so helpful. In Buddhist thought, the fundamental darkness is rooted in our ignorance of our real nature. I too find helpful to step back from time to time from our our inner tyrant, the mind, through conscious thought, meditation etc . Over time, it is hoped, cloud of delusion covering the mind is polished through our practice, and our inner reality is reflected clearly from our mind.
I have no words to say something Swami ji ,,thank you for this gift
how precise and scientific
Thank You Swami Ji
Thank you 🙏
My heartfelt gratitude and pranam to Swamiji on this holy day of guru purnima 🙏 Thank you Swamiji for being with us and guiding us through the night of illusion and leading to the light that we are.
Wonderful!
Nice video
Love you and Thank you
Pranam Maharaj. Nobody can explain Vedanta so simply like you.
I really feel that the community your videos reach, I’m blessed to be part of it.
Thak u every much sir for explaining about subtlebody ,also for explaing about soul as ref consciousness&ITCOTENTSFROM ONE BODY TO ANOTHER
Namaskaram Guru 🙏 🙏🙏
Namaskar🙏🙏
This time swamiji is looking different and the way he is delivering his speech and contemplating the questions everything is looking and sounding different he is not the way he would be..i don't know it's only my observation or others finding it too
Chaitali Mantri I think he is looking a little tired I noticed this too
Fantastic Guruji.
Hàriom swami
Answer to second and fourth question will point to right direction of our practice. This is one of the rare from maharaj. Real gem 💎 🙏
26:16 Thank you for the question madam, this is the exact question that was bothering me.
Fantastic explanation. Maharaj ji you have made us doubt free. Pranam.
Pranam Swamiji,
at 7:00 the water is poured to the other pot.
Is it the Atman which makes it possible the subtle body to move to the other body? Namaskar!
It is the Maya which makes it possible and the Karma which drives it.
Lots of love for Anish.
❤
Thank You for listing the questions.
Also please list the Spotify Podcast link for this session.
Pranam!
What happens to memory? Does it continue?
Pranam swamiji
When such question & answer sessions are recorded, the faces of audience & listener should be shown in a smaller window in the same frame....
Question is
Who is the videographer
Thank you Swamiji. Some devotees who ask questions test your patience it seems😀
Pranam Swamiji 🙏
🙏 When I think of comment , nothing came to mind. So just Pranam.
Why we are not remembering the previous life on transfer of sushma sareer(subtle body) consequent on death
I have noticed that what helps me the most when my mind sometimes slips up or is confused is to say I am pure consciousness. I have noticed that saying I am brahman or vastness doesn’t work as efficiently. It takes a step in my mind to go from what Brahman means to what vastness means. This is pure consciousness. From there I can then center myself in it. I’m thinking this has to do with a language sort of barrier. If any of you have a similar experience or insight I would love to hear it. :)
ALWAYS
I wanted to know if Swami will one day give lecture in Europe? I would like to attend. Thank you.
Nanette Kusasi : He is currently in England for the next 10 days
@@sadhikaany4157 too pity I can't go, where can we see his schedule? Thanks!!! 😃🙏
I've never been able to find an explanation of exactly what the Atman is in relation to Brahman. Are they the same thing?
Where does a realized person set his limits in this material world, should he walk, drive a Maruti or a BMW. Should he just survive on two meals a day to keep the body going or can he build a fortune?
Namaste, can somebody please help me with the email address where we can send questions for the'Ask Swamiji' sessions? Thank you
Pranaam Swamiji. Your Talks are perfectly Pleasant and Good, both, everytime you speak.
When can we expect swamiji’s next discourse on bhagwat gita , after lecture 30, on sound cloud. Waiting eagerly 🙏
I have watched swamiji's videos & he sounds very sincere, so I would like to ask this question. A famous scientist Sam Harris asks this question about soul. If the information is getting stored in soul & not in brain alone, when a part of the brain is damaged, why do people cease to recognise so many words & colours? And if it's damaged more they will cease to recognise even human beings. But when death happens, when the whole brain is gone, they recognise their grandmother, this that etc. What's that?
When the brain was damaged, the soul was still in the body. So this way it challenges the existence of soul isn't it.
arjundwarkanath what do u think?
The information is not in soul, it is in the subtle body. When the brain is damaged the subtle body is intact but it has lost the means to interact correctly through the gross body.
@@tashilhamu4510 wow, great answer. All my doubts are clarified. Come on, question to another question is not the answer.
@@aeonsleo2 so once the person dies, information stored in the subtle body can again start working even though it didn't work while the brain was damaged n the person was alive? How's that possible? I'm very seriously asking this question. Thank you.
@@arjundwarkanath can u explain what you mean by dead person recognise their grandmother.
Swami ji the Pranmaya Kosha remains on Earth as a ghost body and dissipates over number of years and does not go along with subtle bodies to the astral world. I think it is so. Is not it so please reply. My regards!
The child and the swami naman
oh what a lovely soul, enjoyed very much the way he explains.
he uses very often an expression i never heard ‚sravana m...‘ i dont know. can someone tell me?(:
simitha : The three pillars of vedantic practice (abhyasa krama ) are Sravana , manana , Nidhidhyasana . They refer to first hearing the truth ( Sravana) then contemplating about the heard truth ( manana) and then Sravana-Manana should result in a continual living and breathing this truth in all actions every moment ( Nidhidhyasana).
Shravanam-listening,
Mananam-thinking on it,
Nidhidhyasana {Japa / Meditation}.
Pronam Maharaj Ji... usually we often hear to understand "Maya" we have to go beyond "Maya", I have one question; Is enlightenment means going beyond "Maya" ???? but after enlightenment still transaction world appears to that person although that knows himself as "Nirguna Brahman". To put this question in another way, why "Nirguna Brahman" remains as existence?? like after waking up from the dream we all realize the reality of dreaming?
Pronam Maharaj Ji, can you clear my doubt?? where i am going off track?
Maya only appear if a realized person allows it, if he attains Mahasamadhi, he is unified in Brahman
Namaste, Could you please pass this question to Swami ji, " As the subtle body still survives after death, is it eternal? If in case the subtle body is not eternal, when does it dies?"
Read Autobiography of a yogi by paramhansa yogananda you will get all your answers 🙏🙏
After realization that it was all a dream. Dream body dies after waking up. Subtle body dies after realizing it was a dream.
Beautiful session
Swami Sarvapriyananda clean bowled by little Aneesh for zero runs!
46:00 - Who made God?
The Brahman, in form of Aneesh, asks, who made Brahman
♾️❤️♾️
Just after a dream, I am able to say I HAD A DREAM and IT WAS A DREAM , why immediately on birth and immediately perhaps on recognizing our own ability to perceive ourselves as different from others, I am not able to perceive , OH ! this is only a new body through a new birth !
Try perceiving after death and not birth, you need to wake up from the dream
I understand we are not the body then why is suicide considered wrong ?
suicide is wrong only at the reality level of the "waker". In brahman there is no right or wrong.
Sir, if Atman is experiencer and it is infinite, then while I'm awake I ( Atman) experiences body and mind, in dream state I experience mind, and in deep sleep my mind shuts off according to Vedanta and I experience silence, but since Atman is infinite and in deep sleep my mind has shut down why i (Atman) do not experience other people's mind who are awake or I do not experience other people's dreams who are dreaming?.
Becz you are expereincing this world through the persona bosymind combo ur holding
The example given by swamiji earlier the sun is shining in the dark room through a mirror and is reflecting the sun and brightens the room and same thing is happening with other mirrors in the room each one of them believes they are responsible to lighten up the room and each other too now to look at the atman the main sun they don't have to reflect back to the sun... He his self revealed
There are no others to share minds with, you only have your body
When you say I Atman, you cannot say other. If you get self realization you can know your past lives, other people's lives and past lives. That is when you are freed from the clutches of Maya