Swamiji, Zakir Naik keeps insulting Hindus and Hindu Gods. I wish I had knowledge like you. I would have gone for a debate with Zakir Naik and answer all his stupid questions with logics. I would have shown him how beautiful Hinduism is.
I guess one of the benefits of not having been brought up a Hindu, and not knowing many Hindus, is that I don't have a lot of misconceptions engrained in my head regarding Hinduism.
Yes and no. You're in the dark about it (ignorance), but also not miseducated on it, perhaps. There's no single religion known as Hinduism. It's a wide array of beliefs and practices of Hindu peoples.
Sir, you are our recent Sankaracharya who will salvage Sanatana Dharma, while millions of Hindus cook meat on Diwali, the Day Of Remembrance. You are truely Great,sir.
Pranam Swamiji. Wonderful to hear the basics of Hinduism from you, Swamiji. As a Hindu though I was knowing the basics in a broad way but not clearly and precisely as you have explained. Thank you from my heart.
@Avishek Mukhopadhyay Indian society DID have a caste system. And everybody reaped the benefits such forms of "strategic discrimination" brought to the society as a whole. Same applies to all ancient cultures.
@Avishek Mukhopadhyay That's not how it works, dude. You'll have to own up to all that is produced within your society. Fact is, these "corrupted ppl or groups of ppl" established a system that was used for centuries, with all its good & bad. Dissociating yourself from it because it's become unfashionable today is fine, but you can't (& don't need to) deny its history. An American can uphold freedom as his core value today, but insisting that slavery has never been "an American thing" is pointless (& apathic - not that it doesn't happen anyways).
@Avishek Mukhopadhyay This is just denialism to attempt & live in an imagined past. India's GDP actually grew with the arrival of Mughals & later the British. It's a matter of facts & figures. As unfair as it may seem, empire has its benefits - whoever brings it. (It is also true that India was already the largest economy in the world before the M invasions. In fact, some of their historians also mentioned this as the very reason for invasion). Also, corruption (& suggested countermeasures) are found in the Arthashastra (>2500 years old) itself. Birth based discrimination is found in the Mahabharata & other ancient texts. But it's true the British had concretized it immensely(by census-based discrimination & land redistribution) during their colonial rule. And no respectable source claims Hinduism to be 21,000 years old. One should correct one's mistakes... not disown them & blame "a few people" & out-groups for it - this is just misplaced pride & laziness. Also, I've never claimed Islam or Christianity to be "good". Modern scholarship holds these to immense scrutiny too. Denial only leads to loss of credibility. If you are unwilling/unable to reconcile with your own short-comings, even in the face of evidence, the others will just extract your good stuff & dissociate from you (it's already happened many times.) The Chinese seem to have more tact in these matters. Arguably the most successful story of a non-Western (hence delayed) charge into modernity.
Yes but jathi (occupational groups) are not rigid and birth based (allowed social mobility between 2 jathi groups) but the British created "caste" system (by morphing jathi and varna based on race science) was rigid and birth based (and did not allow social mobility). indian constitution later solidified birth based caste system for quotas
These misconceptions (in similar but not identical forms) also exist in western religions. They are also believed by those inside and outside those religions as well. I am saddened that these common misunderstandings are so pervasive in western culture that their versions of these misconceptions seem to be what you know of their beliefs. Thank you for all of your excellent work. I am really enjoying and learning from your lectures... in particular the class on Atma Bohda.
Two quick examples of what I am talking about: 1. Obviously "You shall not murder" is very nuanced because there have always many soldiers in Abrahamic faiths. This misunderstanding comes from "murder" or "kill" being imperfect English translations (something you are very adept at pointing out in Sanskrit.) The idea in this verse is closer to "manslay", "dirty kill" or "slay in an unnatural or unlawful way". There are Christians who are total pacifists and take the contradiction you posed very seriously, but they are a minority. "Just War" is an entire school of western thought, begun from religious teachers, about this relationship between murder and soldiering. (Also, Galatians is an entire sacred text to Christians that teaches that rule following as a whole is not the point but unity with God in mercy is the point... but I digress.)
2. Throughout Christian and Jewish history, there have been significantly large groups who do not believe heaven and hell are literal places but are metaphors for the subjective experience of the soul when it encounters the same universal pure divinity after death... the prepared and open vs the unprepared and closed. Also, universalism is a school of Christian thought that teaches that all beings, matter, and energy will be reconciled to God... there were ancient teachers who taught even Satan and demons would be ultimately saved.
One of the universal misconceptions I have learned about all religions is this: "It is very hard to say one sentence that applies to all groups in a religion." This is probably the universal misconception.
@@mikebaker2436But where is karma and reincarnation? These 2 are the poison pills for Christianity which has been trying to digest Advaitha vedanta (unity consciousness)
The first misconception that you explained at the end - am blessed to have watched your explanation Swamiji and how true you are...all your effort shows in the simple yet detailed explanation you provided... am truly blessed...
Sanatana Dharma is a way of living , Modern Cosmologists and Physics Like Carl Sagan , Neils Bohr , CERN Scientist have validated and praised the Accuracy of the 30000 year old Vedic Scriptures from RIG VEDA Below are few lines from RIGVEDA 10:129 Nasadiya Sukta , Creation Hymn , (30000 year old Vedic scripts.) Then even nothingness was not, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the earth, heavens beyond it. There was no space, then who was protecting the space, What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed? Means there was nothing. Then in boisterous, there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the appearance of night and day. The One (Brahma) breathed actionlessly in illusion (maya) and self-sustaining. There was that One (Brahma) with maya then, and there was nothing beyond them. In Catastrophe, at first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness, All this was only unillumined water. Action and Cause were merged filled with ignorance, That One (Brahma) took action complementing with cause, resolving to penance created the Universe. In the beginning will-power descended on Brahma - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages of this material world, searched their hearts with wisdom, to know that which is kin to that which is not. Like rays of Sun, strong resolution to and for creation imbibed. And they have stretched their cord across the void, Was the existent skewed or in the middle, was above or below. It was spread akin. On birth of the world, powers with seed, form and action made fertile mighty forces. Others were great existing above in the sky. Spirituality excels materialism. But, after all, who knows, and who can say in detail, Who else can let us know, how and why the creation happened, 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, the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows - or maybe even he does not know. How thought Provoking it is! Right? A land where people perform Skeptical Questioning. Well then what is Hindu Philosophical God? God is the energy. Energy is everywhere. Energy condensed is matter. The Universe is filled with dark energy and dark matter. In other words, scientist have found that all of the Universe is permeated by an energy that they cannot explain. Similarly you can think of God as permeating everything. God condensed is Vyakta, and God in his pure form is Nirguna as per Advaita Vedantam. God is Brahman. Brahman is the creator and the creation itself. Brahman is Impersonal , Transcendent and Beyond. Brahman is Om. Om is the vibration. Om is the building block of creation. Everything and Everywhere is Om. The Material world. Brahman the Supreme, is the ultimate consciousness and the Absolute Reality. If you were a saprophile , you would have already fallen in love with the Vedic literature. Decline and the ignorance of such a intellectual community and ideas is something to be consciously thought about and discussed. Sanatan Dharma is not a “Religion” like a western idea , Rather it is the collective knowledge and result of various Rishi’s and Sages of this Great land. It Proves To be meaningful and scientific. After all the Indian civilisation , Did not believe the earth was created on 23rd October 4004BC also our culture did not give rise to the idea that universe is earth-centric. Islam and christianity is only 1400 or 2000 years old and hence cannot be equated with Hinduism, which is God found religion from times immemorial.
तदात्मानन्दगुरवे सर्वश्रेष्ठाय धीमते । नमः सात्विकयोध्रे तेsज्ञानानीकविघातिने ।।😊 I now down to the best of all, Tadatmananda Guru who is a soft Satwik solider who fights and destroys the army of darkness 😊. My offerings to our teacher in the form of a Sanskrit shloka composed by me . 😊
Thanks for caste system explanation Swami Ji. So basically Caste system is a Position of a person in life. A new born baby is not of any caste. If the person do job and get paid then it becomes shudra. After doing job for few years, if it does business then becomes Vaishya. If the person works to save people of his country from disasters, enemies etc then becomes Kshatriya Finally the person learns enough knowledge throughout his life and is ready to give free knowledge in Gurukul and is Also ready to help people regarding marriage or spiritual things then it is Brahman.
@Margaret Brother are you from UK? Actually current caste system with Lower and Upper is a byproduct of Colonialism by British East India Company and Mughals. They promoted this position based caste system as Birth based caste system. All the west historians are brainwashing the childrens in schools in UK and America. The history is 90% fake. All inventions and knowledge of India was destroyed but before destroying they copied data and took to UK. From 24% GDP to below 4% when british left.
@Margaret Yes, you are correct that there is no social mobility in the rigid birth based caste system. But it is different from jathi system which allowed social mobility until 18th century. British agent Lord Herbert Hope Risley morphed varna and jathi based on race science and created the rigid birth based caste system. The same race science was used in Africa which led to Rwandan genocide. Indian constitution unfortunately only solidified the rigid caste system for quotas. British also created zamindari system to take away the land from shudras in a foul manner. It means so called dalits were land owners before British/East India company looters sneaked in.
@Margaret Previously all occupations were hereditary (kings to carpenters), hence varna started getting assumed. But technically it's not so. We have started reservation system, made caste discrimination criminal offence. A lot more needs to be done. But that doesnt mean that the observation that a society is comprised of these 4 sections is wrong.
@@sujayarao7322 yes and still the so called " lower " caste people fail to see that cause they are filled with all sorts of rubbish in their ears...they think someone is going to come and save them
That is the best explanation I ever heard about misconceptions about HINDUISM. Thank you, Swamiji, for uploading these beautiful videos about meditation, Geetha, and Vedanta topics. 🙏
Sir, by calling Ravan,a DEMON, you have sown the seed of yet ANOTHER MISCONCEPTION. Not exactly your fault, since Ravan is referred to as a Rakshas in Sanskrit, and is translated into English as demon, or goblin. When, in fact there are NO demons, devils, or imaginary non human beings in Bharatiya culture. As we respect ALL beings as imbued with Parmatma. A rakshas was just a person who was not DHARMEE , usually one with a huge ego, and self importance. We see, lots of rakshas' in the world today.... But rakshas' are human beings, at least in form. Forgive me for my impertinence in pointing this out.
Both Ramayan and Mahabharata were history happened…the Dwarka city of Krishna is exactly located in sea has been recently found and the weapon used in war of kurukshetra r also found in Hariyana state of India to archeologists 🙏🏻Hare Krishna Hare Ram 🙏🏻
🙏😊Jai Shree Krishna 😊🙏 1. "Gyan(Knowledge)" stabilizes the "Mastisk(Brain)". 2. "Dharya(patience)" stabilizes the "Maan(Mind)". 3. "Prem(Love)" stabilizes the "Hriday(Heart)". 4. "Samarpan(Dedication)" calms the Impulses of the Body and stabilizes the "Sareer(Body)". 5. "Naay(Justice)" stabilizes the "Aatmaan(Soul)". When these FIVE Bases of "Dharma" becomes stable, then man/woman is filled with "Karuna(Compassion)" ..... It's called "DHARMA" 😊🙏Jai Shree Krishna🙏😊
Swamiji. That's a nice video so lucidly explained in your own inimitable way. Please also address about why there are so many scriptural texts and which one is the best/easy to follow.. 🙏
 wonderful lecture of yours again, dear sir! I always appreciate your profound knoweldge. And as a christian (orthodox Church) theologian, only a very little correction. It is definitely NOT the main goal of the my own orthodox christianity to get into a place called "paradise". Our goal is to get fully united with the attributes of God, by whome He communicates with creation, these are His love, His light, His grace and so on. Also in Judaism - at least in its mystsical branches - the main goal is in no way becoming an indweller of paradise, but again to unite with Gods greatest and most beloved attributes, thus performing in part the "tikkun olam" - the re-creation and restoring of the entire world by re-uniting the world with its creator. And even in the mystical forms of Islam, the goal is not achieving some paradise, but getting united with God himself and all His attributes in love, light and devotion. So I found in all religions - abrahamic and non-abrahamic alike - the ONE and only goal of meaning of life is LOVE and nothing but LOVE and to unite with that uncreated an undefilable LOVE, that we christians call God (and yes - this LOVE may have personal attributes - or even dont (like in parts of Buddhism, for example), but that is eventually of no greater relevance). May the Lord, who is love itself, bless you and those who follow the illuminous path to God you teach! Please carry on, enlightening all of us with such a great and profound wisdom! God bless you!
But where is karma and reincarnation? These 2 are the poison pills for Christianity which is slowly trying to digest Advaitha vedanta (unity consciousness) just like how it digested so called Paganism eg Christmas tree, church bell (copied from HIndu temples) etc.
Your theological approach to the ultimate goal of salvation is beautiful. It's also IMO very Orthodox, which means mystical, and dare I say it, Eastern. The Western Church, especially the Protestant tradition, really does focus on accessing paradise as the ultimate goal of salvation. Or maybe it's better described as escaping hell by making it to paradise (through the blood sacrifice of Jesus). But I appreciate more your description, which does show the connective spiritual tissue within so many world religions.
I hear your lectures many times. Each time the understandings becomes clearer. I think everyone should listen multiple times to really grasp the meaning of your lectures. Thank you very much.
slight correction to the egyptian religion comment, just so you're not misrepresenting the tradition (as I know is not desired): the religion is still practiced today, just by a very small group. It's called Kemetism and is a revival of the practices and traces their practices back to ancient egypt (just with a long gap in the time period in between). Though your point still stands: religions have died out and have had 0 followers. Often they get absorbed into other religious traditions near them before the population goes out completely, and some of their traditions end up surviving into the present time (e.g. the neanderthal religion religion is where we returning the body to the earth (burial) likely comes from)
Thanks for pointing out that the message of "Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah" in Sanatan tradition is not absolute non-violence but "least harm to everyone involved". This can also be thought of as what is best for the "greater good". Unfortunately, MK Gandhi twisted the meaning of "Ahimsa" in Sanatan Dharm and conflated it with "showing the other cheek" in an attempt to appeal to the aggressor's "conscience". As if this "conscience" was some absolute concept of this universe!! As you so rightly pointed out here, "conscience" can have different meaning for different persons based on their upbringing / indoctrination. People even tend to mould their conscience and devise their own justifications in pursuit of their selfish ends!! Such people and entities cannot br reasoned with or influenced by emotion or convinced by sacrificing oneself.
So blessed to hear this short lecture, so meaningful and rational. Om Shanti! Thanks to AI, I am able to study each of the 10 Upanishads in a manner, easy to understand and assimilate.
Swami ji, Thank u very much to help the all humans Races Religions to Remove Spiritual misconceptions. I Support your True Reality of Vedanta. VEDANTA IS TRUE to get Spiritual Knowledge and Know Nature of True Consciousness, True Non-dual Matter of God Brahmaan. Our Goal is True Real , Supreme Soul Consciousness meets and unite with Brahmaan or Non Duality. and remove the False Ego that we are other then Brahmaand. Soul itself is Brahmaand which is Real ultimate truth. By Following Astaang Yoga, Meditation Practices, Attending Samadhi we Soul or inner Self Conscious Merge with Brahmaand Love and filled with Real Spiritual bliss and Wisdom. And our doubt, misconceptions ended When we silently feels, experience Rain of Bliss in inner Self. and our Consciousness merge with Brahmaand. Then our Personality or Ego diminishes, And at last We are Brahmaand. That is ultimate Truth and goal of our Human Life in This Universe . To get Birth. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷👍
Excellent! Every Hindu should watch this video first. Many non-Hindus have misconceptions about Hinduism. This video will help us when they confront us.
I listen to so many sitar ragas while exercising that the UA-cam algorithms have decided that I'm probably a Hindu. Maybe I AM a Hindu? How does one know?
@@freakboostez6971 How do you know you like sandwich? By going to a subway and choosing the stuff you like. Same for Hinduism. Make a list of things you would like to follow in your life and follow them.
Just read once bhagwat geeta and eat meat .. and know your real dharm. We dot have conversion system . Veda say be human just it is. Whole world is one family . Our family. Each animal has right to live.
You know you are not a hindu if you have not been born in Hindustan which is another name for india. But you are a Sanatan dharmi as you are part of the eternal system of responsibility. Sanatan Dharma means eternal responsibility. So keep enjoying your raga sessions.
It's hard to say. But you can be hindu by just following dharma, believing in rebirth, karma. You know some hindus even don't follow rituals but still call themselves hindus. You can just call yourself hindu if you want to.
I would belief in God in a great loving way with devotion straight from my heart, if only I saw proof of the fact that good is rewarded with good and bad with bad. But thats not the case. Instead "karma" appears randomly, good is random and bad is random as well. There is so much lack of consistency that my belief in God is weak and under question all the time. All I seek is to know God, but I cant really find Him anywhere because of contradictions and lack of consistency.
This has been observed on a mass scale many times in history. The plague of Athens is good example. "The plague also caused religious uncertainty and doubt. Since the disease struck without regard to a person's piety toward the gods, people felt abandoned by the gods and there seemed to be no benefit to worshiping them. The temples themselves were sites of great misery, as refugees from the Athenian countryside had been forced to find accommodation in the temples. Soon the sacred buildings were filled with the dead and dying." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens
MLH Your confusion is like a person searching for a mirror to find himself/herself... As far as Karma is concerned, it is pre-programmed for everyone. It is like a script of a movie which is already written before the start of a movie. If your role in the movie is a bad role, then you are pre-programmed to create more karma. if your role is good, then you are pre-programmed to create good karma and if your role is to be dharmic (action without creating karma) then you don't create any new karma. if you have either good or bad karma, you move on to the next movie with a pre-programmed script. if you don't have any karma, then you retire from movies called as Moksha. Free will is also there but it cannot help you to achieve anything which is beyond the framework of your pre-programmed karma in this life. Free will can create new karma (which goes to your future lives) based on unfulfilled desires, wishes, regrets, likes, dislikes you have in this life. Now, Karma works on the principle of delayed causation when it comes to humans. So your unfulfilled desires created by your free will can materialize only in one of your future lives. Karma of inanimate objects is immediate. Our true-self or shiva is the divine which is omnipresent (both immanent and transcendent). But the immanent true self or shiva confuses and identifies with the intellect (close to mind) manas (close to heart) and body due to the faculty of ego or ahankara which is a spoiled child of manas where likes and dislikes are formed. To experience your true self, don't use your intellect or buddhi unnecessarily to analyze your subconscious thought patterns or habitual thoughts. Most of the problem solved. You would be your true self (shiva). Let the garbage thoughts come to the surface but don't react. Observe it. It would clean up your subconscious garbage which reduces your new karma (Agama karma) . This is called Jnana yoga or Vipassana which can be practiced through out the day whenever you get an opportunity . This is yoga off the mat
"Do your duty. Don't worry about results". This is an important thing to not. You can't control the result. Only your actions. So stop worrying about you getting good or bad results.
You have explained each and every concept of Hindu Dharma in a very simple way making it interesting and understandable. I love to watch your videos. Thanks a lot. 🙏🙏
🙏Thank you Swamiji for your eloquent explanations and wisdom. As a new Hindu thirsty for truth and spiritual knowledge , I am so grateful to have found you ! 🙏💕
Hinduism doesn't believe in 330 Million Gods/Goddesses! When we say 33 'Koti', it doesn't translate to crores(10^7) so to speak, in this case! Here the word 'Koti' simply refers to high stature which also includes the connotation of forms or types! They are- 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, 12 Adityas, Indra and Prajapati. Please tell me if I am wrong. Okay, I have a couple of questions now:- 1. Are prayers always noble? What If someone wishes the downfall of some other out of sheer jealousy? Is that pious too; surely not! 2. If God strictly gives us what we deserve then what's the point of praying anyway?! Surely, we don't need to remind God of his duty and ask for what we deserve. Now if someone asks for guidance from God, it does make sense. However, it seems as if these arguments culminate in the conclusion that praying( asking as if demanding or begging ) is nothing but an act of ignorance or foolishness! Is that all to it? Thank you 🙏
Then valmiki and vyasa must have been so mentally and intellectually evolved that they could imagine such fantastic tales so many many thousand years back. So much fantasy- very hard to believe
@@bhaskarmaity2890true man , our sages always tell us to speak the truth , and vyas and valmiki always talked about Satya , according to these sages truth is the ultimate karma , so it's hard to believe that they will write some lie ,
The Brahmins are not responsible for the caste system. To them untouchability refers to anyone who has not had his bath or have been in contact with tthe dead, which is prohibited to anyone who is close to the deity in prayers. The lower catse is responsible to treat the lowest caste badly as they have no reason to take the cleaniliness to the extent the Brahmins require.
while explaining misconception 3.. God punishes evil people for their bad deeds and rewards pious for their good, I thought you were little harsh on Christianity.. to say that the reason why many Hindus themselves believe in this could possibly be because of their co-existence with Christianity for several years.. is bit unfair.. I mean, isn't this particular misconception... one of those many simple things that every child would like to believe? and how wise are many grownups compared to children? :).. by the way I am myself a Hindu, but I thought we need not blame this on other religions... among us Hindus there are, and were so many simple minded followers who doesn't need encouragement from other religions to misunderstand their own :).. just my thought. Other than that I find your video highly enlightening and answers some of the questions that I could not answer with confidence earlier about my own religion.. thank you Swamiji for that 🙏.
I wonder how the 4 Shankaracharya’s, each of whom is responsible for the preservation of one of the four vedas, would respond to the last point on the list. Advaita requires a step by step by step approach to realization. Is it not essential each of those steps is preserved?
Paganism, that the Bible talks about , " They took up the star of their god remohan (offered (human) sacrifices( & figures to worship , so God turned aside & gave them up to their beliefs, goes by their generations , weaving stories & myths , The latest is the sacrifice of 121 people in Harthas,
Revered and respected Swamiji Saashtaanga Namaskara at your lotus feet. I am amazed at the clarity and the knowledge your explanation. I have no doubt at all that every human on earth will be benefited and reformed if he or she listen to you even once. I am a volunteer in a vedic research institute exploring the-inner meanings of Veda. I pray to to the Lord to give you long and healthy life to continue to enlighten people 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
During my exams, I always select none of the above or all of the above when im unsure of the right answer. Good chance you will get it right :) Jokes apart, Swamiji is great! Thanks for the explanations.
The fluidity of the Varnas got tampered at a time by the thinking Brahmins and they then introduced the feudal system of compartmentalisation as well as inheritance as a method of succession and denied the natural flow of people by their inherent qualities. What we suffer is this corruption of the very natural fluidity of the system.
It was tampered by a British agent (lord Risley) who morphed varna and jathi based on race science. Of course, Brahmins were given plum government administration positions by the British to create resentment in other communities.
Swami ji iam not agree with your opinion about advantage taken by Brahmins because if you read Mahabharat and Purana,s majority of Brahmins were extremely poor as well as they get tortured by powerful kings and caste .I can give many references on that . Division of varnas was natural but converting them to 6500 caste and 25000 subcaste across the huge Indian subcontinent was not possible by Brahmins alone , it's only possible by involvement of whole society and if you study the Indian society so called lower castes are more casteist and like to stick with their caste identity more than Brahmins.Only thing goes against Brahmins is they are easy target .
1 of the commandments in bible says Thou shall not kill, does it mean one should not also kill animals and be a vegetarian, why the believers do not want to interpret this? 🤔
Well. I think that a human has to do a lot in a good way to the good he deserves. Madonna sang a couple of ugly songs and she was send to greatdome and big wealth, my sister takes care of disabled people every day and she barely can afford to eat a decent meal. How.
@@stefano1405 No. I compared lives with actions in my comment. Like, what did Madonna (or another celeb) do to get downloaded in a life of prosparity and wealth, and what did my sister do to not get the same download in her life. I wonder why that is. Thats all. Im sure that both Madonna and my sister produce bad karma by taking bad actions. They both do. So why is one life filled with abundance and the other one is not.
@@Loesters One case can be Madonna did something as wonderful or even better in the past life and is enjoying the fruits of it now, which is neither good nor bad as it is still karma. Your sister might be either breaking her bad karma while serving others or might be even accumulating good karma which will yield it's results in the next birth or phase. Nothing goes unwasted in this world.
Guruji you are quite wrong about 1 st one , i know its tough for western people to understand, they hardly even properly know 1000 yeard old history, the atomic bombs and those weapons do exist , we conservative people think the human development has started 4 to 5000 years ago , but in reality time is cyclical our scriptures talks about time.line of trillion years , humanity and whole universe goes through creation and destruction cycle , Mahabharat is an even which has happened 7000. Years ago , when krishna the enlighted being aka god himself , took avatar or became conscious of his true identity , that timeline wa called dwapar yuga , thay yuga was the last stage to have such sound activated powerful weapons of mass destruction, during Mahabharata only fewa people like karn , arjun , bhism , and few other had access to celestial weapons, and once that battle end most of the people who had access to celestial weapon died in that battel only , 1 -2 were left , like the grandson of arjuna was the one who had knowledge of celestial weapon , but krishna told him that that another dark yuga is now going to start called kaliyuga,in which we all are living , krishna said to grandson of arjuna that "Don't pass the knowledge of celestial weapon to further generation" as in kaliyuga those weapon in wrong hand can destroy earth and whole nature , so arjuna grandson did exactly what he was told , the knowledge of celestial weapon vanished after the death of arjun grandson , and when krishna died(means left his human form) that was the end of dwaparyuga , we have several proofs of miraculous phenomenon happening all around indian temple, particular hindu sites , and we even found krishna highly advanced sunken city dwarika , , when greeks students came ro india for learning in indian University they herd of this dwarika sinking story and when they went back they created or modified this story in what we called today the lost city of Atlantis
You don't need free will at all to accumulate karma. Karma is action. Any action has a reaction (outcome) whether or not you freely chose/decided it or not. Furthermore, all actions are predetermined by your thoughts, which are predetermined by your subconscious, which in turn is predetermined by your personality - which arose from your life experiences (especially in childhood), genetics, tendencies, and the people you surround yourself with. Since the Self does not act and the body is truly not in control of its thoughts and subsequent actions, there is no free will.
7:47 you wouldn't attack your feet because they are lower than your head, would you? the intent of that verse was to show that all are nessacary for the health of society.
Thank you Swami ji. You have done a tremendous job in helping Hindus to understand their own true nature and their faith. Also for non Hindus and society in general you have elegantly removed the misconceptions about Hinduism Hope this gives Hindus a curiosity to learn more about their faith/ Dharma and purpose in life
Swamiji, Zakir Naik keeps insulting Hindus and Hindu Gods. I wish I had knowledge like you. I would have gone for a debate with Zakir Naik and answer all his stupid questions with logics. I would have shown him how beautiful Hinduism is.
Oh man... Christians are so confused and misled. Thank you for this wisdom! Funny how connected religions truly are.
That's true for most people not just Christians.
But hindu have Varna...Gita says..
@@chetanshukla3755 yes, it says guna karma, which is as per your attitude and attributes
@@kage9701 I'm not a Christian, but was raised in church. It was just a comment.
@@chetanshukla3755 Varna is not based on birth. it is based on guna which is shaped by past karma. Varna means color of a guna.
I guess one of the benefits of not having been brought up a Hindu, and not knowing many Hindus, is that I don't have a lot of misconceptions engrained in my head regarding Hinduism.
But you could also be easily fooled/converted by the opponents of Hindu tradition
You won't be enlightened if you are being kept away from it.
You also wouldnt have misconception about yourself if you weren't yourself.
Yes and no. You're in the dark about it (ignorance), but also not miseducated on it, perhaps. There's no single religion known as Hinduism. It's a wide array of beliefs and practices of Hindu peoples.
Sir, you are our recent Sankaracharya who will salvage Sanatana Dharma, while millions of Hindus cook meat on Diwali, the Day Of Remembrance. You are truely Great,sir.
Perhaps you are blessed to explain the Hindu scripture . you were one great sage in ancient India in your last birth.
Thank you very much swamiji, you are the perfect saint to explain about Hinduism and we are grateful to you 🙏🙏🙏
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Pranam Swamiji. Wonderful to hear the basics of Hinduism from you, Swamiji. As a Hindu though I was knowing the basics in a broad way but not clearly and precisely as you have explained. Thank you from my heart.
Remarkable observations.
Please Swami subtittles in spanish. Om Tat Sat
Every society has a caste system.
@Avishek Mukhopadhyay not jains also
@Avishek Mukhopadhyay Indian society DID have a caste system. And everybody reaped the benefits such forms of "strategic discrimination" brought to the society as a whole. Same applies to all ancient cultures.
@Avishek Mukhopadhyay That's not how it works, dude. You'll have to own up to all that is produced within your society.
Fact is, these "corrupted ppl or groups of ppl" established a system that was used for centuries, with all its good & bad. Dissociating yourself from it because it's become unfashionable today is fine, but you can't (& don't need to) deny its history.
An American can uphold freedom as his core value today, but insisting that slavery has never been "an American thing" is pointless (& apathic - not that it doesn't happen anyways).
@Avishek Mukhopadhyay This is just denialism to attempt & live in an imagined past.
India's GDP actually grew with the arrival of Mughals & later the British. It's a matter of facts & figures. As unfair as it may seem, empire has its benefits - whoever brings it.
(It is also true that India was already the largest economy in the world before the M invasions. In fact, some of their historians also mentioned this as the very reason for invasion).
Also, corruption (& suggested countermeasures) are found in the Arthashastra (>2500 years old) itself. Birth based discrimination is found in the Mahabharata & other ancient texts. But it's true the British had concretized it immensely(by census-based discrimination & land redistribution) during their colonial rule.
And no respectable source claims Hinduism to be 21,000 years old.
One should correct one's mistakes... not disown them & blame "a few people" & out-groups for it - this is just misplaced pride & laziness.
Also, I've never claimed Islam or Christianity to be "good". Modern scholarship holds these to immense scrutiny too. Denial only leads to loss of credibility.
If you are unwilling/unable to reconcile with your own short-comings, even in the face of evidence, the others will just extract your good stuff & dissociate from you (it's already happened many times.)
The Chinese seem to have more tact in these matters.
Arguably the most successful story of a non-Western (hence delayed) charge into modernity.
Yes but jathi (occupational groups) are not rigid and birth based (allowed social mobility between 2 jathi groups) but the British created "caste" system (by morphing jathi and varna based on race science) was rigid and birth based (and did not allow social mobility). indian constitution later solidified birth based caste system for quotas
These misconceptions (in similar but not identical forms) also exist in western religions. They are also believed by those inside and outside those religions as well. I am saddened that these common misunderstandings are so pervasive in western culture that their versions of these misconceptions seem to be what you know of their beliefs.
Thank you for all of your excellent work. I am really enjoying and learning from your lectures... in particular the class on Atma Bohda.
Two quick examples of what I am talking about:
1. Obviously "You shall not murder" is very nuanced because there have always many soldiers in Abrahamic faiths. This misunderstanding comes from "murder" or "kill" being imperfect English translations (something you are very adept at pointing out in Sanskrit.) The idea in this verse is closer to "manslay", "dirty kill" or "slay in an unnatural or unlawful way". There are Christians who are total pacifists and take the contradiction you posed very seriously, but they are a minority. "Just War" is an entire school of western thought, begun from religious teachers, about this relationship between murder and soldiering. (Also, Galatians is an entire sacred text to Christians that teaches that rule following as a whole is not the point but unity with God in mercy is the point... but I digress.)
2. Throughout Christian and Jewish history, there have been significantly large groups who do not believe heaven and hell are literal places but are metaphors for the subjective experience of the soul when it encounters the same universal pure divinity after death... the prepared and open vs the unprepared and closed. Also, universalism is a school of Christian thought that teaches that all beings, matter, and energy will be reconciled to God... there were ancient teachers who taught even Satan and demons would be ultimately saved.
One of the universal misconceptions I have learned about all religions is this:
"It is very hard to say one sentence that applies to all groups in a religion."
This is probably the universal misconception.
Pew Research December 2009: 22% of American Christians say they believe in reincarnation.
@@mikebaker2436But where is karma and reincarnation? These 2 are the poison pills for Christianity which has been trying to digest Advaitha vedanta (unity consciousness)
The first misconception that you explained at the end - am blessed to have watched your explanation Swamiji and how true you are...all your effort shows in the simple yet detailed explanation you provided... am truly blessed...
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Sanatana Dharma is a way of living , Modern Cosmologists and Physics Like Carl Sagan , Neils Bohr , CERN Scientist have validated and praised the Accuracy of the 30000 year old Vedic Scriptures from RIG VEDA Below are few lines from RIGVEDA 10:129 Nasadiya Sukta , Creation Hymn , (30000 year old Vedic scripts.) Then even nothingness was not, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the earth, heavens beyond it. There was no space, then who was protecting the space, What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed? Means there was nothing. Then in boisterous, there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the appearance of night and day. The One (Brahma) breathed actionlessly in illusion (maya) and self-sustaining. There was that One (Brahma) with maya then, and there was nothing beyond them. In Catastrophe, at first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness, All this was only unillumined water. Action and Cause were merged filled with ignorance, That One (Brahma) took action complementing with cause, resolving to penance created the Universe. In the beginning will-power descended on Brahma - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages of this material world, searched their hearts with wisdom, to know that which is kin to that which is not. Like rays of Sun, strong resolution to and for creation imbibed. And they have stretched their cord across the void, Was the existent skewed or in the middle, was above or below. It was spread akin. On birth of the world, powers with seed, form and action made fertile mighty forces. Others were great existing above in the sky. Spirituality excels materialism. But, after all, who knows, and who can say in detail, Who else can let us know, how and why the creation happened, 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, the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows - or maybe even he does not know. How thought Provoking it is! Right? A land where people perform Skeptical Questioning. Well then what is Hindu Philosophical God? God is the energy. Energy is everywhere. Energy condensed is matter. The Universe is filled with dark energy and dark matter. In other words, scientist have found that all of the Universe is permeated by an energy that they cannot explain. Similarly you can think of God as permeating everything. God condensed is Vyakta, and God in his pure form is Nirguna as per Advaita Vedantam. God is Brahman. Brahman is the creator and the creation itself. Brahman is Impersonal , Transcendent and Beyond. Brahman is Om. Om is the vibration. Om is the building block of creation. Everything and Everywhere is Om. The Material world. Brahman the Supreme, is the ultimate consciousness and the Absolute Reality. If you were a saprophile , you would have already fallen in love with the Vedic literature. Decline and the ignorance of such a intellectual community and ideas is something to be consciously thought about and discussed. Sanatan Dharma is not a “Religion” like a western idea , Rather it is the collective knowledge and result of various Rishi’s and Sages of this Great land. It Proves To be meaningful and scientific. After all the Indian civilisation , Did not believe the earth was created on 23rd October 4004BC also our culture did not give rise to the idea that universe is earth-centric. Islam and christianity is only 1400 or 2000 years old and hence cannot be equated with Hinduism, which is God found religion from times immemorial.
Thank you Swamiji for uploading more videos!
Hinduism(Sanatana Dharma)
33 koti devata ≠ 330 million gods
33 koti devata = 33 Principle deities
They are as below:
(8) Vasus (Deities of elements)
1. Dyaus : Sky
2. Prithivi : Earth
3. Vayu : Wind
4. Agni : Fire
5. Nakshatra : Stars
6. Antariksha : Space
7. Surya : Sun
8. Chandra : Moon
(12) Adityas (personified deities)
9. Vishnu : The presever
10. Indra : Leader of other Adityas and god of clouds
11. Ansh : Due share
12. Aryaman : Nobility
13. Bhaag : Due inheritance
14. Dhatri : Ritual skill
15. Tvashtar : Skill in crafting
16. Mitra : Friendship
17. Pushan/Ravi : Prosperity
18. Savitra/Parjanya : Power of word
19. Surya/Vivasvan : Social law
20. Varun : Fate
21. Vaman : Cosmic law
(Adityas may vary).
(11) Rudras (The five abstractions)
22. Ananda : Bliss
23. Vijnana : Knowledge
24. Manas : Thought
25. Prana : Breath or life
26. Vack : Speech
(5) names of Śiva
27. Isana : Revealing grace
28. Tatpurusha : Concealing grace
29. Aghora : Dissolution/rejuvenation
30. Vamadeva : Preserving aspect
31. Sadyojata : Born at once
32. Atma : Self
And the last
33. The 2 Ashwins : Twin solar deities.
No all of them are one and same. there is no difference between Vishnu or Shiva
तदात्मानन्दगुरवे सर्वश्रेष्ठाय धीमते ।
नमः सात्विकयोध्रे तेsज्ञानानीकविघातिने ।।😊
I now down to the best of all, Tadatmananda Guru who is a soft Satwik solider who fights and destroys the army of darkness 😊.
My offerings to our teacher in the form of a Sanskrit shloka composed by me . 😊
Very nice. Thank you.
@@SwamiT प्रणमामि 🙏🙏🙏
Humans born predestined nature and has free will to choose his actions( karma) to uplift his dharma (his true self)
Thanks for caste system explanation Swami Ji.
So basically Caste system is a Position of a person in life. A new born baby is not of any caste.
If the person do job and get paid then it becomes shudra.
After doing job for few years, if it does business then becomes Vaishya.
If the person works to save people of his country from disasters, enemies etc then becomes Kshatriya
Finally the person learns enough knowledge throughout his life and is ready to give free knowledge in Gurukul and is Also ready to help people regarding marriage or spiritual things then it is Brahman.
@Margaret Brother are you from UK?
Actually current caste system with Lower and Upper is a byproduct of Colonialism by British East India Company and Mughals. They promoted this position based caste system as Birth based caste system. All the west historians are brainwashing the childrens in schools in UK and America. The history is 90% fake.
All inventions and knowledge of India was destroyed but before destroying they copied data and took to UK. From 24% GDP to below 4% when british left.
@Margaret Yes, you are correct that there is no social mobility in the rigid birth based caste system. But it is different from jathi system which allowed social mobility until 18th century. British agent Lord Herbert Hope Risley morphed varna and jathi based on race science and created the rigid birth based caste system. The same race science was used in Africa which led to Rwandan genocide.
Indian constitution unfortunately only solidified the rigid caste system for quotas. British also created zamindari system to take away the land from shudras in a foul manner. It means so called dalits were land owners before British/East India company looters sneaked in.
@Margaret Previously all occupations were hereditary (kings to carpenters), hence varna started getting assumed. But technically it's not so. We have started reservation system, made caste discrimination criminal offence. A lot more needs to be done. But that doesnt mean that the observation that a society is comprised of these 4 sections is wrong.
@@RAIRADIO the political establishment is doing its most to preserve the poison tree that the british planted.
@@sujayarao7322 yes and still the so called " lower " caste people fail to see that cause they are filled with all sorts of rubbish in their ears...they think someone is going to come and save them
ten gems of thought sets.
That is the best explanation I ever heard about misconceptions about HINDUISM. Thank you, Swamiji, for uploading these beautiful videos about meditation, Geetha, and Vedanta topics. 🙏
Thanks for making this video. You kind of opened my eyes by quashing my misconceptions!
Sir, by calling Ravan,a DEMON, you have sown the seed of yet ANOTHER MISCONCEPTION.
Not exactly your fault, since Ravan is referred to as a Rakshas in Sanskrit, and is translated into English as demon, or goblin. When, in fact there are NO demons, devils, or imaginary non human beings in Bharatiya culture. As we respect ALL beings as imbued with Parmatma.
A rakshas was just a person who was not DHARMEE , usually one with a huge ego, and self importance. We see, lots of rakshas' in the world today.... But rakshas' are human beings, at least in form. Forgive me for my impertinence in pointing this out.
Both Ramayan and Mahabharata were history happened…the Dwarka city of Krishna is exactly located in sea has been recently found and the weapon used in war of kurukshetra r also found in Hariyana state of India to archeologists 🙏🏻Hare Krishna Hare Ram 🙏🏻
Thank you. You are such a help for clarification in detail and complete picture.
Why are you in christianity then
@@ritamganguly6346 Take it easy. It is just a name
🙏😊Jai Shree Krishna 😊🙏
1. "Gyan(Knowledge)" stabilizes the "Mastisk(Brain)".
2. "Dharya(patience)" stabilizes the "Maan(Mind)".
3. "Prem(Love)" stabilizes the "Hriday(Heart)".
4. "Samarpan(Dedication)" calms the Impulses of the Body and stabilizes the "Sareer(Body)".
5. "Naay(Justice)" stabilizes the "Aatmaan(Soul)".
When these FIVE Bases of "Dharma" becomes stable, then man/woman is filled with "Karuna(Compassion)"
..... It's called "DHARMA"
😊🙏Jai Shree Krishna🙏😊
This collection of teachings are some of the best I have ever had the pleasure of learning. Thank you so much
Thanks Swamiji for making this wonderful video....🙏🙏
Hey can u tell d name of d temple at d beginning it's so marvellous
Khajuraho temple in madhya Pradesh
An enlightening talk. Thank you very much Swami Ji.
Swamiji. That's a nice video so lucidly explained in your own inimitable way. Please also address about why there are so many scriptural texts and which one is the best/easy to follow.. 🙏
Gita and vedas
Thank you Swamiji for a wonderful wisdom session 👍🙏
 wonderful lecture of yours again, dear sir! I always appreciate your profound knoweldge. And as a christian (orthodox Church) theologian, only a very little correction. It is definitely NOT the main goal of the my own orthodox christianity to get into a place called "paradise". Our goal is to get fully united with the attributes of God, by whome He communicates with creation, these are His love, His light, His grace and so on. Also in Judaism - at least in its mystsical branches - the main goal is in no way becoming an indweller of paradise, but again to unite with Gods greatest and most beloved attributes, thus performing in part the "tikkun olam" - the re-creation and restoring of the entire world by re-uniting the world with its creator. And even in the mystical forms of Islam, the goal is not achieving some paradise, but getting united with God himself and all His attributes in love, light and devotion. So I found in all religions - abrahamic and non-abrahamic alike - the ONE and only goal of meaning of life is LOVE and nothing but LOVE and to unite with that uncreated an undefilable LOVE, that we christians call God (and yes - this LOVE may have personal attributes - or even dont (like in parts of Buddhism, for example), but that is eventually of no greater relevance). May the Lord, who is love itself, bless you and those who follow the illuminous path to God you teach! Please carry on, enlightening all of us with such a great and profound wisdom! God bless you!
But where is karma and reincarnation? These 2 are the poison pills for Christianity which is slowly trying to digest Advaitha vedanta (unity consciousness) just like how it digested so called Paganism eg Christmas tree, church bell (copied from HIndu temples) etc.
Your theological approach to the ultimate goal of salvation is beautiful. It's also IMO very Orthodox, which means mystical, and dare I say it, Eastern. The Western Church, especially the Protestant tradition, really does focus on accessing paradise as the ultimate goal of salvation. Or maybe it's better described as escaping hell by making it to paradise (through the blood sacrifice of Jesus).
But I appreciate more your description, which does show the connective spiritual tissue within so many world religions.
I hear your lectures many times. Each time the understandings becomes clearer. I think everyone should listen multiple times to really grasp the meaning of your lectures. Thank you very much.
slight correction to the egyptian religion comment, just so you're not misrepresenting the tradition (as I know is not desired):
the religion is still practiced today, just by a very small group. It's called Kemetism and is a revival of the practices and traces their practices back to ancient egypt (just with a long gap in the time period in between).
Though your point still stands: religions have died out and have had 0 followers. Often they get absorbed into other religious traditions near them before the population goes out completely, and some of their traditions end up surviving into the present time (e.g. the neanderthal religion religion is where we returning the body to the earth (burial) likely comes from)
Thanks 🙏🏾 for this great video
Very crisply explained. Relevant, progressive and practical and in tune with changed environment
Thank you very much swamiji.
Thanks for pointing out that the message of "Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah" in Sanatan tradition is not absolute non-violence but "least harm to everyone involved". This can also be thought of as what is best for the "greater good".
Unfortunately, MK Gandhi twisted the meaning of "Ahimsa" in Sanatan Dharm and conflated it with "showing the other cheek" in an attempt to appeal to the aggressor's "conscience". As if this "conscience" was some absolute concept of this universe!!
As you so rightly pointed out here, "conscience" can have different meaning for different persons based on their upbringing / indoctrination. People even tend to mould their conscience and devise their own justifications in pursuit of their selfish ends!! Such people and entities cannot br reasoned with or influenced by emotion or convinced by sacrificing oneself.
So blessed to hear this short lecture, so meaningful and rational. Om Shanti!
Thanks to AI, I am able to study each of the 10 Upanishads in a manner, easy to understand and assimilate.
Remarkably described by you swamiji...
Very transparent and honest out of all controversial believes prevalent today.
Pranam and much thanks to Guruji. In this age of frantic rhetoric I find his simple explanations a soothing balm🙏🙏🙏
Pranam to swamiji for delivering such great knowledge to us….
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Swami ji, Thank u very much to help the all humans Races Religions to Remove Spiritual misconceptions.
I Support your True Reality of Vedanta.
VEDANTA IS TRUE to get Spiritual Knowledge and Know Nature of True Consciousness, True Non-dual Matter of God Brahmaan.
Our Goal is True Real , Supreme Soul Consciousness meets and unite with Brahmaan or Non Duality.
and remove the False Ego that we are other then Brahmaand.
Soul itself is Brahmaand which is Real ultimate truth.
By Following Astaang Yoga, Meditation Practices, Attending Samadhi we Soul or inner Self Conscious Merge with Brahmaand Love and filled with Real Spiritual bliss and Wisdom.
And our doubt, misconceptions ended
When we silently feels, experience Rain of Bliss in inner Self. and our Consciousness merge with Brahmaand.
Then our Personality or Ego diminishes,
And at last We are Brahmaand.
That is ultimate Truth and goal of our Human Life in This Universe .
To get Birth.
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Excellent! Every Hindu should watch this video first. Many non-Hindus have misconceptions about Hinduism. This video will help us when they confront us.
I listen to so many sitar ragas while exercising that the UA-cam algorithms have decided that I'm probably a Hindu. Maybe I AM a Hindu?
How does one know?
@@freakboostez6971 How do you know you like sandwich? By going to a subway and choosing the stuff you like. Same for Hinduism. Make a list of things you would like to follow in your life and follow them.
Just read once bhagwat geeta and eat meat .. and know your real dharm. We dot have conversion system . Veda say be human just it is. Whole world is one family . Our family. Each animal has right to live.
You know you are not a hindu if you have not been born in Hindustan which is another name for india. But you are a Sanatan dharmi as you are part of the eternal system of responsibility. Sanatan Dharma means eternal responsibility. So keep enjoying your raga sessions.
It's hard to say. But you can be hindu by just following dharma, believing in rebirth, karma. You know some hindus even don't follow rituals but still call themselves hindus. You can just call yourself hindu if you want to.
Good video! But i think that hinduism is not polytheistic, more like pluralistic.
I would belief in God in a great loving way with devotion straight from my heart, if only I saw proof of the fact that good is rewarded with good and bad with bad. But thats not the case. Instead "karma" appears randomly, good is random and bad is random as well. There is so much lack of consistency that my belief in God is weak and under question all the time. All I seek is to know God, but I cant really find Him anywhere because of contradictions and lack of consistency.
This has been observed on a mass scale many times in history. The plague of Athens is good example.
"The plague also caused religious uncertainty and doubt. Since the disease struck without regard to a person's piety toward the gods, people felt abandoned by the gods and there seemed to be no benefit to worshiping them. The temples themselves were sites of great misery, as refugees from the Athenian countryside had been forced to find accommodation in the temples. Soon the sacred buildings were filled with the dead and dying." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Athens
Yes you can seek and actually attain god!! It's through many ways (crux of hinduism) you need to explore and find your way to god. Good luck! 😃
Do read " I have no faith to be an atheist" and "Stealing from God" by Frank Turek
MLH Your confusion is like a person searching for a mirror to find himself/herself... As far as Karma is concerned, it is pre-programmed for everyone. It is like a script of a movie which is already written before the start of a movie.
If your role in the movie is a bad role, then you are pre-programmed to create more karma. if your role is good, then you are pre-programmed to create good karma and if your role is to be dharmic (action without creating karma) then you don't create any new karma. if you have either good or bad karma, you move on to the next movie with a pre-programmed script. if you don't have any karma, then you retire from movies called as Moksha.
Free will is also there but it cannot help you to achieve anything which is beyond the framework of your pre-programmed karma in this life. Free will can create new karma (which goes to your future lives) based on unfulfilled desires, wishes, regrets, likes, dislikes you have in this life. Now, Karma works on the principle of delayed causation when it comes to humans. So your unfulfilled desires created by your free will can materialize only in one of your future lives.
Karma of inanimate objects is immediate.
Our true-self or shiva is the divine which is omnipresent (both immanent and transcendent). But the immanent true self or shiva confuses and identifies with the intellect (close to mind) manas (close to heart) and body due to the faculty of ego or ahankara which is a spoiled child of manas where likes and dislikes are formed.
To experience your true self, don't use your intellect or buddhi unnecessarily to analyze your subconscious thought patterns or habitual thoughts. Most of the problem solved. You would be your true self (shiva). Let the garbage thoughts come to the surface but don't react. Observe it. It would clean up your subconscious garbage which reduces your new karma (Agama karma) . This is called Jnana yoga or Vipassana which can be practiced through out the day whenever you get an opportunity . This is yoga off the mat
"Do your duty. Don't worry about results". This is an important thing to not. You can't control the result. Only your actions. So stop worrying about you getting good or bad results.
Thank you for this summery
Very very Good. This should be taught in every school,every section of the society.
Easiest way of convincing and teaching.
Thanks for clearing doubts.
You have explained each and every concept of Hindu Dharma in a very simple way making it interesting and understandable. I love to watch your videos. Thanks a lot. 🙏🙏
🙏Thank you Swamiji for your eloquent explanations and wisdom. As a new Hindu thirsty for truth and spiritual knowledge , I am so grateful to have found you ! 🙏💕
Thank you good sir for your diligent thoughtful work. 🙏🏾 I am eternally grateful.
what is the song that plays in the transition please?
Very relevant Videos for All Thank you so much , we are grateful to you Guruji !
Seconds well spent!🧡
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Thanks for this great teachings.
Thank you guru 🙏🙏❤️
Thank you guruji for explaining in such simple yet clear terms. 🙏
Hinduism doesn't believe in 330 Million Gods/Goddesses! When we say 33 'Koti', it doesn't translate to crores(10^7) so to speak, in this case!
Here the word 'Koti' simply refers to high stature which also includes the connotation of forms or types! They are- 8 Vasus, 11 Rudras, 12 Adityas, Indra and Prajapati. Please tell me if I am wrong.
Okay, I have a couple of questions now:-
1. Are prayers always noble? What If someone wishes the downfall of some other out of sheer jealousy? Is that pious too; surely not!
2. If God strictly gives us what we deserve then what's the point of praying anyway?! Surely, we don't need to remind God of his duty and ask for what we deserve. Now if someone asks for guidance from God, it does make sense. However, it seems as if these arguments culminate in the conclusion that praying( asking as if demanding or begging ) is nothing but an act of ignorance or foolishness! Is that all to it?
Thank you 🙏
Then valmiki and vyasa must have been so mentally and intellectually evolved that they could imagine such fantastic tales so many many thousand years back. So much fantasy- very hard to believe
Those were not fantasy. But, real fact. These foreigners are ruining .
@@bhaskarmaity2890true man , our sages always tell us to speak the truth , and vyas and valmiki always talked about Satya , according to these sages truth is the ultimate karma , so it's hard to believe that they will write some lie ,
@@exploringnaturalbeauty2102 Mahabharat is our history but overexaggerated with some fantasy
The Brahmins are not responsible for the caste system. To them untouchability refers to anyone who has not had his bath or have been in contact with tthe dead, which is prohibited to anyone who is close to the deity in prayers. The lower catse is responsible to treat the lowest caste badly as they have no reason to take the cleaniliness to the extent the Brahmins require.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you
This helped ❤️Thankyou ❤️🙏
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Beautiful video! Please re-release the Bhagavad Gītā Chanted in English if you can Swami!
Honest observations
while explaining misconception 3.. God punishes evil people for their bad deeds and rewards pious for their good, I thought you were little harsh on Christianity.. to say that the reason why many Hindus themselves believe in this could possibly be because of their co-existence with Christianity for several years.. is bit unfair.. I mean, isn't this particular misconception... one of those many simple things that every child would like to believe? and how wise are many grownups compared to children? :).. by the way I am myself a Hindu, but I thought we need not blame this on other religions... among us Hindus there are, and were so many simple minded followers who doesn't need encouragement from other religions to misunderstand their own :).. just my thought. Other than that I find your video highly enlightening and answers some of the questions that I could not answer with confidence earlier about my own religion.. thank you Swamiji for that 🙏.
I do believe that Vimanas were truly real Flying saucers, maybe UFOa comming from other planets...
I wonder how the 4 Shankaracharya’s, each of whom is responsible for the preservation of one of the four vedas, would respond to the last point on the list.
Advaita requires a step by step by step approach to realization. Is it not essential each of those steps is preserved?
Excellent work, thanks. Not much else to say.
9:59 But options A, B or even C don't give You Liberation from Samsara (Cyclic Material Existence) , so D it's the Best Choice !
A new word is used for God in the universe and transcending the universe- it is called panentheism! Another wonderful video, swamiji. Thank you!
Paganism, that the Bible talks about ,
" They took up the star of their god remohan (offered (human) sacrifices( & figures to worship , so God turned aside & gave them up to their beliefs, goes by their generations , weaving stories & myths , The latest is the sacrifice of 121 people in Harthas,
Revered and respected Swamiji Saashtaanga Namaskara at your lotus feet. I am amazed at the clarity and the knowledge your explanation. I have no doubt at all that every human on earth will be benefited and reformed if he or she listen to you even once.
I am a volunteer in a vedic research institute exploring the-inner meanings of Veda.
I pray to to the Lord to give you long and healthy life to continue to enlighten people
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During my exams, I always select none of the above or all of the above when im unsure of the right answer. Good chance you will get it right :) Jokes apart, Swamiji is great! Thanks for the explanations.
The fluidity of the Varnas got tampered at a time by the thinking Brahmins and they then introduced the feudal system of compartmentalisation as well as inheritance as a method of succession and denied the natural flow of people by their inherent qualities. What we suffer is this corruption of the very natural fluidity of the system.
It was tampered by a British agent (lord Risley) who morphed varna and jathi based on race science. Of course, Brahmins were given plum government administration positions by the British to create resentment in other communities.
Thank you for the charity of your clarity.
Swami ji iam not agree with your opinion about advantage taken by Brahmins because if you read Mahabharat and Purana,s majority of Brahmins were extremely poor as well as they get tortured by powerful kings and caste .I can give many references on that . Division of varnas was natural but converting them to 6500 caste and 25000 subcaste across the huge Indian subcontinent was not possible by Brahmins alone , it's only possible by involvement of whole society and if you study the Indian society so called lower castes are more casteist and like to stick with their caste identity more than Brahmins.Only thing goes against Brahmins is they are easy target .
1 of the commandments in bible says Thou shall not kill, does it mean one should not also kill animals and be a vegetarian, why the believers do not want to interpret this? 🤔
Because they are hypocrites.
Well. I think that a human has to do a lot in a good way to the good he deserves. Madonna sang a couple of ugly songs and she was send to greatdome and big wealth, my sister takes care of disabled people every day and she barely can afford to eat a decent meal. How.
How you'll describe what is good and bad
@@stefano1405 I dont know. With bad there is hurt and pain involved. With good there is not.
@@Loesters so you think your sister isn't able to afford one time meal because the help she does to disabled
@@stefano1405 No. I compared lives with actions in my comment. Like, what did Madonna (or another celeb) do to get downloaded in a life of prosparity and wealth, and what did my sister do to not get the same download in her life. I wonder why that is. Thats all. Im sure that both Madonna and my sister produce bad karma by taking bad actions. They both do. So why is one life filled with abundance and the other one is not.
@@Loesters One case can be Madonna did something as wonderful or even better in the past life and is enjoying the fruits of it now, which is neither good nor bad as it is still karma. Your sister might be either breaking her bad karma while serving others or might be even accumulating good karma which will yield it's results in the next birth or phase. Nothing goes unwasted in this world.
Guruji you are quite wrong about 1 st one , i know its tough for western people to understand, they hardly even properly know 1000 yeard old history, the atomic bombs and those weapons do exist , we conservative people think the human development has started 4 to 5000 years ago , but in reality time is cyclical our scriptures talks about time.line of trillion years , humanity and whole universe goes through creation and destruction cycle , Mahabharat is an even which has happened 7000. Years ago , when krishna the enlighted being aka god himself , took avatar or became conscious of his true identity , that timeline wa called dwapar yuga , thay yuga was the last stage to have such sound activated powerful weapons of mass destruction, during Mahabharata only fewa people like karn , arjun , bhism , and few other had access to celestial weapons, and once that battle end most of the people who had access to celestial weapon died in that battel only , 1 -2 were left , like the grandson of arjuna was the one who had knowledge of celestial weapon , but krishna told him that that another dark yuga is now going to start called kaliyuga,in which we all are living , krishna said to grandson of arjuna that "Don't pass the knowledge of celestial weapon to further generation" as in kaliyuga those weapon in wrong hand can destroy earth and whole nature , so arjuna grandson did exactly what he was told , the knowledge of celestial weapon vanished after the death of arjun grandson , and when krishna died(means left his human form) that was the end of dwaparyuga , we have several proofs of miraculous phenomenon happening all around indian temple, particular hindu sites , and we even found krishna highly advanced sunken city dwarika , , when greeks students came ro india for learning in indian University they herd of this dwarika sinking story and when they went back they created or modified this story in what we called today the lost city of Atlantis
Excellent . All casts are from God and all are same. Especially Shoodras are foundation part of God. Now only , i understood. Thank you.
Thank you swanji❤️🙏🏻
You don't need free will at all to accumulate karma. Karma is action. Any action has a reaction (outcome) whether or not you freely chose/decided it or not. Furthermore, all actions are predetermined by your thoughts, which are predetermined by your subconscious, which in turn is predetermined by your personality - which arose from your life experiences (especially in childhood), genetics, tendencies, and the people you surround yourself with. Since the Self does not act and the body is truly not in control of its thoughts and subsequent actions, there is no free will.
Thank you Swam Ji for your inspiring words🙏
Pronaams!🙏
By the way Valmiki and Vayasa Muni are both avatar of gods.
And Mahabharata wrote by Sri Ganesha & Vayasa Muni describe it.
Thank you, Swamiji, for introducing two types of karma--- prarabdha karma and purusartha karma that is accomplished by free will.
Wealth should never be actively pursued by the righteous, but given as a gift by God's grace alone.
These things should be explained to RSS goons who are perpetrating untold miseries on indian muslim populations.
Every society were and is constituted of those four classes. So is India. The main cause is nepotism.
MashaAllah what a beautiful interpretation
Looking forward to start Year 2021 with a bang with the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita , Advaita Makaranda and Meditation classes ..Pranaam Guruji .🙏🏻
Acharya Pain is inevitable then why is pain not included in the four goals of life?
@Pankaj A. This will answer your questions!
So confusing conscious, consciousness, conscience? aren’t they all the same thing ?
7:47 you wouldn't attack your feet because they are lower than your head, would you? the intent of that verse was to show that all are nessacary for the health of society.
There is nothing absolute. The truth lies in-between.
Thank you Swami ji. You have done a tremendous job in helping Hindus to understand their own true nature and their faith. Also for non Hindus and society in general you have elegantly removed the misconceptions about Hinduism
Hope this gives Hindus a curiosity to learn more about their faith/ Dharma and purpose in life
Very enlightening discourse.Pranam Swamiji.
29:15 that would be panenthiesm :D a variation of pantheism