What is Vedanta?
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- Опубліковано 28 лис 2020
- This week we talk about the Hindu philosophical school(s) of "Vedanta".
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Sources/Further Reading:
Brahma Sutra Basya by Shankaracharya. Published by Advaita Ashrama, India; New edition (1 Jan. 2000).
The Mandukya Upanishad with Gaudapada's Karika & Sankara's Commentary. Published by Vedanta Press.
Deutsch, Eliot (1986). "Advaita Vedanta: A Philosophical Reconstruction". University of Hawaii Press.
Deutsch, Eliot & Rohit Dalvi (2005). "Essential Vedanta: A New Source Book of Advaita Vedanta". World Wisdom Books.
Flood, Gavin (2003). "The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism". Blackwell publishing.
Jacobsen, Knut A. (2003). "Hinduismen: Historia, tradition, mångfald". Kultur och Natur.
Sri Ramanuja Gita Basya (Translation by Swami Adidevananda). Published by Sri Ramakrishna Math, Chennai.
#Vedanta #Hinduism #Advaita
I can't imagine how many books you must have read to make this Hinduism series.
Good work!
That's a beautiful pfp holy...is that an artwork?
Also quite cute kittens
he's a comparative religion major
Upanishads, Bhagwad Gita, Brahmasutra are core of Hinduism
Yeah
My experience is, trying to understand Hinduism through books was a challange but with help of a Guru, it came out natural and easier.
HINDUISM cannot be understood through one book .
What was your conclusion
If you want to understand a core interpretation of Hinduism (Advaita Vedanta), reading the Shankara commentaries - 10 upanishads, Brahma Sutras & Gita by Swami Ghambirananda english translations is a good idea. Just know it can be an exhausting amount of info and a cerebral exercise with Shankara's commentaries. If you don't want all of that, just read 'Katha Upanishad', its pretty accessible cause its a story & conveys the philosophy and is fun (my fav).
@Dharma Defender well true. But its quite a popular one, maybe one can argue the most popular/prominent?
@Dharma Defender I think you're quite incorrect on that.. I am aware you can get other interpretations (namely vishishtadvaita), but if you read the upanishads, the importance and stress on the atman and nirguna brahman (no attributes) as the same non-dual reality is undeniable from the very beginning (800BCE). Plus I think its the most logical one, through shankaras bhasya, but thata on my study. But not saying hinduism doesn't have other interpretations, for sure.
Bhashy = interpretation of Brahma Sutra = interpretation of Upanishad = interpretation of Veda
Advaita Vedanta ≠ Vedanta ≠ Hinduism
Indeed, it is Hindception.
You missed one level, Nolan.
There's also modern commentary on Bhashy that we have to read in order to contexualize and understand Bhashy themselves.
Its Bhāşya*
@Chirag K I know
An interesting debate....enlightening one. Keep it up for avid learners like me. 🙏
Inception was a brilliant movie, though difficult to understand in one go..
It's hard for anyone to wrap their head around Sanathan Dharma especially for monotheists who have always focused on its external appearance.
Try the analogy of science.
Commentaries are like review articles that reference previous articles.
Officially you have entered into a Rabbit hole .
Henry David Thoreau, American Thinker & Author quotes
"Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night."
The restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through modern prophet, seer and revelator is here upon the earth. It encompasses all religions of the past. The church of Jesus Christ of latter days saints is the key to understand all past religions. By joining the church you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost/Atman and by Holy Ghost you can receive the truth of all things. You will have personal experience by being in union and communion with The Absolute. This is my personal experience.
Hope your knowledge has led you to Moksh.
Vedanta is not pedantic
Vedanta is essence conclusion of Vedas
It is full of mellow.
It is so mellowful that one wishes not to separate a bit from it and leaves everything aside to keep submerged into it.
Peace.
I am a student of Comparative Philosophy at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where we've been spending the past few years learning about the Philosophies and Religions- since in many of the world's traditions, like Vedanta, are inseparable. I wanted to express my gratitude for your very well informed, clear and insightful videos, which always freshen up my knowledge of topics that I haven't had the chance to study in my courses for a while. Many Thanks! You also take me into some alleys of the world's philosophies that I haven't explored in class. Keep doing your great work man!
Also, I am part of a group which includes people from different religious and philosophical interests and confessions of faith, which is devoted to interreligious dialogue and the discussion of topics like Psychology, Metaphysics, Philosophy and Theology. Your videos often find mention in our group and are very much appreciated.
I would appreciate it, if once you could devote a video to the comparison between Sufism and the Vedanta, since both traditions seem to share many fascinating parallels as well as nuanced differences.
Blessings be with you.
My brother, these are the stories of Jesus and Mary in the Qur’an, and some discussions between Christians and Muslims will help you in your search
May God grant you success
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@Ravi Singh yea no evidence for that theory bud
Madam,
Any one can study the theological intellectual similarities and dissimilarities btn Vedanta and Sufism.Devotion to their chosen God and direct mystical experience are the important similarities.
But those similarities are mere intellectual.When it comes to the actual practice,these great religionists can fight like cats and dogs about the shape size color odour or size of their chosen deity.
They can fight about the Nirguna or saguna aspect of god,god-lets or god-lings.
As regards to their social consciousness less said the better.None of the Vedanti had an idea about egalitarian human concepts like equality or fraternity.
Why respect and validate those ppl who never cared for society or fellow human beings?
@@gangadharhiremath7306 I would like to emphasize here that 'Idea is different than the person'.
By this what I mean is praising the idea or at the very least, studying and discussing the idea, does not mean that someone praises the certain group which hold those ideas which might or might not be the same as what is written, what they think and what they preach.
Of the parallels between them the principle of flow-state entrainment is a common convention found in all manner of worship and religious practice, implicit to all forms of ecstatic expression and early philosophical and cultural
I'd like to thank India for keeping this vast ancient knowledge base alive.
Sorry to say, Significant potion is lost in last 1000 yrs of Invasion eg 4 major Universities destroyed with millions of scripts!
India is as ever - the home of spirituality - and will in time - be a place of refuge. (Ram Chandra)
She will be - once again - be a beacon light. May it be so. Fare thee well.
@@hpatel788 it was already destroyed in hindu buddhist wars, when buddhist came into power they tried to clear hindus from face of earth, and later same done by brahmins of bihar, to kill every possible buddhist alive, and convert their stupas and vihar into hindu temples.
Vedanta literally means “end of Veda “… however, here “end” signifies the “highest truth”. That’s why you would find upanishads across all four vedas.
So like 'final truth'?
@@dominicdoherty7208 crux of vedas
You could imagine the veds as a mountain, climbing upwards, the end is the peak, the epitome. So ved-ant would be the end of the mountain, or the epitome of the mountain.
End means your questions comes to an end. You touch self
@@chvl5631 you don't remain
I am so impressed with the amount tolerance that Hindus have toward different revisions and commentaries that they allow. Truly democratic and always in a pursuit of knowledge and anathema to dogma
I would caution against equating Hindus to this philosophy. We are a real culture, with our own problems of discrimination and intolerance. The vedas set out the structure for the caste system as well, which is very real and still alive.
@@AriS-gg7gwCaste should be abolished but Vedas should be promoted.❤
@@KRN000 bhai caste ka funda vedas mein likha hai. Europe se jo aaye the unhone khud ko brahmin bolke baakiyon ko daba diya. Vedas ko 2023 mein history ki tareh zyada padhna chahiye, aur dharm ki tareh kam.
@@AriS-gg7gwOn the contrary, The Principle Upanishads(the essence of the Vedas) firmly talk against all kinds of discrimination in countless ways.
This discrimination is actually coming from non-vedic scriptures such as certain puran(not all) and certain smritis.
@@AriS-gg7gwlol average uneducated weeb 😂😂
The caste system that corrupted the society is not a part of Vedas...
The thing that is present in the texts is "Varna Vyavastha" which was based on the capabilities and merit of a person....
So please educate yourself instead of talking nonsense 😂😂
You have summarised the Vedanta in a very helpful way, well done!
I do have somethings to add though (not as criticism but just sharing my thoughts, as I have very limited knowledge in this field):
You have catagorised the Bhagavad Geeta separately, and it's often seen that way too. But sometimes it's also catagorised as an Upanishad titled "Geetopanishad".
Also we can't say that Shankacharya didn't give any importance to devotion, as that will not explain the many hymns he has composed for different dieties. Also not to mention his famous composition Bhaja Govindam in which he advises an old to stop overexerting himself in this old age in learning the difficult Sanskrit grammar, rather to do small acts of worship with acsetism.
You can say rather he gave importance to ascetism and practicality in actions, rather than strict and complicated rituals.
I think the emphasis in the Gita was not on the ritualistic aspect of the Vedas par se but rather how one ought to actually understand the significance of the rituals. Blindly performing rituals for the sake of rewards is considered rajasic (action driven) while performing the rituals in full awareness and paying obeisance to the priest for his role in the ritual is considered sattvic (spiritually driven)
@@sagniknath5537 yes, about Gita I just pointed that it's also considered an Upanishad sometimes. Also it contains teachings more aligned with Upanishad than other literature.
Of course then it it natural that like other Upanishads it emphasis on the Philosopy behind teh vedic teachings.
The point about the rituals was a different one about Shankaracharya, that it's not that undedmined devotion itself, he just thought that intricate rituals are not essential and that minimum action done with a sense of true devotion and sannyasa can help in salvation. That's why he did become a sannyasi but still wrote devotional hymns to the dieties.
@@muddasirahmed yes so he is clearly focusing mostly on the jnana yoga of the gita and to an extent on the bhakti yoga. He doesnt involve karma yoga then
@giri kotte you have summarised it very nicely 😊
@@muddasirahmed *Mundaka Upanishad (3.1.6)*
"Satyameva Jayate Na-anrtam - satyena panthaa vitato devayaanah |
Yen-aakramanty-rsayo hyaapta-kaamaa - Yatra tat satyasya paramam nidhaanam ||".
Meaning
"Truth alone wins, not falsehood. By truth is laid out the divine path, which the seers who are free from desires, reach to the supreme abode of truth".
*Bhagvat geeta (**7:10**)* :
O son of Prtha, know that I (God) am the original seed of all existences, the intelligence of the
intelligent, and the prowess of all powerful men.
*Bhagvat geeta (**7:20**)* : Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and
follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures.
*Atharvaveda 10.7.38*
Ishwar alone is greatest and worth being worshipped. He is the source of all knowledge and activities.
Very good breakdown as always Filip, Advaita Vedānta is one of the richest spiritual philosophies - and my personal practice together with Mahāyāna - thanks again! I see a work by Gavin Flood recommended in the description; his "Introduction to Hinduism" was the textbook we used in our Introduction to Hinduism course, good introduction!
Aren’t Advaita and Mahayana mutually opposed?
So do you see it as all Brahman or nothing at all? (:
@@saltymangoparty All is Bhraman and Bhraman is emptiness...
@@noahdanielg duality 🙂
@@noahdanielg ''Form is emptiness; emptiness is form''.
Vedanta is the true Heavyweight champion of philosophy. I have never read any philophsy more dense and striking as it.
@@DipayanPyne94 Shankrcharya banged every buddhist philopher in this world and wiped them from India. Hahaha buddhist philosphy is a weak kid who cant fight neither has good base.
@@DipayanPyne94 shankrcharya defeated every Buddhist scholar In world and wiped them from India. Hahaha.
@@DipayanPyne94 also Atman = Brhaman is not the starting point of Adwaita it is the last point the realisation that comes after repeated enquiry in the nature of humans. Go read more of Shankaraacharya and Vivekananda. Adwaita tries to awaken you from Turiya the sleep in which you are deluded that this samsara and body is all that you have. This buddhist nhilistic nonsense sounds good only till someone with bigger army comes and destroys your sangha like Bhakhtiyar khilji did and Buddhists abandoned thier faith afterwards. Whereas Adwaita does not rely on any institution it is far more enduring and the ultimate truth.
@@DipayanPyne94 also that neuro Science nonsense is psuedo science. Show me a peer revied research paper from a reputed source. I can show you Many auch claims all bogus. Metaphysics is deifferent than real world Science.
@@DipayanPyne94 Not going to argue with you anymore. As per rules of shastratha both parties can argue only when both agree over similar authority. Since you seem to be a Buddhist and I am Adwaitan I am not going argue with you anymore. Just going to state that rvery Buddhist philophy Mahayana or Hinayana have been defeated by Adi Guru that proves Adwaita is better.
I m glad you r able to pronounce Sanskrit words so well , V few westerns can do so 👏👏.
Even few indian can do it..(shame on us)
Vivekananda and Advaita Vedanta has been very influential in the west but another large up-taking of Vedanta in the west would be the Hare Krishna movement (Gauidya Vaisnava) with temples in most major cities of the world, established by A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami Prabhupada.
Yes, that's coming from Dvaita Vedanta. It's the path of devotion and is very popular.
Haribol!
Is Devotion to the beautiful Lord Krishna part of Advaita? Is Krishna the Brahman? What is the best way? Devotion to Krishna or self enquiry?
@@SuperStargazer666 I don't follow either so don't ask me. I'm a Taoist :)
@@SuperStargazer666 krishna calls himself brahman sometimes in bhagawad geeta
You're doing a wonderful job. Thank you.
Swami Sarvapriyananda 's videos are gems for seekers, specially Advait Vedanta.
Acharya Prashant suniye
@@beluga2841 roz sunta hu... He is also mind-blowing
@@kuldeeplakhawat365 yes
But did anyone get it?? If yes then how??
@@wolfymt1012 I do
Wow great overview Sir I am looking forward for your new videos thanks for covering Indian philosophies I hope you are enjoying the beauty of these schools love from India.
Hope u are enjoying too.....☺
@@kishandubey7882 he is indian maybe
@@vishnuvardhan3047 yeah but muslim
Being muslim and living in the subcontinent gives one the vantage point from where things are visible with clarity and openness, with no exotic romance or prejudice clouding one's vision.
Sananthana Dharma is the oldest faith for it has evolved over time, gaining different complex and nuanced layers. It is unique and separate from the Abrahamic faiths.
It's not faith in western sens e
Yeah, including caste system. Hundreds of millions are treated as sub-human.
Oldest faith evolved Really ? So why is it that by every measure of human progress India (and all religious scocieteies) languish at the bottom ? Not much evidence of evolution... is there
@@tariq_sharif caste comes from word Casta given to indians by portuguese in 16th century and carried on by Britishers and used till today on basis of politics ,of muslims and so low caste infact no such thing exist
@@nambardarumeshgurjar519 So every person said who was born into privilege.
Here it is in your texts:
velivada.com/2018/03/07/caste-in-bhagavad-gita/
Google caste based violence and prejudice
@@tariq_sharif I know our text if u want to know I will tell u the exact traditional translations not foreign shitty translations .
Stumbled upon your channel by chance and was very very glad to see such passionate, honest and accurate content being shared. Thank you.
And the complexity of the content presented here works as some sort of proof of the importance of practice ir order to obtain direct knowledge of these concepts.
I thought I knew my religion before watching your video. Wow, so well researched. I so admire how you have crisply summarised such a complex theory into a 20 minute video. You got one more fan....
Wow! That was a well spoken and great representation of these teachings. Simply Wonderful and Impressive. Deep gratitude and looking forward to more on Advaita Vedanta. Thank you!
This cleared up so much, so many questions that I've had about Hinduism for years, in under half an hour. I only found this channel a couple days ago and I'm already in love with it!
bro do you have any question now?
Extremely clear introduction into the concept, the way you are able to grab concepts like this and put it in simpler language is fascinating. Great job!
Your videos are really well laid out and incredibly interesting. Thank you so much
For anyone wanting to study Hinduism from a theological perspective, your videos will be a great starting point/prerequisite course. This was such a well done summary, simple and yet sufficiently detailed on the important concepts.
Thank you, and looking forward to the promised deep dive into each of the branches.
It’s hard to navigate on these waters but it seems to me you did manage to deliver a sound, fundamentally correct and useful introduction to Vedanta. I had seen the lecture you mentioned too and it is highly recommended also. Will be following your channel. Cheers
You got the DP of Alan Watts (I think). Alan's writings and lectures on Vedanta and Buddhism are some of my favourites too. Wish more people would read his work and Jiddu krishnamurti as well.
Thank you so much for talking about Dvaita Vedanta or Tatvavada. Looking forward to more videos on it.
those are just six orthodox schools , there are 5 non orthodox schools, out of which some have developed into complete religions like buddhism and jainism.all these 13 schools are together called the hindu phillosophy, the hindu way of life but if u consider hinduism as a religion then it excludes buddhism , jainism and sikhism.
Sikhism is the moola, Buddhism and Jainism is heterogeneous form of Hinduism
@@gurjotsingh8934 🙏🙏🙏
@@gurjotsingh8934 I didn't get you.
@@fishyfishFISHFISHYWhat was that ?!
Wait wait wait. Await Vedanta or oneness with consciousness is ultimate goal or Dynana/Jnana. One has to achieve this. Vishishtadwait or Dwait are for those who cannot fathom the concept of Adwaita or dont like it. People are afraid when they are told that your current individuality is an illusion. So these people then opt for Dwait. Most religions are like that way. There is a creator and i'm his creation kinda. Once you establish yourself in Dwait and had experience where you see your chosen Deity in person or talk to him (i.e. Sakshatkara), you become eligible for next ultimate experience of Adwait. Your knowledge is not complete till that. But since you establish quite well in Dwaita, self will take care of you and take you to next level. This happened with Ramkrishna Paramhans (where he cut Kali image with a sword in meditation, thus going beyond name and form). Same with Papaji (disciple of Ramana Maharshi), same with Naamdeo (devotee of Vithala). So to go beyond name and form and any kind of duality is ultimate goal. And finally as Ramana Maharshi said, 'there is no creation, no bondage, no liberation'. Ah what a philosophical beauty.
Sorry. Advaitha (shiva/non dual) is INCOMPLETE without Dvaitha (shakthi/duality). Shiva is powerless without maya (meaning Shakthi not illusion) and the universe/world/ Shakthi cannot be perceived in its current form without Shiva . Shiva and Shakthi always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles to happen. This is Sankhya vedic metaphysics which can be validated by logic, experiment (double slit quantum experiment) and embodied experience (focus + 112 meditation techniques)
@@indianmilitary Shiva and Shakti does not mean Dwaita. The concept of Dwaita means you are different from your Creator. Jiva is different from Shiva. So you believe in multiple individuals. Shiva and Shakti are one. But still since you believe in it, who are you Shiva or Shakti?
@@ramcool82 very amazing explanation.....
Ram, you nailed it. I myself follow the teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi and Sri Ramakrishna and could relate to what you have written.
You are amazing Filip! My teacher told be to think of the word Deva (a word linguistically related to both 'light' and 'day' in the Indo-European language family) as the source of light, self existence. God is the sun reflecting in the water (our minds) giving rise to our consciousness.
Interesting perspective! What teacher was this? Academic or from a spiritual tradition?
Isn't ' Deus' means God.
In Latin, yes? But what do you mean here?
@@LetsTalkReligion Didn't mean anything ,was a doubt. Don't know Latin.
@@LetsTalkReligion he was refering to proto indo European sky God referred as Deva Or something like that
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Thank you for making and sharing these videos. They are just excellent!
You are doing a very good job with these videos. Thank you for sharing your work. Much enjoyed and appreciated.
You know, I would like to see a detailed account of apostasy/blasphemy and apostasy/blasphemy laws in Islam. This seems like hot topic item right now and some historical overview could help clarify things.
I doubt he'll say anything to ruffle feathers of 50% of his funding patrons 19:40..
@@amitchhabra999 He even blurred out the faces of the Baha'i leaders out of deference to Baha'is. I wouldn't be so skeptical. He seems to generally be nonconfrontational
You are here to celebrate deepavali I guess in the comment section
@noorsulaimani all such things even if they have certain references from Hadith do not go with the amicable character of the Prophet of Islam. Scholars agree on falsehood of such tales. When the Prophet was titled as Rahmat Ul lil Alameen means "the blessings of this and the world here after", how can such a kind person is mentioned to be like the one you have written. May God forgive us.
@@syedhanifrasool he was a warlord who made up a religion borrowing from the Judaism and Christianity to subdue the normadic Arab.
Extremely useful, thank you.
These videos are incredible thank you so much
Adding a comment about the all those layers of commentary upon commentaries comments on my commitment to communicate . Thank you for articulating so well the myriad ways we explore , explain examine our existence .
I really like your videos!! Keep going! Greetings from Costa Rica ^^
Yes, the multiplicity of Sanathan Dharma is mind boggling for a religious researcher. You can try to visualise it as the Science of ancient India with various limbs trying to explain reality.
That helps to get your head around commentaries if you consider them as research papers with references from previous authors.
Good work as always man, keep it up!
Thank you for your fascinating, detailed, clear and balanced and respectful videos on so many religions, philosophy of religions and sub denominations that have been a true blessing to enjoy. Your perspective on all faiths is important in my own spiritual and religious path and journey. 🙏🏽
Hinduism is like other ancient religions like egyptian greek and mesopotamian only thing is they are still practising it.
I think there is more continuity in Indian philosophy relative to other regions. Europe and the Eastern Med suffered repeated barbarian invasions and blasts of religious extremists. Most literature from classical Greece was lost, leaving only about one bookshelf of surviving texts. You can read it all in grad school. By comparison, surviving Indian literature is huge. You couldn’t read it all in a lifetime. Commentaries on commentaries. So Hinduism has evolved layers and layers. The best religion for book lovers and nerds. 🕉
Yeah. And if something has moved people for at least 5000 years despite multiple invasions it means it has grown by assimilation of ideas and giving out of branches.
@Chitragupta It is more evolved in relation to what? If you mean that Dharma had longer time to evolve, yes, because Mediterranean traditions were cut short by Abrahamity.
@@someinteresting the point to highlight was not to claim superiority but uniqueness in the more philosophy oriented religion.
@@npgibson69 well the indian subcontinent Hindus were pretty bad at keeping records unlike the ancient Egyptian and Greeks. So many ancient documents have been lost. The current concept of Hinduism/sanatana dharma and some of it's current gods is not very ancient.
I actually like Vishishtadvaita. It allows for individuality, places emphasis on Bhakti for salvation and rejects eternal damnation. All souls will be saved eventually in this lifetime or in another furture lifetime.
Vishistadvaitha was created by colonialists to promote blind bakhti movements (like ISKON CULT) to mimic Abrahamic religions. Ramanuja was created out of thin air by colonialists.
@@Dharmicaction If you can achieve as much as iskon did in west then say that. Secondly, taking inspiration from other cultures and making it our own is largely how india is still hinduistic. Hindus...figuretively and literally hinduised everything around them. ISKON and it's philosophy is now a part of it given what you are saying is correct...regardless whether u like it or not, third...in general, taking up and learning from other culture's good parts to further ones own footstep is a good thing and non-dogmatic...it's the thing they can't do which we can.
I'm awestruck by your knowledge on this subject.
This was an excellent video that presented the foundations of Vedanta and upon which the superstructure of the various schools of thought are developed.
Beautifully explained the basic information about vedanta .
It is a complexed darshana. I appreciate your this level of curiosity and depth of knowing.
One thing I like most you r not mocking anything anywhere.
Pls do videos on the different versions of buddhism ! Love ur stuff!
Beautiful video as usual.😍
Will you also cover the Nastika Schools of Thought (or Heterodox schools of thought) in Indian philosophy which also incorporates the agnostic and atheistic view of the Universe? Some of the popular among them are the schools of thoughts other than Buddhism and Jainism are of: *_Ajñana_* (Agnosticism/Skepticism), *_Ājīvika_*
(Fatalism/Determinism), *_Śāśvatadṛṣṭi_* or Sassatavada (Eternalism) and *_Lokāyata_* (Materialism/Atheism).
Even Rig-Veda too has some agnostic views in it like the *Nasadiya Sukta* (10:129) which says:
But, after all, who knows, and who can say
Whence it all came, and how creation happened?
The gods themselves are later than creation,
so who knows truly whence it has arisen?
Whence all creation had its origin,
He, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not,
He, who surveys it all from highest heaven,
He knows - or maybe even he does not know.
Hinduism has nothing to do with sanathan dharma.
Religion and dharma are not same
@Azal Abadi The modern classification of Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism don't apply in the ancient period. There were different philosophies in that period which had huge effects on each other in their way of thinking and perceiving the Universe and Reality, for eg: The Jain concept of vegetarianism where it one of the central concept of the philosophy had its impact on various other philosophies. Similarly, the Vedic concept of dharma, karma, atman, saṃsara, re-incarnation, moksha (nirvana) etc. had its impact on the new school of thoughts, it was in this very environment that these philosophies were born, so it will completely nonsensical to say that they are all mutually exclusive and that they interact or had impact on each other.
The concept of meditation, dhyana, yoga have its origin in Yoga school of thought which is Astika. And in the context of Indian/Dharmic philosophy, Astika and Nastika doesn't mean belief or non-belief in God, its means believing or non-believing in the supremacy and authority of Vedas. Even in the Astika school of thoughts, Sāṃkhya, Yoga, Mīmāṃsā don't reject the authority of Vedas but reject a personal God or a creator God.
And Buddhism even though in its origin was atheist philosophy but as in expanded and went outside India to Central Asia and East Asia, it took the form of a religion adopting different cultures, languages and beliefs. With time it became a theistic faith and the Mahayana and Vajrayana schools of Buddhism today have gods and goddesses in them.
Same applies for Jainism as well. Even in today's India Jains are seen as a part of larger Dharmic fold and not a completely separate religion like the Abrahmics do, because Hinduism itself is an umbrella term of thousands of different beliefs, philosophy, cultures who have their origin in the Indian subcontinent.
@Azal Abadi And it seems your knowledge of Dharmic philosophy is limited and you see the 19th century classification of Dharmic faiths as mutually exclusive. Neither the Vedas only contain the hymns of Gods and Goddesses in its Saṃhita, nor they only contain rituals in Aranyakas and Brahmanas, but in the Upanishad part of the Vedas they have some of the most deep philosophical enquiry into the self, consciousness and universe who are centuries prior to any of the darshanas, be they Asitka or Nastika. And this self-enquiry is the fountainhead of the various movements and philosophies in the coming centuries.
In Buddhacharita i.e., the Buddha's biography by Ashvaghosha, Buddha is inspired by a Sage who is sitting and meditating under a tree. And even if Buddha didn't focus on rituals or a creator or God but after the splits among various early schools of Buddhism and is it came to be adopted by the merchants, monarchy and the laity it slowly started adopting features which are not inherently Buddhist in their origin and philosophy such as Gods, Goddesses, Rituals, Deification of Buddha etc. but these are now part of almost all popular Buddhist schools.
@Azal Abadi Your very attempt to say limit Hinduism to Vedas is a symptom of Judeo-Christian outlook. The intent of both the Abrahamic and Sanatana traditions is different, the very concept of authority does not make sense, even the Varkari Tradition in Maharashtra does not consider the Vedas as imperative and yet are the most influential fold of Hinduism in the region. Your knowledge is good but still limited and heavily influenced by racist presuppositions. You can try and update your knowledge, but it seems that you have already declared that you know everything.
I came across your videos probably about two weeks ago.
I am an avid fan you have me hooked!
I must say that I am biased when it comes to the videos relating the middle east & religions that surround that region which I absolutely love!!
so many sects of religions that stem from the abrahamic faith
You even spoke about my religion in one of your videos
although you said some things that were kind of true & things that weren't (being that it's a secretive religion) I don't expect you to know the ins & outs of it.
To conclude you have great insight & a lovely way of articulating your points without it being overbearing or "judgy"
keep up the good work!!
From Australia
Thank you very much!
Be it that I can only stand conversations that about theology/religious/indigenous/historical/spiritual topics, I’m humbly thank you for your service.
Vedic tradition never demanded that their students should blindly believe or "swallow" anything --
“ IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT , LUMP IT “ TYPE DOGMA.
THEY ARE ASKED TO APPLY THEIR CONSCIENCE .
No guru wants his students to believe; he wanted his students to understand and agree . A teacher wants students to understand, to know, unlike a SINGLE HOLY BOOK DOGMA preacher who wants listeners to believe.
Moksha in Vedic tradition is given through the grace of god alone and only for those who deserve it according to Good karma . God never forgive Sin.
After death this deserving soul is liberated from the endless cycle of births and rebirths.
The body of the “realized man” or Jivan Mukt continues to exist until his karmas and prarabdhas ( greater responsibility ) has worked itself out, and then his mortal coil falls away on his own free will , and he attains Moksha.
Such people have sterling virtues like conscience, lack of ego, gratitude , lack of desires- selfishness- greed- jealousy- anger- and fear, unlimited compassion, respect for universal laws, raised consciousness and humility ( which yours truly does NOT have though I hold a rare Moksha Jatakam ).
In Sanatan Dharma it is your own conscience, (which arose out of awakened consciousness ) which connects you to the greater metaphysical unity.
"Patience, Pardon, Suppression of will, Stay away from Theft, Purity, Control of desires, Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, Controlling Anger. These 10 qualities are considered as main characteristics of the Dharma."
'Manu-Smiti' 5000 BC
describes the code for leading a disciplined way of life.
धृति: क्षमा दमो अस्तेयम्,
शौचम् इन्द्रियनिग्रहः ।
धीं विद्या सत्यम् अक्रोधः,
दशकं धर्म-लक्षणम् ।।
-(मनुस्मृति-धर्मलक्षणम्)5000BC
Dharma leads you on the path of self realisation. Dharma includes adhara or regulation of daily life as per your conscience and written Vedic laws. You conscience is that spark of celestial fire. God resides in your DNA.
All great quantum scientist
Including Albert Einstein get cremated there body
Cremation is about shooting the soul, riding a soliton carrier wave , to an akashic or ethereal plane, via a quantum wormhole- when the skull pops during cremation. A soliton is the quantum chaos sine wave that achieves anti gravity.
SANATANA DHARMA HAS PROPAGATED LAWS OF KARMA.
THE INVADER INJECTED POISON THAT INDIANS BELIEVE IN FATE ( DESTINY )
In Sanatan Dharma the true purpose of life is to overcome karma (destiny) and attain moksha where you become merse in god or Bharma superme being .
Vedas does NOT allow man to escape responsibility by blaming fate,( for fate is of his own making ), nor by blaming God, for He is but the dispenser of fruits in accordance with the merits of actions.
"All material and spiritual phenomena of the universe are present in the individual. Similarly, all those present in the individual are also contained in the universe. This is how the wise desire to perceive."
Every atom within us depends on the rest of the cosmos.
We are NOT independent from this cosmos. We are part of it. This is the reason we must live in harmony with the laws of the universe by exercising our free will.
When your body dies your consciousness just returns to the original source, with all the experience, knowledge and lessons it has gathered.
The next generation baby has this new knowledge programmed into the DNA. Both religion and science has vested interest in keeping this truth away from you.. Through your awakening you awake the whole of humanity.
RESPOND LIKE A CONSCIOUS HUMAN TO LIFE. DO NOT REACT LIKE AN ANIMAL.
All atoms in the entire universe are capable of mind reading and communicating with other atoms. Our consciousness is a cosmic DVD player
The whole of material creation is conscious. Our consciousness creates our reality. What our consciousness can conceive , it can also create.
Human beings are conscious. They can see themselves in the mirror and see colours, while an animal cannot.
ॐ ईशा वास्यमिदँ सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।
तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम्
"All this- whatever exists in this changing universe, is pervaded by consciousness"
--Isa Upanishad .5000-BCE.
The whole universe is observing you.
Karma treats everyone equally. You won’t get special treatment.
intentions are pure. The universe wants harmony. It seeks balance.
Feel for those who are jealous of you. Have respect for their jealousy as they think so highly of you.
But the single messsiah / single holy book religions put you under servility. The mullahs and popes want to save you--because they have a hot line with god, and they can forgive you from any crime.
IN SANATANA DHARMA THERE IS NO MIDDLE MAN..
In Sanatan Dharma the true purpose of life is to overcome karma (destiny) and attain moksha where you become merge with mother field Bharma ( god).
Sanatan Dharma does NOT allow man to escape responsibility by blaming fate,( for fate is of his own making ), nor by blaming God, for He is but the dispenser of fruits in accordance with the merits of actions.
God never punishes nor gives rewards. He is not sitting with a whip to chastise people. Life is governed by fundamental divine laws, Every things will recation of Your Karma and You will judge by your action right or wronge not by your faith -- this is quantum physics .
"You do not have a soul ,
you are a soul and you have a body "
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HUMAN SOUL AND THE FIELD OF BRAHMAN IS ONLY THE DIFFERENCE IN FREQUENCY..
WHEN YOU RAISE YOUR SOUL FREQUENCY TO THE LEVEL OF BRAHMAN THE MOTHER FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS , YOU BECOME A JIVANMUKT , WHILE ALIVE ON PLANET EARTH..
Om Isha vasyam idam sarvam, yat kincha jagatyam jagat'
ॐ ईशा वास्यमिदँ सर्वं यत्किञ्च जगत्यां जगत् ।
तेन त्यक्तेन भुञ्जीथा मा गृधः कस्यस्विद्धनम्
"All this- whatever exists in this changing universe, is pervaded by consciousness"
--Isa Upanishad .5000-BCE
"When ever i give lecture on quatum physics
I feel as if i am talking on Vedanta ."
Adi Shankara said, ‘All that you see doesn’t exist’.
One of the top scientists of our times, Dr. Hans-Peter Durr said, ‘I studied matter for the last 35 years, only to find out that it does not exist! I have been studying something that does not exist’.
Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr (1929-2014). Biography. Quantum Scientist . Nuclear Physicist
When Buddha says “All is illusion,” he isn’t saying that nothing is real. He’s saying that your mind’s projections onto reality are illusions.
He’s saying that the elements in the universe that form every physical thing we see-solid, liquid, gas-if they’re taken down to a subatomic level, they don’t exist. Therefore all we see is an illusion, because it’s shape or form, not true essence.
BrahmAn as per Vedas means THE MORPHOGENIC CONSCIOUSNESS FIELD.
The ancient Vedic rishis in all their wisdom said as early as 8000 BC , that our universe is not woven from matter but consciousness . (They never patent there knowledge there own name ) There are connections between quantum mechanics & consciousness .
Consciousness is the intelligence, the organising principle behind the arising of form. The quantum field or pure consciousness is influenced by intention and desire.
All atoms in the entire universe are capable of mind reading and communicating with other atoms. There is a consciousness in every molecule of matter.
As per quantum physics things do not exist in its physical form, unless they are observed by a conscious observer.
In every experiment when an observer expected energy to behave as a particle, it did so. When he thought it would probably be wave-like, it was. And when observers believed it might start out as one form and end up as another, it did so.
This means ,nothing actually exists in its physical form until observed by someone, was adopted by the group as one of the concepts. You created them by your expectations and your thoughts of what should be. In every situation in your life, including the wealth or lack of it you choose to attract to you.
Thanks to the theory of ERP Quantum Entanglement, originally asserted by Albert Einstein and two fellow scientists , Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, we now have proof that what Vedanta had been saying for 9000 years is true.We are all connected. We are all One, sharing a consciousness with the entire universe, perhaps even many universes.
Bible considers that the cosmos is a few thousand years old. Western historians have been trying to date Rig Veda to 1500 BC ( instead of 5000 BC ) because as per Bible the big bang happened in 4004 BC at 9 AM on 23rdOctober. *Naturally you cannot have a book written before the creation of cosmos , right ?*
"Jesus was never exist"
Plz see this video....
1. ua-cam.com/video/3_TDgTebF_Y/v-deo.html
And Vatican has been
pressurising all and sundry to disprove Vedic literature that stated in 5000 BC in writing, that the cosmos is 15 billion years old and that the mind and consciousness has to be factored in.
Well the advent of quantum physics has proved Bible and Max Mueller wrong.
Don't compare Vedas to other religion book .
Vedas have scientific facts , cosmology , advance math , quantum physics , astro physics , Meta Physics etc.
All top scientist including Einstein, Shrodinger , Heisenberg,Oppenheimer,Niels Bohar , Carl Sagan , Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr,Fritjof Capra etc. know sanskrit language and read vedanta scientific thoughts and get knowledge form it ,for there scientific research .
They cremated them self as there will .
"I go into the Upanishads to ask questions."
Niels Bohr, "God Is Not One" By Stephen Prothero, Page No. 144
Vedas never tell about any sects , cast , race, hell haven and religion .
Schrodinger wrote: “Vedanta teaches that consciousness is singular, all happenings are played out in one universal consciousness and there is no multiplicity of selves.”“the stages of human development are to strive for Possession (Artha), Knowledge (Dharma), Ability (Kama), Being (Moksha)” “Nirvana is a state of pure blissful knowledge.. It has nothing to do with individual.
The ego or its separation is an illusion. The goal of man is to preserve his Karma and to develop it further - when person dies his karma lives and creates for itself another carrier.”
“In all world,” writes Schroedinger in his book My View of the World (chapter iv)
"After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense"
Warner Heisenberg
(MORON PEOPLE WITH NON-TECHNICAL BRAINS , LIKE BR AMBEDKAR, EVR PERIYAR, PHULE SAAB, KANCHA ILAIH SQUEAK, KALBURGI, DHABHOLKAR, PANSARE, UR ANANTHAMURTHY, SHELDON POLLOCK, WENDY DONIGER, WOLVES IN SHEEPs CLOTHING INDOPHILES, JNU COMMIES, LITERARY FEST DROHIS, PICKLE JOHNS , CHUTNEY MARYs BENAMI MEDIA etc WHO CALL HINDU HEATHEN SAVAGES AND DFAME VEDAS MUST THINK AGAIN)
THE COSMOS IS THE PLAYGROUND OF MAYA.. FROM MICROCOSM TO MACROCOSM..
Bhagavad Gita is all about BEING IN THE MOMENT.
You cannot change your past, you cannot survive without water, you cannot change natures principle. The only solution is to accept things as they are.
Life is a combination or physical, intellectual and spiritual aspects. Without spiritual development , man is without love or positive emotions ( affection, care, respect, sympathy ) .
To be successful you must be exited about life. Life is a festival only to those who live with enthusiasm. Lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Good manners are the best letters of recommendation. Bad manners reduce our acceptability in society, thereby affecting our social relations. A good laugh is the best medicine.. Laughter is a tranquiliser with no side effects. Laughter is the cheapest luxury, it electrifies the nerves and cleanse the system.
Love is food for the soul. Jealousy is poison for the soul. Better to forgive and forget than hate and remember. Fear tends to produce the things we are afraid of.
You must fight and make your own life on the planet. Don’t expect anybody else to do it for you. Make most of the best and least of the worst. Man alone is the architect of his destiny. Inaction is worse than no action at all.
Karma is the result of your actions. If you do something good, you will get good tings in return and if you do bad things, you will get likewise in return.
Karma or the actions that you do in the present life is passed on to the next life. But fate is not passed on to the next life.
Dharma is when we are walking the path of our soul's purpose. When we are walking our path we are out of karma. We are no longer creating cause and effect. We are in flow with the universe, with our spirit. Our soul is line with the Divine.
'Manu-Smiriti'- 5000BC describes the code for leading a disciplined way of life.
Patience, Pardon, Suppression of will, Stay away from Theft, Purity, Control of desires, Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, Controlling Anger. These 10 qualities are considered as main characteristics of the Dharma.
धृति: क्षमा दमो अस्तेयम्,
शौचम् इन्द्रियनिग्रहः ।
धीं विद्या सत्यम् अक्रोधः,
दशकं धर्म-लक्षणम् ।।
-(मनुस्मृति-धर्मलक्षणम्) -5000BC
MANU OF 8300 BC HAS BEEN KICKED FORWARD IN TIME TO 1000 BC BY THE BASTARD WHITE HISTORIANS
Schrodinger wrote in his book Meine Weltansicht:
“This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense the whole; only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear; tat tvam asi, this is you. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.”
(This is a reference to the Mundaka Upanishad mantra)
ब्रह्मैवेदममृतं पुरस्तात् ब्रह्म पश्चात् ब्रह्म उत्तरतो दक्षिणतश्चोत्तरेण ।
अधश्चोर्ध्वं च प्रसृतं ब्रह्मैवेदं विश्वमिदं वरिष्ठम् ॥ 2.2.11
" You do not have a soul ,
you are a soul and you have a body "
Very nicely explained. Looking forward for the video on individual Vedanta schools
fantastic to get a good overview ... it made some things clear for me
Good introduction. As you said in the end it will take many many more lectures to wrap your head around Sanathan Dharma till you realise the goal is silence.
...looking forward to the episodes on Abhinavagupta, Ramanuja, etc.
Like others, I'm grateful for your videos. They are so well thought and enjoyable. I would appreciate some additional content that pertains to hinduism as a lived religion, rather than the focus solely on philosophical perspectives and textual bases. It would be great to understand what temples are like, what hindu practitioners practice, and what is at stake for individuals, families, and communities who partake in hindu religious activities. Great work so far!
Stone deities in Hindu temples are neither for worship nor for prayer. . it is because there is NO concept of god in Hindu tradition. Non translatable Sanskrit word Brahman is not the same as god. Stone deities are used for 2 reasons
a. They are used as objects of attraction (so given bath, food and decorated with makeup, dress, jewels etc) for focus and meditation in the presence of Sanskrit mantra vibrations, augmented by temple architecture, sanctum Sanctorum (space where deities are kept) and shape/ posture of deities. So, hindu temples are seen as powerful energy centers.
This technique is for reaching samadhi state which is nothing but the disappearance of perception of subject (ego self) and object (external world or the deity focused upon) split momentarily (temple tradition) or temporarily and permanently (in Yoga tradition) to remove past karma or cause and effect (stored in the subtle body Chitta) and stop reincarnation (birth/death duality cycle) or to fulfill desires with reduced karmic burden
b. Stone deities are also symbolic representations of the well validated Vedic metaphysics Sankhya, nature (surya (sun), chandra (moon), rain, thunder devatas etc) and laws of nature (Karma, Dharma devatas etc). Devatas maintain cosmic order.
c. Some of the rituals are also symbolic like offering flowers (to give up memories), bananas (for giving up attachments to anything achieved) and breaking coconuts (to give up ego). As far as "ritual powder" or Vibhuti is concerned, it is nothing, but ash applied on the forehead. It is interpreted either as a symbolic reminder that this body is temporary and will be eventually cremated or just to show that in expanded states of consciousness (so called opening of third eye) one can get cosmic experience.(which is equivalent to manifesting matter)
d. In the same way, the tradition also gives importance to the concept of dharma or natural law when it comes to both animate and inanimate which contribute to stability and harmony of the universe..(it is not just about humanity). It is the reason why cows/snakes/monkeys/plants/trees are not worshiped but revered for doing their dharmic duty. Always remember, except human species (which violate dharma or the natural law due to ego and free will) non human species (animate and inanimate) are pre-programmed to follow the natural law or dharma.
You're great to listen to. I think you a unique and very informative way of giving us dummys a little deeper insight into religion. And or the peoples of religion. And how its thought of today. Good stuff :)
I am a non-believer. But I am interested in the philosophical parts of religions. Thanks for your explanation. I am a Bengali. Here in West Bengal people mostly follow Vaishnavism. People also worship Sakthi such as goddess Kali, Durga. Ramakrishna and Vivekananda are such prolific figures among Bengalis speaking Hindu people that even one of the most prominent leftist leader said that one must read "Ramakrishna kathamrita". Well I haven't read that yet.😁
That book is nice. I've read it in English. Allowing for the usual exaggeration by bhakts Ramakrishna was great in terms of actually living what the scriptures describe as enlightenment.
is there any complete emnglish translation of ramakrishna kathamrita available?
like authentic one and complete .
This is so good. I am amazed at how easily you explained all 3 schools. Kudos mate!
What a way of presenting such complicated topics with such ease
Your videos are awesome, keep up the good work! 👌
I stumbled upon your videos and already binge watched many. you do great work! its fascinating to see how different religions diverge but also converge on similar (though not identical) ideas - any chances to get some videos on Jewish thought/philosophy/mysticism ? I found myself wondering what Baal Hatanya would have thought on Ibn Arabi :) also have you heard of the Jewish Sufism ? a fascinating topic to me.
Yep, working on some stuff on Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism.
Good brevity makes sense
ua-cam.com/video/whfYvXDCMBQ/v-deo.html
Sufism on the scale - Sheikh Othman Al Khamees
ua-cam.com/video/EHlgutgpbDw/v-deo.html
Kabbalah is modern Jewish mysticism
Hindu workshop many gods but but but here comes the twist
Hindu still worship one God
How ?????????
Let's say that Hindu belive all those gods are form of one God
So basically Hindu worship same god in different form
Ramanujan said that Zero is the reality and infinity is but the manifestations of this reality.
Bro god is different than dev. We worship dev not god. Europe mistranslated this
@@MMaheshThakur why worship the dev and not Brahman?
@@MMaheshThakur but dev is also a part of bhagwaan
so what is this one god good for?
why would anyone worship it (in whatever form), apart from childhood indoctrination?
Good job explaining the differences. Well described 😃👍
Quality channel. Topics well presented and explained.
Different schools of thoughts are actually different perspective of the same reality....all of them are talking about the same thing in a different way. If you have studied fluid mechanics...then you can think of something like Eulerian and Lagrangian views... ofcourse in "Hinduism" there are more view...or if you have watched BBT then it's like how Sheldon and his wife discover that's their theory is is a different perspective on the same thing...
Ekam sat vipraha bahuda vadanti. -- Rigveda
There is only one absolute truth but the wise speak of it in many ways.
Vedanta Philosophy in a way rejuvenates Vedic belief system.
It discards dualism and asserts Spirit and Material are essentially one.
Advaitha (non dual and conscious Shiva) is INCOMPLETE without Dvaitha (dual shakhti). This is Sankhya Vedic metaphysics (around which the whole hindu tradition was built). Point is Shiva and Shakthi cannot exist without each other. They always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles to happen in nature. Shiva cannot produce its shakthi and nothing can produce Shiva but Shakthi can change from one form to another in combination with the conscious, immanent (athma), transcendent and omnipresent Shiva.
Thank you for clearly separating out non-dualistic Vedanta from the larger subject generally. As always your videos are erudite and yet enjoyable.
"nondualistic Vedanta" Advaitha is INCOMPLETE without Dvaitha and vice versa. It is just like saying nondual Shiva and duality capable Shakthi cannot exist without each other. So, they always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles of nature to happen. This is Sankhya Vedic metaphysics (which combines Advaitha and Dvaitha) around which Hindu temple, yoga and tantra traditions were built. Sankhya can be validated by logic, double slit quantum experiment and embodied experience.
Your pronunciations are very good 👍
Good to see someone covering the topic of religion very practically avoiding many pitfalls
Hey, amazing channel! I was wondering if you have covered, or possibly would cover, Nagarjuna and Madhyamakha Buddhism?
I do look forward to getting into Buddhism eventually. Especially different forms of Mayahana Buddhism in East Asia.
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@@LetsTalkReligion would you mind covering Theravada branch (Pali Canon) too? I would recommend Buddhaghosa's visuddhimagga.
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As an Orthodox Christian its extremely interesting seeing the similarities between how we view God and how Hindis view Brahma
Then you would love to explore more deeper into the Hare Krsna Movement or Krsna Consciousness.
He didn’t explain the Trinity. Brahma is the creator, Vishnu is the moderator and Shiva is the destroyer. In Hinduism, it’s believed that universe works in cycles and it’s actually hundreds of billions years old. Everything gets destroyed after certain time period known as Yugas and the life will start again. There are different yugas, named according to what the life will be about, during that period. In one yuga living things were close and aware of the creator and this current Yuga is the one where living beings are least aware about those stuff, and this will be the last one. Everything will be destroyed after this yuga and the cycle of universe will repeat.
So the concept of God in Hinduism is really different from other religions, especially Abrahmic ones.
Anthony the Great Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma are just cosmic allegories for the conscious, immanent ( athma ) transcendent and omnipresent divine. Their wives (shakhti, lakshmi and saraswathi) are just cosmic allegories for intelligent energy. Husband and wife always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles to happen. Shiva and shakthi (destruction), Vishnu and Lakshmi (sustain or dharma or balance) and Brahma and saraswathi (creation or manifestation). Another example is summer/winter sustained by fall or summer. Point is, 3 basic material constituents are created by the divine + energy combination. They further differentiate into 5 elements.
It also means "Tat Tvam Asi'' meaning - You (conscious and immanent athma or the soul) are (already) that (conscious, transcendent and omnipresent divine) regardless of whether you realize it or not because without the conscious, immanent and omnipresent athma or divine nothing can exist. Identification with thoughts and body is just an illusion because the 5 senses are experienced by the athma or soul and it is NOT the doer. Conscious and omnipresent soul is like a silk thread which goes through different pearls (animate and inanimate) if you think in terms of an analogy.
The four Vedas Rig , Yajur , Sama , Adharv Vedas say only the Creator should be worshipped and without any form and also they mention the sacrificial death of the Creator for the sins of the people and His resurrection.
Brahma isn't Brahman. They are very different. Brahma is a polytheistic deity.
There is a particular view of a monotheistic God that is most similar to the Christian view, this would be called Ishwara. Brahman actually isn't a god or God, it translates to the Totality (all of existence, including any god or Gods that may exist).
Can't wait to watch the rest of the videos of this series
I also find that the circles analogy is a very good way to explain the different Vedantas mentioned in this video.
I hope to see your analysis of Alevis and the Bektashi Order in a future video
Nirakar (no form), nirgun (no qualities?) material is brahman which exists everywhere and as everything including those black holes....that is not same as monotheistic god concept of the Judaic religions, where god sits on a throne and can get emotional at his own creation. This nirakar when takes a form (sakar) that form shows qualities most important quality being AHAM (Ego) ......which form appeared first is a contention between the followers/disciples of different forms which essentially is one. Vedanta is a monistic thought not a monotheistic idea. Since it considers creation (Maya/illution) is part of the creator it is hard for Judaic religions to understand Hindu/Vedanta concept. When a Yogi "dissolves his self nature" through his focus/penance on Brahman or a vedanti achieves the same through his knowledge they essentially realizes this principle. At that point they see no difference between an individual with the rest of the creation and the creator himself and then there is Karma and Dharma.....
Maya does not mean illusion. Maya means shakthi and it is the power of Shiva. So, it is absolutely real.
@@indianmilitary "Maya, (Sanskrit: “magic” or “illusion”) a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy, notably in the Advaita (Nondualist) school of Vedanta. Maya originally denoted the magic power with which a god can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion.
Processing LinkMaya | Indian philosophy | Britannica"...Vishnu Maya, the illusory power lord Vishnu on his creation. So god has the power to create "Maya". According to Devibhagavatam and Markandeya puranam Vishnu is under the Maya of Bhagavathi . She makes him fall asleep!! Vishnu the protector never sleeps but Madhu-Kitabh and even Brahma thought so..."The one who is alwyas awake appears sleeping" is Maya. You and I and rest of the creation which is part of the god thinks we are separate is "Vishnu Maya" or illusion created by him. What is real? VISHNU/SHIVA/SHAKTHI you name it is real.
"Judaic religions God sits on a throne".
A little bit more knowledge or reading shows that claim is not TRUE.
" We are closer to you than your Jugular veins".
Anyway the .ore I read a out Hindu literature the more I get to know how close the philosophies are linked.
RigVeda the oldest of the guides states ONE GOD.
That and the sufi theology of knowing the REAL and that living to love the real ,which is present in all.
That is so similar to the teachings in VEDAS , as well.
The core values of all religions is the same. Hinduism apperas to be the oldest one.
@@786humaira1 Rigveda has several gods but they are all essentially same as Brahman but with different names. That Brahman is everything and everywhere.
@@786humaira1 You are right humaira. Unfortunately, the fringe in society get caught in superficial aspects and forget the core. And often it's the fringe that become popular as most people now use religion to strengthen their identity when the teachings are all asking one to bow down and dissolve oneself.
Only a few months benifiting from your gift of information. So pleased to watch this vid because every time you have mentioned the word Vedanta, I had No frame of reference! Taken back to say the least ...just how ancient and ? deep Vedanta IS. I am fortunate to follow you when I can. Regards!
Gud job bro.... Bringing good stuff for us
the beauty of Sanatana Dharma is that it is universal and covers all the different spiritual (and non spiritual) paths, depending on what kind of person you are, there is a path to follow without major conflicts between them. Dual, non-dual, mono, poly or even materialism.
Not really. Your take is , forgive my language, somewhat retarded.
Spiritual development necessitates giving up of the will of the ego. If you have a plethora of choices, you will inevitably choose that which is most convenient to you. Hence destroying the said purpose. Moreover, the founders of the different schools of vedant, were themselves vehemently opposed to the other schools. So no. To have virtually opposing principles and doctrines, and to say they fall within the same relegious framework is contradictory. If the metaphysics are different , the relegion is different. Dvait vedant and Advait vedant are not the same relegions, simply by the virtue of the fact, that the entire metaphysical standpoint, are almost polar opposites. It's so tempting to raise the "I'm hindu" flag. "I'm hindu, you are muslim , you are abrahamic, you suck, see my relegion even allows me to be atheist lol lol you suck" . This is a sick and incorrect argument. It isn't a "beauty" so much as it is a major disadvantage. Hence the conquest by Mughals and the British of India.
@@beluga2841 i see your point, but isn't calling my take "somewhat retarded" exactly the problem you are describing? Apparently you are right and i am wrong, thus causing conflict. Not that i am prone to that, i am just pointing it out 😉
@@Raksasa187 sorry for the language lol. It's gives dramatic effect. I never argue in bad faith. My intention is sincere
Very interesting, thank you. As you were speaking, whispers from my university studies floated back. How would you relate these to the pre-Socratic traditions of The One and The Many?
@@Manish_3333 where is the evidence? anyone can claim anything , when you make bold claims give evidence otherwise you will become a laughing stock
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@@Manish_3333 What makes you say that? Let's take a central Platonic/Socratic idea: the divided line. Where in the Hindu corpus can it be found? Or for that matter the idea of a World of Forms? Plato and Socrates method is in some ways quite the opposite of the Indian method. Where the Indian method finds the lack of solidity in appearances and from that infers that experience itself is flawed and that knowledge is supra-cognitive in some way, the Platonic approach is the opposite wherein he identifies the issue with appearance as it not being known in the same way Forms are. So the ultimate reality for Plato-Socrates is precisely what most Hindu schools of philosophies tend to deny. And where the Charvakas accept logical inference, they basically entirely deny the distinction between appearance and reality. So Socrates and Plato are basically polar opposites of every tradition originating in India. As is Aristotle and basically the whole (mainstream) western tradition until the likes of Hegel and Schopenhauer at least. And the way you lump in Greek travellers with Indian travellers, I'm not sure if you're aware of the fact that Socrates was Greek himself, so while he didn't steal from the Indians, he couldn't have stolen from the Greeks as you could be implying given he was Greek himself. For reference, Alexander's attempted invasion of the heartland of ancient India was AFTER Socrates' and Plato's lives just in case you were going to connect the genesis of Socrates' work to that.
Great video!
Thanks for the efforts and knowledge!
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Would love more videos on hinduism, Tantra and Puranas!!! 🙏
Jai Shree Mahakal
Wow what a scholar! Thank you for your awesome explanation.
Great video however I want to point out misrepresentation of "Achinthya Bhedha Abhedha". It was said that Brahman and Jiva(Atma) are simultaneously one and different and the difference is unknown according to the philosophy. According to Brahma Madhva Gaudiya Sampradhaya (modern day ISKCON or Hare Krishna Movement) with the cornerstone of the philosophy as Achintya Bhedha Abhdha, the similarity is in quality and the difference is in quantity. The analogy given is if God is the sun, the atman is a mere spark. Qualitatively both emits photons of light (similarity), difference is the Sun can sustain planets however a spark can probably start a forest fire but can never have the same potential as the Sun(difference).
Shiva is omnipresent (immanent and transcendent). It means Athman = Brahman. No difference. The duality cycles of birth/decay happens due to immanent Shiva just like creation/destruction duality cycle of macrocosm. We can say transcendent shiva is like an ocean and immanent shiva is like a drop of water. The quality of water is the same - salty taste, Just the quantity differs. It is just like having individual body vs cosmic body
Your explanation is Dvaita. You can enjoy devotion to a higher power. There is sweetness of separation in it. Vishistadvaita will be like the Sun is made up of infinite sparks/atoms. They enjoy being a part of a higher power. Advaita says everything is same energy - the separation is because of limited perception. They enjoy silence.
All these paths have value.
Sanathan Dharma is a pluralistic democracy of inner paths.
Achintya mean inconceivable not unknown. It is just that our tiny brain and limited experiences of this material world cannot comprehend or conceive of the 2 features of Absolute Truth simultaneously exists in it. i.e. it has both dualism(bheda aspect) and non-dualism(abheda aspect). Therefore it is called inconceivable or achintya.
Still that supports Advaita... whatever you said ...the source is always the souch of the spark.....
Really appreciate your clarity on the subject. Being Hindu myself I know vedic ideology can be hard to navigate through.
Vedic ideology!?
There's no room for ideology, commandments, belief system in sanatan dharma. It's a science of seeking.
Educate yourself
@@satyam-sharma I didn't mean it like that, I agree with you lol calm down
Fine
Brilliant explanation of Vedanta! May I request similar video essays both on the Bhagavad Gita, focusing mainly on its syncretism, as well as the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, which is the foundation of modern Yoga
So it's like Thalmud? Commentary within commentary within commentary with side tracks of extra commentary? Beautiful wisdom.
Are these Premieres any more productive than regular uploads? I still haven't figured out how it's any better than regular uploads.
@Melodus ya but he puts out videos regularly anyway. I’ll get notified just the same, when he uploads a new one. No unnecessary teasing.
During premieres, I can interact directly with some of my core audience while watching the video together.
It's fun!
@@LetsTalkReligion Ahh. True
That is the whole (absolute) this is the whole .. wholeness coming from wholeness... wholeness still remains - This is from upanishads( vedanta)
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Let them shout from mountaintops Isaiah 42:11 that's Muslims during pilgrimage to Mecca google image ( day of Arafat ) ( Sela mountain ) mentioned in Isaiah 42:11 is in ( Madina ) city of prophet Mohamad ( Google map it ) ( kedar ) mentioned in Isaiah 42:11 that's the arabs kedar is the 2nd son of Ishmael son of Abraham you can find
In Genesis 25:13
Fb messenger ( Eyad mayy )
When I read Vedanta in college, I was struck with the overpowering sense that Vedanta is essentially the teaching of Christ turned inside out. Brahman as the Father and Atman as the Son; but turned "inside out" in the sense that, rather than teaching the explicit nature and commandments of the Godhead, Vedanta teaches the metaphysical process of union and reconciliation of the Father and the Son, which are identified with the guru and the student.
Except the fact that there is no concept of "god" in Hindu tradition. The non translatable Sanskrit words Brahman and Athma are NOT the same as "god" and "soul" or "son of god" (as you equate it). Why?
.In Hindu/Vedic tradition (based on well validated Vedic metaphysics), the "Ultimate Reality" and its body (the universe) are with no beginning. This manifestation is cyclical: a universe comes into being and passes away according to a regular pattern, like inhalation and exhalation. In Abrahamic religions, there was one unique Creation (with a capital 'C') with nothing prior to it.
In Abrahamic religions (based on monotheistic assumptions like god, heaven and hell), the created universe is separate from God and has its own self-existence. In materialistic science, creation is a 'big bang' out of nothing. In contrast to both these worldviews, Hindu Vedic metaphysics says the universe is a manifestation of, and form of, the Ultimate Reality. It arises out of the being of the Ultimate Reality, not for any reason, but as a natural process simply because this is the nature of Reality; it is maintained for a while as the form of the Ultimate Reality; and then dissolves (concealment) back into the unmanifest state within the Ultimate Reality. There it lies dormant in potential form until it emerges again at the commencement of another cycle.
In Abrahamic religions, God is not immanent. In Christianity, God was not immanent in the universe prior to Jesus, and the unique significance of Jesus is that his historical arrival turned the universe into the Body of Christ, i.e. made God immanent. But according to well validated Hindu/Vedic metaphysics, immanence is the very nature of Reality and not the result of a historical event. It also means, without the immanence of the ultimate reality and its conscious field, manifestation/concealment duality cycles of the universe and other duality cycles of nature are not possible. This is Sankhya Vedic metaphysics (around which the whole hindu tradition was built including its temple, yoga and tantra traditions) which can be validated by logic, double slit quantum experiment and embodied experience.
In mainstream Judaism and Islam, God is transcendent but not immanent. There have been popular claims that Sufism is non-dualistic and hence consistent with immanence, but this needs to be qualified in two ways: (i) Sufism has been a very tiny percentage of Islam throughout Islam's history. (ii) Even more importantly, Sufis experience union with God but clarify when asked that this is not an ontological unity and merely a temporary experience of unity. Mainstream Islam considers claims of ontological oneness with God as blasphemy. So, monotheism followed by ABRAHAMIC religions cannot be validated by logic, experiment or embodied experience.
I don't think this makes much sense
@@offensivearch tl/dr Jesus realized that his atman was Brahman
@@loganstrait7503 The Christian view is basically dualist, Father and Son imply inherent distinctions. Some Christian mystics have tried to reinterpret things so that it was nondual, but those people tended to be tortured or killed for a reason. It gos against the basic dogma. What you say could be right about Jesus though, perhaps he was a nondualist. I don't really know. It seems like the vast majority of Christians don't self-identify with the Son though - they put Jesus on a pedestal. Few or none say that we are all ultimately like Jesus or can realize ourselves as That. I think this would generally be taken as blasphemous.
Now, I guess you could be saying that Christianity is similar to dualist Vedanta schools. But in that case, I think you could make much stronger arguments towards other Indian traditions that are explicitly monotheist and speak of revealed laws. So I assume you mainly are talking about Advaita or other nondualist schools. They are the most relevant Vedantic schools, being what Adi Shankara taught.
On the Vedanta side, I don't think guru and shishya match up to Father and Son. It's just fundamentally different. Guru and shishya is basically spoke about in two contexts: philosophically and in terms of parampara (lineage). The word Guru itself means "a remover of darkness" (gu->darkness, ru->remover of). In contrast to most western religion, darkness is not associated with evil but rather with ignorance or lack of knowledge. A dark room is not evil, it is one where we just can't see.
A guru could be a person, place, thing, or experience. The guru is not a goal or destination like the Father is in your analogy, but a tool or font of spiritual growth. Most often, in the real world, the guru is a person or textual authority, but doesn't have to be.
I'm not going to talk about the guru in terms of lineage, that is pretty obvious. The guru transmits anything from knowledge up to even his own state of consciousness to the student, in order to maintain the parampara (lineage) of the samapradaya (school). In the case of transmission (popularly known through Zen traditions), the important piece is not the guru, but what the guru is transmitting. In fact obsessing over the guru as a human completely misses the point.
Sir , explaination is Excellenct . The way the presentation is made is in sequence and crisp to know the Santana dharma later called as hinduism .
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Can you make a video about Upanishads which were written before Buddhism/Jainism?
Are you ever going to do a video on the Hashashins one day?
You is sharp; thank you very much for this vulgarisation.
Brilliant man..!
I am an Indian and a student of the Vedanta.
if you would have mentioned about bohr's, schrodinger's, heisenberg's comment on upanishada
half of the viewers might have got gossebumps
Not to forget Oppenheimer!
I got some quotes. Albert Einstein ``Whenever I read Baghavad Gita, everything else seems superfluous. I've made Vedas as the guide for the formation of my theories and scientific investigation"
Werner Heisenberg _ (One of the pioneers in the field of quantum mechanics) - "Quantum ideas which seemed so crazy made sense only after reading hindu/vedic metaphysics"
ERWIN SCHRODINGER (FATHER OF QUANTUM PHYSICS) Schrodinger's biographer Moore, wrote -- “His system - or that of the Upanishads/Vedas - is delightful and consistent: the self and the world are one and they are all. He rejected traditional western religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naïve--and will NOT understand Quantum theory and consciousness.
Thank you for all that. That special "fuzziness" and i love umbrellas too!
Good work. Keep going. Present hindu society which follows sanatana dharma has became a mixture of these three paths and practised in daily life without knowing that they are seperate
please make videos on other schools of hindu philosphy like nyaya( logic and epistemology), vaisheshika( mind and matter), mimansa, yoga etc .
Would love to see a vid on the perennial philosophy.
Sanatan Dharma - isn't that what this is?
V for Vedanta is a great movie I hear.
Vendatta it was
A blind standing on a seashore can only hear the sound and make fun of it, without knowing how beautiful and deep ocean is.
@@bombayvega7021 It was a pun
Wonderful commentary of a commentary of a commentary of a commentary of a commentary.
Fantastic channel!