List of Questions with Timestamps: 0:48 -- Acharyas repeatedly say You are That Infinite Existence, I am the Awareness Absolute etc. Who is the ""I"" and ""you"" that the teaching is referring to? Whom or what experiences whom or what? 8:43 -- What is ""citta""? What is the difference between ""citta"" and ""consciousness""? 18:28 -- Everything we do is prompted by thoughts, which are the functions of the mind. So how does one experience Consciousness in its purity without the mind? 27:17 -- What works the mind if Pure Consciousness is not affected by the material world, and is only the Witness? What is it that enjoys the senses, the body, or the mind? 30:58 -- a) Nirguna Brahman is manifested in a body. Who decides that body (as in the case of Sri Ramakrishna, other Avatars/Incarnations of God etc.)? b) Does this Avatar/Incarnation concept contradict the Advaitic idea of ""That Thou Art""? 37:45 -- a) What makes the difference between the mind of Swami Vivekananda and my mind? If the mind of a saint is pure, what purified it? Did Pure Conciousness purify it? b) In that case, I am the same Pure Consciousness. Why doesn't it purify me? 42:23 -- When the body is damaged or dies, only this body stops working. Why does it lose its Consciousness? 45:01 -- How do memory or samskaras travel from one birth to another? If mind and body are destroyed, where does the samskara get stored? 47:49 -- Does Awareness always need a vehicle for it to exist? 51:47 -- How do you avoid pride in the path of Advaita? 59:50 -- Shravana, manana, nidhidhyasana (hearing, pondering, assimilating). These constitute the method by which one realizes Brahman (if one has good fortune). If that happens, then one should be filled with Bliss. And if a person thinks that he has had that realization, but is not filled with Bliss, then one can conclude that he did not have the realization. Correct? 1:02:49 -- What is the exact meaning/significance of ""Om"" in relation to the Mandukya Upanishad? 1:09:15 -- a) How can we approach everyday activities at various stages of our life with an attitude of service, and in a manner that avoids undue stress and brings peace? 1:09:53 -- b) How do we carry on the daily activities of life without stress, without strain? 1:18:39 -- a) What is the difference between ""kuladevi"" (family deity) and ""isha devata"" (chosen deity)? 1:20:22 -- b) What is the significance (if any) of various experiences had during meditation (vibrations, sounds, colors, bright light, darkness etc.)? 1:22:33 -- a) Is what I experience right now the appearance OF reality, or appearance AS reality? Why doesn't Reality reveal Itself in its originality? For that matter, why don't (or can't) we see the Reality as It is? 1:25:22 -- b) Why does the play of Consciousness give so many negative experiences (sorrow, suffering, pain, fear, frustration, failure, boredom etc.)? 1:28:07 -- c) Doesn't the experience of Maya run counter to the principle of nondualism, or is Maya also a part of Reality? If so, how?
If merit is accrued, by teaching the Vedanta and the mystery of life. Then you swamiji are sitting on a mountain ⛰ of merit. Thank you. Words cannot say how much you helped e understand advaita and the various traditions that have grown around it. 🕉 shanti..
Very interesting n insightful answers. Samsara is as it is so that we get so uncomfortable and start seeking.lf it were a permanently happy n comfortable place we wouldn't want to leave the world or look for a deeper meaning to life.
My Goodness, what an elucidation Maharaj. Every single aspect, Questions on Consciousness, ego, AUM, focus, Maya and experience, One reality... wow I wish I stay in that plane
Exciting session indeed! It gives direct answers - convincing, clear and crisp - to the queries of seriously spiritually inclined people. Feeling Thakur's grace being showered on us as we are getting the opportunity to listen to this amazing teacher!! And yes, M. the enlightened disciple too tells Thakur: "God has created you with His own hands, whereas He has made others by machine. All others He has created according to law." [Gospel - 21-7-1883]
In a mind posture Consciousness is playing hide and seek with itself. And when it finds itself it realises that it has been seeking itself within itself.
🙏🏵️Jai Maa🏵️ very nice,every word is full of Love. I feel very Peace of mind.Realise "The Power Of Simplicity".l Have A MAA . Thanks.speech on the occasion of mother's day.Dhanyavadam.
Swamiji, according to Bhagvan Ramana Maharishi, the Karta is 'ego'. We, the consciousness, is the Sakshi. Therefore, it is suggested that whatever actions need to happen by one's prarabdha, will happen. One can dissociate from them as a Sadhana. The ego on enquiry disappears, and we realize that it never did really exist. This understanding when taken to its logical conclusion is what promos the Sage to say that 'Nothing has ever happened '. If we accept Sankhya's understanding [about purusha/ prakriti] it gives credence to a little self. Which understanding is more correct?
@47:48 The question describes the understanding of panpsychism, which is materialist / reductionist. It is all the rage today for scientists and such because it keeps their metaphysics of materialism and it seems to solve some of the mystery of consciousness.
Buddha, Krishna,Kabir,and so many enlightened person never came back again in life. Where they go.And if 7B people was enlightened then man specis was gone.please clear me about enlightened person after die or liberation.
Swami often quotes a bengali song translated as -- They sit on the banks of the Ocean of Nectar My Lord, scrabbling in the dry sand for drop to quench their thirst ... if only they would turn around ....... Can anybody identify the original song please ??
Of course Samsara is important. Anything that can happen can happen only in it. Why does it appear? Do this: close your eyes, now hold out your hands and with the top of your fingers explore your face. Try to form an image of it by touch. The fingers are we in the world trying to figure out Brahman, so that Brahman through us can know itself.
Please swami Help me I , doubt about rebirth. When nobody in bondage ,why rebirth.i read mandukya but I clear not about it.In Gita lord Krishna told about rebirth.why?
but Swamiji you said mind and all the vrittis produced by it are Jada just like body... come in to existence.. continuously changes and... finally gets destroyed... then if jada body destroyed so should be with Jada mind... please solve this doubt Swamiji... 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Please swami Help me, according to Vedanta enlightened person never born again.But atman is alone.where does go after enlightenment.if this possible ,after many years man other animals specis was gone.
I heard in one of his lecture the same question, he then tells a story of one vedic scholar who kept on arguing over the concept of rebirth. The scholar then goes to an advaitin enlightened person who replies "when there is no birth then how can there be a rebirth". I think the title of video was birthless death or something
Swamiji pranam if I am witnessing vrittis in my mind who is me at that time... is it intellect or directly... reflected conscious... isn't it jeewaatma... pure consciousness is still far... is this reasoning correct... 🙏
Pure consciousness is not individual. When you say you are witnessing the vrittis in the mind, think carefully- is that an individual? If so, it's not the pure consciousness. It's the consciousness reflected in the ego or ahamkara which makes it seem aware. It makes it feel the first person inner experience. To answer the question straight, it's the reflected consciousness. Bottom line is is if it feels an individual, an unit, it's not pure consciousness
Abhimanyu Ganguly .... then isn't it a round about answer that... it is vijnanamaya kosha... so during manana... the reference with respect to which it is done is still unreal I... the false ego... or jeewatma...
Poornima, yes ... its something I am struggling with.... swamiji says in his drig drisya viveka lecture that you use any thought you have to become aware of the reflected consciousness... so far so good ... and then he says use that as a pointer to the real consciousness that YOU are... this part isn't clear at all ... at least to me. I think I am still failing to grasp what in the reflected consciousness gives you that pointer that its actually reflected, not real. The second part to the problem is , the sense of 'I' is all about the reflected consciousness. I don't get how the real consciousness can give the sense of 'I'
Respected sarvapriyanadaji , You said while telling that first step in vedanta is that atma n anatma vivek. So I m different from world. Then there is no existence of world apart from our consciousness. You gave example of book and clock(lecture -26 jan 2018). So world is in my awareness. But presently as I m in india I m not aware of happenings of America still lot of things are happening or existing there. For that I think ultimately consciousness is one ,means my or American's ultimate consciousness is one and the same. So even I am not aware then consciousness appearing there as an American guy is aware of happenings or existence of America. So America is existing in that American guy's consciousness. But according to history of universe , earth , life which dates something 14, 4.0 , 3.5 billion years respectively. So before life ,earth was existing. So before consciousness ,earth was existing. I mean before 3.5 billion years ago there was protozoa kind of life. It was in its consciousness world was appearing. But what before it. In whose consciousness world was appearing. Because world existed still before existence of life. If brahman was appearing as universe at that time also , then in whose consciousness it was appearing. If it is lila then for whom that lila was there. As there is no life there. Even if as vivekanada said consciousness is everywhere , it is apperaring or expressing in us more and lesser in non living beings. So why brahman appeared or expressed itself as in lesser way before first life.For whom that world existed before 4 billion years ago. I would be very happy and grateful for your reply.
Pure consciousness(brahman) does not need a body to exist but in it the body and the universe exist. You and the american guy both exist IN the pure consciousness/awareness but you are identified with your mind and body and american is identified with his and so experience your limited and separate experiences. When you break this false identification through yoga/vedanta etc you will find that there is no sachin and american guy but these are just projections projected by maya in pure consciousness or brahman. Brahman does not appear, the world as we know(universe,planets,life,time,space) appear In Brahman the sat-chit-ananda(existance-consciousness-bliss) I hope this helps brother.
thanks for replying. It really made me more clear. I do agree that World exist in pure consciousness not in reflected consciousness. but still not able to understand why it exists at all. It is said it exists in vyavaharik satta and not in parmarthik satta . then why there is vyavaharik satta i.e relative world and pratibhasik satta i.e dream state.it was said it is lila. Then before 4 billion years ago , for nearly 10 billion years ! there was no life. Then why world existed then , I mean for 10 billion years.
@@sachintajne, the world does not exist separate from you. So his do you know that there are a lot of things going on in America? From the news on television or the internet? This too is only appearing to you in you're awareness. Or do you only suppose that there is a real America where things are happening right now when you are not there? That then is your mind creating an imagined world from your suppositions. In your dream if you step into the bathroom and close the door behind you, is there really a room on the other side where your family is sitting and a lot of things are going on? In the waking state it works exactly like that! 😘
List of Questions with Timestamps:
0:48 -- Acharyas repeatedly say You are That Infinite Existence, I am the Awareness
Absolute etc. Who is the ""I"" and ""you"" that the teaching is referring to? Whom or what
experiences whom or what?
8:43 -- What is ""citta""? What is the difference between ""citta"" and ""consciousness""?
18:28 -- Everything we do is prompted by thoughts, which are the functions of the
mind. So how does one experience Consciousness in its purity without the mind?
27:17 -- What works the mind if Pure Consciousness is not affected by the material
world, and is only the Witness? What is it that enjoys the senses, the body, or the
mind?
30:58 -- a) Nirguna Brahman is manifested in a body. Who decides that body (as in
the case of Sri Ramakrishna, other Avatars/Incarnations of God etc.)?
b) Does this Avatar/Incarnation concept contradict the Advaitic idea of ""That Thou
Art""?
37:45 -- a) What makes the difference between the mind of Swami Vivekananda and
my mind? If the mind of a saint is pure, what purified it? Did Pure Conciousness
purify it?
b) In that case, I am the same Pure Consciousness. Why doesn't it purify me?
42:23 -- When the body is damaged or dies, only this body stops working. Why does
it lose its Consciousness?
45:01 -- How do memory or samskaras travel from one birth to another? If mind and
body are destroyed, where does the samskara get stored?
47:49 -- Does Awareness always need a vehicle for it to exist?
51:47 -- How do you avoid pride in the path of Advaita?
59:50 -- Shravana, manana, nidhidhyasana (hearing, pondering, assimilating). These
constitute the method by which one realizes Brahman (if one has good fortune). If
that happens, then one should be filled with Bliss. And if a person thinks that he has
had that realization, but is not filled with Bliss, then one can conclude that he did not
have the realization. Correct?
1:02:49 -- What is the exact meaning/significance of ""Om"" in relation to the Mandukya
Upanishad?
1:09:15 -- a) How can we approach everyday activities at various stages of our life
with an attitude of service, and in a manner that avoids undue stress and brings
peace?
1:09:53 -- b) How do we carry on the daily activities of life without stress, without strain?
1:18:39 -- a) What is the difference between ""kuladevi"" (family deity) and ""isha devata""
(chosen deity)?
1:20:22 -- b) What is the significance (if any) of various experiences had during meditation
(vibrations, sounds, colors, bright light, darkness etc.)?
1:22:33 -- a) Is what I experience right now the appearance OF reality, or appearance AS
reality? Why doesn't Reality reveal Itself in its originality? For that matter, why don't (or can't)
we see the Reality as It is?
1:25:22 -- b) Why does the play of Consciousness give so many negative experiences
(sorrow, suffering, pain, fear, frustration, failure, boredom etc.)?
1:28:07 -- c) Doesn't the experience of Maya run counter to the principle of nondualism, or
is Maya also a part of Reality? If so, how?
If merit is accrued, by teaching the Vedanta and the mystery of life. Then you swamiji are sitting on a mountain ⛰ of merit. Thank you. Words cannot say how much you helped e understand advaita and the various traditions that have grown around it. 🕉 shanti..
I love the vedanta coming through my mobile screen !
Haha
Very interesting n insightful answers.
Samsara is as it is so that we get so uncomfortable and start seeking.lf it were a permanently happy n comfortable place we wouldn't want to leave the world or look for a deeper meaning to life.
No words to express our Thanks swami.
Swamiji, I feel great in your presence.
My Goodness, what an elucidation Maharaj. Every single aspect, Questions on Consciousness, ego, AUM, focus, Maya and experience, One reality... wow I wish I stay in that plane
Thanks for making me feel Swami Vivekanand talking to this One.
OM, pure Advaita Vedanta, thanks "God" to serve you Swami....
Exciting session indeed! It gives direct answers - convincing, clear and crisp - to the queries of seriously spiritually inclined people. Feeling Thakur's grace being showered on us as we are getting the opportunity to listen to this amazing teacher!! And yes, M. the enlightened disciple too tells Thakur: "God has created you with His own hands, whereas He has made others by
machine. All others He has created according to law." [Gospel - 21-7-1883]
I loved the last words of his satsang🙏🏼❤️
Om Shanti!
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
In a mind posture Consciousness is playing hide and seek with itself. And when it finds itself it realises that it has been seeking itself within itself.
Thanks Swami 🙏🙏
Koti koti pranam Swamiji
It would be of great help if we can listen to the guided meditation part
Swamiji pranams to you !
🙏🏵️Jai Maa🏵️ very nice,every word is full of Love. I feel very Peace of mind.Realise "The Power Of Simplicity".l Have A MAA . Thanks.speech on the occasion of mother's day.Dhanyavadam.
Thank you Swamiji
Namaskaram Guru 🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏
Very interesting 🙏🙏
It was too good😊💝
Can you please post the guided meditation video which was live streaming with this lecture? Will be of great help
Why is the guided meditation video removed. Can you please post the video. It will be of great help
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🙏 THANK YOU 🙏
Swamiji, according to Bhagvan Ramana Maharishi, the Karta is 'ego'. We, the consciousness, is the Sakshi. Therefore, it is suggested that whatever actions need to happen by one's prarabdha, will happen. One can dissociate from them as a Sadhana. The ego on enquiry disappears, and we realize that it never did really exist. This understanding when taken to its logical conclusion is what promos the Sage to say that 'Nothing has ever happened '. If we accept Sankhya's understanding [about purusha/ prakriti] it gives credence to a little self. Which understanding is more correct?
@47:48 The question describes the understanding of panpsychism, which is materialist / reductionist. It is all the rage today for scientists and such because it keeps their metaphysics of materialism and it seems to solve some of the mystery of consciousness.
Salutations!
Is there any way you can have Swamiji's guided meditation available for us to re-listen to?
Yes i'd like to hear this guided meditation again too! Please be so kind and re-upload it if it is possible.
Swamiji please give me self realization
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Master. Period.
Pl publish meditation Swami mentioned..on sounds disappearing in silence..
Pronaams! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Someone please tell me how do I know when will Swamiji’s leacture be streaming live in the future and how can I join the live.
Simply subscribe the vednata ny channel and press the bell for notification
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But where can I get the magnifying glass ;-) :-) ?
Knowledge free us from bondage(40
Hari om
Without direct experience these things don't make sense.
If I realize atman , I am enlightened correct and i don't came back again how it possible.or it is peace for me.
Removing ignorance is to know that brahman only exists and every thing is brahmam
No need of introducing maya and struggle
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Buddha, Krishna,Kabir,and so many enlightened person never came back again in life. Where they go.And if 7B people was enlightened then man specis was gone.please clear me about enlightened person after die or liberation.
Swami often quotes a bengali song translated as -- They sit on the banks of the Ocean of Nectar My Lord, scrabbling in the dry sand for drop to quench their thirst ... if only they would turn around .......
Can anybody identify the original song please ??
Dub dub dub dub sagore amar mon. Tolatole khujle patar pabi re tui rotno dhon.
This May be the one.
Of course Samsara is important. Anything that can happen can happen only in it. Why does it appear?
Do this: close your eyes, now hold out your hands and with the top of your fingers explore your face. Try to form an image of it by touch. The fingers are we in the world trying to figure out Brahman, so that Brahman through us can know itself.
Please swami Help me I , doubt about rebirth. When nobody in bondage ,why rebirth.i read mandukya but I clear not about it.In Gita lord Krishna told about rebirth.why?
but Swamiji you said mind and all the vrittis produced by it are Jada just like body... come in to existence.. continuously changes and... finally gets destroyed... then if jada body destroyed so should be with Jada mind...
please solve this doubt Swamiji... 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
09:00.
12:00 till 14:30
15:00 till 18:20
18:45 till 27:00
47:48
If the witness consciousness is sachhidananda then how it can be Nirgun Brhama
Very good Question.
When the computer is burnt where does the data go
38 Brahm
I WANT TO MEET SW SARVAPRIYANAND ? ...PLZ GUIDE
....and darkness continues....
Please swami Help me, according to Vedanta enlightened person never born again.But atman is alone.where does go after enlightenment.if this possible ,after many years man
other animals specis was gone.
I heard in one of his lecture the same question, he then tells a story of one vedic scholar who kept on arguing over the concept of rebirth. The scholar then goes to an advaitin enlightened person who replies "when there is no birth then how can there be a rebirth". I think the title of video was birthless death or something
th-cam.com/video/vjaxNXs0sGA/w-d-xo.html
Listen the question at and the answer 57:30, he talks about this specifically
Swamiji pranam
if I am witnessing vrittis in my mind who is me at that time... is it intellect or directly... reflected conscious... isn't it jeewaatma... pure consciousness is still far... is this reasoning correct... 🙏
Pure consciousness is not individual. When you say you are witnessing the vrittis in the mind, think carefully- is that an individual? If so, it's not the pure consciousness. It's the consciousness reflected in the ego or ahamkara which makes it seem aware. It makes it feel the first person inner experience.
To answer the question straight, it's the reflected consciousness. Bottom line is is if it feels an individual, an unit, it's not pure consciousness
Abhimanyu Ganguly ....
then isn't it a round about answer that... it is vijnanamaya kosha...
so during manana... the reference with respect to which it is done is still unreal I... the false ego... or jeewatma...
Poornima, yes ... its something I am struggling with.... swamiji says in his drig drisya viveka lecture that you use any thought you have to become aware of the reflected consciousness... so far so good ... and then he says use that as a pointer to the real consciousness that YOU are... this part isn't clear at all ... at least to me. I think I am still failing to grasp what in the reflected consciousness gives you that pointer that its actually reflected, not real. The second part to the problem is , the sense of 'I' is all about the reflected consciousness. I don't get how the real consciousness can give the sense of 'I'
Respected sarvapriyanadaji , You said while telling that first step in vedanta is that atma n anatma vivek. So I m different from world. Then there is no existence of world apart from our consciousness. You gave example of book and clock(lecture -26 jan 2018). So world is in my awareness. But presently as I m in india I m not aware of happenings of America still lot of things are happening or existing there. For that I think ultimately consciousness is one ,means my or American's ultimate consciousness is one and the same. So even I am not aware then consciousness appearing there as an American guy is aware of happenings or existence of America. So America is existing in that American guy's consciousness. But according to history of universe , earth , life which dates something 14, 4.0 , 3.5 billion years respectively. So before life ,earth was existing. So before consciousness ,earth was existing. I mean before 3.5 billion years ago there was protozoa kind of life. It was in its consciousness world was appearing. But what before it. In whose consciousness world was appearing. Because world existed still before existence of life.
If brahman was appearing as universe at that time also , then in whose consciousness it was appearing.
If it is lila then for whom that lila was there. As there is no life there.
Even if as vivekanada said consciousness is everywhere , it is apperaring or expressing in us more and lesser in non living beings. So why brahman appeared or expressed itself as in lesser way before first life.For whom that world existed before 4 billion years ago.
I would be very happy and grateful for your reply.
Pure consciousness(brahman) does not need a body to exist but in it the body and the universe exist.
You and the american guy both exist IN the pure consciousness/awareness but you are identified with your mind and body and american is identified with his and so experience your limited and separate experiences.
When you break this false identification through yoga/vedanta etc you will find that there is no sachin and american guy but these are just projections projected by maya in pure consciousness or brahman.
Brahman does not appear, the world as we know(universe,planets,life,time,space) appear In Brahman the sat-chit-ananda(existance-consciousness-bliss)
I hope this helps brother.
sachin tajne You have mixed reflected consciousness and Conciousness existence bliss
thanks for replying. It really made me more clear. I do agree that World exist in pure consciousness not in reflected consciousness. but still not able to understand why it exists at all. It is said it exists in vyavaharik satta and not in parmarthik satta . then why there is vyavaharik satta i.e relative world and pratibhasik satta i.e dream state.it was said it is lila. Then before 4 billion years ago , for nearly 10 billion years ! there was no life. Then why world existed then , I mean for 10 billion years.
@@sachintajne, the world does not exist separate from you. So his do you know that there are a lot of things going on in America? From the news on television or the internet? This too is only appearing to you in you're awareness. Or do you only suppose that there is a real America where things are happening right now when you are not there? That then is your mind creating an imagined world from your suppositions.
In your dream if you step into the bathroom and close the door behind you, is there really a room on the other side where your family is sitting and a lot of things are going on? In the waking state it works exactly like that! 😘
1:15:00
Unchanging consciousness can't be the mind, chitta, budhi Or ahamkara. Then it is saguna brahman. Brahman is perceived as saguna Or nirguna. Why not
There's no sukhsma sareera
The sessions content could be scripted in print in any way swami?
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Pranam Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🌹