List of questions with timestamps: 00:40 - How can I worship God if I am one with God? 12:58 - I find it easy to say "I am Brahman", but how can I say "I am Jesus"? 19:32 - When we pray for peace, who are we praying to? 26:38 - My dream borrows material from my waking experience. Where does my waking reality borrow material from? 36:03 - As our identities are ephemeral in dreams, aren't our identities also ephemeral in awareness? How is Advaita as expressed by Nisargadatta different from Advaita taught in the Ramakrishna Order? 46:50 - After having our vices under control, what is the next step forward? After having cleansed the mind, what is the next step in mediation? 01:00:13 - What hope is there for an ordinary householder in achieving realization?
Mayawadi philosophy debunked in Caitanya caritamrta Adi chapter 7. Text 110 tāṅhāra nāhika doṣa, īśvara-ājñā pāñā gauṇārtha karila mukhya artha ācchādiyā "Śaṅkarācārya is not at fault, for it is under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that he has covered the real purpose of the Vedas. The Vedic literature is to be considered a source of real knowledge, but if one does not take it as it is, one will be misled. For example, the Bhagavad-gītā is an important Vedic literature that has been taught for many years, but because it was commented upon by unscrupulous rascals, people derived no benefit from it, and no one came to the conclusion of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Since the purpose of the Bhagavad-gītā is now being presented as it is, however, within four or five short years thousands of people all over the world have become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the difference between direct and indirect explanations of the Vedic literature. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, mukhya-vṛttye sei artha parama mahattva: "To teach the Vedic literature according to its direct meaning, without false commentary, is glorious." Unfortunately, Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, compromised between atheism and theism in order to cheat the atheists and bring them to theism, and to do so he gave up the direct method of Vedic knowledge and tried to present a meaning which is indirect. It is with this purpose that he wrote his Śārīraka-bhāṣya commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. One should not, therefore, attribute very much importance to the Śārīraka-bhāṣya. In order to understand Vedānta philosophy, one must study Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which begins with the words oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya, janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ sva-rāṭ: [SB 1.1.1] "I offer my obeisances unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, who is the Supreme All-pervading Personality of Godhead. I meditate upon Him, the transcendent reality, who is the primeval cause of all causes, from whom all manifested universes arise, in whom they dwell and by whom they are destroyed. I meditate upon that eternally effulgent Lord, who is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations and yet is fully independent." (Bhāg. 1.1.1) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the real commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. Unfortunately, if one is attracted to Śrī Śaṅkarācārya's commentary, Śārīraka-bhāṣya, his spiritual life is doomed. One may argue that since Śaṅkarācārya is an incarnation of Lord Śiva, how is it that he cheated people in this way? The answer is that he did so on the order of his master, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, in the words of Lord Śiva himself: māyāvādam asac chāstraṁ pracchannaṁ bauddham ucyate mayaiva kalpitaṁ devi kalau brāhmaṇa-rūpiṇā brahmaṇaś cāparaṁ rūpaṁ nirguṇaṁ vakṣyate mayā sarva-svaṁ jagato 'py asya mohanārthaṁ kalau yuge vedānte tu mahā-śāstre māyāvādam avaidikam mayaiva vakṣyate devi jagatāṁ nāśa-kāraṇāt "The Māyāvāda philosophy," Lord Śiva informed his wife Pārvatī, "is impious [asac chāstra]. It is covered Buddhism. My dear Pārvatī, in Kali-yuga I assume the form of a brāhmaṇa and teach this imagined Māyāvāda philosophy. In order to cheat the atheists, I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be without form and without qualities. Similarly, in explaining Vedānta I describe the same Māyāvāda philosophy in order to mislead the entire population toward atheism by denying the personal form of the Lord." In the Śiva Purāṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead told Lord Śiva: dvāparādau yuge bhūtvā kalayā mānuṣādiṣu svāgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaṁ ca janān mad-vimukhān kuru "In Kali-yuga, mislead the people in general by propounding imaginary meanings for the Vedas to bewilder them." These are the descriptions of the Purāṇas. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments that mukhya-vṛtti ("the direct meaning") is abhidhā-vṛtti, or the meaning that one can understand immediately from the statements of dictionaries, whereas gauṇa-vṛtti ("the indirect meaning") is a meaning that one imagines without consulting the dictionary. For example, one politician has said that Kurukṣetra refers to the body, but in the dictionary there is no such definition. Therefore this imaginary meaning is gauṇa-vṛtti, whereas the direct meaning found in the dictionary is mukhya-vṛtti or abhidhā-vṛtti. This is the distinction between the two. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommends that one understand the Vedic literature in terms of abhidhā-vṛtti, and the gauṇa-vṛtti He rejects. Sometimes, however, as a matter of necessity, the Vedic literature is described in terms of the lakṣaṇā-vṛtti or gauṇa-vṛtti, but one should not accept such explanations as permanent truths. The purpose of the discussions in the Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra is to philosophically establish the personal feature of the Absolute Truth. The impersonalists, however, in order to establish their philosophy, accept these discussions in terms of lakṣaṇā-vṛtti, or indirect meanings. Thus instead of being tattva-vāda, or in search of the Absolute Truth, they become Māyāvāda, or illusioned by the material energy. When Śrī Viṣṇu Svāmī, one of the four ācāryas of the Vaiṣṇava cult, presented his thesis on the subject matter of śuddhādvaita-vāda, immediately the Māyāvādīs took advantage of this philosophy and tried to establish their advaita-vāda or kevalādvaita-vāda. To defeat this kevalādvaita-vāda, Śrī Rāmānujācārya presented his philosophy as viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda, and Śrī Madhvācārya presented his philosophy of tattva-vāda, both of which are stumbling blocks to the Māyāvādīs because they defeat their philosophy in scrupulous detail. Students of Vedic philosophy know very well how strongly Śrī Rāmānujācārya's viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda and Śrī Madhvācārya's tattva-vāda contest the impersonal Māyāvāda philosophy. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, accepted the direct meaning of the Vedānta philosophy and thus defeated the Māyāvāda philosophy immediately. He opined in this connection that anyone who follows the principles of the Śārīraka-bhāṣya is doomed. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, where Lord Śiva tells Pārvatī: śṛṇu devi pravakṣyāmi tāmasāni yathā-kramam yeṣāṁ śravaṇa-mātreṇa pātityaṁ jñāninām api apārthaṁ śruti-vākyānāṁ darśayal loka-garhitam karma-svarūpa-tyājyatvam atra ca pratipādyate sarva-karma-paribhraṁśān naiṣkarmyaṁ tatra cocyate parātma-jīvayor aikyaṁ mayātra pratipādyate "My dear wife, hear my explanations of how I have spread ignorance through Māyāvāda philosophy. Simply by hearing it, even an advanced scholar will fall down. In this philosophy, which is certainly very inauspicious for people in general, I have misrepresented the real meaning of the Vedas and recommended that one give up all activities in order to achieve freedom from karma. In this Māyāvāda philosophy I have described the jīvātmā and Paramātmā to be one and the same." How the Māyāvāda philosophy was condemned by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His followers is described in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Second Chapter, verses 94 through 99, where Svarūpa-dāmodara Gosvāmī says that anyone who is eager to understand the Māyāvāda philosophy must be considered insane. This especially applies to a Vaiṣṇava who reads the Śārīraka-bhāṣya and considers himself to be one with God. The Māyāvādī philosophers have presented their arguments in such attractive, flowery language that hearing Māyāvāda philosophy may sometimes change the mind of even a mahā-bhāgavata, or very advanced devotee. An actual Vaiṣṇava cannot tolerate any philosophy that claims God and the living being to be one and the same.
Mayawadi philosophy debunked in Caitanya caritamrta Adi chapter 7. Text 110 tāṅhāra nāhika doṣa, īśvara-ājñā pāñā gauṇārtha karila mukhya artha ācchādiyā "Śaṅkarācārya is not at fault, for it is under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that he has covered the real purpose of the Vedas. The Vedic literature is to be considered a source of real knowledge, but if one does not take it as it is, one will be misled. For example, the Bhagavad-gītā is an important Vedic literature that has been taught for many years, but because it was commented upon by unscrupulous rascals, people derived no benefit from it, and no one came to the conclusion of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Since the purpose of the Bhagavad-gītā is now being presented as it is, however, within four or five short years thousands of people all over the world have become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the difference between direct and indirect explanations of the Vedic literature. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, mukhya-vṛttye sei artha parama mahattva: "To teach the Vedic literature according to its direct meaning, without false commentary, is glorious." Unfortunately, Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, compromised between atheism and theism in order to cheat the atheists and bring them to theism, and to do so he gave up the direct method of Vedic knowledge and tried to present a meaning which is indirect. It is with this purpose that he wrote his Śārīraka-bhāṣya commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. One should not, therefore, attribute very much importance to the Śārīraka-bhāṣya. In order to understand Vedānta philosophy, one must study Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which begins with the words oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya, janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ sva-rāṭ: [SB 1.1.1] "I offer my obeisances unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, who is the Supreme All-pervading Personality of Godhead. I meditate upon Him, the transcendent reality, who is the primeval cause of all causes, from whom all manifested universes arise, in whom they dwell and by whom they are destroyed. I meditate upon that eternally effulgent Lord, who is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations and yet is fully independent." (Bhāg. 1.1.1) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the real commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. Unfortunately, if one is attracted to Śrī Śaṅkarācārya's commentary, Śārīraka-bhāṣya, his spiritual life is doomed. One may argue that since Śaṅkarācārya is an incarnation of Lord Śiva, how is it that he cheated people in this way? The answer is that he did so on the order of his master, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, in the words of Lord Śiva himself: māyāvādam asac chāstraṁ pracchannaṁ bauddham ucyate mayaiva kalpitaṁ devi kalau brāhmaṇa-rūpiṇā brahmaṇaś cāparaṁ rūpaṁ nirguṇaṁ vakṣyate mayā sarva-svaṁ jagato 'py asya mohanārthaṁ kalau yuge vedānte tu mahā-śāstre māyāvādam avaidikam mayaiva vakṣyate devi jagatāṁ nāśa-kāraṇāt "The Māyāvāda philosophy," Lord Śiva informed his wife Pārvatī, "is impious [asac chāstra]. It is covered Buddhism. My dear Pārvatī, in Kali-yuga I assume the form of a brāhmaṇa and teach this imagined Māyāvāda philosophy. In order to cheat the atheists, I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be without form and without qualities. Similarly, in explaining Vedānta I describe the same Māyāvāda philosophy in order to mislead the entire population toward atheism by denying the personal form of the Lord." In the Śiva Purāṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead told Lord Śiva: dvāparādau yuge bhūtvā kalayā mānuṣādiṣu svāgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaṁ ca janān mad-vimukhān kuru "In Kali-yuga, mislead the people in general by propounding imaginary meanings for the Vedas to bewilder them." These are the descriptions of the Purāṇas. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments that mukhya-vṛtti ("the direct meaning") is abhidhā-vṛtti, or the meaning that one can understand immediately from the statements of dictionaries, whereas gauṇa-vṛtti ("the indirect meaning") is a meaning that one imagines without consulting the dictionary. For example, one politician has said that Kurukṣetra refers to the body, but in the dictionary there is no such definition. Therefore this imaginary meaning is gauṇa-vṛtti, whereas the direct meaning found in the dictionary is mukhya-vṛtti or abhidhā-vṛtti. This is the distinction between the two. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommends that one understand the Vedic literature in terms of abhidhā-vṛtti, and the gauṇa-vṛtti He rejects. Sometimes, however, as a matter of necessity, the Vedic literature is described in terms of the lakṣaṇā-vṛtti or gauṇa-vṛtti, but one should not accept such explanations as permanent truths. The purpose of the discussions in the Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra is to philosophically establish the personal feature of the Absolute Truth. The impersonalists, however, in order to establish their philosophy, accept these discussions in terms of lakṣaṇā-vṛtti, or indirect meanings. Thus instead of being tattva-vāda, or in search of the Absolute Truth, they become Māyāvāda, or illusioned by the material energy. When Śrī Viṣṇu Svāmī, one of the four ācāryas of the Vaiṣṇava cult, presented his thesis on the subject matter of śuddhādvaita-vāda, immediately the Māyāvādīs took advantage of this philosophy and tried to establish their advaita-vāda or kevalādvaita-vāda. To defeat this kevalādvaita-vāda, Śrī Rāmānujācārya presented his philosophy as viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda, and Śrī Madhvācārya presented his philosophy of tattva-vāda, both of which are stumbling blocks to the Māyāvādīs because they defeat their philosophy in scrupulous detail. Students of Vedic philosophy know very well how strongly Śrī Rāmānujācārya's viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda and Śrī Madhvācārya's tattva-vāda contest the impersonal Māyāvāda philosophy. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, accepted the direct meaning of the Vedānta philosophy and thus defeated the Māyāvāda philosophy immediately. He opined in this connection that anyone who follows the principles of the Śārīraka-bhāṣya is doomed. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, where Lord Śiva tells Pārvatī: śṛṇu devi pravakṣyāmi tāmasāni yathā-kramam yeṣāṁ śravaṇa-mātreṇa pātityaṁ jñāninām api apārthaṁ śruti-vākyānāṁ darśayal loka-garhitam karma-svarūpa-tyājyatvam atra ca pratipādyate sarva-karma-paribhraṁśān naiṣkarmyaṁ tatra cocyate parātma-jīvayor aikyaṁ mayātra pratipādyate "My dear wife, hear my explanations of how I have spread ignorance through Māyāvāda philosophy. Simply by hearing it, even an advanced scholar will fall down. In this philosophy, which is certainly very inauspicious for people in general, I have misrepresented the real meaning of the Vedas and recommended that one give up all activities in order to achieve freedom from karma. In this Māyāvāda philosophy I have described the jīvātmā and Paramātmā to be one and the same." How the Māyāvāda philosophy was condemned by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His followers is described in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Second Chapter, verses 94 through 99, where Svarūpa-dāmodara Gosvāmī says that anyone who is eager to understand the Māyāvāda philosophy must be considered insane. This especially applies to a Vaiṣṇava who reads the Śārīraka-bhāṣya and considers himself to be one with God. The Māyāvādī philosophers have presented their arguments in such attractive, flowery language that hearing Māyāvāda philosophy may sometimes change the mind of even a mahā-bhāgavata, or very advanced devotee. An actual Vaiṣṇava cannot tolerate any philosophy that claims God and the living being to be one and the same.
I have been following Swamiji this is 7 years and he is a blessing towards humanity with his fond of knowledge and spreading such knowledge he is doing the best worship towards god and his creation 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Swamiji explained Advaita Vedanta so beautifully, The God and we are made up of same thing but like the difference between the power of a water bubble and a huge wave, we are another although we are made up from same water.
Let us think bubble water n Great Wave wtr. all are the same as water except tears! They r coming to us in a differnt Desining tobe present themselves accordingly.
Lovely presentation, want to read n read more n more. Oh God Someone Great definitely be there to read it out the inner paragraph from the core of our heart. Hearty Love n bow down our head wholeheartedly. No more, otherwise God shld be sufferd with EGO!
Many thanks. Each video is a jewel unto itself. How lucky am I to bask in your radiance. My inner light has been rekindled and I now feel it’s glow, as one torch lights another. Many thanks indeed.
Pronam Maharaj. You have answered each question with such detailed explanations and apt metaphors that the your responses will always remain with us. 🙏🙏
Yes, Swami, please do that talk explaining the difference between Buddhist idealism and Advaita Vedanta. It would be ever so helpful. And thank you for this and all your other work that is available to us here!
Thank you so much Swami great talk l am watching you for years and your explanation with examples are very helpful also through Nisargadatta videos which l follow for many years l found your videos reflecting blessings 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It's been 2 years since i have been listening to him. And I can somewhat start to understand what he enlightenment is. I haven't realised but i can understand. Also he is true at the end where he says that greatest fear disappears and it does nothing worldly can calm me like this video of spiritual talks. Grateful for the talks
I had always this same query, seeping into my mind, why an aAdvaitin worship God? What a beautiful convincing answer. As a Jiva who eats,sleeps and let me add other aspects here, who becomes angery and happy and confused, must pray to God for grace. Let's first bridge this gap then worry about second step. Thanks again for uploading this Q&A session. 🙏🙏
I sincerely thank the last two questioners, they have become Nimittam(instrumental) to get such a spiritual shower which drenched us all. The wave cannot be separated from the ocean however far-off it is or however small or big it is, it’s enjoyment is in just dashing the coast and going back again from where it has emerged! I always feel happy to go through the Q&A session of Swameejee!
Connect with your God-self by intuition ,sensation and by your feeling function not just by the thinking function ..This is where meditation comes in .
We do not have to lose our "minds" or "brain" to see the fragility of our identity. Night in and night out, we lose our identity by donning a new set of psychosomatic apparatus and personality, INVOLUTARILY, during dream. That personality, that ego and that body is completely different from the corresponding elements of wakeful state and yet we are not surprised as long as we are in that state!!
Swami, you ask how many people can inquire find the truth and 'thats it'. But some find this knowledge very easy to accept. Ithink you once said once that there is many buddhas in the world, perhaps thousands. I dont like to talk about what endures beyond death, but its possible that all progress is not lost
3:31 Achitya Bhedābheda Tattva Is the correct understanding.. The Absolute Truth is Inconceivable Paramātma & Jīvatmā is Qualitatively One At the Same time Quantitatively different with One another.
My deepest gratitude and pranams to swamiji and to all the participants for such an insightful q/a session. 🙏🙏❤ Feeling blessed to have encountered your talks 🙏🙏
Careful with that because the world isn't finished product. We don't know the next moment. Only witness it. It is a stream of creation that is Brahman through and through. No world is ever created. Does gold create an ornament or appear as ornament? Truly, no ornament is created, it is gold appearing as an ornament. Brahman satiyam, jagat mitiyam.
@@bobsmart8302 yes but in the work a day world it is of no use Both Christ and Judas are verily Brahman but nobody goes and hugs Judas whereas Christ is venerated!!
@@thyagarajant.r.3256 true but is it not more true to say that Judas Christ world hugging and what have you are all an appearance in consciousness? Is there a second entity watching? Advaita or non- dual means that thou art.
List of questions with timestamps:
00:40 - How can I worship God if I am one with God?
12:58 - I find it easy to say "I am Brahman", but how can I say "I am Jesus"?
19:32 - When we pray for peace, who are we praying to?
26:38 - My dream borrows material from my waking experience. Where does my waking reality borrow material from?
36:03 - As our identities are ephemeral in dreams, aren't our identities also ephemeral in awareness? How is Advaita as expressed by Nisargadatta different from Advaita taught in the Ramakrishna Order?
46:50 - After having our vices under control, what is the next step forward? After having cleansed the mind, what is the next step in mediation?
01:00:13 - What hope is there for an ordinary householder in achieving realization?
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The Absolute and the Transactional Truth. 👍
The Non-dual and the Dual.
The Divine and the Human.
Mayawadi philosophy debunked in Caitanya caritamrta Adi chapter 7. Text 110
tāṅhāra nāhika doṣa, īśvara-ājñā pāñā
gauṇārtha karila mukhya artha ācchādiyā
"Śaṅkarācārya is not at fault, for it is under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that he has covered the real purpose of the Vedas.
The Vedic literature is to be considered a source of real knowledge, but if one does not take it as it is, one will be misled. For example, the Bhagavad-gītā is an important Vedic literature that has been taught for many years, but because it was commented upon by unscrupulous rascals, people derived no benefit from it, and no one came to the conclusion of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Since the purpose of the Bhagavad-gītā is now being presented as it is, however, within four or five short years thousands of people all over the world have become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the difference between direct and indirect explanations of the Vedic literature. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, mukhya-vṛttye sei artha parama mahattva: "To teach the Vedic literature according to its direct meaning, without false commentary, is glorious." Unfortunately, Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, compromised between atheism and theism in order to cheat the atheists and bring them to theism, and to do so he gave up the direct method of Vedic knowledge and tried to present a meaning which is indirect. It is with this purpose that he wrote his Śārīraka-bhāṣya commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra.
One should not, therefore, attribute very much importance to the Śārīraka-bhāṣya. In order to understand Vedānta philosophy, one must study Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which begins with the words oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya, janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ sva-rāṭ: [SB 1.1.1] "I offer my obeisances unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, who is the Supreme All-pervading Personality of Godhead. I meditate upon Him, the transcendent reality, who is the primeval cause of all causes, from whom all manifested universes arise, in whom they dwell and by whom they are destroyed. I meditate upon that eternally effulgent Lord, who is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations and yet is fully independent." (Bhāg. 1.1.1) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the real commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. Unfortunately, if one is attracted to Śrī Śaṅkarācārya's commentary, Śārīraka-bhāṣya, his spiritual life is doomed.
One may argue that since Śaṅkarācārya is an incarnation of Lord Śiva, how is it that he cheated people in this way? The answer is that he did so on the order of his master, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, in the words of Lord Śiva himself:
māyāvādam asac chāstraṁ pracchannaṁ bauddham ucyate
mayaiva kalpitaṁ devi kalau brāhmaṇa-rūpiṇā
brahmaṇaś cāparaṁ rūpaṁ nirguṇaṁ vakṣyate mayā
sarva-svaṁ jagato 'py asya mohanārthaṁ kalau yuge
vedānte tu mahā-śāstre māyāvādam avaidikam
mayaiva vakṣyate devi jagatāṁ nāśa-kāraṇāt
"The Māyāvāda philosophy," Lord Śiva informed his wife Pārvatī, "is impious [asac chāstra]. It is covered Buddhism. My dear Pārvatī, in Kali-yuga I assume the form of a brāhmaṇa and teach this imagined Māyāvāda philosophy. In order to cheat the atheists, I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be without form and without qualities. Similarly, in explaining Vedānta I describe the same Māyāvāda philosophy in order to mislead the entire population toward atheism by denying the personal form of the Lord." In the Śiva Purāṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead told Lord Śiva:
dvāparādau yuge bhūtvā kalayā mānuṣādiṣu
svāgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaṁ ca janān mad-vimukhān kuru
"In Kali-yuga, mislead the people in general by propounding imaginary meanings for the Vedas to bewilder them." These are the descriptions of the Purāṇas.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments that mukhya-vṛtti ("the direct meaning") is abhidhā-vṛtti, or the meaning that one can understand immediately from the statements of dictionaries, whereas gauṇa-vṛtti ("the indirect meaning") is a meaning that one imagines without consulting the dictionary. For example, one politician has said that Kurukṣetra refers to the body, but in the dictionary there is no such definition. Therefore this imaginary meaning is gauṇa-vṛtti, whereas the direct meaning found in the dictionary is mukhya-vṛtti or abhidhā-vṛtti. This is the distinction between the two. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommends that one understand the Vedic literature in terms of abhidhā-vṛtti, and the gauṇa-vṛtti He rejects. Sometimes, however, as a matter of necessity, the Vedic literature is described in terms of the lakṣaṇā-vṛtti or gauṇa-vṛtti, but one should not accept such explanations as permanent truths.
The purpose of the discussions in the Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra is to philosophically establish the personal feature of the Absolute Truth. The impersonalists, however, in order to establish their philosophy, accept these discussions in terms of lakṣaṇā-vṛtti, or indirect meanings. Thus instead of being tattva-vāda, or in search of the Absolute Truth, they become Māyāvāda, or illusioned by the material energy. When Śrī Viṣṇu Svāmī, one of the four ācāryas of the Vaiṣṇava cult, presented his thesis on the subject matter of śuddhādvaita-vāda, immediately the Māyāvādīs took advantage of this philosophy and tried to establish their advaita-vāda or kevalādvaita-vāda. To defeat this kevalādvaita-vāda, Śrī Rāmānujācārya presented his philosophy as viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda, and Śrī Madhvācārya presented his philosophy of tattva-vāda, both of which are stumbling blocks to the Māyāvādīs because they defeat their philosophy in scrupulous detail. Students of Vedic philosophy know very well how strongly Śrī Rāmānujācārya's viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda and Śrī Madhvācārya's tattva-vāda contest the impersonal Māyāvāda philosophy. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, accepted the direct meaning of the Vedānta philosophy and thus defeated the Māyāvāda philosophy immediately. He opined in this connection that anyone who follows the principles of the Śārīraka-bhāṣya is doomed. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, where Lord Śiva tells Pārvatī:
śṛṇu devi pravakṣyāmi tāmasāni yathā-kramam
yeṣāṁ śravaṇa-mātreṇa pātityaṁ jñāninām api
apārthaṁ śruti-vākyānāṁ darśayal loka-garhitam
karma-svarūpa-tyājyatvam atra ca pratipādyate
sarva-karma-paribhraṁśān naiṣkarmyaṁ tatra cocyate
parātma-jīvayor aikyaṁ mayātra pratipādyate
"My dear wife, hear my explanations of how I have spread ignorance through Māyāvāda philosophy. Simply by hearing it, even an advanced scholar will fall down. In this philosophy, which is certainly very inauspicious for people in general, I have misrepresented the real meaning of the Vedas and recommended that one give up all activities in order to achieve freedom from karma. In this Māyāvāda philosophy I have described the jīvātmā and Paramātmā to be one and the same." How the Māyāvāda philosophy was condemned by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His followers is described in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Second Chapter, verses 94 through 99, where Svarūpa-dāmodara Gosvāmī says that anyone who is eager to understand the Māyāvāda philosophy must be considered insane. This especially applies to a Vaiṣṇava who reads the Śārīraka-bhāṣya and considers himself to be one with God. The Māyāvādī philosophers have presented their arguments in such attractive, flowery language that hearing Māyāvāda philosophy may sometimes change the mind of even a mahā-bhāgavata, or very advanced devotee. An actual Vaiṣṇava cannot tolerate any philosophy that claims God and the living being to be one and the same.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is officially one of my favorite people in the world 🙏🏽🕉🙏🏽
Mayawadi philosophy debunked in Caitanya caritamrta Adi chapter 7. Text 110
tāṅhāra nāhika doṣa, īśvara-ājñā pāñā
gauṇārtha karila mukhya artha ācchādiyā
"Śaṅkarācārya is not at fault, for it is under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that he has covered the real purpose of the Vedas.
The Vedic literature is to be considered a source of real knowledge, but if one does not take it as it is, one will be misled. For example, the Bhagavad-gītā is an important Vedic literature that has been taught for many years, but because it was commented upon by unscrupulous rascals, people derived no benefit from it, and no one came to the conclusion of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Since the purpose of the Bhagavad-gītā is now being presented as it is, however, within four or five short years thousands of people all over the world have become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That is the difference between direct and indirect explanations of the Vedic literature. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, mukhya-vṛttye sei artha parama mahattva: "To teach the Vedic literature according to its direct meaning, without false commentary, is glorious." Unfortunately, Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, compromised between atheism and theism in order to cheat the atheists and bring them to theism, and to do so he gave up the direct method of Vedic knowledge and tried to present a meaning which is indirect. It is with this purpose that he wrote his Śārīraka-bhāṣya commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra.
One should not, therefore, attribute very much importance to the Śārīraka-bhāṣya. In order to understand Vedānta philosophy, one must study Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which begins with the words oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya, janmādy asya yato 'nvayād itarataś cārtheṣv abhijñaḥ sva-rāṭ: [SB 1.1.1] "I offer my obeisances unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, who is the Supreme All-pervading Personality of Godhead. I meditate upon Him, the transcendent reality, who is the primeval cause of all causes, from whom all manifested universes arise, in whom they dwell and by whom they are destroyed. I meditate upon that eternally effulgent Lord, who is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations and yet is fully independent." (Bhāg. 1.1.1) Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the real commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. Unfortunately, if one is attracted to Śrī Śaṅkarācārya's commentary, Śārīraka-bhāṣya, his spiritual life is doomed.
One may argue that since Śaṅkarācārya is an incarnation of Lord Śiva, how is it that he cheated people in this way? The answer is that he did so on the order of his master, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, in the words of Lord Śiva himself:
māyāvādam asac chāstraṁ pracchannaṁ bauddham ucyate
mayaiva kalpitaṁ devi kalau brāhmaṇa-rūpiṇā
brahmaṇaś cāparaṁ rūpaṁ nirguṇaṁ vakṣyate mayā
sarva-svaṁ jagato 'py asya mohanārthaṁ kalau yuge
vedānte tu mahā-śāstre māyāvādam avaidikam
mayaiva vakṣyate devi jagatāṁ nāśa-kāraṇāt
"The Māyāvāda philosophy," Lord Śiva informed his wife Pārvatī, "is impious [asac chāstra]. It is covered Buddhism. My dear Pārvatī, in Kali-yuga I assume the form of a brāhmaṇa and teach this imagined Māyāvāda philosophy. In order to cheat the atheists, I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be without form and without qualities. Similarly, in explaining Vedānta I describe the same Māyāvāda philosophy in order to mislead the entire population toward atheism by denying the personal form of the Lord." In the Śiva Purāṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead told Lord Śiva:
dvāparādau yuge bhūtvā kalayā mānuṣādiṣu
svāgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaṁ ca janān mad-vimukhān kuru
"In Kali-yuga, mislead the people in general by propounding imaginary meanings for the Vedas to bewilder them." These are the descriptions of the Purāṇas.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments that mukhya-vṛtti ("the direct meaning") is abhidhā-vṛtti, or the meaning that one can understand immediately from the statements of dictionaries, whereas gauṇa-vṛtti ("the indirect meaning") is a meaning that one imagines without consulting the dictionary. For example, one politician has said that Kurukṣetra refers to the body, but in the dictionary there is no such definition. Therefore this imaginary meaning is gauṇa-vṛtti, whereas the direct meaning found in the dictionary is mukhya-vṛtti or abhidhā-vṛtti. This is the distinction between the two. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommends that one understand the Vedic literature in terms of abhidhā-vṛtti, and the gauṇa-vṛtti He rejects. Sometimes, however, as a matter of necessity, the Vedic literature is described in terms of the lakṣaṇā-vṛtti or gauṇa-vṛtti, but one should not accept such explanations as permanent truths.
The purpose of the discussions in the Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra is to philosophically establish the personal feature of the Absolute Truth. The impersonalists, however, in order to establish their philosophy, accept these discussions in terms of lakṣaṇā-vṛtti, or indirect meanings. Thus instead of being tattva-vāda, or in search of the Absolute Truth, they become Māyāvāda, or illusioned by the material energy. When Śrī Viṣṇu Svāmī, one of the four ācāryas of the Vaiṣṇava cult, presented his thesis on the subject matter of śuddhādvaita-vāda, immediately the Māyāvādīs took advantage of this philosophy and tried to establish their advaita-vāda or kevalādvaita-vāda. To defeat this kevalādvaita-vāda, Śrī Rāmānujācārya presented his philosophy as viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda, and Śrī Madhvācārya presented his philosophy of tattva-vāda, both of which are stumbling blocks to the Māyāvādīs because they defeat their philosophy in scrupulous detail. Students of Vedic philosophy know very well how strongly Śrī Rāmānujācārya's viśiṣṭādvaita-vāda and Śrī Madhvācārya's tattva-vāda contest the impersonal Māyāvāda philosophy. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, accepted the direct meaning of the Vedānta philosophy and thus defeated the Māyāvāda philosophy immediately. He opined in this connection that anyone who follows the principles of the Śārīraka-bhāṣya is doomed. This is confirmed in the Padma Purāṇa, where Lord Śiva tells Pārvatī:
śṛṇu devi pravakṣyāmi tāmasāni yathā-kramam
yeṣāṁ śravaṇa-mātreṇa pātityaṁ jñāninām api
apārthaṁ śruti-vākyānāṁ darśayal loka-garhitam
karma-svarūpa-tyājyatvam atra ca pratipādyate
sarva-karma-paribhraṁśān naiṣkarmyaṁ tatra cocyate
parātma-jīvayor aikyaṁ mayātra pratipādyate
"My dear wife, hear my explanations of how I have spread ignorance through Māyāvāda philosophy. Simply by hearing it, even an advanced scholar will fall down. In this philosophy, which is certainly very inauspicious for people in general, I have misrepresented the real meaning of the Vedas and recommended that one give up all activities in order to achieve freedom from karma. In this Māyāvāda philosophy I have described the jīvātmā and Paramātmā to be one and the same." How the Māyāvāda philosophy was condemned by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His followers is described in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā, Second Chapter, verses 94 through 99, where Svarūpa-dāmodara Gosvāmī says that anyone who is eager to understand the Māyāvāda philosophy must be considered insane. This especially applies to a Vaiṣṇava who reads the Śārīraka-bhāṣya and considers himself to be one with God. The Māyāvādī philosophers have presented their arguments in such attractive, flowery language that hearing Māyāvāda philosophy may sometimes change the mind of even a mahā-bhāgavata, or very advanced devotee. An actual Vaiṣṇava cannot tolerate any philosophy that claims God and the living being to be one and the same.
Absoloutely!! Swamiji is honored and beloved by me and so many others! Makes me SO happy in my humble life!!♥️🕉☮️Grateful beyond!!!
@Fallen Soul hello madman , how are you ? Hope you are doing well !!
@@snigdhodebsinha2089 Why is he madman?
Also for me I see Swamiji as the continuation (if not the reincarnation) of Swami Vivekananda in the 21 Century
It's God's grace that I came across Swami Sarvapriyananda ji's teachings... humbly need his blessings in this spiritual path.
Tears of gratitude to you Swami and the entire liniage of TRUTH available to us ♥️♥️♥️
This talk is the cream of Panchadashi- so clearly explained
I have been following Swamiji this is 7 years and he is a blessing towards humanity with his fond of knowledge and spreading such knowledge he is doing the best worship towards god and his creation 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Swamiji explained Advaita Vedanta so beautifully, The God and we are made up of same thing but like the difference between the power of a water bubble and a huge wave, we are another although we are made up from same water.
Let us think bubble water n Great Wave wtr. all are the same as water except tears! They r coming to us in a differnt Desining tobe present themselves accordingly.
Lovely presentation, want to read n read more n more. Oh God Someone Great definitely be there
to read it out the inner paragraph
from the core of our heart. Hearty Love n bow down our head wholeheartedly. No more, otherwise God shld be sufferd with EGO!
Many thanks. Each video is a jewel unto itself. How lucky am I to bask in your radiance. My inner light has been rekindled and I now feel it’s glow, as one torch lights another. Many thanks indeed.
Namaste Swamiji. Thank you so much. Must have done some punya in my past life to have encountered you.
Amazing clarity in explaining subtle concepts. One of the greatest teachers of our times. Fortunate that our paths crossed Swamiji.
Thank you very much Swamiji 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Jai ho..! 🙏
Pranam to Ramakrishna Paramhansa Dev, Jagajjanani Mother Sarada, Swamiji Maharaj and all other monks. Pranam to Swamiji
Pronam Maharaj. You have answered each question with such detailed explanations and apt metaphors that the your responses will always remain with us. 🙏🙏
No words to thank you, so I'll thank your family...🙃
Pranaam Swami Saravpriyananda ji. Stay blessed
Hari Om Swamiji. Crystal clear answers and you did it so simply and profoundly. Thank you. In immense gratitude 🙏
When I see and listen you, I feel how Swami Vivekananda was.. immense love and respect for you 🙏💐❤️
Swami ji is a gem but please don't compare him with vivekanand, he was enlightened one. 🙏🙏
An intrinsic beauty between....
Vedanta and swamiji !!
Another great talk by Swami Sarvapriyananda. ❤❤❤
Simply & perfectly explained dear Swami-ji😇! Heartfelt thanks from Australia.
Yes, Swami, please do that talk explaining the difference between Buddhist idealism and Advaita Vedanta. It would be ever so helpful. And thank you for this and all your other work that is available to us here!
To improve our spiritual mind it is essential to follow his speeches.
हरिःऊँ, प्रणाम, स्वामीजी।
Thankyou dear Swamiji. Your teachings give me great peace.
Thank you so much Swami great talk l am watching you for years and your explanation with examples are very helpful also through Nisargadatta videos which l follow for many years l found your videos reflecting blessings 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
It's been 2 years since i have been listening to him.
And I can somewhat start to understand what he enlightenment is. I haven't realised but i can understand. Also he is true at the end where he says that greatest fear disappears and it does nothing worldly can calm me like this video of spiritual talks.
Grateful for the talks
Pranam Swami ji excellent question answer session and very nice replies thanks and gratitude
One of the Best Discourses,I have ever heard,thanks a Lot! Om Shanti!.
Thank-you Swamiji - beautiful answers - great note to finish on too. Hari Om!
Swami ji, Om Tat Sat.
Thanks Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Pranaams Maharaj. I’m a bhakta primarily but discovered Ramakrishna last year and all these lectures. I get so much from it
Swamiji has a an unique, godly gift of explaining every doubts questions in a way that you are left in no more doubt.... Pranam to you, Swamiji 🙏🙏
Thank you Swamiji for your words of wisdom. I can watch the same video of you a 100 times and always learn something new
Same!
Very well said
Very satisfying. Thanks to the Holy Trio, Swamiji...from a devotee of R K Math, Basavanagudi, Bengaluru.
"Like me or hate me - both are in my favour ! If you like me, I am in your heart ! If you hate me, I am in your mind !" - Swami Vivekananda.
Hari Om,Pranam,Swamiji.
glory to you Swamiji! Such profound wisdom, your awareness is supreme
🙏Pranams Gurudev
As Jesus said, ''I am in the Father and the Father is in me''.
Thanks Swami for giving your time and your wisdom.
What a great, impact full and profound clarification swami sarvapriyananda ji … Gratitude gratitude 🙏 🙏🙏always… Thank you Vedanta society 🙏🙏
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
We R very proud of U Swamiji .Those hard questions and u all have cleared our doubts.thanks.
It is just magnificent, how precise Advaita Is
Swamiji is a great teacher🙏
I had always this same query, seeping into my mind, why an aAdvaitin worship God? What a beautiful convincing answer. As a Jiva who eats,sleeps and let me add other aspects here, who becomes angery and happy and confused, must pray to God for grace. Let's first bridge this gap then worry about second step. Thanks again for uploading this Q&A session. 🙏🙏
Well put Guarav🙏🏾
I sincerely thank the last two questioners, they have become Nimittam(instrumental) to get such a spiritual shower which drenched us all. The wave cannot be separated from the ocean however far-off it is or however small or big it is, it’s enjoyment is in just dashing the coast and going back again from where it has emerged! I always feel happy to go through the Q&A session of Swameejee!
Every Time I hear You (Vrdanta), another peel drops off.
Clearly getting closer
Great discourse Sir! Gratitude 🙏 🙏🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼
🙏Pranam Swamiji. I got my answer through today's discussion. Thank you.
Thank you swami. I've had many realizations through your previous speakings.
Namaskar Swamiji! "What next?" other than Consciousness. Wisdom reveals Itself, Great!
Excellent answers.Namaste swamiji.
master I love you
Namaste . Blessings in the Light! 🙏
Contentment is a wonderful thing.
Jai Shree Krishnam Swami Ji, Beautiful answers upto the level of satisfaction. Regards
🙏🙏🌹🙏🙏
Eternal gratitude, Swami🙏❤️🧘🏼♂️!
Connect with your God-self by intuition ,sensation and by your feeling function not just by the thinking function ..This is where meditation comes in .
Superb talk. You surpassed yourself. Swamiji a humble request can you please talk on Narada Bhakti Sutra. At least a Sunday morning talk. Pranam 🙏🙏
Swamiji Savinay Sadar Pranam! Om Shanti!.
Pranam Maharaj 🙏
The explanation at 48:04 is outstanding, Swamiji, thank you. 🙏
I feel blessed witnessing the divine words from guru ji❤💐🙏🙏
Maharaj ji,pronam.I am from India.
Thank you again, Swamiji.
Swami Ji 🙏 जै श्री कृष्णम 🙏🌹🙏
So much clarity ... in each and every question. I am doing 'Shravana..Manana..Ithidhyasam' of this video.Thanks so much
Nidhidhyasanam
I touch your feet, swamiji. Need your blessings always.
🙏 Jai Guru Ji 🪔
I request Swami Sarvapriyananda to kindly start regular Class on Vivekachudamani and teach us all the Slokas.....PLEASE
Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻
A Great teacher.🙏
Om shanti
Jai Guru Swamiji 🙏🎈🌹❤
🌷🙏আজ ঠাকুরের শুভ জন্মতিথি। 🙏🌷 সেই উপলক্ষে আপনি আমার প্রণাম নেবেন মহারাজ 🙏🌷🙏
Deepest pranams, Swami ji. 🙏
We do not have to lose our "minds" or "brain" to see the fragility of our identity. Night in and night out, we lose our identity by donning a new set of psychosomatic apparatus and personality, INVOLUTARILY, during dream. That personality, that ego and that body is completely different from the corresponding elements of wakeful state and yet we are not surprised as long as we are in that state!!
Pranam 😇
Swami, you ask how many people can inquire find the truth and 'thats it'. But some find this knowledge very easy to accept. Ithink you once said once that there is many buddhas in the world, perhaps thousands. I dont like to talk about what endures beyond death, but its possible that all progress is not lost
Wahwah AhaAha wonderful Chamatkaric Vishmayppurnathanks dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude dhanyabad dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad
Swami you are the now Swami Vivekananda have a blissful life
Pronaams!🙏
3:31 Achitya Bhedābheda Tattva Is the correct understanding..
The Absolute Truth is Inconceivable Paramātma & Jīvatmā is Qualitatively One At the Same time Quantitatively different with One another.
Bhago bhago
Iskconites are coming...
Pranam Swami ji
Thank you for answering those first two questions. Im going to have those questions in april , and find out that you answered them here.
Beautifully explained 💐💐
Swami!🕉🙏🙏🙏
Probably the movie Inception may clear a lot of concepts on dream, mind, reality. Hari Om.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 PRONAM THAKUR 🙏❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️🙏🙏 PRONAM MAA 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 PRONAM SWAMIJI 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 PRONAM VAGINI 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 PRONAM MAHARAJ 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Swamiji🙏
My deepest gratitude and pranams to swamiji and to all the participants for such an insightful q/a session. 🙏🙏❤ Feeling blessed to have encountered your talks 🙏🙏
Pranam Guruji 🙏
Jesus explained it as "I and my father are one."
Lead us from unreal to real. Lead us from darkness to Jyothi. Lead us from death to immortality. Om Shanthi. Shanthi shanthi
You are great Swami you are giving chance to to seekers to ask questions making it a combined effort
The world is the finished product and Brahman is the raw material
Careful with that because the world isn't finished product. We don't know the next moment. Only witness it. It is a stream of creation that is Brahman through and through. No world is ever created. Does gold create an ornament or appear as ornament? Truly, no ornament is created, it is gold appearing as an ornament. Brahman satiyam, jagat mitiyam.
@@bobsmart8302 yes but in the work a day world it is of no use Both Christ and Judas are verily Brahman but nobody goes and hugs Judas whereas Christ is venerated!!
@@thyagarajant.r.3256 true but is it not more true to say that Judas Christ world hugging and what have you are all an appearance in consciousness? Is there a second entity watching? Advaita or non- dual means that thou art.
Seeing next one become energetic to proceed write. Encourgble.
Wonderful.🙏🙏🙏🙏