If Life is But a Dream, then WHO Dreams It? Perspective of Advaita Vedanta

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  • @alandunlap4106
    @alandunlap4106 Рік тому +43

    When I was 4 years old, I was walking down the street and I found myself, saying out loud, "I'm really here! I'm really HERE!!" Why I thought that was so profound, I don't know. But, suddenly I experienced Life as a Dream, a Lucid Dream, and I was the Dreamer. It was like I went from being an actor on a stage lost in the part, to being in the audience. I thought about telling my parents but I knew it would be a waste of time. They thought Life was REAL. It lasted for a few moments. Took 30 years and some nice drugs to experience it again.

    • @mysteriousworld9723
      @mysteriousworld9723 Рік тому +3

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂,

    • @putunova7124
      @putunova7124 Рік тому

      i😮o
      😅moomk

    • @Михаил-д6х1з
      @Михаил-д6х1з 11 місяців тому

      Nice story. What substance(s) helped you remember?

    • @alandunlap4106
      @alandunlap4106 11 місяців тому

      @@Михаил-д6х1з Just sitting silently under the stars with a friend after smoking some nice weed laced with free-base cocaine. :-)

    • @mtmind6560
      @mtmind6560 10 місяців тому

      Amazing

  • @kmanoham
    @kmanoham Рік тому +16

    I have to say this.... Swami Tadatmananda and Swami Sarvapriyananda are my spiritual guides. It reminds me of my University days where i had fantastic lectures who excited me gave me breadth of knowledge and tutorials that gave me depth and real insight . I am eternally grateful to these two swamis both from the Advaita Vedanta Tradition.

  • @skylarjon3464
    @skylarjon3464 Рік тому +5

    This may not have been your intention, but this really helped me understand the films of David Lynch

  • @maruthikaranth7152
    @maruthikaranth7152 11 місяців тому +3

    How very simply the teachings of Vedanta is put forth with so much clarity and insight. My humble pranamas to Swami Tadatmananda.🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉

  • @AdarshSingh-fi7pd
    @AdarshSingh-fi7pd Рік тому +27

    Please make a series on Ashtavakra gita.🙏🏻

    • @coolsai
      @coolsai Рік тому +3

      Yes please 🥺

    • @AllOrNothing35427
      @AllOrNothing35427 Рік тому +4

      Agreed!!

    • @rahul7090
      @rahul7090 Рік тому

      Yes please Swami ji. Kindly make videos on Asthavakra Geeta ❤

  • @gridcoregilry666
    @gridcoregilry666 Рік тому +4

    Thank you so much for all your effort towards making Vedanta known in the world!

  • @onetwozeroyt
    @onetwozeroyt Рік тому +11

    Thanks Swamiji. So clear. You have been explaining the nature of reality through all your videos with appropriate graphics. Thanks a lot for your work in this regard. Lucky are those who get to know and watch these videos.

  • @quake3quake3
    @quake3quake3 Рік тому +5

    Just brilliant! A thousand thumbs up! Om Namo Bhagavate Sivanandaya! Prostrations to my guru Sri Swami Sivananda!

  • @mtmind6560
    @mtmind6560 Рік тому +8

    When I had a non-dual experience a few things I immediately understood are:
    1- Without duality you cannot know you exist.
    2- It cannot be experienced by itself.
    3- it can be known fully.
    This “experience” happened spontaneously while I was talking to myself trying to understand Advaita Vedanta intellectually. Suddenly I disappeared into an blank nothing with the peculiar quality of awareness.
    Then a brief picture of my physical face appeared and then I was in a memory which I can only surmise was me as a child 3-4 years old.
    It was non-dual, physically radiant, pure awareness that did not know that it was. Although the room appeared exactly as I knew it from this memory, this time it was everything just as it was/is with no phenomenal existence. Pure beingness. As this was occurring I was also my identity/ego however like you said I was merged with what I later realized was my own current presence.
    like Dzogchen’s teaching
    of Rigpa. The appearance was developed from the primordial nature of mind which is the inseparability of awareness and emptiness. So this ‘dream’ develops into a dream through the recognition of “I Am” which begins Samasara but merges back to the primordial essence.
    At least that’s where I’m at right now. Does that mirror your experience?

  • @rram4772
    @rram4772 Рік тому +3

    Dream metaphor is indeed insightful. Thanks Swamiji for making this aspect of Vedanta somewhat understandable.

  • @wighatsuperreggie
    @wighatsuperreggie Рік тому +4

    I really appreciate the clear simplicity of your teaching, so thank you.

  • @sandeepbhan1893
    @sandeepbhan1893 Рік тому +7

    We are being thought by a thought

  • @edolavika1307
    @edolavika1307 7 місяців тому +1

    Thank you so much for the insightful explanation. It clears my confusion in understanding God as Ishvara & Brahma. It helps me to understand and know the beauty of the ancient teaching of Hindu while guide me to also understand the hidden teaching in Islam (tassawuf/sufism) & Christianity on immanence & transendence🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

  • @rishikesannair9792
    @rishikesannair9792 Рік тому +2

    So clearly deciphered a complex philosophy

  • @balajicanabady
    @balajicanabady Рік тому +3

    Sincere gratitude for your beautiful explanation of the dream metaphor. Your words were insightful and inspiring.
    I would also like to thank you for your time and dedication to teaching others. Your work is truly inspiring, and I am grateful for the opportunity to be a student of yours.

  • @angelarapuano1315
    @angelarapuano1315 Рік тому +2

    Una gioia immensa ogni volta ascoltare questi insegnamenti !
    É un video stupendo che studierò con attenzione e devozione 🙏🏻☀️
    Grazie ❤

  • @ytrrs
    @ytrrs Рік тому +1

    This is an eye-opener, though all the different illustrations I find in this video, has been heard from this Great Swamiji before, in different aspects in other earlier talks. Especially, the transcendence is now within my full grasp. I plan to send this video link to all my like-minded friends and relatives. Thank you, Swamiji ! My namaskarams to you!

  • @AdarshSingh-fi7pd
    @AdarshSingh-fi7pd Рік тому +4

    I just understood that existence is called as God , and we all are one existence.

  • @ringingthebells307
    @ringingthebells307 Рік тому

    Swamiji, whatever u have explained that can never be explained in a language and only can be contemplated as i too m finding it difficult to convert this in my own language if at all I had to explain it to others. U fantastically explained which can be easily grasped by someone if he catches the dream clue. I got it more clarified today now. After Mandukya Upanishad, I related everything to dream and got many answers and some were left which today I got. Being a hindu, I was a conventional ritualistic with the only knowledge of avataras and never got an opportunity to understand Ishwara in such a clear way. Thanks to swamijis like u. My devotion to God has become many fold now as I have understood him intellectually. Earlier such knowledge was esoteric and available thru guru shishya parampara but technology has played a major role to disseminate such crucial and most important knowledge to everyone who r seeking for truthness.My prostrations at ur feet Swamiji.

  • @codananda
    @codananda Рік тому +1

    This is the best explanation of the concept of avatar that I came across.

  • @aliad.4848
    @aliad.4848 Місяць тому

    Thank you. I'm back on track. Your teachings really help me understand the inner world.❤

  • @Toxicashellmonsanto
    @Toxicashellmonsanto 3 місяці тому

    this is the best program on UA-cam

  • @EliAbramzon
    @EliAbramzon Рік тому +1

    I really appreciate the Vedantic ability to contain philosophical concepts, while not losing the religious theistic language and attitude.

  • @sinha4423
    @sinha4423 Рік тому +4

    Pronam Swamiji ! Excellent explanation, and such skillful dissection of our dream world is just amazing ! Such discourses come out so helpful in my modest pursuit of self knowledge. Gratitude and gratefulness. Best regards 🙏

    • @MP-rg8dv
      @MP-rg8dv Рік тому

      Revered swamiji very nice presentation about the dream metaphor in advaita vedanta, but i recently came across a content related to dream world by Robert Adam (disciple of Ramana Maharshi ) who interprets that the small self (ego) is living in false illusory world and all the happenings for that ego self is preordained and whatever incidents happens is predetermined with nobody's influence and he further stated that the real self is pure consciousness like screen for illusory images . ....So now my question is how the small self ego world is preordained and predetermined when we can actually take efforts, decisions and try to willingly change the situations?? Does our efforts and willingness is also a dream or preordained predetermined condition ??

    • @ferdinandocoluccelli9574
      @ferdinandocoluccelli9574 Рік тому +1

      @@MP-rg8dv The characters in the dream only play a role, like actors do; they cannot change the (preordained) course of the dream. the same is true, according to the dream analogy, for the man in God's dream. It is God who "lives" what you appear to be. 🙂🙏

    • @elogiud
      @elogiud 10 місяців тому +1

      @@ferdinandocoluccelli9574 , yes, I agree, and I contend that since is it God who lives what I 'appear' to be, I also contend that 'i' am not the 'doer', nor do I choose my thoughts; it is all done through me as if I were the hole in the flute through which the universe plays this song, known as 'me'.

    • @ferdinandocoluccelli9574
      @ferdinandocoluccelli9574 10 місяців тому +1

      @@elogiud I agree! The analogy of the flute is very pretty 🥰

  • @rakeshrockb
    @rakeshrockb Рік тому +2

    Thank you swami🙏 we are indebted for all your teachings and the way you explain with soothing voice and graphics helps aspirants to advance in their spiritual endeavors. We are very fortunate.

  • @sashpdhar
    @sashpdhar 10 місяців тому +1

    Pranams Swamiji , kindly whats the background music name used for this video ?

  • @maruthikaranth7152
    @maruthikaranth7152 11 місяців тому

    Swamiji Tadatmananda is an enlightened soul. He has a Universal outlook of seeing everything as it is. HARIOM TATSAT. 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉🕉

  • @mathangisunderrajan3773
    @mathangisunderrajan3773 Рік тому

    Wonderful! I need to watch it again & again to assimilate it completely! Really....thanks so much Swamiji! The explanations have come at the right time.... Bhagavan Ramana is my Guru & I believe in Advaita Vedanta philosophy. At present I am listening to Bhagavad Gita classes & was a bit confused as to how Krishna & his great teachings would fit into the framework of my Guru s. Ramana Maharshi has sent me your teachings at the right moment to clarify & illuminate me. Pranams.,🙏🙏

  • @BlackHermit
    @BlackHermit Рік тому +2

    Very good lecture. Thank you so much 🙏

  • @rashmibhatnagar7243
    @rashmibhatnagar7243 Рік тому

    Thanks Swamiji, almost felt like someone just gave me all the answers I was struggling with. Its been a while since I discovered about Vedanta, but could not figure out how this works. If everything is mithya, then what is the pain which I feel in my heart. So many questions, but no single answer. I have been seeing your videos for quite some time. The way you explain things is so wonderful, like a father. Wish I could meet you and learn from you. This video cleared many doubts, but Im still a long , long way. Thanks for creating such insightful content.

  • @joejoe-lb6bw
    @joejoe-lb6bw 7 місяців тому

    Such a beautiful use this metaphor. Of course, it can be carried too far. For example, when the dreamed people are told by the guru/avatar that all is one, they can accept, but it remains just a philosophy for them. No amount of Sadhana will free what isn’t real.

  • @ragaashish33
    @ragaashish33 Рік тому +2

    Wonderful video thank you guruji.

  • @artisttemple8268
    @artisttemple8268 Рік тому +2

    Thank you. 🙏🏽✨

  • @nkastropil
    @nkastropil 4 місяці тому

    So skilled at expounding the great texts 🙏

  • @db8799
    @db8799 Рік тому +2

    If the body replaces each cell every 7 years ...( including the bones)
    So, how can we be the body? Because the body lives 7 times that long?....
    You are the Awareness of the body...
    You are the Eternal, unchanging Pure Awareness...

    • @joejoe-lb6bw
      @joejoe-lb6bw 7 місяців тому

      The body parts are not all simultaneously replaced at same moment. So, not the best argument.

  • @BoundlessJon
    @BoundlessJon Рік тому

    Amazing video, thank you for spreading the dharma and keeping this nondual truth alive.

  • @ravish05
    @ravish05 Рік тому

    Thank you swamiji. I recall you had gone through this material during the bhagavad gita class. Nice to see this information with some pictures.

  • @rajaiaf
    @rajaiaf Рік тому

    Sir, you are my upa-guru. I bow down to your blessed feet. ❤🙏🏾

  • @kanishkajoshi563
    @kanishkajoshi563 Рік тому +2

    🙏 Thank you Swamiji.

  • @Lucyelle
    @Lucyelle Рік тому +2

    What makes us, the characters in nirguna brahman's dream, realize our dreamer/the nirguna brahman? Are we saguna brahman ourselves?

  • @Fokrey1955
    @Fokrey1955 Рік тому

    Enjoy his presentation.

  • @1stmoviefan
    @1stmoviefan 10 місяців тому

    I must be finally going forward on my path. After all I found you!😂🎉 Thank you. This is wonderful.❤

  • @vibs99
    @vibs99 Рік тому

    Interesting metaphor and explanation. Thank you 🙏🙏

  • @dangem5022
    @dangem5022 9 місяців тому

    Masterfully explained Swamiji! Thank you 🙏🕉☮☮☮🙏

  • @rajendraprasadkandel5079
    @rajendraprasadkandel5079 Рік тому

    I always be repleted with your insightful vedantic teachings in simple words. I am so much grateful for your great work…god bless you❤️🙏❤️❤️❤️

  • @beinghappy8492
    @beinghappy8492 Рік тому

    Namaskar Swami ji. Your teaching is very simple to understand. Love you.

  • @vijayasenthilraj849
    @vijayasenthilraj849 Рік тому

    My respects to you Swami, I am fortunate to have found you ❤

  • @dipendhruv3951
    @dipendhruv3951 Рік тому

    Beautifully & logically explained !

  • @mybabyandme08
    @mybabyandme08 Рік тому

    So happy to watch this video today 🙏🏽🙏🏽

  • @meditatedeeperwithvenky
    @meditatedeeperwithvenky Рік тому +1

    Wow. A truth as profound as who is the Lord of the Cosmos, explained with such clarity. Thank you for your guidance Swamiji! With greetings and gratitude from www.youtube.com/@meditatedeeperwithvenky/about.

  • @vijayamohan33
    @vijayamohan33 7 місяців тому

    Amazing Teachings ❤❤❤ rest great great

  • @vik24oct1991
    @vik24oct1991 Рік тому

    Excellent metaphor, even the concept of reincarnation and subtle body be explained by this dream metaphor, the atman are your neurons, the subtle body is the memory imprint in the neurons, reincarnation is basically resource allocation of neurons to simulate another character, when this resource allocation happens the previous memory sometimes remains due to deep imprints cresting plasticity in the neurons hence people remember their past life, also Brahman is the unified field, atman is point on the unified field, subtle body is the temporary distortion on the field and so on.

  • @dramolkoranne5846
    @dramolkoranne5846 Рік тому

    Jabardast
    Thank you 👍

  • @Hocusbogus28
    @Hocusbogus28 Рік тому

    Swami ji. Thank you for this knowledge. May i please request you to add the link/source for the wonderful music you use in your videos?

  • @sumanth42564
    @sumanth42564 Рік тому

    So well explained! Really enjoyed it

  • @frankng3111
    @frankng3111 Рік тому

    Thank you Swamiji ! Wonderful teaching, wondeful explaination from the Masters!

  • @Eva-iy6vy
    @Eva-iy6vy 11 місяців тому

    Excellent teaching...and Swami so good.

  • @excellentjester
    @excellentjester Рік тому +1

    Namaste guruji

  • @EliAbramzon
    @EliAbramzon Рік тому +1

    Great.

  • @_That_which_is_not_
    @_That_which_is_not_ Рік тому

    Great video ❤

  • @alcosmic
    @alcosmic Рік тому

    So THAT'S what Lovecraft was talking about, now I get it!

  • @DenzilPeters
    @DenzilPeters Рік тому

    very nice intro music, can you please provide a link to the album?

  • @delaramwakefield3989
    @delaramwakefield3989 Рік тому

    Yes, please and also on the incredible Avadhuta Gita. Wish had the company of these authors rather the contemporary people.

  • @Rob_132
    @Rob_132 Рік тому

    Thank you for your teachings.

  • @Temon0942
    @Temon0942 Рік тому

    Amazing teaching guru ji

  • @jsblastoff
    @jsblastoff 11 місяців тому

    Super Fresh!!

  • @Regan-travels
    @Regan-travels 2 місяці тому

    So cool 🙏

  • @nameless-yd6ko
    @nameless-yd6ko 3 місяці тому

    One can easily call the Universe a dream!
    We (Souls) are Consciousness perceiving Mind (all that exists).
    Everything that we perceive is a 'concept/memory', nothing more, Mind!
    The thing is to become lucid in this Dream/Mind.
    Salvation/Enlightenment/Mystic is to become Lucid, enjoying the illusion, but not believing it!

  • @PeterNæss-w5w
    @PeterNæss-w5w Рік тому

    Thank you. 🙏

  • @cctvyoges
    @cctvyoges Рік тому

    Om namasivaya gurudev

  • @jasminka-k9t
    @jasminka-k9t Рік тому

    Thank you Swamiji.🙏

  • @vsaitta
    @vsaitta Рік тому

    Thank you so very much again for all your teachings! 🙏🙏🙏🕉🕉🕉📿📿📿🤪

  • @rajukunjukrishnan472
    @rajukunjukrishnan472 Рік тому

    Pranam Guruji 🙏

  • @MP-rg8dv
    @MP-rg8dv Рік тому

    Revered swamiji very nice presentation about the dream metaphor in advaita vedanta, but i recently came across a content related to dream world by Robert Adam (disciple of Ramana Maharshi ) who interprets that the small self (ego) is living in false illusory world and all the happenings for that ego self is preordained and whatever incidents happens is predetermined with nobody's influence and he further stated that the real self is pure consciousness like screen for illusory images . ....So now my question is how the small self ego world is preordained and predetermined when we can actually take efforts, decisions and try to willingly change the situations?? Does our efforts and willingness is also a dream or preordained predetermined condition ??

  • @girishnanoti954
    @girishnanoti954 Рік тому

    Pranam Swami ji

  • @reemamer1237
    @reemamer1237 Рік тому

    Where are you located to attend your meditation. Thank you 🙏

  • @knowthetruth311
    @knowthetruth311 Рік тому

    Wow swami Tadatmananda ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @arunavakundu4314
    @arunavakundu4314 Рік тому

    Sorry just like sleep possess the power to create dreams, can Maya be likened to sleep ? And does Maya act in two steps to produce the creation. And the dream metaphor has only one step with the sleep and mind like Maya producing an altered state of consciousness ?

  • @Advaita-Sarwar
    @Advaita-Sarwar 3 місяці тому

    What is the title of the flute 🪈

  • @AdarshSingh-fi7pd
    @AdarshSingh-fi7pd Рік тому +2

    How guru of dream knows about sleeper(the girl)?

    • @meditatedeeperwithvenky
      @meditatedeeperwithvenky Рік тому

      Great question! Answer: As he is an enlightened Guru, he knows that the underlying reality of their entire dream universe (the material and the intelligence) is the consciousness of the dreamer. And that is not different from his own conscious awareness. He cannot know, and no one in the dream world CAN know the dreamer as 'an object' or as that girl sleeping in bed, as in this case. That is what Swamiji meant by Transcendent. But he does know the dreamer as consciousness. 😊

    • @AdarshSingh-fi7pd
      @AdarshSingh-fi7pd Рік тому +1

      @@meditatedeeperwithvenky how do you know that the underlying reality is consciousness?

    • @meditatedeeperwithvenky
      @meditatedeeperwithvenky Рік тому

      @@AdarshSingh-fi7pd That is exactly what it means to be enlightened. The way to achieve it, as the guru did, is through sravana, manana and nididhyasana.

  • @mindhunter09
    @mindhunter09 3 місяці тому

    The only question I have is: How can anything, dreams, illusion etc happen at all within an immutable reality? Assuming parabrahman is absolute, infinite, and immutable.

    • @nameless-yd6ko
      @nameless-yd6ko 3 місяці тому

      In the "absolute, infinite, and immutable" Reality of non-dualism, every moment of Universal existence happens simultaneously!
      "The Laws of Nature are not rules controlling the metamorphosis of what is, into what will be. They are descriptions of patterns that exist, all at once... " - Genius; the Life and Science of Richard Feynman
      All 'eternity' at once; Here! Now!!

  • @yogini3424
    @yogini3424 Рік тому

    Pranam Swamiji, when "I" die is that the form and mind which I seem to be, disappear from Ishwara's dream ?

  • @thomaskuhl4336
    @thomaskuhl4336 Рік тому

    Can one do without Ishvara by assuming that the Atma collectively create the universe (or all possible universes)?

  • @swamivedantanandapuri1322
    @swamivedantanandapuri1322 Рік тому

    Pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @stephanesylvestre7143
    @stephanesylvestre7143 8 місяців тому

    Even Christianity acknowledges this teaching via the famous song: He hold the whole world in his hands😉

  • @arunavakundu4314
    @arunavakundu4314 Рік тому

    And the Maya can be likened to the dream Swamiji ? Just like dream possesses a genesis power to create dream, the Maya has the creating ability to produce a dream like state. Maya acts at Nirguna Bramhan to produce Ishwara ( Saguna Bramhan) to produce the creater. Then Iswara will supposedly will be acted upon by another spell of Maya to create the world as the Saguna Bramhan possesses the power to create ?
    The creater( Ishwara)will therefore be the sleeping girl in your metaphor Swamiji ?
    The difference between the girl in the sleep and Consciousness ( Saguna Bramhan- Ishwara) is that the girl will not have access to the four states of waking dreaming and deep sleep. On the other hand Saguna Bramhan has access to all the deformations in the various states of consciousness under the spell of Maya.
    Are mind and Maya synonymous ?
    Swamiji is my understanding wrong ?

  • @omshaanti369
    @omshaanti369 Рік тому

    Question if anyone can help... if I am a "dream", where does free will come in?

  • @Rivulets048
    @Rivulets048 Рік тому

    That thumbnail goes so hard

  • @dieseljagwar6673
    @dieseljagwar6673 4 місяці тому

    Wooooowwww!

  • @moregains9883
    @moregains9883 8 місяців тому

    Brahman is the one consciousness in which this ego, this world and dream ego ,dream world arises and subsides this one consciousness is consciousness of the nothingness of the deep sleep. Know that consciousness to be you and that is Ishvara.

  • @netineti3901
    @netineti3901 Рік тому

    I rarely remember my dreams.

  • @tejsingh1546
    @tejsingh1546 Рік тому

    🙏✨️0m shanti shanti shanti

  • @anupriyachoudhary3797
    @anupriyachoudhary3797 Рік тому

    So ishwara exists in all of us? Or like we're the ishwara itself as in are we nirguna ishwara? Please someone clarify.

    • @Thelema108
      @Thelema108 Рік тому

      There are not "all of us". Only Ishvara

    • @abdulrashid-iy8lt
      @abdulrashid-iy8lt 10 місяців тому

      When you don't like a sound of crow or a noisy sound When you don't want to listen a sound who listen that sound without your permission

  • @jokerjokerrr1264
    @jokerjokerrr1264 Рік тому

    ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @hariharan4922
    @hariharan4922 Рік тому

    🙏🙇‍♂️🙇‍♀️🙏

  • @mukeshdesai2862
    @mukeshdesai2862 11 місяців тому

    8:30
    11:33 ❤️

  • @Chandu-lb4lu
    @Chandu-lb4lu Рік тому

    🙏🏼🌸🌼🌺🕉

  • @mariae.antonsen2183
    @mariae.antonsen2183 Рік тому

    Hei arsha

  • @NavDeepDhim4n
    @NavDeepDhim4n Рік тому

    🙏👍❤

  • @amitdahal1698
    @amitdahal1698 Рік тому

    NY no longer in the pic for me. She still has a future