As a japanese i always feel fascinated by hindoo philosophies. Damn they are mindboggling. I believe many of the east asian & chinese philosophies have had their oirigin in India. Indian sages were real shit i am telling you. Thank you amish for coming here , we welcome you at the knowledge centre(atleast for now) of the world.
The Chinese also have a very vast connection to the divine, along with the Japanese civilizations as well. Before the world began fighting, these asian ancient civilisations practised peace and thought, they thrived to build stronger connections to the universe rather than meddle in politics and other vices. Also, the other one god religions are actually factions of religions born in the kaliyuga (the dark ages), meaning they can only bring you closer to the devil, they're scared of their gods as if their god would punish them with death. Islam for example, is a totally radical religion trying to impose their ideology like they have it all figured out, converting people to islam with swords and then calling it the fastest growing religion in the world, that itself process what a demonic ideology they carry and their trajectory is only that of destruction. They hate science. Also, the CERN facility in France (the atom collider), has a massive Shiva statue at the entrance, will you question them too? Our gods are not just myths, they actually had a purpose.
@@adhvaitchauhan8449 agreed man, yes many of the world problems today have origin in rigid religious philosophies like islam, i wish someday they too understand the value of humanism and learn to coexists.
@@watanabe00738 Islam teaches to be a pawn of the god, and their god preaches nothing but destruction of all things that are not islamic. They are taught that there is no other god but their god, and their god instructs them to kill everything that is not islamic. Islam will never learn the peace and love taught to us by our forefathers, they are only taught about how to disrupt the world's peace. No wonder theyre hated all over the world.
Yes chinese culture, and Japanese culture trace it's origin to Indian culture. 80% of Shinto gods are indian gods and 70% Chinese culture is Indian culture
u r language or choice of words tell how uncultured u r or how ignorant u r . just like this Indian High commissioner is it is SANATAN not Hindu. Please read MAYA AND ILLUSION by SWAMI VIVEKANAND Watch the Eponymous Hollywood movie MATRIX ( the 1st one )
Great Mathematician of India- Srinivasa Ramanujan's thoughts about god "An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God." You must have also seen the movie based on the life of Srinivas Ramanujan- The Man who know infinity ,🇮🇳❣️ I am devotee of Lord Krishna 🙏🏻
I am a Brazilian Sanatani. I do follow an African-Brazilian spiritual tradition as well, but Sanatan Dharma does not conflicts with it. It complements it beautifully! Since I started studying Hingu philosophy and chanting mantras, Lord Shiva, Maa Kali/Parvati, Lord Ganesha and Lord kartikeya started manifesting to me in dreams and also blessed me with their love and compassion. God bless Sanatan Dharma!
There is no "Hindu philosophy" or "Buddhist philosophy" or whatever like that, and as at least you mean all that here (and many others). This is a great misunderstanding, and a misunderstanding basically of some westerners when they met some eastern traditions, and a misunderstanding too of some others, out of the everyday uncareful use of the language and terms and out of communication reasons and many other reasons. Those you call "Hindu philosophy" are religions too or myth with maybe some look like - "phenomeno-philosophical" character and approaches on some myth kind or religious texts. This does not mean that they are or consist philosophy. Philosophy is something very specific, and comes from Greeks and it is exclusively a Greek thing and because of Greece. No other before had any philosophy. It first appeared in Greece around the 6-7th century BC with the pre - socratic philosophers and then continues also to West. There is only one philosophy : the western philosophy and it's transformations etc. from Greeks. No Hindu philosophy or any such thing. One can ofcaurse take the ideas of Hinduism and influenced by that make then something philosophical out of it, but this would be something very different and you can not call Hinduism it self "a philosophy" or eastern traditions philosophy. In the same sense and way there are not either "spiritual traditions". They are religious traditions. Only in west exist "spiritual traditions". Meaning that someone can be spiritual but not religious, not following some certain religion, sect, religious path etc.
@@Trophonius wow! It looks like you have got a lot of free time and a big chip on your shoulders! Thankfully I have got better things to do than wasting my time arguing over the use of a term I read on the comments section. And writing a whole essay on it! 😂
I was born in Christian family and now following sanatan dharma also called as Hinduism. It's extremely advanced and inclusive. Also the most ancient religion in the world was appealing after studying all the other religions and spiritual paths. Namaste! 🙏🎉
@@shivasri26 no caste dummy. It's a system made up at the end of British occupation to oppress people, originally based on the lords and peasents model.
@@shivasri26the caste that muslims Christians Abrahamic mindset people bought it from middle East and Europe and now reaping the rewards of their own karmas U mess with hindu land and it pays u back in numerous other ways
@@VIPIN4528 You know our Prime Minister Modi belongs to OBC. Foreigners may not know much about caste. But when they want to know about Hinduism, they have to know about caste. Our president murmur ji belongs to ST caste. What caste do you belong to?
Essentially Hindu Culture doesn't Concretize any Absolute Truth but Gives the Freedom to Seek it ourselves because what ever we are Seeking is withiin Us 🙏🙏🙏
@@brishnevk4823 sorry brother but.... Sanatan Dharam that is hinduism is not a culture it 's a actuall dharma ( ie. Religion in your language ) and we have only one true God who created every thing and we are guided but that one god..... That's it....🙏
@@Sketchafella Religion and Dharma are two different things 😂😜😜... Religion translates to Panth or Sampradhay... Dharma simply means Law .. Universal Law . If you don't know this basic thing what are u trying to teach ?? .. you are telling the same bla bla story of Other Abrahamic religions
Its cyclic, in hinduism. Time itself is not linear. Hinduism is really different. We dont understand why you think its so. We should actually see a discussion of really ,the people, discussing. Sadly, very few..and language barrier. Essence is lost. A bread and a chapati are totally different but its translated as bread. Namaste is not hello. Aunty is not massi. Totally different
No problem. You are still HIndu, if you follow Dharma. Dharma does not mean worship of God or rituals to God, only right way of living. And, by the way, that way of living by everyone STILL entails conflict & ethical & moral dilemmas and Dharma is only to guide you and you still have to make a tough choice as to what is right from your point of view which may not agree with the universe and if so, you must be prepared to face the consequences.
@@induchopra3014 But, if you say that it's cyclic, that means it's a closed loop, which also means that it is linear in some sense, since we arrive back at the same starting point. I may take back my previous point then. 🤦🏻♂️
@@Fragu1308since it's not really a codified religion in the sense that Abrahamic religions are and much more a way of living, it is open to interpretations and none of them are incorrect tbh. It is very tolerant of minority schools of thought too although fundamentally the basic moral principles remain the same. One tenet that I believe really represents it well is that there is divine in each living being. This is what allows it to be a non-proselytising religion I think. You should read up more about it and probably should not base your interest through comments on YT
I was born in a hindu family, but lack of knowledge,I used to disrespect concept of God, After I suffer of shani Dasha (in horoscope way), I learn something about 10 incarnation of bishnu and many more thing now I am a proud hindu 🕉 ❤
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman "i will listen to music and i think listening songs is not haram" boom blashphemy," i will not wear hijab in public because i feel nowadays people are not wearing it for the sake of their culture but rather wear because they are forced to do so", boom blasphemy, thesse are only few examples, questioning the existence of god is also considered blasphemy
If you observe carefully, the arguments presented by Abrahamic religion scholars always focuses on whether someone believes in their concept of God or not and how that would lead to good/evil outcomes for the society. Where as the arguments presented by Hindu scholars are always about philosophy, how humans think and how we can enhance our knowledge and thought process. They never talk about belief/ lack of belief in a specific God. There lies the difference.
The speaker did well to refer "Nasadiya Sukta". What does it say? It is a clear acknowledgement of the writer of Veda that he has no clue as to how the creation came into existence. He admits that he is not even certain whether there is someone who created it or all just happened on its own. He says the gods we worship, even they do not know, as they are later additions. So the moot point is whatever happened in the process , is known only to God if He is truly the creator. Whatever man contemplated through his intellect can only be an assumption. Men are diverse in their opinions therefore no one theory put by man can be the gospel truth. What if, God decides to reveal the whole process, its purpose and outcomes. What if God confirms His revelation through outstanding signs that are beyond human capabilities, to impress upon the people the validity of the source. Judaism and Christianity operates on this belief. If I have to choose between the philosophy of man and the revelation of God, I will choose the latter part.
@@littleman6379 And just like the speaker said, Abrahamic religion see the truth as black and white. And in terms of blasphemy or acceptance of god. Whereas knowledge can only be attained through the shades of gray , via discovery.
I was born in a muslin family, raised muslim and along after some serious life struggle, I stumbled on the Gita ramdonly and never looked back. I just meditate now. There was a point in my life where I needed to just be still and Indian Spirituality has made me still and kept me alive. Hinduism has a whole different approach to God. As a human being you have to self-reallize yourself and you will just know because God is already in you. The Truth about God lies in India with the Saints and all the Self-Realized. You just know. The Upanishads are more than 3000 years, older than all the scriptures of the world but when you read it, you just know..The Chandogya Upanishad Chapter VI The Story of Shvetaketu has me read multiple times. There is no other beautifiul way to illustrate God like the Father Uddalaka did for his son Shvetaketu.
@@sume6103 Thank you very much. India is really my home even though I was not born there. The truth about God lies in India with the Saints, all the self-realized of India..
The western world has been hearing about Hinduism for decades now. Amish didn't bring anything new. Not trying to insult you, it s fact. Unfortunately to the Oxford Union which are mainly Athiests and feminists they just use it to ridicule religion.
Can it really be explained? No Culture is the background. Things are lost in translation Roti is not bread. Massi is not aunty. There is no word in English for massi
And this is not Hinduism this Vedic school of thought. He only scratched the surface, and the penultimate chapter of Vedas he quoted pretty much summarizes the purpose of humans. Keep questioning, pursue that until you find the answer, enlighten in the process and never stop
Unlike Christianity or Islam, we don't have a single definition of God. We leave it to people, people create their own perception of God. This is beauty of Hinduism.
@@djsjsjjejebfbdj What, does that name mean?? OR more specifically who coined the term "Brahmin", and its interpretation, how does that "term" came into human brain if its non-human origin or before language evolved??
@@djsjsjjejebfbdj So, "brahmin" are human or non-human who coined term "Brahm" and its interpretation?? Further why do they sound so rythmic?? I am so confused..
Amish Tripathi have tried to make the view point of Hindu religion very easy and simple to understand. He is a great scholar and orator with vast knowledge of religion and science. Reminds me Swami Vivekanand's speech. Hats off, Sir.
@@jimvanlint8043 its a part of hinduism its prabrhm in manifested form one aspect is to learn from his life stpries and other is to see god in everything thatswhy in his festival first we make his idol and worship it which is of stone or mud mostly then after 7-10 days we place that idol in a flowing stream of water just to remember hat everything is of god and everything is god
We are trained to see God in every living creature. In plants and in the animals. Even in the Sun. And in everything under the Sun. Hinduism is not for Beginners. But, it answers more questions of life than all other religions put together. Try it. You will be better off. @@jimvanlint8043
Oh listen every particle of this universe includes the existence of God and for that's what they represent so stop putting shit without even knowing the facts @@jimvanlint8043
Amish Tripathi really understands what hinduism is at its core. It is about finding the truth rather than telling you what the truth is. He put a really nice debate. Namaste🙏🏽
@@ExistentialDodo it just says that you don't the meaning of the word "truth", to know what is truth when it comes to you. Think logically man.. Don't be ignorant, just come out of your ignorance..
I still hope Bali and Kalinga once again unite love from odisha india... right now m not financially free but one day I'll come to Bali ..our ancient history hav strong relationship with Bali here in odisha we hav a festival call Bali jatra in the memory of our coexistence...#Bali...
@@sukhoicheetah Have u been heard us ? ☕😄 Balinese Hindu in Bali island 🏝️ The last Hindu Island in Indonesia?? we are Balinese Tribe who had Fight for our Culture and Our Religion Siwa Budha 🕉️☯️🔯 Hindu Bali from Occupied by another entity many religion from 500 years ago until now and we Balinese survive still stand here as Balinese Hindu who had Balinese culture base on Hindu 🙏
After hearing this, I feel like I still have much to learn. I am grateful to have been born into a Hindu family, which offers me various paths to discover the truth. I bow to the divine power 🙏🏻
This is the most refreshing speech of the lot... plus he leaves time for questions! Normally theism VS atheism debates are black-and-white, but he adds a genuinely novel perspective.
In other words: "I believe in a talking monkey, a man with a talking elephant head, a gigantic man with 10 heads and I am proud of myself for believing such things."
Whever Devtas (Shiva, Visnu etc.) you see are the personification of Purusha (cosmic being or self, awareness, and universal principle) and whatever the Devi (Durga, Kali, Radha etc) you see are the personification of Prakritis (material nature in its germinal state, eternal and beyond perception).
read the scriptures with a rational mind and be aware of false equivalence and be extremley careful reading every line of the scriptures you will find that hinduism is nothing different than others. also read about the varna system and untouchability.
there is no definition or declaration or mention of "NON BELIEVER" (who does NOT go to temple , who does NOT read Bhagvad geetaa , who does NOT pray to god etc.........) in vedas , upnishads , geeta, but there exist definition of Good Karma , Bad karma , Good results , Bad results, as a science.
I used to disrespect my hindu religion as i lack knowledge now i gained knowledge and proof i can proudly say i born as sanatani will always need to be in this dharam in every life As i gained knowledge every religion gave roots to hindu and sanatan is oldest even many west scintist source was hindu book even nasa searching on hindu god tandav of lord Shiv based on cosmic energy om is universal sound multiuniverse black whole earth distance shape 9 planets everything was explained by our gods when not a single religion was born just because SANATAN DHARM IS ETERNAL OLDEST AND REAL🕉️ HARE KRISHN
12:57 Nasadiya Sukta (Hymn of non-Eternity, origin of universe): There was neither non-existence nor existence then; Neither the realm of space, nor the sky which is beyond; What stirred? Where? In whose protection? There was neither death nor immortality then; No distinguishing sign of night nor of day; That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse; Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness there was at first, by darkness hidden; Without distinctive marks, this all was water; That which, becoming, by the void was covered; That One by force of heat came into being; Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Who then knows whence it has arisen? Whether God's will created it, or whether He was mute; Perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not; The Supreme Brahman of the world, all pervasive and all knowing He indeed knows, if not, no one knows.
it doesn't claim to be absolute truth like desert cult gods nastik philosophy is also part of hinduism abrahmic cult members can never understand how hindus can be religious without beliveing in any god.
Hats off to this genius. No one else could have explained Hindu religion and its philosophy in such a short talk and that is too in very simple way. After reading his books one can easily understand that he has in depth understanding of Hindu philosophical texts. That makes him unique from so called novel writers. His knowledge and understanding of scriptures and philosophical texts inspries lot of young Indians to read his writings.
In Abrahamic faiths, worldview starts with GOD as an external entity who created world and gave a rulebook to follow. In Hindu Civilization, worldview starts with ENTITIES (aka padardha) seen by their Thattvas (aka qualities/natures) based on their functionalities and its influences thus classifying in the spectrum of Daivam (Godliness/Life supporting) and Rakshasam (Devilishness/Life Annhiliating), thus determining that entity as GOD or DEVIL in that given context.
@@upadisettywhat you are saying is probably only the intellectual Hindu. For the most part of Hinduism its only traditions and rituals. I am thinking they have nothing to do with its religious experience. I will tell you a fact.. two Hindus will not agree on what Hinduism aims to achieve explicitly. Words like " Eternal Truth" means nothing until you can explain it clearly.
@@codewalters’intellectual Hindu’ 😂😂😂 ‘most of Hinduism it’s only traditions and rituals’ 😂😂😂 what are those stupid phrases!! U need to go for a fresh walk or a swim, my dear! Don’t even dare to touch Bhagavad Geeta or Upanishad. How many Hindus you know ??? A Hindu will never think like the way you thought .. are you trying to say Hindu philosophy or Dharma is just for the intellectual Hindus !? 😂😂
@@codewalters that is what happens when the lineage is broken by 700 years of colonisation. Intellectual spirit that gave birth to practical tools (traditions, rituals) die, leaving only traditions and rituals to exist which become obsolete with time as the idea behind it is no longer alive for it to evolve with time.
The last part of the speech is the most exhilarating. I always had a line of thought which ended in an endless loop of “if Big Bang created the universe, then what preceded the Big Bang, whatever created Big Bang, who created that thing “. The last Hindu hymn that he quotes exactly emphasises this. Just amazing!!
@@rameshdevasi6720 Due to the ephermal/transistory nature of existence. In the currently accepted hypothesis of the origin of universe, even time and space came out of Big Bang.
I get depressed when I think about this. 😅 Who created god? How did we all came into being? Why? What’s the purpose to be born? I don’t like that i have consciousness.
@@neshwhat702 As per christianity, you were created out of love. God loves you and so he created you. Purpose of life is to know, to love and to serve God. The best way to love God is to love others selflessly.
Mr. Tripathi is brilliant! I have lived in USA for decades and did not know much but Mr. Tripathi. So beautifully explained! I am a practicing Hindu who tried to explore Christianity. But it became evident fairly quickly (3 or 4 trips to the Sunday sermon) that Christian faith was way too divisive. The sermons usually mentioned "beware of fake Gods". No respect for any other faith, fear of hell..etc. As all Hindu's do, I believe in reincarnation as well and I pray to God that if I must be born again please let me be a vegetarian Hindu where I can practice my faith exactly how I want with no judgment or fear of hell. West has borrowed our key teachings like Yoga and Meditation but have choosen to disassociate them as a Hindu practice. Shiva can never be taking out of Meditation and Patanjali can never be taking out of Yoga. The spread of Yoga and Meditation is not merely by accident but by their merit as they are time tested practices! Thank you Mr. Tripathi for explaining Sanata Dharma so beautifully!
That’s beautiful!! To accept how west stole yoga and meditation and even ‘manifestation’ and after years of making fun of Hindus for being veg, now they’re vegan. lol.
India we live in western metrics of success, which comes at cost of human values and nature, and result of 4 million species extinct out of 12 million species in 150-200 years due to western idea of comfort. Do we really want that kind of success that feeds and comforts on cost of other lives and species ?? How happy is the world?? West false glorification of themselves? The world is controlled by west, people should question at what cost are they doing it. They fought world wars on looted money. India was attacked for 2000 years. We will improve not on western defination of success. Even though old India had best science,medicine, economy, sport, construction. India didn't go further, as going ahead at the cost of other is not development, at the cost of nature. External seeking after limit leads to destruction inner seeking leads to divine.
If you really question your religion, you won't believe in God who cuts off his own son's head, and gives an excuse that "he didn't recognise his own son".
What? You are totally confused. You have a Western understanding of religion. Narratives in the Puranas are NOT "building blocks" of a "belief system". I see that you have an Indian name. I am shocked by how many Indians I meet and hear who have no understanding of their civilisation and see everything through an ignorant, bigoted Christian's or Muslim's worldview.@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman
@@friendlyneighborhoodhumanthen the same father brings back his son's life when his wife gets angry at him. Also that's not an excuse. That happened because of unawareness. This can happen today also.
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman You sure are a friendly neighborhood human. let me guess are you from that peace loving religion or are you an atheist. Just curious
@@snl1754mindset means - having open outlook and note divinity in everything around us . Hinduism never said there are multiple Gods . We say - God takes multiple forms . Mindset the commenter is referring to - is to think like us , the Hindus.. Hindus don’t react to things unless it’s needed …
@@classnclassics7252 A set mind is a limited mind. Hinduism is against mindsets but liberate minds that are set (conditioned) to attain _Mukti._ As a post graduate in comparative study of six major religions, I can vouch for it.
On a scale of 1 -10 rate your gullibility .. Are you Brahmin perchance ? Were you born Hindu. That is 99% of the reason you are Hindu (as was for me, but thankfully i realised religions are for gammon heads)..
@@lakshmikrithika2521 Its true that US is soul less. What I dont understand is why So many Indians leave their own country to live in soul less USA. Can you explain?
Very well presented, I wish he was given a lot more time to explain deep philosophical points in Hindu religion, but in the alloted short time he hit the nail on the head perfectly.
🔴In Hindu Philosophy we believe in Only One absolute truth which is " Param Brahma" from which each and every thing is created and it's present in every Living and Non Living things present anywhere in the Universe. Rest all is "Maya". Very Nice Explanation from Amish Sir. 🕉️🇮🇳
Maya is wrongly translated as an Illusion. Maya is not really an illusion in that sense. The right interpretation would be, that Maya is the engagement of the individual with Samsara that keeps him from realizing the divine. However, there is an interesting aspect to it. If the Engagement is Dharmic, then it becomes the path to the Divine realization. That is the essence of Dharmavyadha. Maya is that veil that keeps you from certain pursuits. Dharmic engagement will slowly reduce the effects of the Maya. You will realize the divine through the very engagement. The interpretation of Maya as an Illusion is from Bouddha interpretation. It was one of denial. I think that is not the right interpretation, this is what Ramanujacharya and Madvacharya who followed Shankara did. They extended the philosophy. To just give an Advaita interpretation and leave it there is not the right way to debate or discuss this. Bouddha philosophy of denial was a wrong turn, that was later fixed.
It’s not wrongly translated. Only dumbed down for ppl who do not have a clue abt Maya. Anything that is not ram is illusion per say. This materialistic world is illusion. As it has a beginning and an end. Only after attaining moksha we become real. And moksha can be attained in this world of illusion and you don’t have to die. Enlighten itself is moksha. And there are steps or divine sense of awareness beyond moksha. I real can’t remember the names and can’t discuss much as that’s how tantrics work. Gnoses is only for all only for those who works for it.
Agreed.... the definition he gave for illusion was non-eternal and without purpose, Maya as an energy/entity is eternal though its manifestation changes over period of time. Its created (more correctly revealed), destructed, its form changes over time, but it always exist. Coming to the purpose as rightly mentioned how something can be illusion when engagement with that entity in certain way leads to the path to divine realization, with this argument purpose can be clearly understood that it acts as a mean. The actual sense on which Maya is an illusion as it act as a curtain between an individual and the divine. This phenomenon act as an opaqueness and weakens the revelation of the divine, individual accepts Maya to be ultimate reality becoming unware that there is something beyond this.
Some followers of Advaitha wrongly interpret Maya as the illusion through which Brahman falsely appears as the universe. Maya is just another name for Shakthi. Maya is the 'creative" shakthi of Brahman. Maya is absolutely real. So, is our material ream. As far as "divine realization" is concerned there is no such thing called 'divine realization" in Hindu tradition. "True self" realization is a better way to put it
Hinduism is a fraud way of life. Infact Hindu is a foreign word give by outsider so Hindu term must be banned inside jambudweep/Bharat. What do you say?
As a hindu, I hav worldly goals but there is a parallel hunger to attain Nirvana, truth, samadhi. Self realisation is a goal, after which may be I wd be able to say with utmost humility, that I know it. And I will guide u as ur guru if I feel u r a worthy student. In day to day life, we hav to practice our dharma and karma which is duty and action. My dharma as a father, my dharma as a son, as a husband , as a friend etc I hav a task to be best father, son, husband, brother, citizen. This is essentially possible if I m hardworking and selfless. But selflessness is also a process, it has to grow untill I m beyond my own body and mind as well.
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman my duty as a father is to be like vasudeva, my duty as a husband is to be like Rama, my duty as a brother is to be like lakshmana, my duty as a son is to be like shravana, my duty as a student is to be like arjuna, my duty as a friend is to be like krishna. We hav so many examples already set as a guidance to know what is righteousness. But still if u want a definition, i will give u a definition. Any action done with an intention to attain selflessness is good. One might think that a student who is withdrawing himself from social activities, declining party invites, trip invites, is being selfish but from that student's point of view, he is avoiding short term pleasures and choosing hardwork. This might look like a selfish decision for people around him but from his angle, it is dharma. As a student , he must hav to learn to avoid short term pleasures in order to achieve success. But success for what? To help others. Whole life should be like a journey where u move from selfishness to selflessness. Nobody becomes selfless just by wanting to be one. It takes real courage, sacrifice. In our life time, we take up so many roles, we r student, son, brother, husband, father, uncle , friend, citizen ....in every role we hav a duty and responsibility towards someone's happiness. In order to fulfill our duties we hav to put others before us, thats when u realise the value of altruism. If u get it. There is no turning back. U will keep on serving more and more number of people. Thats when selflessness start expanding. Ur attachment tend to decrease and compassion takes its place. Ur detachment grows with ur selflessness. Ur ultimate seat is with the divine coz he resides inside you. If there is a god? He cant be selfish. Why? Becoz he has no want or desire for something as he is literally everything. So when u r reaching that purity and selflessness, u r seeing urself in everyone. U r becoming everything, u r becoming god. But not untill u hav even a slightest hint of 'I'ness or me'ness. To be god , is to be absolutely selfless, which is egolessness only. In ADVAITA, it is the non dual state. When u r one with everything, it will be impossible fr u to be selfish. Look at your body, its in ur experience that it is yours, can u be selfish towards either if ur kidneys , lungs? Can u be selfish towards your left hand and overstrain your right hand becoz ur left hand is more dear to you? If i ask u to donate one of ur ear, can u really make a decision abt which one to let go? When ur consciousness expands , anything inside it is you. Selfishness is the direct result and proof of ignorance, hence selflessness is directly linked to knowledge. If a sadhu or saint is accumulating wealth 🤑, he is not really a sadhu, he is just a man with great sense of purpose, he might be using all that wealth into something great but he himself is attached to that wealth and hence not free. He must be hoping to achieve the ultimate by that service. Which wd happen if his goals r clear. Basically then all his hardwork is to accumulate wealth for serving others. Thats a legit way to attain higher forms of selflessness. The other way is obviously renunciation, where u start with zero and suddenly hit a jackpot if u attain self realisation via some guru or knowledge or serious meditation. Such people mostly go for disciples. They do serve people but their main focus is to impart knowledge with worthy candidates. If this makes sense to u, its well and good. If not, then i m sorry. I m no saint , i m quite unfit to satisfy anybody's query. I hav mine own to solve first. 🙏
@@Vegetasinghyadav "God" is not everything man... You devalue "God" by using it everywhere and for everything as you wish.. You just created a God of your own...
Mr Tripathi presented a deep and vast topic with great easiness and conviction. Ending with hymns that summed up the topic extremely well. Throughly enjoyed it.
Amish's argument was most balanced and filled with enlightening opinion. Only one disagreement where he mentioned in Hindu philosophy there is no absolute truth, I'll better go for "there is one absolute truth but also different manifestations of it, one associate with the absolute truth by the mean of the manifestation which hold common attribute between the two"
The hindu philosophy is there is one absolute truth but it's different for everyone. Also a reason why most enlightened being never agreed with previous interpretation of absolute truth.
No doubt for you. But I have doubt when I went to India years ago. The people worship almost anywhere they can set up a little idols. Explain the monkey temple. 😮😢
India we live in western metrics of success, which comes at cost of human values and nature, and result of 4 million species extinct out of 12 million species in 150-200 years due to western idea of comfort. Do we really want that kind of success that feeds and comforts on cost of other lives and species ?? How happy is the world?? West false glorification of themselves? The world is controlled by west, people should question at what cost are they doing it. They fought world wars on looted money. India was attacked for 2000 years. We will improve not on western defination of success. Even though old India had best science,medicine, economy, sport, construction. India didn't go further, as going ahead at the cost of other is not development, at the cost of nature. External seeking after limit leads to destruction inner seeking leads to divine.
Hinduism explained so beautifully. Thank you so much Tripathiji. This lecture will have a profound effect on the western tradition of religion and may even repair the tortured relationship between the Abrahamic God and science itself.
Aham brahmasmi Tatavamasi... I am brahmam.. The universal consciousness. What's in me is in you. The ever expanding universe is created by the ever evolving consciousness. As a hindu my purpose in life is to keep searching and keep expanding my mental horizons and try to align myself with the universal consciousness. Because matter and energy cannot be comprehended without the concept of the consciousness 🙏🙏🙏
The idea of god in Upanishad is beautifully explained in short.. But alas! Many of today's Indian population do not know about the concept, and therefore quarrel with others.. Thank you Amish for presenting it in nutshell!
I think Hindus still have that deep inside. But today some feel the need to defend it. That feeling has risen bcz of some reasons. The anxiety to defend itself if sm1 tries to conquer their people and land. I think if such threat from opposite side stops coming, the few people who r behaving radically will revert back to being all nice and happy(i hope). No one would feel defensive if not threatened.
@@kharkhuadexoryes you are right especially the desert abrhamic faiths are sadist in nature atleast some got reformation in time but there are still that sadism fully there is some more
I've been thinking about compiling a list of common denominator characteristics about what is believed about God from all over the world and human history. In other words i want to boil down and distill the definition of God to its essential essence common to all concepts of God. It would also be interesting to see or produce a periodic table of Gods that organizes all the possible characteristic elements any God might have into categories.
@@amatyaucran2214 Well then a fundamental definition of a god would have nothing to do with love, or justice. The idea is more to do with what is claimed than what is logical or true; a kind of map of possible features the idea of god can have. If there is a good God then conversely there can be an evil God, and if there is a 'just' God then there can be an 'unjust' God. These would be features in a "feature space" on which the various ideas about the nature of God or gods can be plotted. If there are common features, or a common feature to the idea of a god then that would be interesting. It would also be interesting if there were no common features. After that, then it would be a much easier task to refute or support the logic of any combination of features such as you expressed in your reply. It may be that there is a combination of features that are non-contradictory and thus represent a viable concept of God or gods. It may be that there are no viable concepts of God or gods, and it may also be that there is at least one set of features that represent a viable god concept, but that has not been expressed or represented at any time in history. This may constitute a new paradigm for what a god is or does that has never existed before in the minds of people. It just seems like an interesting idea for a project. There would be something to learn anyway it goes, at least for me.
@@alexgonzo5508 I’ve actually done something very similar. Much of it extrapolates in different wordings to ‘God is everything’… I guess that’s pantheism. But others include God being an alien. Different Gods of concepts, philosophies and ideas. (Polytheism essentially) God being a blueprint from maximal potential for life on earth. God being the creative Will of the universe for there to be something rather than nothing.
@@herbiewalkermusic It appears to me that when people use the word God, especially when capitalized they essentially mean something that does not need anything, but does everything, and it is usually conceptualized in some anthropomorphic form, but not always. I have found that things are more easily defined when the focus is not on what a thing is, which really tells you nothing about the thing except a name. I believe that an effective and clear definition points at what a thing does, or what its function is. From this perspective features are simply functions, and so now one can ask: What kind of thing does this kind of God or god do? What effect does this god have on the world? What function or purpose does this type of god serve? What role does he, her, or it play in the scheme of things? Other good questions are what does this god care about, and why, and what does god do about it? Can this God make mistakes or not (perfect or not)? Is God part of our universe or outside of it? Is God complex or simple? Big or small? Is God alone or are there other Gods? Does this God change or is he/she/it always the same (does it evolve)? etc... Ancient people did this kind of thing where they notice a feature of the world such as lightning and thunder, and give it anthropomorphic agency by conceptualizing a god person (a kind of king) that was responsible for those features in the world (Zeus, and Thor respectively).
I loved your Shiva trilogy. The beautiful symbolism, the new, modern angle to the mythological stories about Shiva, Sati, Parvati, Kali, Ganesha was mind-blowing and so much more believable than what I, as a child, had been exposed to. I wanted the story to go on and on and on. Thank you also for this Western spin on our great culture and religion. The West needs to change its mindset and its ideology ASAP if it wants its citizens to live meaningful lives full of faith rather than their current state of faithlessness, hopelessness and materialism, not to mention their incomprehensible fascination with wokeism!
Countless gurus with no knowledge of vedas have a audience and followers but actual knowledge of hinduism and it’s vedas are getting scarce day by day. Hope we create a wiki of vedas like an online version of gurukul. Amish Tripathi, huge fan of your writings!!!
Vedas as per its own interpretation doesn't claim to be the ONE and best to know anything. There are others ways to know the things without Vedas. So all these gurus are not wrong, just that they know the knowledge another way around. They are teaching what they discovered from that path. It shall be foolish to conclude one path is the best. Yes, Vedas are not fully explored and lying in hibernation. Again the Vedas teach, which ever path you take, it always leads to me.
@@4manchirasee , there are 5 major dharmic/bharatiya philosophies sanatana dharm (i.e hinduism) , jainism , buddhism , sikhism (very much related to hinduism though) , charvaks , the difference is that jainism , buddhism and charvaks do not believe vedas as authentic , every philosophy of hinduism believes vedas are authentic and fundamental core . then hinduism has 6 major limbs vedanta , yog , nyay , vaisheshika , mimansa , sankhya out of which 3 are agnostic and vedant philosophy can be applied to those who do not believe in god and also to those who believe or those who are agnostic
Seek to learn without bounds, never rejecting any subject, stay open to life. Keep only the truth, and always be willing to let go of a truth when you find a higher one. Love India and its wisdom.
The atheist vs God is essentially a western debate. As Amish said - faith is not the central point, the belief in the concept of cause and effect (Karma) is central to Hinduism. So even if you don’t believe God exists it is not a problem for us because as the Rig Veda Hymn pointed outed by Amish itself said ‘No one knows for sure’ . Btw it is a well known hymn in India.
@@amitrankwar874 so its a religion and a way of life, how original. lol you guys think your religion is special just because you cant decide who the god is , what the rules are. heck you cant even decide on one name
@@Messi10947Brother Hinduism is not a bookish religion like yours. It’s a sea. Btw your whole religion is just a tiny part of one of the philosophies of Hinduism called ‘Nirgun’ . Go read about it.
As an atheist, eastern religions seem really appealing to me. The fact that the truth claims are not central, and you don't even need to believe them in order to describe yourself as an adherent of that religion, is so refreshing over the blind insistence I feel like I often see from Abrahamic faiths that there must be one absolute truth and that we can fully ascertain it.
@@DC-rb3uz People in india have rejected caste. The majority of hindus do not believe in the caste system but if I say it is entirely non-existent, I'll be lying. It is still practiced in the rural remote areas of india. But unlike abrahamic faith nothing is concretised in Hinduism you can follow what appeals to you within Hinduism and you'll still be hindu. In fact you can challenge the existence of god while in a hindu temple and you'll still be a hindu. Words are not enough to describe the magnanimity of Hinduism
@@doge3436 india has rejected system that's a complete lie most hindus still practice I stayed in four states for a good amount of years and i see caste system everywhere. And when anyone challange hindus gods the hindu believes stright up call him anti hindu remember Pk movie which breaks down ill logical factors of Hinduism but most hindu called it anti hindu movie. You religious people doesn't even want to accept the ex hindus exist they called them different name like Muslim, Abdul i have seen how horrible Hinduism is.
@@DC-rb3uz But why are u linking a social issue with "Hinduism"? If “caste discrimination” was linked to Hindu tradition and limited only to Hindu community then why Dalit Christians would have separate churches (since upper caste Christians don't allow them to enter in their Churches and even if they did allow them they would make sure that Dalits were made to sit or stand separately in a corner) or why Islam would have Ashraf (direct descendants of fair skinned Arabs) and Ajlafs (dark skinned converts to Islam)? and last I checked Pasmanda Muslims (low caste muslims) voted overwhelmingly for the BJP in UP for giving them political representation. Pasmandas amongst Muslims are OBCs (Ajlaf) and Dalits (Arjals), distinct from Ashrafs (upper castes like sheikhs, maliks, pathans, Sayeds) it is the reason why, Christians and Muslims are asking for SC/ST reservation status for their converted 'Dalits" which also means it is a social issue and nothing to do with Hindu tradition or any religion 2. Rigid birth based caste system (which did not allow social mobility) was created by Lord Risley or Herbert Hope Risley (a British agent) in the 19th century. He morphed ancient and flexible jathis (occupational groups which allowed social mobility) and 4 varnas (colors of character of a person shaped by past karma not birth family) and RE- classified people based on race science (nose size and head shape). The same race science was later used in Africa by Christian missionaries which led to Rwandan genocide and conversions. 3. Jathi and Varna ≠ Caste. The term jathi (often mistranslated as 'caste') is best understood in the sense of a set, as in mathematics or a genre in literature. It applies to non-human entities as well - for example, the jathi of trees, jati of rational numbers, jathi of verbs, and so on. In the human context, a nation is a jathi, a given religious group is a jathi, doctors/engineers are a jathi, men/women a jathi, gay people are a jathi, the military is a jathi, the employees of a given company are a jathi, etc. Similarly, the word 'varna' means 'color'. Varna also refers to the various personalities and qualities of people. An individual's varna is based on past karma (NOT BIRTH) which shapes gunas, the latter being individual qualities or tendencies. 4. So called "untouchability" was a consequence of rigid birth based caste system. Colonialists (esp East India company agents) created hundreds of fake hindu mutts to prevent "shudras" from entering hindu temples. It was done to make hindus self loathe their own tradition One cannot be a Brahmin or Vaishya or Shudra or Kshatriya by birth (Bhagavad Gita). In Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 4 Verse 13 Krishna talks about the 4 Varnas catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah meaning a person's guna or mindset and his choice of work (action) are shaped by past karma (NOT birth) and they determine Varna (color of qualities) 5. Point is don’t confuse artificially created social stratifications and socio/economic imbalances by colonialists with the hindu/dharmic tradition built around the Vedic metaphysics Sankhya which can be validated by logic, double slit quantum experiment and embodied experience (direct knowledge through focus and meditation)
Mr. Amish Tripathi just showcase the small drop the great ocean we have in our granthas, we have 4 Vedas, 18 Puranas, 200+ upnisad, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Sri Ram Charitra Manasa, Sri-mada-bhaagwad-gita, etc. learning and understanding any of them will fulfill you with lots of knowledge, wisdom and gratitude.... that's why we Hindus believe in 'Vasudhev Kutumbakam' that is entire world is our family because we respect the Aatma or Prana inside each of the human.....Namaste 🙏🏼
Profoundly explained. To realize and enlighten to the truth of God Goddess Source within, we become a Hindu. This truth is in all real religions- the kingdom of God within. In namaste, we worship each other. As a religion of coexistence, Hinduism brings humanity together as one family.
Working on oneself and take oneself to realize the ultimate truth at experiential level is the core philosophy of Hindus or Santana Dharma. Heartfelt praises for Amit Tripathi ji. This philosophy needs to be glorified to the highest level. He has done it very well. Love and Respect from British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦. 🙏🏽❤️💐
Listening to Amish and utilizing my personal understanding of "God", I would say: 1. God is a force of infinite dimensions, that we try to perceive with our senses in 3 dimensions. 2. Each one can perceive a small portion of this infinity. There can be infinite ways to perceive/reach/realize God 3. Though we may only perceive a small portion of "God", this perception gives us a taste of what God is. Words are often not sufficient to describe this experience. Many saints in the Hindu school of Thought have attempted to express these experiences. The gist of these experiences is that God is within.
I find myself coming back to it again and again. So wonderfully articulated. Holds the essence perfectly. My parents never forced religion on me. They continued practicing their rituals and belief and included me loosely. My father is a very devoted person and he was almost sure i am nastik/atheist. I developed spirituality on my own, found more interest and step by step entered. I still choose what to believe what to not, reason with it and pray whom to i resonate d most and want to. They probably don't even know whom i pray to. I feel extremely fortunate that i can do that without any bounds and therefore it is growing taking its own time.
Hinduism does not claim that we humans are ‘gods’. To put it a different way, it would be as if a wave on an ocean melds into the ocean, loses its personal identity, to realise its own true nature as being far greater than its limited conception. Then, their is no you nor any God. It then also realises the inherent interconnection between all waves or all creation. There is no other, onlyness, Kaivalya. In this respect God does not really exist and there is no need for it. What is prime is Self. Our terms are, the self and the overself or atma and param atma. You awaken to self, that’s why we talk of self realised masters and self realisation. With this in mind, yes, god is a delusion as it is a creation of beings living in a state of delusion. This explains why there are so many gods, and so many pick and choose options available for Hindus because who or what you pick and choose is ultimately irrelevant. It may be a useful tool for you to use or maybe a hindrance. That’s why there is no division in Hindus with regard to theists and atheists. Everyone is on their own journey and our job is simply to awaken to our own true nature through the yogic practices. Yoga itself can be classed as non-theistic because our search is ultimately solely for self and not for any god. It’s as if there were a hall in which most people are asleep in their own dreamscapes. But a few have their eyes open. No one is superior or inferior, everyone has their own time to open their eyes and finally come out of dream to awaken. This is core, Advaita Vedanta nondualism of acharya AdiShankara.
But simply saying God is delusion breaks the spine of Bhakti Yoga...... Self-realization can be achieved through several ways (Bhakti, Gyan, Karma and Raja Yoga). If you take a God's eye view of all 4 paths, what becomes obvious is that all 4 at the level of the reality of this worldly life are trying to bring the individual to a certain state of mind (or no mind as others would claim)......This in turn would have a psychological shift because again the Brain gets altered (especially the limbic system and so does the parietal lobe). So what we know for sure is these different paths are tools that are available to us (Humans) to reduce( and eventually eliminate) worldly suffering.... And it's needless to say that the struggle to end suffering fuels science and whatever developments we have.
@@TatTvamAsi173 Yes, good point, but one could say that the division into the concepts "God" and "me" simply represents the division that we feel when we are still caught in the web of thought. In that sense, we are still free to express this in poetic and artistic images of the "divine" - because we humans are great storytellers! (See my comment on the "Fall" and "good and evil")
Except the fact that there is no concept of "god"(s) or heaven or hell based on mono or polytheism in Hindu tradition built around well validated Vedic metaphysics.
MESMERIZING....to say the least. Awesome talk...every word that you spoke is precious. No wonder we are the only old civilization that is still alive. We have all the potential and even responsibility to be VISHWAGURU.
India we live in western metrics of success, which comes at cost of human values and nature, and result of 4 million species extinct out of 12 million species in 150-200 years due to western idea of comfort. Do we really want that kind of success that feeds and comforts on cost of other lives and species ?? How happy is the world?? West false glorification of themselves? The world is controlled by west, people should question at what cost are they doing it. They fought world wars on looted money. India was attacked for 2000 years. We will improve not on western defination of success. Even though old India had best science,medicine, economy, sport, construction. India didn't go further, as going ahead at the cost of other is not development, at the cost of nature. External seeking after limit leads to destruction inner seeking leads to divine.
येहै सनातन धर्म का महान योद्धा जो जब जब सनातन धर्म पर संकट आता है तो प्रत्येक सदी मे पर्मातमा धर्ती पर अपने अंस को पठाते है मै सुनताथा भगवान गीत अवर कथाएं मे आज साबित हो गया कभी महाराणा प्रताप के रूपमे तो कभी छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज के रूप मे तो कभी बिर सावरकर कभी चन्द्र सेखर आजाद राज गुरु भगत सिंह ❤ ऐसे करके आप जैसे लोग धर्म अवर राष्ट्र को बचाने के लिए धर्ती पर लड़ने के लिए असुरो को हराने के लिए असुरो का अंत करने के लिए आते लहते है 🕉️ 🚩🙏 ओम पर्मातमने नमोँ नमँ ❤
Differences between religions and dharma (Christianity) A Christ A Bible A religion But do you know this? Latin Catholics do not go to the Syrian Catholic Church. These two groups do not go to Marthoma Church. These three groups do not go to the Pentecostal Church. These four groups do not go to the Salvation Army Church. These five groups do not go to the Seventh Day Adventist Church. These six sects do not go to the Orthodox Church. These seven sects do not go to the Jacobite Church. There are 146 castes in the state of Kerala alone! They do not go to the church of another caste! (Islam) Muslims One is Allah A Quran A prophet Great Unity...! In Muslim countries, Shia and Sunni Muslims kill each other! Religious strife mostly happens between these two communities in Muslim countries! A Shia does not go to a Sunni mosque. Both these sects do not go to the Ahmadiyya Masjid. These three sects do not go to the Sufi mosque. These four groups do not go to the Mujahideen mosque. There are total 13 castes. We keep seeing in countries like Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan killing each other through bombings. (Hinduism) Hindus 1280 Dharma texts, 10,000 Bhashyas, Also, there are about one lakh commentaries on these texts. The three gods, different professors, Thousands of sages, Hundreds of languages. But all go to the same temple. Hindus have never killed each other in the name of religion!
*Nasadiya Sukta* (Hymn of non-Eternity, origin of universe): There was neither non-existence nor existence then; Neither the realm of space, nor the sky which is beyond; What stirred? Where? In whose protection? There was neither death nor immortality then; No distinguishing sign of night nor of day; That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse; Other than that there was nothing beyond. Darkness there was at first, by darkness hidden; Without distinctive marks, this all was water; That which, becoming, by the void was covered; That One by force of heat came into being; Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it? Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation? Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe. Who then knows whence it has arisen? Whether God's will created it, or whether He was mute; Perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not; The Supreme Brahman of the world, all pervasive and all knowing He indeed knows, if not, no one knows -Rigveda 10.129
Namaste. 🙏🏻Thank you so much. Very interesting and clear discourse. I am from the West but found my Path in India . Sanathana Dharma is a beautiful way of spiritual life. Grateful. 🙏🏻
Thank you sir for your great speech..I'm so proud to be an Indian and also to be a Hindu ... You just explained the hole thing in only 10 mins and also clarify the think that science is a part of our Hinduism it's not differ ..😊🙏🏻
Im a proud SIKH with my Ambical cord attached to the wonderful ancient HINDUISM. PROUD TO BE A PART OF BHARAT
Respect to the strongest social group, truly great people and community
This! We’re from the same dharmic root
SIKH HINDU we are all the same. The love and prosperity among us is incredible.
Bas kar pagle
Waheguru ji da khalsa waheguru ji di Fateh
Jai Shri Ram🙏
As a japanese i always feel fascinated by hindoo philosophies. Damn they are mindboggling. I believe many of the east asian & chinese philosophies have had their oirigin in India. Indian sages were real shit i am telling you.
Thank you amish for coming here , we welcome you at the knowledge centre(atleast for now) of the world.
The Chinese also have a very vast connection to the divine, along with the Japanese civilizations as well. Before the world began fighting, these asian ancient civilisations practised peace and thought, they thrived to build stronger connections to the universe rather than meddle in politics and other vices.
Also, the other one god religions are actually factions of religions born in the kaliyuga (the dark ages), meaning they can only bring you closer to the devil, they're scared of their gods as if their god would punish them with death. Islam for example, is a totally radical religion trying to impose their ideology like they have it all figured out, converting people to islam with swords and then calling it the fastest growing religion in the world, that itself process what a demonic ideology they carry and their trajectory is only that of destruction. They hate science.
Also, the CERN facility in France (the atom collider), has a massive Shiva statue at the entrance, will you question them too? Our gods are not just myths, they actually had a purpose.
@@adhvaitchauhan8449 agreed man, yes many of the world problems today have origin in rigid religious philosophies like islam, i wish someday they too understand the value of humanism and learn to coexists.
@@watanabe00738 Islam teaches to be a pawn of the god, and their god preaches nothing but destruction of all things that are not islamic. They are taught that there is no other god but their god, and their god instructs them to kill everything that is not islamic. Islam will never learn the peace and love taught to us by our forefathers, they are only taught about how to disrupt the world's peace. No wonder theyre hated all over the world.
Yes chinese culture, and Japanese culture trace it's origin to Indian culture. 80% of Shinto gods are indian gods and 70% Chinese culture is Indian culture
u r language or choice of words tell how uncultured u r or
how ignorant u r .
just like this Indian High commissioner is
it is SANATAN not Hindu.
Please read MAYA AND ILLUSION by SWAMI VIVEKANAND
Watch the Eponymous Hollywood movie
MATRIX ( the 1st one )
Great Mathematician of India- Srinivasa Ramanujan's thoughts about god "An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God." You must have also seen the movie based on the life of Srinivas Ramanujan- The Man who know infinity ,🇮🇳❣️ I am devotee of Lord Krishna 🙏🏻
I am a Brazilian Sanatani. I do follow an African-Brazilian spiritual tradition as well, but Sanatan Dharma does not conflicts with it. It complements it beautifully! Since I started studying Hingu philosophy and chanting mantras, Lord Shiva, Maa Kali/Parvati, Lord Ganesha and Lord kartikeya started manifesting to me in dreams and also blessed me with their love and compassion. God bless Sanatan Dharma!
There is no "Hindu philosophy" or "Buddhist philosophy" or whatever like that, and as at least you mean all that here (and many others). This is a great misunderstanding, and a misunderstanding basically of some westerners when they met some eastern traditions, and a misunderstanding too of some others, out of the everyday uncareful use of the language and terms and out of communication reasons and many other reasons. Those you call "Hindu philosophy" are religions too or myth with maybe some look like - "phenomeno-philosophical" character and approaches on some myth kind or religious texts. This does not mean that they are or consist philosophy. Philosophy is something very specific, and comes from Greeks and it is exclusively a Greek thing and because of Greece. No other before had any philosophy. It first appeared in Greece around the 6-7th century BC with the pre - socratic philosophers and then continues also to West. There is only one philosophy : the western philosophy and it's transformations etc. from Greeks. No Hindu philosophy or any such thing. One can ofcaurse take the ideas of Hinduism and influenced by that make then something philosophical out of it, but this would be something very different and you can not call Hinduism it self "a philosophy" or eastern traditions philosophy.
In the same sense and way there are not either "spiritual traditions". They are religious traditions. Only in west exist "spiritual traditions". Meaning that someone can be spiritual but not religious, not following some certain religion, sect, religious path etc.
@@Trophonius wow! It looks like you have got a lot of free time and a big chip on your shoulders! Thankfully I have got better things to do than wasting my time arguing over the use of a term I read on the comments section. And writing a whole essay on it! 😂
I was born in Christian family and now following sanatan dharma also called as Hinduism. It's extremely advanced and inclusive. Also the most ancient religion in the world was appealing after studying all the other religions and spiritual paths. Namaste! 🙏🎉
Which caste do you belong to in Hinduism?
@@shivasri26 no caste dummy. It's a system made up at the end of British occupation to oppress people, originally based on the lords and peasents model.
Hare Krishna 🕉️❤
@@shivasri26the caste that muslims Christians Abrahamic mindset people bought it from middle East and Europe and now reaping the rewards of their own karmas
U mess with hindu land and it pays u back in numerous other ways
@@VIPIN4528 You know our Prime Minister Modi belongs to OBC. Foreigners may not know much about caste. But when they want to know about Hinduism, they have to know about caste. Our president murmur ji belongs to ST caste. What caste do you belong to?
Essentially Hindu Culture doesn't Concretize any Absolute Truth but Gives the Freedom to Seek it ourselves because what ever we are Seeking is withiin Us 🙏🙏🙏
That's not true, please do read about Hinduism more!!
@@nikh89 Hindu is not ISM .. it's a Culture and Geographical Identity .. this is your First Mistake 😁😁😜😜
@@brishnevk4823 sorry brother but....
Sanatan Dharam that is hinduism is not a culture it 's a actuall dharma ( ie. Religion in your language ) and we have only one true God who created every thing and we are guided but that one god.....
That's it....🙏
@@Sketchafella Religion and Dharma are two different things 😂😜😜... Religion translates to Panth or Sampradhay... Dharma simply means Law .. Universal Law . If you don't know this basic thing what are u trying to teach ?? .. you are telling the same bla bla story of Other Abrahamic religions
@@brishnevk4823 That's why i am saying their is only dharma...
I'm an atheist, and this argument for God's existence is quite fresh and non-linear as compared to other Abrahamic faiths.
Its cyclic, in hinduism. Time itself is not linear. Hinduism is really different. We dont understand why you think its so. We should actually see a discussion of really ,the people, discussing. Sadly, very few..and language barrier. Essence is lost. A bread and a chapati are totally different but its translated as bread. Namaste is not hello. Aunty is not massi. Totally different
No problem. You are still HIndu, if you follow Dharma. Dharma does not mean worship of God or rituals to God, only right way of living. And, by the way, that way of living by everyone STILL entails conflict & ethical & moral dilemmas and Dharma is only to guide you and you still have to make a tough choice as to what is right from your point of view which may not agree with the universe and if so, you must be prepared to face the consequences.
@@induchopra3014 But, if you say that it's cyclic, that means it's a closed loop, which also means that it is linear in some sense, since we arrive back at the same starting point. I may take back my previous point then. 🤦🏻♂️
Atheist and christian eat beef cry😅
@@Fragu1308since it's not really a codified religion in the sense that Abrahamic religions are and much more a way of living, it is open to interpretations and none of them are incorrect tbh. It is very tolerant of minority schools of thought too although fundamentally the basic moral principles remain the same. One tenet that I believe really represents it well is that there is divine in each living being. This is what allows it to be a non-proselytising religion I think. You should read up more about it and probably should not base your interest through comments on YT
I was born in a hindu family, but lack of knowledge,I used to disrespect concept of God,
After I suffer of shani Dasha (in horoscope way), I learn something about 10 incarnation of bishnu and many more thing now I am a proud hindu 🕉 ❤
U should our scriptures bro . U will be amazed to read❤
You are Proved sanatani
You must be a Bengali.
Mamata Banerjee's personality has defamed Bengalis but she isn't a Hindu in true sense.
Its Vishnu.. ! Next time keep it correct
"Any scientific truth that is in conflict with abrahimic faith can be called as blasphemy "...Well said
Can you give an example? Or you just blindly agree with whatever he says like a robot
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman why do you conclude he is agreeing like a robot without him giving the answer ?
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman Do you have any point or just blindly questioning the way they do like a slave?
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman "i will listen to music and i think listening songs is not haram" boom blashphemy," i will not wear hijab in public because i feel nowadays people are not wearing it for the sake of their culture but rather wear because they are forced to do so", boom blasphemy, thesse are only few examples, questioning the existence of god is also considered blasphemy
this of comment of urs is a good example of it
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman
If you observe carefully, the arguments presented by Abrahamic religion scholars always focuses on whether someone believes in their concept of God or not and how that would lead to good/evil outcomes for the society. Where as the arguments presented by Hindu scholars are always about philosophy, how humans think and how we can enhance our knowledge and thought process. They never talk about belief/ lack of belief in a specific God. There lies the difference.
mlecchas care only about obedience.
The speaker did well to refer "Nasadiya Sukta". What does it say? It is a clear acknowledgement of the writer of Veda that he has no clue as to how the creation came into existence. He admits that he is not even certain whether there is someone who created it or all just happened on its own. He says the gods we worship, even they do not know, as they are later additions.
So the moot point is whatever happened in the process , is known only to God if He is truly the creator. Whatever man contemplated through his intellect can only be an assumption. Men are diverse in their opinions therefore no one theory put by man can be the gospel truth.
What if, God decides to reveal the whole process, its purpose and outcomes. What if God confirms His revelation through outstanding signs that are beyond human capabilities, to impress upon the people the validity of the source.
Judaism and Christianity operates on this belief.
If I have to choose between the philosophy of man and the revelation of God, I will choose the latter part.
@@littleman6379 And just like the speaker said, Abrahamic religion see the truth as black and white. And in terms of blasphemy or acceptance of god. Whereas knowledge can only be attained through the shades of gray , via discovery.
@@littleman6379Your belief in "what if" is so strong that you are ruining your present because of it.
@@infinitegalaxy838How is he ruining his present? Can you elaborate? What he said made made good sense
As a Hindu, I have never heard of the word called blasphemy till I watched the movie “Kingdom of heaven” I had to search for it in a dictionary
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman when the idea of blasphemy doesn't exist how will a brahman know? unless he has read other religions.
@@incubusk8r do you know what is meant by "blasphemy"? Or are you just putting your own meaning to it?
@@friendlyneighborhoodhumanAsk to Pakistani about blasphemy😅?kidd
@@Iam_Kady blasphemy is same in Islam and Hinduism bro..
Trash talking about your Favourite God is blasphemy...
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman proof bta ?😀😀
I was born in a muslin family, raised muslim and along after some serious life struggle, I stumbled on the Gita ramdonly and never looked back. I just meditate now. There was a point in my life where I needed to just be still and Indian Spirituality has made me still and kept me alive. Hinduism has a whole different approach to God. As a human being you have to self-reallize yourself and you will just know because God is already in you. The Truth about God lies in India with the Saints and all the Self-Realized. You just know. The Upanishads are more than 3000 years, older than all the scriptures of the world but when you read it, you just know..The Chandogya Upanishad Chapter VI The Story of Shvetaketu has me read multiple times. There is no other beautifiul way to illustrate God like the Father Uddalaka did for his son Shvetaketu.
Well said.. very proud
Welcome home!
@@sume6103 Thank you very much. India is really my home even though I was not born there. The truth about God lies in India with the Saints, all the self-realized of India..
@@radhikakumar2331 Thank you.
Agar har insan gita ko follo kare ,padhe to koi galat raah pe nahi ja skata
Dharmic faiths like Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism.. are much needed in this World
No
World should be free from Islam and hindoism.
@@SitWithAnkit clown moment
Just Saying. Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism are Originated From Hinduism... ❤
No
Thank you Amish for explaining the beauty of our Hinduism to the Western world.
The western world has been hearing about Hinduism for decades now. Amish didn't bring anything new. Not trying to insult you, it s fact. Unfortunately to the Oxford Union which are mainly Athiests and feminists they just use it to ridicule religion.
Can it really be explained? No
Culture is the background. Things are lost in translation
Roti is not bread.
Massi is not aunty. There is no word in English for massi
@@induchopra3014true
And this is not Hinduism this Vedic school of thought. He only scratched the surface, and the penultimate chapter of Vedas he quoted pretty much summarizes the purpose of humans.
Keep questioning, pursue that until you find the answer, enlighten in the process and never stop
He just spit nonsense in the name of Sanātan Dharm, you want to see the real beauty of Sanātan Dharm worldwide, just search ISKCON..
Unlike Christianity or Islam, we don't have a single definition of God. We leave it to people, people create their own perception of God. This is beauty of Hinduism.
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Destroyer is GOD
@@djsjsjjejebfbdj what do you know more about Brahm
@@djsjsjjejebfbdj What, does that name mean?? OR more specifically who coined the term "Brahmin", and its interpretation, how does that "term" came into human brain if its non-human origin or before language evolved??
@@djsjsjjejebfbdj So, "brahmin" are human or non-human who coined term "Brahm" and its interpretation?? Further why do they sound so rythmic?? I am so confused..
Christianity has trinity which is not single God in my books.
Amish Tripathi have tried to make the view point of Hindu religion very easy and simple to understand. He is a great scholar and orator with vast knowledge of religion and science. Reminds me Swami Vivekanand's speech. Hats off, Sir.
Is it Hinduism that has a little man with a blue Elephant's head and he's supposed to be a god?
@@jimvanlint8043 its a part of hinduism its prabrhm in manifested form one aspect is to learn from his life stpries and other is to see god in everything thatswhy in his festival first we make his idol and worship it which is of stone or mud mostly then after 7-10 days we place that idol in a flowing stream of water just to remember hat everything is of god and everything is god
We are trained to see God in every living creature. In plants and in the animals. Even in the Sun. And in everything under the Sun.
Hinduism is not for Beginners.
But, it answers more questions of life than all other religions put together. Try it. You will be better off. @@jimvanlint8043
Oh listen every particle of this universe includes the existence of God and for that's what they represent so stop putting shit without even knowing the facts @@jimvanlint8043
@@jimvanlint8043most respectfully
Arrogance is dangerous
Amish Tripathi really understands what hinduism is at its core. It is about finding the truth rather than telling you what the truth is. He put a really nice debate. Namaste🙏🏽
When will you arrive at the truth if there is no truth???
It's just saying I believe in nothing, but I think a piece of rock can be God..
@@friendlyneighborhoodhumanMaybe the truth is that there is no truth hahaha. Sometimes we take everything too seriously
@@ExistentialDodo it just says that you don't the meaning of the word "truth", to know what is truth when it comes to you.
Think logically man..
Don't be ignorant, just come out of your ignorance..
@@friendlyneighborhoodhumanthe concept of nothing within everything and everything within nothing is also a divine concept of Hinduism.
@@lazy_wolf_unofficial 🤣🤣🤣🤣.. do you even know what your talking about?? Your whole sentence is an oxymoron..
So Hinduism hates logic i see..
Hindu Bali ☯️🔯♾️ is here ❤
Never let the tradition die brother, Lots of love and hope Shiva blesses you all with prosperity
I still hope Bali and Kalinga once again unite love from odisha india... right now m not financially free but one day I'll come to Bali ..our ancient history hav strong relationship with Bali here in odisha we hav a festival call Bali jatra in the memory of our coexistence...#Bali...
Respect to you you've kept the dharma within you alive for so long thanks a lot
hindu bali.. how??? are u talking about King Bali ??
@@sukhoicheetah Have u been heard us ? ☕😄 Balinese Hindu in Bali island 🏝️ The last Hindu Island in Indonesia?? we are Balinese Tribe who had Fight for our Culture and Our Religion Siwa Budha 🕉️☯️🔯 Hindu Bali from Occupied by another entity many religion from 500 years ago until now and we Balinese survive still stand here as Balinese Hindu who had Balinese culture base on Hindu 🙏
Amish Tripathi achieved the impossible feat of capturing an ocean within a small pitcher!👏🏻👏🏻💐💐🙏🙏
MOdi hai to mumkin hai
Jai Siya Ram
@@rawat7203 Har jagah Modi ka naam mat liya karo bhai, pls there is no relevance
Religion is merely a tool for Modi to stay in power@@rawat7203
After hearing this, I feel like I still have much to learn. I am grateful to have been born into a Hindu family, which offers me various paths to discover the truth. I bow to the divine power 🙏🏻
This is the most refreshing speech of the lot... plus he leaves time for questions!
Normally theism VS atheism debates are black-and-white, but he adds a genuinely novel perspective.
Yeah
This perspective is very much known in India. In fact, this is just the beginning. As you dive deeper, it gets more and more interesting.
You were definitely listening to the debate unlike others.Cheers bro.Sucess and happiness to you.
@@funfactz5605we follow a blend of both Sanamahi and Sanatan which I call it as सनारन्मा
..well this is what we Hindus have known for thousands of years
I am a hindu and a proud one that.
What's ur caste?
In other words: "I believe in a talking monkey, a man with a talking elephant head, a gigantic man with 10 heads and I am proud of myself for believing such things."
@@sarthak3441your sister😊
@@sarthak3441tere lulleh,yase ki mkc
You could perhaps choose humility over pride?
People born into any religion haven’t done anything to be proud about.
This is something different POV I haven't thought of this, and now I am more curious in Hinduism then ever.
read upanishads, your mind will be blown 1000 folds, and yes it was written in 2100 bc
Whever Devtas (Shiva, Visnu etc.) you see are the personification of Purusha (cosmic being or self, awareness, and universal principle) and whatever the Devi (Durga, Kali, Radha etc) you see are the personification of Prakritis (material nature in its germinal state, eternal and beyond perception).
read the scriptures with a rational mind and be aware of false equivalence and be extremley careful reading every line of the scriptures you will find that hinduism is nothing different than others. also read about the varna system and untouchability.
@@Darkshield-id7nh Do you truly understand what the Varna system is?
@@Darkshield-id7nh have you read upanishads
I am an athiest in a very hindu religious family but it makes no problem even then i am a hindu 😅
Bro tum nastik ho hi nahi bas tumhe tumhare Tarkik prashno ka tarkik uttar nahi mila, jis karan tumhe lagta hai tum nastik ho
Sar tan se juda nahi hua fir bhi. Say thanks to hindus.
there is no definition or declaration or mention of "NON BELIEVER" (who does NOT go to temple , who does NOT read Bhagvad geetaa , who does NOT pray to god etc.........) in vedas , upnishads , geeta, but there exist definition of Good Karma , Bad karma , Good results , Bad results, as a science.
So very true@@mohanb655
Wonderful ❤
Great way to sum up such a broad and seemingly complicated philosophy in 10 minutes. kudos to Amish ji 🌷
You HAVE to invite SWAMI SARAPRIYANANDA to Oxford. He's incredible. His talks on Advaita Vedanta will blow your socks off!
Absolutely
Wow your name suggests you are not an Indian. Just curious to know about your pursuit on Hinduism, if you are willing to share
Exactly
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Sawami Sardinwakanda is a hindootv extremist though
I love this perspective to the issue of God and religion.
Also, by our western ideology, his whole argument is agnostic yet still refreshing
Being a Black... You should how you turned into Islam or Christianity.. By violence or deceit.
That's Hinduism or specifically "Sanaatan" Is.
Dear before your were forefather were enslaved and converted you also followed the same principles.
It is not agnostic.
@@r.b.8018Many Africans were not enslaved stop talking about them like that. Also every pagan religion are not hinduism
I used to disrespect my hindu religion as i lack knowledge now i gained knowledge and proof i can proudly say i born as sanatani will always need to be in this dharam in every life
As i gained knowledge every religion gave roots to hindu and sanatan is oldest even many west scintist source was hindu book even nasa searching on hindu god tandav of lord Shiv based on cosmic energy om is universal sound multiuniverse black whole earth distance shape 9 planets everything was explained by our gods when not a single religion was born just because SANATAN DHARM IS ETERNAL OLDEST AND REAL🕉️
HARE KRISHN
bruh hindusim actually respects women most than any other religion
Why you used to disrespect?
12:57 Nasadiya Sukta (Hymn of non-Eternity, origin of universe):
There was neither non-existence nor existence then;
Neither the realm of space, nor the sky which is beyond;
What stirred? Where? In whose protection?
There was neither death nor immortality then;
No distinguishing sign of night nor of day;
That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse;
Other than that there was nothing beyond.
Darkness there was at first, by darkness hidden;
Without distinctive marks, this all was water;
That which, becoming, by the void was covered;
That One by force of heat came into being;
Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation?
Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?
Whether God's will created it, or whether He was mute;
Perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not;
The Supreme Brahman of the world, all pervasive and all knowing
He indeed knows, if not, no one knows.
Thank you❤
it doesn't claim to be absolute truth like desert cult gods
nastik philosophy is also part of hinduism
abrahmic cult members can never understand how hindus can be religious without beliveing in any god.
Thankyou for sharing
Here Gods means angels I guess and God means Brahma ( the ONE god) - then this matches to Abrahamic faiths
@@thanseerap6914 Yeah, ppl don't think about it when the use the term "God" for everyone.
Hats off to this genius. No one else could have explained Hindu religion and its philosophy in such a short talk and that is too in very simple way.
After reading his books one can easily understand that he has in depth understanding of Hindu philosophical texts. That makes him unique from so called novel writers. His knowledge and understanding of scriptures and philosophical texts inspries lot of young Indians to read his writings.
In Abrahamic faiths, worldview starts with GOD as an external entity who created world and gave a rulebook to follow.
In Hindu Civilization, worldview starts with ENTITIES (aka padardha) seen by their Thattvas (aka qualities/natures) based on their functionalities and its influences thus classifying in the spectrum of Daivam (Godliness/Life supporting) and Rakshasam (Devilishness/Life Annhiliating), thus determining that entity as GOD or DEVIL in that given context.
@@upadisettywhat you are saying is probably only the intellectual Hindu. For the most part of Hinduism its only traditions and rituals. I am thinking they have nothing to do with its religious experience.
I will tell you a fact.. two Hindus will not agree on what Hinduism aims to achieve explicitly. Words like " Eternal Truth" means nothing until you can explain it clearly.
@@codewalters’intellectual Hindu’ 😂😂😂 ‘most of Hinduism it’s only traditions and rituals’ 😂😂😂 what are those stupid phrases!! U need to go for a fresh walk or a swim, my dear! Don’t even dare to touch Bhagavad Geeta or Upanishad. How many Hindus you know ??? A Hindu will never think like the way you thought .. are you trying to say Hindu philosophy or Dharma is just for the intellectual Hindus !? 😂😂
@@codewalters that is what happens when the lineage is broken by 700 years of colonisation. Intellectual spirit that gave birth to practical tools (traditions, rituals) die, leaving only traditions and rituals to exist which become obsolete with time as the idea behind it is no longer alive for it to evolve with time.
@@codewalters2 hindus will argue to one another on what is hinduism, after a while they will accept one another believes and move on,
The last part of the speech is the most exhilarating. I always had a line of thought which ended in an endless loop of “if Big Bang created the universe, then what preceded the Big Bang, whatever created Big Bang, who created that thing “. The last Hindu hymn that he quotes exactly emphasises this. Just amazing!!
In christianuty it is Creation ex nihlio.
God is the only uncaused cause.
@@akhiljames8807then why existence cant be it
@@rameshdevasi6720 Due to the ephermal/transistory nature of existence. In the currently accepted hypothesis of the origin of universe, even time and space came out of Big Bang.
I get depressed when I think about this. 😅 Who created god? How did we all came into being? Why? What’s the purpose to be born? I don’t like that i have consciousness.
@@neshwhat702 As per christianity, you were created out of love. God loves you and so he created you. Purpose of life is to know, to love and to serve God. The best way to love God is to love others selflessly.
Mr. Tripathi is brilliant! I have lived in USA for decades and did not know much but Mr. Tripathi. So beautifully explained! I am a practicing Hindu who tried to explore Christianity. But it became evident fairly quickly (3 or 4 trips to the Sunday sermon) that Christian faith was way too divisive. The sermons usually mentioned "beware of fake Gods". No respect for any other faith, fear of hell..etc. As all Hindu's do, I believe in reincarnation as well and I pray to God that if I must be born again please let me be a vegetarian Hindu where I can practice my faith exactly how I want with no judgment or fear of hell.
West has borrowed our key teachings like Yoga and Meditation but have choosen to disassociate them as a Hindu practice. Shiva can never be taking out of Meditation and Patanjali can never be taking out of Yoga. The spread of Yoga and Meditation is not merely by accident but by their merit as they are time tested practices! Thank you Mr. Tripathi for explaining Sanata Dharma so beautifully!
He speaks non sense you are appreciating it
That’s beautiful!! To accept how west stole yoga and meditation and even ‘manifestation’ and after years of making fun of Hindus for being veg, now they’re vegan. lol.
unless you have open minds you cannot understandhim
That's the problem . You want religion to have teachings as you wish .
Beautifully articulated. Every thing that is essential neatly presented in a nutshell. Kudos to Mr Tripathy.
India we live in western metrics of success, which comes at cost of human values and nature, and result of 4 million species extinct out of 12 million species in 150-200 years due to western idea of comfort. Do we really want that kind of success that feeds and comforts on cost of other lives and species ??
How happy is the world?? West false glorification of themselves?
The world is controlled by west, people should question at what cost are they doing it. They fought world wars on looted money.
India was attacked for 2000 years. We will improve not on western defination of success.
Even though old India had best science,medicine, economy, sport, construction. India didn't go further, as going ahead at the cost of other is not development, at the cost of nature. External seeking after limit leads to destruction inner seeking leads to divine.
JUST SUPERB, NO ONE COULD HAVE EVER COME ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR EXPLANATION,, WOW , BOW DOWN TO HINDUISM,,
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Don't bow down. Become every thing or because nothing.there is no mid state
Follow sadhguru he know everything
Thank you oxford for making this discussions possible. This used to happen in Taxila between Hindus Buddhists and Greeks. 🙏
How do you know? I am just curious
@@akshanshkumar4710 Historically recorded, and the ruins of those universities exist.
Taxila is the world first university established by descendent of Rama’ s brother
@@pullelakarthik9192I Appriciate, Many people dont know that.
गर्व से कहो हम सनातनी हैं ❤
This is true, as a Hindu myself I do question my religion but at the same time I do appreciate and respect.
If you really question your religion, you won't believe in God who cuts off his own son's head, and gives an excuse that "he didn't recognise his own son".
What? You are totally confused. You have a Western understanding of religion. Narratives in the Puranas are NOT "building blocks" of a "belief system". I see that you have an Indian name. I am shocked by how many Indians I meet and hear who have no understanding of their civilisation and see everything through an ignorant, bigoted Christian's or Muslim's worldview.@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman
@@friendlyneighborhoodhumanthen the same father brings back his son's life when his wife gets angry at him.
Also that's not an excuse. That happened because of unawareness. This can happen today also.
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman You sure are a friendly neighborhood human. let me guess are you from that peace loving religion or are you an atheist. Just curious
@@Tubelight151 so exposing the truth is not friendly for you???
Of course you are trained to ignore the truth..
Thank God someone from ours mindset had an opportunity to give speech in Oxford University.
Whats a "mindset" here means ?
@@snl1754 to talk meaninglessly
-mindset- religion.
I believe your religion (Hindu) is not just a mindset but much more than that. It is supposed to free your mind.
@@snl1754mindset means - having open outlook and note divinity in everything around us . Hinduism never said there are multiple Gods . We say - God takes multiple forms .
Mindset the commenter is referring to - is to think like us , the Hindus.. Hindus don’t react to things unless it’s needed …
@@classnclassics7252 A set mind is a limited mind. Hinduism is against mindsets but liberate minds that are set (conditioned) to attain _Mukti._ As a post graduate in comparative study of six major religions, I can vouch for it.
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Mr Amish Tripathy speak on this special topic. It was a wonderful session. Thank you! 🙏💯
On a scale of 1 -10 rate your gullibility ..
Are you Brahmin perchance ?
Were you born Hindu. That is 99% of the reason you are Hindu (as was for me, but thankfully i realised religions are for gammon heads)..
beautiful I so much agree with Amish
One of the finest discourses on Hinduism I have heard in recent times! Pranams to Amish Tripathiji! *_Well-read, well-versed, and well-spoken!_*
Brilliant Exposition! This gentleman is articulate and well-read with the ability of discriminatory analysis.
Proud of you Amish Tripathi!!👏👏👏
Only foolish beings can be proud of other foolish beings.
West should thank Hindus of bharat for giving them yog, meditation, ayurveda etc and teaching them spirituality
Even calculus. Bhaskaracharya invented differential calculus, he wrote theories in his book sidhhanta shiromani many hundreds of years before newton.
How many times do you thank them for cars, electricity, computers, cameras and planes?
@@lookintoit4537yea my god look at soul less hollow America with all the electricity 😍😍😍
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@@lookintoit4537West profited heavily from economic drain from India without which industrial revolution never would have happened
@@lakshmikrithika2521 Its true that US is soul less. What I dont understand is why So many Indians leave their own country to live in soul less USA. Can you explain?
( Dear Hindhu ) బాటోగి తో కఠోగి *** జాగో సనాతని జాగో 🙏
This guy has explained it so beautifully.. round of applause to Amish 👏🎉
Very well presented, I wish he was given a lot more time to explain deep philosophical points in Hindu religion, but in the alloted short time he hit the nail on the head perfectly.
Read his books for more explanation
Very clear & straight ur explanation hopefully will wake up the western mindset
Bro old religions are like that that's why polythestic religion are like that but Hinduism goes deeper and deeper 😅😁
🔴In Hindu Philosophy we believe in Only One absolute truth which is " Param Brahma" from which each and every thing is created and it's present in every Living and Non Living things present anywhere in the Universe. Rest all is "Maya".
Very Nice Explanation from Amish Sir. 🕉️🇮🇳
Actually we don't believe in anything except that this creation is truth and the illusion may also be the truth.
We don't believe in believing ❤
Maya is wrongly translated as an Illusion. Maya is not really an illusion in that sense. The right interpretation would be, that Maya is the engagement of the individual with Samsara that keeps him from realizing the divine. However, there is an interesting aspect to it. If the Engagement is Dharmic, then it becomes the path to the Divine realization. That is the essence of Dharmavyadha. Maya is that veil that keeps you from certain pursuits. Dharmic engagement will slowly reduce the effects of the Maya. You will realize the divine through the very engagement. The interpretation of Maya as an Illusion is from Bouddha interpretation. It was one of denial. I think that is not the right interpretation, this is what Ramanujacharya and Madvacharya who followed Shankara did. They extended the philosophy. To just give an Advaita interpretation and leave it there is not the right way to debate or discuss this. Bouddha philosophy of denial was a wrong turn, that was later fixed.
It’s not wrongly translated. Only dumbed down for ppl who do not have a clue abt Maya. Anything that is not ram is illusion per say. This materialistic world is illusion. As it has a beginning and an end. Only after attaining moksha we become real. And moksha can be attained in this world of illusion and you don’t have to die. Enlighten itself is moksha.
And there are steps or divine sense of awareness beyond moksha. I real can’t remember the names and can’t discuss much as that’s how tantrics work. Gnoses is only for all only for those who works for it.
Agreed.... the definition he gave for illusion was non-eternal and without purpose, Maya as an energy/entity is eternal though its manifestation changes over period of time. Its created (more correctly revealed), destructed, its form changes over time, but it always exist. Coming to the purpose as rightly mentioned how something can be illusion when engagement with that entity in certain way leads to the path to divine realization, with this argument purpose can be clearly understood that it acts as a mean. The actual sense on which Maya is an illusion as it act as a curtain between an individual and the divine. This phenomenon act as an opaqueness and weakens the revelation of the divine, individual accepts Maya to be ultimate reality becoming unware that there is something beyond this.
@MrRk540 "divine realization" There is no such thing called 'divine realization" in Hindu tradition. "True self" realization is a better way to put it
@@indianmilitary you read it literally… divine realization is the same thing.
Some followers of Advaitha wrongly interpret Maya as the illusion through which Brahman falsely appears as the universe. Maya is just another name for Shakthi. Maya is the 'creative" shakthi of Brahman. Maya is absolutely real. So, is our material ream.
As far as "divine realization" is concerned there is no such thing called 'divine realization" in Hindu tradition. "True self" realization is a better way to put it
Proud to be a Hindu...
Beautiful way of explaining the Dharmic faiths!
You can live without a religion but not without a way of life and Hinduism is a way of life.
Hinduism is a fraud way of life. Infact Hindu is a foreign word give by outsider so Hindu term must be banned inside jambudweep/Bharat.
What do you say?
Very elegantly spoken! Thank you expressing Sanatan Dharma
A foolish being praising other foolish being. You guys are literally filled with inferiority complex. 😑
As a hindu, I hav worldly goals but there is a parallel hunger to attain Nirvana, truth, samadhi. Self realisation is a goal, after which may be I wd be able to say with utmost humility, that I know it. And I will guide u as ur guru if I feel u r a worthy student. In day to day life, we hav to practice our dharma and karma which is duty and action. My dharma as a father, my dharma as a son, as a husband , as a friend etc I hav a task to be best father, son, husband, brother, citizen. This is essentially possible if I m hardworking and selfless. But selflessness is also a process, it has to grow untill I m beyond my own body and mind as well.
What is your duty as a father, husband, brother?? Who decides if your duty is good or bad? You make your own definition of what is good?
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman my duty as a father is to be like vasudeva, my duty as a husband is to be like Rama, my duty as a brother is to be like lakshmana, my duty as a son is to be like shravana, my duty as a student is to be like arjuna, my duty as a friend is to be like krishna.
We hav so many examples already set as a guidance to know what is righteousness.
But still if u want a definition, i will give u a definition. Any action done with an intention to attain selflessness is good. One might think that a student who is withdrawing himself from social activities, declining party invites, trip invites, is being selfish but from that student's point of view, he is avoiding short term pleasures and choosing hardwork. This might look like a selfish decision for people around him but from his angle, it is dharma. As a student , he must hav to learn to avoid short term pleasures in order to achieve success. But success for what? To help others.
Whole life should be like a journey where u move from selfishness to selflessness. Nobody becomes selfless just by wanting to be one. It takes real courage, sacrifice. In our life time, we take up so many roles, we r student, son, brother, husband, father, uncle , friend, citizen ....in every role we hav a duty and responsibility towards someone's happiness. In order to fulfill our duties we hav to put others before us, thats when u realise the value of altruism. If u get it. There is no turning back. U will keep on serving more and more number of people. Thats when selflessness start expanding. Ur attachment tend to decrease and compassion takes its place. Ur detachment grows with ur selflessness.
Ur ultimate seat is with the divine coz he resides inside you. If there is a god? He cant be selfish. Why? Becoz he has no want or desire for something as he is literally everything.
So when u r reaching that purity and selflessness, u r seeing urself in everyone. U r becoming everything, u r becoming god. But not untill u hav even a slightest hint of 'I'ness or me'ness. To be god , is to be absolutely selfless, which is egolessness only. In ADVAITA, it is the non dual state. When u r one with everything, it will be impossible fr u to be selfish. Look at your body, its in ur experience that it is yours, can u be selfish towards either if ur kidneys , lungs? Can u be selfish towards your left hand and overstrain your right hand becoz ur left hand is more dear to you? If i ask u to donate one of ur ear, can u really make a decision abt which one to let go? When ur consciousness expands , anything inside it is you.
Selfishness is the direct result and proof of ignorance, hence selflessness is directly linked to knowledge. If a sadhu or saint is accumulating wealth 🤑, he is not really a sadhu, he is just a man with great sense of purpose, he might be using all that wealth into something great but he himself is attached to that wealth and hence not free. He must be hoping to achieve the ultimate by that service. Which wd happen if his goals r clear. Basically then all his hardwork is to accumulate wealth for serving others. Thats a legit way to attain higher forms of selflessness. The other way is obviously renunciation, where u start with zero and suddenly hit a jackpot if u attain self realisation via some guru or knowledge or serious meditation. Such people mostly go for disciples. They do serve people but their main focus is to impart knowledge with worthy candidates.
If this makes sense to u, its well and good. If not, then i m sorry. I m no saint , i m quite unfit to satisfy anybody's query. I hav mine own to solve first. 🙏
@@Vegetasinghyadav "God" is not everything man... You devalue "God" by using it everywhere and for everything as you wish..
You just created a God of your own...
@@friendlyneighborhoodhuman 😂🤡😂
@@Vegetasinghyadav are you laughing at your ignorance??? 🤮🤣🤣🤣
Such an amazing speaker with deep knowledge of his subject .
Keep learning. What a philosophy of Hinduism.. Proud of you sir
Mr Tripathi presented a deep and vast topic with great easiness and conviction. Ending with hymns that summed up the topic extremely well. Throughly enjoyed it.
Faith is not central !! This in itself speaks volumes. Very well explained by Amish. Ours has always been a land of seekers and not believers !!
Amish's argument was most balanced and filled with enlightening opinion. Only one disagreement where he mentioned in Hindu philosophy there is no absolute truth, I'll better go for "there is one absolute truth but also different manifestations of it, one associate with the absolute truth by the mean of the manifestation which hold common attribute between the two"
What's that one absolute truth?
He is not primary researcher, he gains his knowledge from primary researchers, there are many hidden gems in India but unlike him they are underrated.
The hindu philosophy is there is one absolute truth but it's different for everyone. Also a reason why most enlightened being never agreed with previous interpretation of absolute truth.
@@Insensitive_me supreme reality, supreme consciousness, Brahman different names for it
@@Misty1234-o6onooo lol
Whether you believe in any religion or But don't believe in Islam
Amish sir kudos to you putting all the right aspects in front of western minds who are misleaded by half knowledge about Sanatan dharma.
जय जय श्री राम 🙏🙏🚩🚩
Full Respect to Amish Ji🙏🙏
I enjoyed this perspective because it challenges fundamentals and forces new thinking.
It's standard-issue solipsism. Look around on UA-cam and you'll find better examples.
For us Hindus it was always the case … nothing new here 😊
You revealed the mystic and openness of our Hindu way of life very beautifully. ❤❤❤
Hinduism is a beautiful faith
No doubt for you. But I have doubt when I went to India years ago. The people worship almost anywhere they can set up a little idols. Explain the monkey temple. 😮😢
@@andywong9847Got anything else to mock??
@@vijayadeep0_0. If the truth mock, let me lie. The lie to protect the truth.
@@andywong9847 If truth mocks you, Tell me why do you hate Hinduism?
Personal reasons?
Taught in school?
Written in your book?
Propaganda?
India we live in western metrics of success, which comes at cost of human values and nature, and result of 4 million species extinct out of 12 million species in 150-200 years due to western idea of comfort. Do we really want that kind of success that feeds and comforts on cost of other lives and species ??
How happy is the world?? West false glorification of themselves?
The world is controlled by west, people should question at what cost are they doing it. They fought world wars on looted money.
India was attacked for 2000 years. We will improve not on western defination of success.
Even though old India had best science,medicine, economy, sport, construction. India didn't go further, as going ahead at the cost of other is not development, at the cost of nature. External seeking after limit leads to destruction inner seeking leads to divine.
Hinduism explained so beautifully. Thank you so much Tripathiji. This lecture will have a profound effect on the western tradition of religion and may even repair the tortured relationship between the Abrahamic God and science itself.
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Sam Harris ( atheist) vs swami swarva priyananda
Aham brahmasmi Tatavamasi... I am brahmam.. The universal consciousness. What's in me is in you.
The ever expanding universe is created by the ever evolving consciousness.
As a hindu my purpose in life is to keep searching and keep expanding my mental horizons and try to align myself with the universal consciousness.
Because matter and energy cannot be comprehended without the concept of the consciousness 🙏🙏🙏
Who is brahman
The idea of god in Upanishad is beautifully explained in short.. But alas! Many of today's Indian population do not know about the concept, and therefore quarrel with others.. Thank you Amish for presenting it in nutshell!
Yes bro u are right , but we are the future and I will definitely play my role in propagating the essence of the Upnishads and the Geeta .
Bhai padhna padta hai samjhna padta hai 😊❤
I think Hindus still have that deep inside. But today some feel the need to defend it. That feeling has risen bcz of some reasons. The anxiety to defend itself if sm1 tries to conquer their people and land. I think if such threat from opposite side stops coming, the few people who r behaving radically will revert back to being all nice and happy(i hope). No one would feel defensive if not threatened.
@@kharkhuadexoryes you are right especially the desert abrhamic faiths are sadist in nature atleast some got reformation in time but there are still that sadism fully there is some more
Before any argument about God, the term must be carefully and specifically defined. Everyone’s God is so different!
I've been thinking about compiling a list of common denominator characteristics about what is believed about God from all over the world and human history. In other words i want to boil down and distill the definition of God to its essential essence common to all concepts of God. It would also be interesting to see or produce a periodic table of Gods that organizes all the possible characteristic elements any God might have into categories.
Start with 99 attributes of God from Last Scriptures.@@alexgonzo5508
@@amatyaucran2214 Well then a fundamental definition of a god would have nothing to do with love, or justice. The idea is more to do with what is claimed than what is logical or true; a kind of map of possible features the idea of god can have. If there is a good God then conversely there can be an evil God, and if there is a 'just' God then there can be an 'unjust' God. These would be features in a "feature space" on which the various ideas about the nature of God or gods can be plotted. If there are common features, or a common feature to the idea of a god then that would be interesting. It would also be interesting if there were no common features.
After that, then it would be a much easier task to refute or support the logic of any combination of features such as you expressed in your reply. It may be that there is a combination of features that are non-contradictory and thus represent a viable concept of God or gods. It may be that there are no viable concepts of God or gods, and it may also be that there is at least one set of features that represent a viable god concept, but that has not been expressed or represented at any time in history. This may constitute a new paradigm for what a god is or does that has never existed before in the minds of people.
It just seems like an interesting idea for a project. There would be something to learn anyway it goes, at least for me.
@@alexgonzo5508 I’ve actually done something very similar. Much of it extrapolates in different wordings to ‘God is everything’… I guess that’s pantheism.
But others include God being an alien.
Different Gods of concepts, philosophies and ideas. (Polytheism essentially)
God being a blueprint from maximal potential for life on earth.
God being the creative Will of the universe for there to be something rather than nothing.
@@herbiewalkermusic It appears to me that when people use the word God, especially when capitalized they essentially mean something that does not need anything, but does everything, and it is usually conceptualized in some anthropomorphic form, but not always.
I have found that things are more easily defined when the focus is not on what a thing is, which really tells you nothing about the thing except a name. I believe that an effective and clear definition points at what a thing does, or what its function is.
From this perspective features are simply functions, and so now one can ask: What kind of thing does this kind of God or god do? What effect does this god have on the world? What function or purpose does this type of god serve? What role does he, her, or it play in the scheme of things?
Other good questions are what does this god care about, and why, and what does god do about it? Can this God make mistakes or not (perfect or not)? Is God part of our universe or outside of it? Is God complex or simple? Big or small? Is God alone or are there other Gods? Does this God change or is he/she/it always the same (does it evolve)? etc...
Ancient people did this kind of thing where they notice a feature of the world such as lightning and thunder, and give it anthropomorphic agency by conceptualizing a god person (a kind of king) that was responsible for those features in the world (Zeus, and Thor respectively).
Wonderfully Articulated!
No doubt, the bestselling author of the country- has his facts, knowledge and speech, all in order. Amazing.
I loved your Shiva trilogy. The beautiful symbolism, the new, modern angle to the mythological stories about Shiva, Sati, Parvati, Kali, Ganesha was mind-blowing and so much more believable than what I, as a child, had been exposed to.
I wanted the story to go on and on and on.
Thank you also for this Western spin on our great culture and religion. The West needs to change its mindset and its ideology ASAP if it wants its citizens to live meaningful lives full of faith rather than their current state of faithlessness, hopelessness and materialism, not to mention their incomprehensible fascination with wokeism!
Countless gurus with no knowledge of vedas have a audience and followers but actual knowledge of hinduism and it’s vedas are getting scarce day by day. Hope we create a wiki of vedas like an online version of gurukul.
Amish Tripathi, huge fan of your writings!!!
Vedas as per its own interpretation doesn't claim to be the ONE and best to know anything. There are others ways to know the things without Vedas.
So all these gurus are not wrong, just that they know the knowledge another way around. They are teaching what they discovered from that path.
It shall be foolish to conclude one path is the best. Yes, Vedas are not fully explored and lying in hibernation.
Again the Vedas teach, which ever path you take, it always leads to me.
There is a website called Dharmawiki
@@4manchirasee , there are 5 major dharmic/bharatiya philosophies sanatana dharm (i.e hinduism) , jainism , buddhism , sikhism (very much related to hinduism though) , charvaks , the difference is that jainism , buddhism and charvaks do not believe vedas as authentic , every philosophy of hinduism believes vedas are authentic and fundamental core . then hinduism has 6 major limbs vedanta , yog , nyay , vaisheshika , mimansa , sankhya out of which 3 are agnostic and vedant philosophy can be applied to those who do not believe in god and also to those who believe or those who are agnostic
@@Soham216 Great to know, thanks!
@@NeutronStar9yes first we should build gurukuls
I could listen to him all day ♥️🙏🕉️
Why all day listen for everyday
Seek to learn without bounds, never rejecting any subject, stay open to life. Keep only the truth, and always be willing to let go of a truth when you find a higher one. Love India and its wisdom.
I'm a proud Hindu & I believe Hinduism provides logical explanation of the complex issues such as truth, god etc.
The atheist vs God is essentially a western debate. As Amish said - faith is not the central point, the belief in the concept of cause and effect (Karma) is central to Hinduism. So even if you don’t believe God exists it is not a problem for us because as the Rig Veda Hymn pointed outed by Amish itself said ‘No one knows for sure’ . Btw it is a well known hymn in India.
Then why hindutva exist?
@@deepakkumarjoshiBecause it’s a way of life not just a religion.
हिंदुत्व exists becoz, Islamist and christianity are out to destroy hinduisam
@@amitrankwar874 so its a religion and a way of life, how original. lol you guys think your religion is special just because you cant decide who the god is , what the rules are. heck you cant even decide on one name
@@Messi10947Brother Hinduism is not a bookish religion like yours. It’s a sea. Btw your whole religion is just a tiny part of one of the philosophies of Hinduism called ‘Nirgun’ . Go read about it.
As an atheist, eastern religions seem really appealing to me. The fact that the truth claims are not central, and you don't even need to believe them in order to describe yourself as an adherent of that religion, is so refreshing over the blind insistence I feel like I often see from Abrahamic faiths that there must be one absolute truth and that we can fully ascertain it.
I think you don't know how ugly none scientific Hinduism is and caste system is biggest issue people still pratice that stupid thing..
@@DC-rb3uz People in india have rejected caste. The majority of hindus do not believe in the caste system but if I say it is entirely non-existent, I'll be lying. It is still practiced in the rural remote areas of india. But unlike abrahamic faith nothing is concretised in Hinduism you can follow what appeals to you within Hinduism and you'll still be hindu. In fact you can challenge the existence of god while in a hindu temple and you'll still be a hindu. Words are not enough to describe the magnanimity of Hinduism
In dharmic faith they say find out divine within u
@@doge3436 india has rejected system that's a complete lie most hindus still practice I stayed in four states for a good amount of years and i see caste system everywhere.
And when anyone challange hindus gods the hindu believes stright up call him anti hindu remember Pk movie which breaks down ill logical factors of Hinduism but most hindu called it anti hindu movie.
You religious people doesn't even want to accept the ex hindus exist they called them different name like Muslim, Abdul i have seen how horrible Hinduism is.
@@DC-rb3uz But why are u linking a social issue with "Hinduism"? If “caste discrimination” was linked to Hindu tradition and limited only to Hindu community then why Dalit Christians would have separate churches (since upper caste Christians don't allow them to enter in their Churches and even if they did allow them they would make sure that Dalits were made to sit or stand separately in a corner) or why Islam would have Ashraf (direct descendants of fair skinned Arabs) and Ajlafs (dark skinned converts to Islam)? and last I checked Pasmanda Muslims (low caste muslims) voted overwhelmingly for the BJP in UP for giving them political representation. Pasmandas amongst Muslims are OBCs (Ajlaf) and Dalits (Arjals), distinct from Ashrafs (upper castes like sheikhs, maliks, pathans, Sayeds)
it is the reason why, Christians and Muslims are asking for SC/ST reservation status for their converted 'Dalits" which also means it is a social issue and nothing to do with Hindu tradition or any religion
2. Rigid birth based caste system (which did not allow social mobility) was created by Lord Risley or Herbert Hope Risley (a British agent) in the 19th century. He morphed ancient and flexible jathis (occupational groups which allowed social mobility) and 4 varnas (colors of character of a person shaped by past karma not birth family) and RE- classified people based on race science (nose size and head shape). The same race science was later used in Africa by Christian missionaries which led to Rwandan genocide and conversions.
3. Jathi and Varna ≠ Caste. The term jathi (often mistranslated as 'caste') is best understood in the sense of a set, as in mathematics or a genre in literature. It applies to non-human entities as well - for example, the jathi of trees, jati of rational numbers, jathi of verbs, and so on. In the human context, a nation is a jathi, a given religious group is a jathi, doctors/engineers are a jathi, men/women a jathi, gay people are a jathi, the military is a jathi, the employees of a given company are a jathi, etc. Similarly, the word 'varna' means 'color'. Varna also refers to the various personalities and qualities of people. An individual's varna is based on past karma (NOT BIRTH) which shapes gunas, the latter being individual qualities or tendencies.
4. So called "untouchability" was a consequence of rigid birth based caste system. Colonialists (esp East India company agents) created hundreds of fake hindu mutts to prevent "shudras" from entering hindu temples. It was done to make hindus self loathe their own tradition
One cannot be a Brahmin or Vaishya or Shudra or Kshatriya by birth (Bhagavad Gita). In Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 4 Verse 13
Krishna talks about the 4 Varnas
catur-varnyam maya srstam
guna-karma-vibhagasah
meaning a person's guna or mindset and his choice of work (action) are shaped by past karma (NOT birth) and they determine Varna (color of qualities)
5. Point is don’t confuse artificially created social stratifications and socio/economic imbalances by colonialists with the hindu/dharmic tradition built around the Vedic metaphysics Sankhya which can be validated by logic, double slit quantum experiment and embodied experience (direct knowledge through focus and meditation)
Mr. Amish Tripathi just showcase the small drop the great ocean we have in our granthas, we have 4 Vedas, 18 Puranas, 200+ upnisad, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Sri Ram Charitra Manasa, Sri-mada-bhaagwad-gita, etc. learning and understanding any of them will fulfill you with lots of knowledge, wisdom and gratitude.... that's why we Hindus believe in 'Vasudhev Kutumbakam' that is entire world is our family because we respect the Aatma or Prana inside each of the human.....Namaste 🙏🏼
Yes in total agreement
Why didnt you read the vedas properly
@@praveenkumar-yo1xg I already did but seems like you haven't go and watch pogo like your master Pappu 😂😂😂
No offence to hindusim but you are too much pride or I would superiority complex @@NK-sz9mw
Profoundly explained. To realize and enlighten to the truth of God Goddess Source within, we become a Hindu. This truth is in all real religions- the kingdom of God within. In namaste, we worship each other. As a religion of coexistence, Hinduism brings humanity together as one family.
"facts as we know it today" - it's what science says with humility , and it's what Dharmic belief systems say with humility.
Working on oneself and take oneself to realize the ultimate truth at experiential level is the core philosophy of Hindus or Santana Dharma. Heartfelt praises for Amit Tripathi ji. This philosophy needs to be glorified to the highest level. He has done it very well. Love and Respect from British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦. 🙏🏽❤️💐
Listening to Amish and utilizing my personal understanding of "God", I would say: 1. God is a force of infinite dimensions, that we try to perceive with our senses in 3 dimensions. 2. Each one can perceive a small portion of this infinity. There can be infinite ways to perceive/reach/realize God 3. Though we may only perceive a small portion of "God", this perception gives us a taste of what God is. Words are often not sufficient to describe this experience. Many saints in the Hindu school of Thought have attempted to express these experiences. The gist of these experiences is that God is within.
I find myself coming back to it again and again. So wonderfully articulated. Holds the essence perfectly. My parents never forced religion on me. They continued practicing their rituals and belief and included me loosely. My father is a very devoted person and he was almost sure i am nastik/atheist. I developed spirituality on my own, found more interest and step by step entered. I still choose what to believe what to not, reason with it and pray whom to i resonate d most and want to. They probably don't even know whom i pray to. I feel extremely fortunate that i can do that without any bounds and therefore it is growing taking its own time.
Hinduism does not claim that we humans are ‘gods’. To put it a different way, it would be as if a wave on an ocean melds into the ocean, loses its personal identity, to realise its own true nature as being far greater than its limited conception. Then, their is no you nor any God. It then also realises the inherent interconnection between all waves or all creation. There is no other, onlyness, Kaivalya. In this respect God does not really exist and there is no need for it. What is prime is Self. Our terms are, the self and the overself or atma and param atma. You awaken to self, that’s why we talk of self realised masters and self realisation. With this in mind, yes, god is a delusion as it is a creation of beings living in a state of delusion. This explains why there are so many gods, and so many pick and choose options available for Hindus because who or what you pick and choose is ultimately irrelevant. It may be a useful tool for you to use or maybe a hindrance. That’s why there is no division in Hindus with regard to theists and atheists. Everyone is on their own journey and our job is simply to awaken to our own true nature through the yogic practices. Yoga itself can be classed as non-theistic because our search is ultimately solely for self and not for any god. It’s as if there were a hall in which most people are asleep in their own dreamscapes. But a few have their eyes open. No one is superior or inferior, everyone has their own time to open their eyes and finally come out of dream to awaken. This is core, Advaita Vedanta nondualism of acharya AdiShankara.
Well said!
You explained very well!
But simply saying God is delusion breaks the spine of Bhakti Yoga...... Self-realization can be achieved through several ways (Bhakti, Gyan, Karma and Raja Yoga). If you take a God's eye view of all 4 paths, what becomes obvious is that all 4 at the level of the reality of this worldly life are trying to bring the individual to a certain state of mind (or no mind as others would claim)......This in turn would have a psychological shift because again the Brain gets altered (especially the limbic system and so does the parietal lobe). So what we know for sure is these different paths are tools that are available to us (Humans) to reduce( and eventually eliminate) worldly suffering.... And it's needless to say that the struggle to end suffering fuels science and whatever developments we have.
@@TatTvamAsi173 Yes, good point, but one could say that the division into the concepts "God" and "me" simply represents the division that we feel when we are still caught in the web of thought. In that sense, we are still free to express this in poetic and artistic images of the "divine" - because we humans are great storytellers! (See my comment on the "Fall" and "good and evil")
I think you put it very well, and I expressed related ideas in my comment on the"Fall" and "good and evil".
God as a theoretical placeholder is the most badass philosophical concept I have ever come across!
Except the fact that there is no concept of "god"(s) or heaven or hell based on mono or polytheism in Hindu tradition built around well validated Vedic metaphysics.
Of course it's your judgment
Still welcome🙏. Namaskaram
MESMERIZING....to say the least. Awesome talk...every word that you spoke is precious. No wonder we are the only old civilization that is still alive. We have all the potential and even responsibility to be VISHWAGURU.
Now that's what makes you proud and delighted to be in the hindu way .. The freedom, the openess, endless possibilities the hindu way is unmatched.
WOW!! One of the very best clips I have seen on YT!
Wow nice explanantion!! Santan dharma gives lot of freedom of thought to everyone and also gives dharmic way of life. It respects evryone.
Wonderful Amishji क्या बात है...आप के जैसा युवा लेखक इसप्रकार बोलेंगे तो भारत के लिये बहुत जरुरी व अच्छा है
India we live in western metrics of success, which comes at cost of human values and nature, and result of 4 million species extinct out of 12 million species in 150-200 years due to western idea of comfort. Do we really want that kind of success that feeds and comforts on cost of other lives and species ??
How happy is the world?? West false glorification of themselves?
The world is controlled by west, people should question at what cost are they doing it. They fought world wars on looted money.
India was attacked for 2000 years. We will improve not on western defination of success.
Even though old India had best science,medicine, economy, sport, construction. India didn't go further, as going ahead at the cost of other is not development, at the cost of nature. External seeking after limit leads to destruction inner seeking leads to divine.
If you ask how beautifully and diplomatically someone can describe Hinduism! Here is the answer. Loved it!!
Love to listen each words of Amish Tripathi. He gain so much knowledge in spirituality and hinduism
Very beautiful lecture... I liked it.
The way amish sir told about hinduism is very precise and very complete at the same time. thank you for world know about scientific about hinduism.
येहै सनातन धर्म का महान योद्धा जो जब जब सनातन धर्म पर संकट आता है तो प्रत्येक सदी मे पर्मातमा धर्ती पर अपने अंस को पठाते है मै सुनताथा भगवान गीत अवर कथाएं मे आज साबित हो गया कभी महाराणा प्रताप के रूपमे तो कभी छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराज के रूप मे तो कभी बिर सावरकर कभी चन्द्र सेखर आजाद राज गुरु भगत सिंह ❤ ऐसे करके आप जैसे लोग धर्म अवर राष्ट्र को बचाने के लिए धर्ती पर लड़ने के लिए असुरो को हराने के लिए असुरो का अंत करने के लिए आते लहते है 🕉️ 🚩🙏 ओम पर्मातमने नमोँ नमँ ❤
Kitabo se bahar aao aur reality face Karo. Na koi aatma Hai aur na hi parmatma.
Differences between religions and dharma
(Christianity)
A Christ
A Bible
A religion
But do you know this?
Latin Catholics do not go to the Syrian Catholic Church.
These two groups do not go to Marthoma Church.
These three groups do not go to the Pentecostal Church.
These four groups do not go to the Salvation Army Church.
These five groups do not go to the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
These six sects do not go to the Orthodox Church.
These seven sects do not go to the Jacobite Church.
There are 146 castes in the state of Kerala alone! They do not go to the church of another caste!
(Islam)
Muslims
One is Allah
A Quran
A prophet
Great Unity...!
In Muslim countries, Shia and Sunni Muslims kill each other!
Religious strife mostly happens between these two communities in Muslim countries!
A Shia does not go to a Sunni mosque.
Both these sects do not go to the Ahmadiyya Masjid.
These three sects do not go to the Sufi mosque.
These four groups do not go to the Mujahideen mosque.
There are total 13 castes. We keep seeing in countries like Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan killing each other through bombings.
(Hinduism)
Hindus
1280 Dharma texts,
10,000 Bhashyas,
Also, there are about one lakh commentaries on these texts.
The three gods,
different professors,
Thousands of sages,
Hundreds of languages.
But all go to the same temple. Hindus have never killed each other in the name of religion!
*Nasadiya Sukta* (Hymn of non-Eternity, origin of universe):
There was neither non-existence nor existence then;
Neither the realm of space, nor the sky which is beyond;
What stirred? Where? In whose protection?
There was neither death nor immortality then;
No distinguishing sign of night nor of day;
That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse;
Other than that there was nothing beyond.
Darkness there was at first, by darkness hidden;
Without distinctive marks, this all was water;
That which, becoming, by the void was covered;
That One by force of heat came into being;
Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation?
Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?
Whether God's will created it, or whether He was mute;
Perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not;
The Supreme Brahman of the world, all pervasive and all knowing
He indeed knows, if not, no one knows
-Rigveda 10.129
thank you amish🤩😍
Amazing speech, proud hindu 🕉 Sanatam dharm
Namaste. 🙏🏻Thank you so much. Very interesting and clear discourse. I am from the West but found my Path in India .
Sanathana Dharma is a beautiful way of spiritual life.
Grateful. 🙏🏻
Thank you sir for your great speech..I'm so proud to be an Indian and also to be a Hindu ... You just explained the hole thing in only 10 mins and also clarify the think that science is a part of our Hinduism it's not differ ..😊🙏🏻