List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:04 - Can atheists achieve enlightenment? 09:17 - If the body is inert (jada), how is it able to generate thoughts? 19:03 - If our real nature is prakash (light) does prakash need to be self-aware? 33:57 - Does removal of ignorance require free will? 46:36 - If Brahman is fulfilled, why does it need to appear as Jiva, Jagat, Isvara? 58:19 - What proof is there of awareness in deep sleep? If deep sleep is the awareness of absence, what is death? 01:10:50 - What should I do if the power of discernment in Vedantic practice is diminished? 01:14:00 - Is breathing Atman? Can the soul depart if it is Brahman? 01:19:41 - My heart is troubled by the suffering around me. How can I hold on to Advaita?
01:24:40 - VSNY has been typically very professional otherwise; hence, the abrupt end was unexpected. Maybe a remark from Swami'ji that might be construed as "political" was intentionally expunged at the end ? Editing could have been more professional 🙏🏽
Accepting the fact that the world will never be perfect is one way to avoid being impacted by the events of the present. When I was not here, the world was like this, and when I am not here, it is going to remain like this. You can't make everyone even moral, let alone spiritual. There will always be those who will cause trouble for the world. Just do your part and leave the rest on God. This is what Ramakrishna Mission does. My pranam to Swami ji. May Thakur, Maa, and Swami ji bless us.🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. I have been stickig with Vedanta for almost 15 years now and final contemplation is bearing fruits. I can see I am always free and mithyatvam of the world is clear. Vedanta works, no doubt about it. And let me tell you: there is a big shift in identity happening, amazing, not that easy for mind to accept to see all as inert apperance. I am free. Thank you.
@@Srividya_youtube in my humble opinion anatma vairagya is the most important for speed of progress. Is you wish to have faster results, contemplate on defects of anatma. By the way: once awakening starts, one cannot stop it, it happens in the background so to speak.
Many many thanks Swamiji to keep engaging with these questions so comprehensively to bring us closer to vedantic understanding. It is always very helpful and invigorating to listen to you.
Whatever this mind says, will only be limited in front of you and beings like you Swamiji. Just one thing I will dare say, thank you for keeping Adi Shankaracharya and Swami Vivekananda alive through these lectures, and others, through other margas 🙏
Swamiji you are genius, you answer every question so clearly that no doubts follow & we reach to the point which you are pointing out, 🙏🏻Thank you swamiji ,lam so greatful to you, & your wisdom you are sharing to us.
Pranams Sawamiji 🙏🏽 I'm eternally grateful for all the knowledge and wisdom that you share with us mortals on the ancient wisdom traditions of Advaita Vedanta🙏🏽 Just a minor correction with regard to the name of the biologist you mentioned, his name is Dr Robert Sapolsky is not Richard. Also, the Greek word "pneuma" pronounced numa with a silent p was/is translated as air or breath. This was then translated into the Latin noun "spiritus" meaning "the breath", from the Latin verb "spirare" meaning "to breathe". The English word "spirit" is a derivation from Latin, giving us words like respiration which is a re- breathing and expiration which is an out-breathing. The immortal Soul was originally a Greek concept, later adopted by Christian theologians and is used synonymously in Christianty. As a final thought, I'd like to mention the fact that in the Judeo-Christian Bible, God's first words were .. "Let there be Light". This l understand to be the Light of pure Consciousness equivalent with the Vedantic Atman/Brahman...That pure Light of Consciousnes which illumines all things, the Light by which all things are lit up. Thank u Swamiji. 🙏🏽
Dear Swami, Thank you for the pointers and insights conveyed in your speeches throughout the various videos. To be clear, there is an acknowledgement that the following question comes from the thinking mind that has tendencies to anthropomorphize: Have you not confused the “why” with “how” when referring to causation (when explaining with examples why things seemingly happen (or appear) as they do in the play of life that includes objects, events, and ideas via localized perspectives or dissociated alters), that is, when being asked about the “big why” question - shouldn't the “why” refer to intentionality, some overarching purpose, instead of causation, the latter of which may be an enacted means, or underlying principles to means, including laws of nature, to that end, to that purpose (which may include process-oriented purpose, not a fixed, premeditated result)? If so, then does this kind of “why” still not stand even beyond Maya, which is subject to space, time, and causation? Can we really claim that “it’s just the nature of the ultimate consciousness”? Also, answering something like “in order to experience, it has to seemingly give up its infinity and localize itself within a dream” still does not quite answer the underlying “why” (because you can further ask why it would ever want to do that localization and play in such ways) - the underlying “why” is answered where the chain of “why” truly stops, as the Truth is recognized not only beyond words (Silence is the language of God, as they say), but in a way that is truly unmistakenly understood throughout the whole being, so not simply how to end psychological suffering and live harmoniously - though admittedly preferred by this curious human (finite) being (infinite), not at the cost of really understanding the Truth, not only removing a poisonous bullet in order to end suffering and stop there. Sincerely, Harry
That's why Gaudapada says there is neither destiny, nor free will.. because he's talking from the pov of the Self. From the jivas pov there is debate about destiny and free will, because it only pertains to the individual.
38:24 Bg. 3.27 प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः । अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥ २७ ॥ prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā kartāham iti manyate The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.
@SatsangLive108 but no one knows the exact definition of spirituality, Philosophy is vast (theist, atheist, dwait, adwaith and so on) no one knows weither god exist or not. One world so many religions, cultures, in the end it doesn't matter at all.
You are right about it's incompleteness...but does it make you okk with being incomplete, is what matters... Or u can say, does it inspire you to leave it or contain it... Or is it similar to accepting your relationships as it is even when they are incomplete ....and it makes you feel comfortable with a very genuine reason, coz that's all you have seen out thr... It's like knowing what you are saying is considered worldly but you can also know while saying.. Did it make any sense to you...? If not, then surely waiting for the reply...
Could you expound? I've assumed the former is true reality and the latter the mind? I understand it's the same consciousness creating the experience in and off itself but the distinction is valid insofar it has a practical utility.
@@deedhesi8014 I think you summed it up nicely. Consciousness is a layer deeper than experience - experience (at least in the way we think of it) is a product of the intake of the sense organs processed by our brain (more simply put - it is our mind, like you said.) consciousness is what makes the experience known; the witness of the experience. I am of the belief that consciousness can exist exclusively; free of experience (at least in the way we THINK of experience.) A good example would be the "experience" of deep sleep. We tend to think of deep sleep as a state of "no consciousness" because of the lack of an experience. I think it would more accurately be described as "a state of consciousness in which there is no experience made manifest by the interpretation of sensory inputs by our brain." Just think - what logically makes more sense - 1. Our consciousness ceases to exist when we enter a state of deep sleep, and then somehow, miraculously winks back into existence at the moment of our awakening. OR 2. Our consciousness continues to exist during the state of deep sleep, only our sensory perception, or our mind, is in a state of dormancy, so our consciousness has no objective experience to witness.
Piggybacking of the question @33:57 about free will - does this mean that we, as pure consciousness, chose all our experiences for this life that we're in prior to being born?
Benfords law is fatalism in mathematics & scientific terms - the findings r mindblowing & affects from an individual to a society to a country to planets !
The Lord teaches that the jivas (distinct souls) are tiny fragments of His Being. We are an integral part of the Lord, sharing in His nature, just as a drop of water is an integral part of the ocean. Gold remains gold, no matter how small the quantity. However, while we possess the qualities of Ishvara, the supreme master, it is to a much lesser degree, as we are tiny fragments,BAGAVAGITA
Meditation on Om or on a great Holy Person like Sri Ramakrishna or Vivekaananda or Saradha Maatha Or Jesus🙏 removes all Doubt.. The unconditional uncontrollable wanting of liberation is necessary
about the question of free will: we are free to choose from the options causality/karma presents to us. Free will only exists when you have extinguished all your karma = "param mukta", and such person reincarnates as a god/avatara. Otherwise your karma will continue to steer you after death towards your next incarnation.
हरी: ऊॅं तत्सत्| श्रीरामकृष्णार्पणमस्तु 🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta society of New York for sharing this Ask Swami session 🌹 The last answer is incomplete. Please share it completely. 🙏
Thanks, Swami. On deep sleep and the state of anesthesia, there is nothing. I'm not sure that this could really be described as an ''experience of nothing'' Actually, there is no awareness, no experience of anything. There may be nothing, but not really the experience of nothing.
How can you say this? If you were in an existence without objects, what would the experience be? An experience without objects, at least in this form, would seem synonymous with no experience, but that doesn't mean the "experiencer" becomes nothing. Awareness does not equate experience. I'm curious - do you think that when you are under anaesthesia you cease to exist and then pop back into existence when it wears off?
When talking about freewill, Swamiji said that, according to all scientists, everything, but Brahman, seems to be "determined" (¿...?). I wonder if he is taking into consideration the important thesis of professor Federico Faggin about the relation between scientific quantum theory, consciousness, and free will. I would appreciate Swamiji's comments about this. It maybe it be said Faggin's theory is "panpsychism". Perhaps this could be seen as 'not real Vedanta' (not Adavita), but something is clear here: nature (Prakriti) keeps 'inside' freewill, at least to a great extent, when talking about sentient beings like humans.
1) thoughts are also jada (inert) 2) arindam chakraborty says regarding free will. first observation is that we have free will, but then science and common sense say we don't. so what do we do? we use the illusion that we have free will to know that we don't ultimately.
If I'm existence, why do I experience blankness when this body is in deep sleep and the senses are shut down? Why does my experience seem to be tied to this body, if actually everything is in me, the awareness?
"if there were a devil, I would look for him within a secret society - as the invention of secret societies" Vivekananda. It's common knowledge he was a free mason and this quote is from the complete work of Vivekananda. Can you please answer why he was involved in Freemasonry yet seems to not condone it at the same time. "All these secret societies and humbugs make men and women impure, weak and narrow; and the weak have no will, and can never work. Therefore have nothing to do with them" please explain this
Pranam Guruji 🙏 The first question your anwer is ok, if the questioer practicing meditation or samadhi. But he is practiciing Hathayoga the sutras 1to 3 are technically not correct. Yoga has two meaning, union and concentration or samadhi. Meaning in yoga sutra is samadhi.
For it to "appear" it has to become "something", only then will it be able to "appear". That "something" can be "anything". And since it can be "anything", it is "everything"
@@HanumanDevotthanks but that doesn't answer the question of why appear as anything? Why not just never manifest as anything and remain pure conscious awareness? Why have a universe at all if you exist in a state of pure bliss without it?
Namaste... According to Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is beyond attributes or actions i.e. Brahman is not fulfilled nor unfulfilled. Thus Brahman, cannot have a reason for Creation. Brahman cannot be the cause of Creation. Brahman does not have the means of Creation. Swami offers great answers to most questions. However, on this most important question in Advaita Vedanta, his answer is terribly lacking. Thus, I do not accept Advaita Vedanta as it cannot explain this basic question adequately. The only explanation for Creation is that Ishwara is eternal i.e. Ishwara was not created. The South Indian philosophy of Advaita Siddhanta offers a complete philosophy. There Lord and Jiva are distinct Persons that share the same Divine Core i.e. Nirguna Brahman. Moksha is obtained when Jiva experiences the Self within and accepts that the Lord and Jiva have an underlying One-ness. However, I must humbly accept that I did not understand Swami's explanation properly and ask anybody to explain it to me. Namaste
What a disappointment this video has been. I did expect his usual rhetoric, same stuff churned out without substance or references, however at 1:04:40 Swami hit an all time low. Sneering and sniggering at the blind is unacceptable vedantic behaviour. It appears very narcissistic, kicking down.
That's the problem, It's not useful knowledge and it's definitely not unique, or creative. You have the right to teach what you want to, But as long as we have freedom in the U.S. I also have the right to say that this teaching is complete nonsense.
List of questions with timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:04 - Can atheists achieve enlightenment?
09:17 - If the body is inert (jada), how is it able to generate thoughts?
19:03 - If our real nature is prakash (light) does prakash need to be self-aware?
33:57 - Does removal of ignorance require free will?
46:36 - If Brahman is fulfilled, why does it need to appear as Jiva, Jagat, Isvara?
58:19 - What proof is there of awareness in deep sleep? If deep sleep is the awareness of absence, what is death?
01:10:50 - What should I do if the power of discernment in Vedantic practice is diminished?
01:14:00 - Is breathing Atman? Can the soul depart if it is Brahman?
01:19:41 - My heart is troubled by the suffering around me. How can I hold on to Advaita?
01:24:40 - VSNY has been typically very professional otherwise; hence, the abrupt end was unexpected. Maybe a remark from Swami'ji that might be construed as "political" was intentionally expunged at the end ?
Editing could have been more professional 🙏🏽
The answer to the last question is left unfinished and I was eagerly awaiting for it.Can we at least have it written in the notes?🥺🙏
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Can we join these sessions when they are broadcast live online please? Kindly share the online session link if possible 🙏
@@parijagwani6271 If you subscribe to the channel it will be easier I think.Maybe then you will get notifications.That's all I know.
"Use your free will to see that you have no free will!" 🎉 Thank you Swami!
Accepting the fact that the world will never be perfect is one way to avoid being impacted by the events of the present. When I was not here, the world was like this, and when I am not here, it is going to remain like this. You can't make everyone even moral, let alone spiritual. There will always be those who will cause trouble for the world. Just do your part and leave the rest on God. This is what Ramakrishna Mission does. My pranam to Swami ji. May Thakur, Maa, and Swami ji bless us.🙏🙏🙏
Thank you. I have been stickig with Vedanta for almost 15 years now and final contemplation is bearing fruits. I can see I am always free and mithyatvam of the world is clear. Vedanta works, no doubt about it. And let me tell you: there is a big shift in identity happening, amazing, not that easy for mind to accept to see all as inert apperance. I am free. Thank you.
@@Srividya_youtube in my humble opinion anatma vairagya is the most important for speed of progress. Is you wish to have faster results, contemplate on defects of anatma. By the way: once awakening starts, one cannot stop it, it happens in the background so to speak.
🙏Thanks for all the teaching 🙏 sarvapriyananda ji always love you 🙏
শুভ মহালয়া- শুভ দেবীপক্ষ🍁🍁🍁🍁
প্রণাম নেবেন মহারাজ 🌹🙏🙏🙏🌹
Feeling extra blessed.. .Almost every question seemed like my question... Receiving great insights with each talk!
Many many thanks Swamiji to keep engaging with these questions so comprehensively to bring us closer to vedantic understanding. It is always very helpful and invigorating to listen to you.
Words at 32 minute time are true - it helps and works. Presence not bound.
Whatever this mind says, will only be limited in front of you and beings like you Swamiji.
Just one thing I will dare say, thank you for keeping Adi Shankaracharya and Swami Vivekananda alive through these lectures, and others, through other margas 🙏
Swamiji you are genius, you answer every question so clearly that no doubts follow & we reach to the point which you are pointing out, 🙏🏻Thank you swamiji ,lam so greatful to you, & your wisdom you are sharing to us.
Thankyou, Swami Ji 🙏 🙏 🙏
Pranaam Swamiji...
Vande Vivekananda
जय हो श्री स्वामी विवेकानन्द, जय हो श्री सच्चिदानन्द, जय श्री रामकृष्ण परमहंस नमोस्तुते।🙏🏼
Thank you very much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Excellent Question and answer session 😊
Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Respected Maharaj 🙏🙏🙏
Namaskaram Swamiji 🙏🌷
Pranam swamiji
জয় ঠাকুর জয় মা, জয় স্বামিজী
Pranams Sawamiji 🙏🏽 I'm eternally grateful for all the knowledge and wisdom that you share with us mortals on the ancient wisdom traditions of Advaita Vedanta🙏🏽
Just a minor correction with regard to the name of the biologist you mentioned, his name is Dr Robert Sapolsky is not Richard.
Also, the Greek word "pneuma" pronounced numa with a silent p was/is translated as air or breath.
This was then translated into the Latin noun "spiritus" meaning "the breath", from the Latin verb "spirare" meaning "to breathe".
The English word "spirit" is a derivation from Latin, giving us words like respiration which is a re- breathing and expiration which is an out-breathing.
The immortal Soul was originally a Greek concept, later adopted by Christian theologians and is used synonymously in Christianty.
As a final thought, I'd like to mention the fact that in the Judeo-Christian Bible, God's first words were .. "Let there be Light". This l understand to be the Light of pure Consciousness equivalent with the Vedantic Atman/Brahman...That pure Light of Consciousnes which illumines all things, the Light by which all things are lit up.
Thank u Swamiji. 🙏🏽
উৎকৃষ্ট প্রশ্নসমূহ এবং উৎকৃষ্ট সমাধান সূত্র। 🙏
Pranam Thakur pranam maa pranam swamiji
Bless
Om shanti
Not I! Not I! Thou my Lord! Thou my Lord!
Sir, 2014 se aj apka video dekha hu.
Jay Mata rani
Dear Swami,
Thank you for the pointers and insights conveyed in your speeches throughout the various videos.
To be clear, there is an acknowledgement that the following question comes from the thinking mind that has tendencies to anthropomorphize: Have you not confused the “why” with “how” when referring to causation (when explaining with examples why things seemingly happen (or appear) as they do in the play of life that includes objects, events, and ideas via localized perspectives or dissociated alters), that is, when being asked about the “big why” question - shouldn't the “why” refer to intentionality, some overarching purpose, instead of causation, the latter of which may be an enacted means, or underlying principles to means, including laws of nature, to that end, to that purpose (which may include process-oriented purpose, not a fixed, premeditated result)? If so, then does this kind of “why” still not stand even beyond Maya, which is subject to space, time, and causation? Can we really claim that “it’s just the nature of the ultimate consciousness”? Also, answering something like “in order to experience, it has to seemingly give up its infinity and localize itself within a dream” still does not quite answer the underlying “why” (because you can further ask why it would ever want to do that localization and play in such ways) - the underlying “why” is answered where the chain of “why” truly stops, as the Truth is recognized not only beyond words (Silence is the language of God, as they say), but in a way that is truly unmistakenly understood throughout the whole being, so not simply how to end psychological suffering and live harmoniously - though admittedly preferred by this curious human (finite) being (infinite), not at the cost of really understanding the Truth, not only removing a poisonous bullet in order to end suffering and stop there.
Sincerely,
Harry
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That's why Gaudapada says there is neither destiny, nor free will.. because he's talking from the pov of the Self. From the jivas pov there is debate about destiny and free will, because it only pertains to the individual.
Agree, but the debate ultimately is based on an appearance, so in effect, it's like the characters' destiny in a book or film.
@@deedhesi8014 ah yeah haha
38:24
Bg. 3.27
प्रकृतेः क्रियमाणानि गुणैः कर्माणि सर्वशः ।
अहङ्कारविमूढात्मा कर्ताहमिति मन्यते ॥ २७ ॥
prakṛteḥ kriyamāṇāni
guṇaiḥ karmāṇi sarvaśaḥ
ahaṅkāra-vimūḍhātmā
kartāham iti manyate
The spirit soul bewildered by the influence of false ego thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by the three modes of material nature.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is Brahman
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Last few minutes are cut :(
I THINK ITS INCOMPLETE...
Nothing is complete every thing is perspective and some extant factual 😅
@SatsangLive108 but no one knows the exact definition of spirituality,
Philosophy is vast (theist, atheist, dwait, adwaith and so on) no one knows weither god exist or not.
One world so many religions, cultures, in the end it doesn't matter at all.
You mean it's Maya?
You are right about it's incompleteness...but does it make you okk with being incomplete, is what matters...
Or u can say, does it inspire you to leave it or contain it...
Or is it similar to accepting your relationships as it is even when they are incomplete ....and it makes you feel comfortable with a very genuine reason, coz that's all you have seen out thr...
It's like knowing what you are saying is considered worldly but you can also know while saying..
Did it make any sense to you...?
If not, then surely waiting for the reply...
@@manjeetkundu9084 All i can say for s this video is incomplete.....
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Consciousness ≠ experience
Could you expound?
I've assumed the former is true reality and the latter the mind?
I understand it's the same consciousness creating the experience in and off itself but the distinction is valid insofar it has a practical utility.
@@deedhesi8014 I think you summed it up nicely.
Consciousness is a layer deeper than experience - experience (at least in the way we think of it) is a product of the intake of the sense organs processed by our brain (more simply put - it is our mind, like you said.) consciousness is what makes the experience known; the witness of the experience.
I am of the belief that consciousness can exist exclusively; free of experience (at least in the way we THINK of experience.) A good example would be the "experience" of deep sleep. We tend to think of deep sleep as a state of "no consciousness" because of the lack of an experience. I think it would more accurately be described as "a state of consciousness in which there is no experience made manifest by the interpretation of sensory inputs by our brain." Just think - what logically makes more sense -
1. Our consciousness ceases to exist when we enter a state of deep sleep, and then somehow, miraculously winks back into existence at the moment of our awakening. OR
2. Our consciousness continues to exist during the state of deep sleep, only our sensory perception, or our mind, is in a state of dormancy, so our consciousness has no objective experience to witness.
Piggybacking of the question @33:57 about free will - does this mean that we, as pure consciousness, chose all our experiences for this life that we're in prior to being born?
Benfords law is fatalism in mathematics & scientific terms - the findings r mindblowing & affects from an individual to a society to a country to planets !
Video is cut down while swamiji is answering the last question.
Swamiji🙏.
Please upload the Bhagavad Gita next videos.
The Lord teaches that the jivas (distinct souls) are tiny fragments of His Being. We are an integral part of the Lord, sharing in His nature, just as a drop of water is an integral part of the ocean. Gold remains gold, no matter how small the quantity. However, while we possess the qualities of Ishvara, the supreme master, it is to a much lesser degree, as we are tiny fragments,BAGAVAGITA
Meditation on Om or on a great Holy Person like Sri Ramakrishna or Vivekaananda or Saradha Maatha Or Jesus🙏 removes all Doubt.. The unconditional uncontrollable wanting of liberation is necessary
Video ends abruptly at the end.
about the question of free will: we are free to choose from the options causality/karma presents to us. Free will only exists when you have extinguished all your karma = "param mukta", and such person reincarnates as a god/avatara. Otherwise your karma will continue to steer you after death towards your next incarnation.
हरी: ऊॅं तत्सत्|
श्रीरामकृष्णार्पणमस्तु 🙏🏻
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻
Thank you Vedanta society of New York for sharing this Ask Swami session 🌹
The last answer is incomplete.
Please share it completely. 🙏
please upload the complete video which has the full answer to the last question.
Do we have free will in our dream?
Last question is not complete
Thanks, Swami.
On deep sleep and the state of anesthesia, there is nothing.
I'm not sure that this could really be described as an ''experience of nothing''
Actually, there is no awareness, no experience of anything. There may be nothing, but not really the experience of nothing.
How can you say this? If you were in an existence without objects, what would the experience be? An experience without objects, at least in this form, would seem synonymous with no experience, but that doesn't mean the "experiencer" becomes nothing.
Awareness does not equate experience. I'm curious - do you think that when you are under anaesthesia you cease to exist and then pop back into existence when it wears off?
I was hoping to hear the last answer to completion. Shall I accept it as God's will?
the answer to the last question is incomplete..Please upload the remainder of the video
Swami, why would you think "the weather is miserable"? 😢
Where the rest?
Incomplete?
Not fair
The last answer was incomplete please upload the clip of the last one seperately
When talking about freewill, Swamiji said that, according to all scientists, everything, but Brahman, seems to be "determined" (¿...?). I wonder if he is taking into consideration the important thesis of professor Federico Faggin about the relation between scientific quantum theory, consciousness, and free will. I would appreciate Swamiji's comments about this. It maybe it be said Faggin's theory is "panpsychism". Perhaps this could be seen as 'not real Vedanta' (not Adavita), but something is clear here: nature (Prakriti) keeps 'inside' freewill, at least to a great extent, when talking about sentient beings like humans.
Everyone lookup nondualism on disboard! Peace.
1) thoughts are also jada (inert)
2) arindam chakraborty says regarding free will. first observation is that we have free will, but then science and common sense say we don't. so what do we do? we use the illusion that we have free will to know that we don't ultimately.
If I'm existence, why do I experience blankness when this body is in deep sleep and the senses are shut down? Why does my experience seem to be tied to this body, if actually everything is in me, the awareness?
Experience is part of the body and mind. Conscious illuminates the mind. When the mind is asleep there is no illumination.
28.20 Manas in Buddhism.
Maharaj..next year Kon month e New York e ashley apnar Sathe Dekha Kora jabe...iwant you to come to Dubai on time ❤
"if there were a devil, I would look for him within a secret society - as the invention of secret societies" Vivekananda. It's common knowledge he was a free mason and this quote is from the complete work of Vivekananda. Can you please answer why he was involved in Freemasonry yet seems to not condone it at the same time. "All these secret societies and humbugs make men and women impure, weak and narrow; and the weak have no will, and can never work. Therefore have nothing to do with them" please explain this
Swami vivekanada meant the Theosophical society only who were hell_bent on harming him ...secret society esp.Annie Besant et al.indulged in this
Pranam Guruji 🙏
The first question your anwer is ok, if the questioer practicing meditation or samadhi. But he is practiciing Hathayoga the sutras 1to 3 are technically not correct. Yoga has two meaning, union and concentration or samadhi.
Meaning in yoga sutra is samadhi.
Jara ( jar_ai ai brbh period of life also appointed hour _ death.)
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I fear i will never get a satisfactory answer to the question of "why does Brahmin appear as anything?"
For it to "appear" it has to become "something", only then will it be able to "appear". That "something" can be "anything".
And since it can be "anything", it is "everything"
@@HanumanDevotthanks but that doesn't answer the question of why appear as anything? Why not just never manifest as anything and remain pure conscious awareness? Why have a universe at all if you exist in a state of pure bliss without it?
@@colinmccowan9056 answered this as well right in this
And why do you think you complain ....because brahman wants too 😊😊
Namaste...
According to Advaita Vedanta, Brahman is beyond attributes or actions i.e. Brahman is not fulfilled nor unfulfilled.
Thus Brahman, cannot have a reason for Creation. Brahman cannot be the cause of Creation. Brahman does not have the means of Creation.
Swami offers great answers to most questions. However, on this most important question in Advaita Vedanta, his answer is terribly lacking. Thus, I do not accept Advaita Vedanta as it cannot explain this basic question adequately.
The only explanation for Creation is that Ishwara is eternal i.e. Ishwara was not created.
The South Indian philosophy of Advaita Siddhanta offers a complete philosophy. There Lord and Jiva are distinct Persons that share the same Divine Core i.e. Nirguna Brahman. Moksha is obtained when Jiva experiences the Self within and accepts that the Lord and Jiva have an underlying One-ness.
However, I must humbly accept that I did not understand Swami's explanation properly and ask anybody to explain it to me.
Namaste
What a disappointment this video has been. I did expect his usual rhetoric, same stuff churned out without substance or references, however at 1:04:40 Swami hit an all time low. Sneering and sniggering at the blind is unacceptable vedantic behaviour. It appears very narcissistic, kicking down.
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What to lol about?? If u don't need this knowledge leave..!! Just don't be childish around here
That's the problem, It's not useful knowledge and it's definitely not unique, or creative. You have the right to teach what you want to, But as long as we have freedom in the U.S. I also have the right to say that this teaching is complete nonsense.
Bull shit has found a resting place in Orissa there are no exponents of Advaita other from the land of shankara
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