I am personally a non-denominational Christian but took great inspiration from this because I believe deeply that most of our religions are interpretations of the same One God and this video helped me realize that my apathy is from my seeing through the worldly goals but that I can become reignited in life for God by becoming a disinterested, not uninterested, party in all things!
Pranam maharaj. After listening to your lectures I recently went for a movie and instead of getting absorbed in the movie,as I previously used to, the thought that it is just a play of sound and light on the screen kept arising in my mind. And strangely it was a very liberating feeling.😊🙏
I am feeling so glad and blessed that my query reached Swamiji and he answered it so well. It feels like Swamiji has cleared the fog over the lens on my intellect enabling the clarity of mind. 🙏 Truly there is oneness of existence.
I really loved the way you explained it. Apart from the personal emotions, the spirit really wishes to explore itself and expand. Its the body and mind which wants personal emotions to pump. It cant last long. The material itself is not one with us but the one that causes things to happen and occur, the one that is formless but acts behind from everything as occuring, that one is the consciousness
This is excellent discussion thanks Swami. I'm trying too see my work and dealing with my mother as worship. However neither is often easy. The company I work for is not investing in the tools I need to do my job right and its getting worse. Also mom's dementia has been tortuous she has been delusional for years. I was taking care of her at her home untill last year when she go an infection in her leg. Had to get IV antibiotics in the hospital. While she was in there she became totally confused. It was so bad that she couldn't return home. I had to sell the family home this June to pay for her care. She is now in the last stages in a dementia unit. It is a slow and painful process for both of us. At least she doesn't know where she's at most of the time. We are the last of our family left.
Thank you very much for wonderful instructions. We have a lovely religion but being in a secular country we have little idea about different aspects of our Sanatana Dharma. If somebody has the patience to explain the sheer beauty of the Adwaita Vedanta to interested persons like us it is the greatest gift. My pranam to Maharaj.
thank you swamiji. i have been struggling myself to come to terms with these two opposing forces - of karma and vairagya. if sustenance were not an issue, maybe it would be easier than it is now. because the primal requirement for being sakshi is the sustenance of the witness. and this exercise of understanding oneself as the witness does bring upon one the feeling of apathy. this feeling of apathy comes due to the person trying to move from activity to witnessing, and in my personal case which others may or may not experience is laziness which maybe a natural tendency in some, thinking if everything is maya and will follow its entire course until the sun burns out or man again becomes god, the physical and spiritual limits, what is the need for me to exert effort in this ever changing worldly flux. moving ahead from the need to work for sustenance, i reasoned that it is knowledge and experience that opens up the mind and this again comes from work. physical work in the world sets into motion various emotions from the challenges, success, failure and new understandings and from this comes new insight. also mental work within, exerting the intellect and memory to improve the understanding of the aspects of the mind, body and world. and hence having reasoned this, i am trying to direct all my actions, all my karma towards this end, for the gain of knowledge and experience. this gives me a solution to the problem of karma and vairagya. it maybe called disinterested work, but even in that lies the interest of man to reach god and hence there remains a motive afterall - aatmano mokshartham jagad hitaaya ca. another issue that i am struggling with and am working my way towards is bhakti. strengthening my bhakti towards god. after having come across the works of vedanta and finding truth in them, one works towards understanding the mind, body, emotions, worldly things, etc. and within himself tries to identify with the true self. but having disattached himself from worldy things, there is now no god that is to be seen or felt and hence the problem of placing bhakti towards god. for if i were to do it blindly towards some unimaginable being or force might go down the road of dogmatism. as Swami Vivekananda himself questioned the existence of god and placed importance of questioning everything before believing it, i find myself not questioning the existence of god, but of finding a source to feel god and hence find a strong connection towards god. i have seen money and i can easily visualize it and feel it and i know what i am going after. similarly i may have seen pain of others and i know i am working towards alleviating that. there is an emotional connect in all of these. but i havent had the slightest glimpse or feeling of god, other than reading books and understanding god to be the force behind everything. so without this emotional connect how is one to bring a strong bhakti towards achieving god. lastly, if god was eternally god, then why does he not stay that way. why this drama of god becoming man and man again becoming god. thank you.
Soham I can totally relate to your struggles of spiritual actions verses dispassion and detachment. I appreciate your input! It clarifies that my motivation is the dance of making "everything" spiritual. My understanding of God comes from my being raised in a penecostal church in southeast USA. If I can describe my understanding of the force that is God, it's the peronalization of Brahman to the personality. The feeling of Bliss and unconditional Love for all. Bhakti strengthens that feeling and is witnessed in the physical body, all for the sake of realizing the Ultimate reality.
Again and again teachers of advaita stress the importance of high ethics/Moral. There is no way we shall have even a glimpse of the Param-Atma, the Divine, if we allow ourselves to be a burden to our beloved brothers and sisters and other sentient beings. We all must overcome any tamasic tendencies, before we can wake up to recognize the divinity in others - and finally ourselves /in reaching beyond the Jaggath-Maya-perception. Peace !
@@wilhelmbeck8498 Some spiritual teachers eat meat etc depends on culture , if one is in state of connection with source no action can really be morally compromising or generate karma in that state
Swamiji it is a blessing to listen to your spiritual classes, it renew my outlook one topic to another. My long face become round within a year by daily listening to one classes. The clarity of spirituality gyana is amazing.Thank you for non-duality topics.
Namaste Swamiji 🙏 Humble Pranams to u 🙏 So beautifully explained, really loved it👌👏👏👏🙏 Thank you Swamiji 🙏 Jai Sri Rama Krishna 🙏🌺 Jai Maa 🙏🌺 Jai Swamiji 🙏🌺
Many many thanks to you Swamiji for this explanation 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼...I was in great conflict...had to struggle during work...hope this will bring me on the right path and will keep me focused when working
Swamiji, one request, will you please share your thoughts on some practical aspects which house holders like me can inculcate for self realisation. Pranam.
Can't have a better explanation , awesome , merging knowldege of advaita and bhagwad Geeta, I request you to come up with few more videos to throw some light on kar mayoral though advaita
The seeker with a philosophic turn of mind is not satisfied with the little pleasure of this life anxious to know true nature. and reality at the back of the phenomenal world
Is there any hymn by Adi Shankaracharya which would be a second step in advait study, after the alienation by his Nirvana hymn. That would help with generating Brahm drishti. He did a great job with Sivoham
Without changing things, there is no room for growth, it is because change exists that there becomes an experience of growth as well as value of things that are here while keeping the ultimate reality in a conscious state. Golds don't come without dirt, neither are diamonds formed without roughness. If there is a universal consciousness, that means the essence of who you are, as atman and the essence of your real self the paramatman are both interacting with each other appearing differently while being one. So the real you is the entire essence of existence. Not existence but the essence of it and so many things out in the universe you have not yet explored about your true self, the supreme consciousness. So many realisations and dimensions of life are there which are your true self, wouldn't you want to explore it through life? Thats the true reason why atman appeared and perceived itself seperately. Because it can experience growth, which it cannot if it remained infinite and merged in perception from the start. You are the universe seeing and perceiving itself. This vedic knowledge is not philosophy, its a certain reality, many realities exists by perception but the intellectual perception is the illusion which doesn't work as it concentrates more on form than its way of expressions and qualities consciously which our very nature is built of, consciousness
Why Vedanta is so much complicated to understand. Sometime its being said I the witness of consciousness is different from the body and mind, sometimes its being said body and mind is not different from consciousness. Why there is contradiction??? Would you plz explain simply?
Many of the videos leave an incomplete speech. The complete answer to the asked question is yet to given by swami ji. Pls ensure to upload complete speech.
We are not condemned to Maia. We are not here on probation. We are here to play the game of life, and try to find out what IT is, so that it can know it too, the only wat it can: through us, so you can found out who you really are at the core... but... who you really are at the core, manifested itself in Maia though that body and mind of yours. Why? To play the game... so play it! Make it an interesting one.
Advaita philosophy is nothing but a unnecessary complications. It is not 'Dharma ' too. It is ridiculous that some Institute trying to promote this weird philosophy. Take up humanity. All mental problem will be easily solved.
@@bvshenoy7259 It is doing good for yourself, good for others and good for the world. No need for thinking 'I am God '.it's a unnecessary and weird complications. This complications may destroy family life
@@mrbmandal1 Good to others, Good to world. Very Good. Karma yoga is also a way. Start doing that. Then you will find that you don't have time to write comments here.
I don't know why these so called "swamy"s and monks dont teach Indians CLEANLINESS, COURTEOUS DRIVING, AND RESPECT FOR WOMEN instead of all this hokus pokus
Big brother, not even children's listen what we teach them. Everybody do whatever they consider right or wrong irrespective of teaching. Don't you think brother he is trying to broaden our current perception towards life . Cleanliness, courtesy or respect would not be an issue if individual perception increases somehow be it Indians, americans, british or any nationality.Don't you think brother.
@@pinkaltewari7069 sister, we disagree, so forget it. Cleanliness will broaden our mind, cleanliness is Godliness, i live in the USA, and i know how dirty indian streets, air, and water are.
@@pinkaltewari7069 i am not saying that i know more because i live in America, but after traveling around the world, i have seen what clean (land, water, air, food, mind) does. I am indian also so i feel sad about lack of sanitation, hygiene, etc etc in india
@@conesillyvalley7182 you are right in mentioning problems they are innumerable. But question is who is going to make difference between current reality of our country and future possibility. There are many Monks and gurus who are trying to transform individuals to solve all these problems.
Brothers and sisters of America...Happy 125th anniversary of Swami Vivekananda's historic speech at Chicago ..
Sisters and brothers of America ☺️
I am personally a non-denominational Christian but took great inspiration from this because I believe deeply that most of our religions are interpretations of the same One God and this video helped me realize that my apathy is from my seeing through the worldly goals but that I can become reignited in life for God by becoming a disinterested, not uninterested, party in all things!
The divinity within us and the oneness of the universe.
I keep returning to this. Spiritualizing your work, as Swami has put it, is a beautiful concept; but a very difficult one in practice.
Yes very difficult
Truely said
Work without desire.
Disinterested work.
Divinity within oneself and Oneness of Universe. Spiritualizing of work
These short videos are very helpful :-) please upload more
Pranam Swamiji.
Thank you swamiji for the explanation again...we need it again and again
Pranam maharaj. After listening to your lectures I recently went for a movie and instead of getting absorbed in the movie,as I previously used to, the thought that it is just a play of sound and light on the screen kept arising in my mind. And strangely it was a very liberating feeling.😊🙏
I am feeling so glad and blessed that my query reached Swamiji and he answered it so well. It feels like Swamiji has cleared the fog over the lens on my intellect enabling the clarity of mind. 🙏 Truly there is oneness of existence.
This one is for me ;) I have been struggling with all of these all my life. Thank you Swami for your insight.
The Pooja example made so much of sense to me.. pronam Maharaj
I really loved the way you explained it. Apart from the personal emotions, the spirit really wishes to explore itself and expand. Its the body and mind which wants personal emotions to pump. It cant last long. The material itself is not one with us but the one that causes things to happen and occur, the one that is formless but acts behind from everything as occuring, that one is the consciousness
Example of doing Pooja with devotion and without any expectation is a wonderful insight.. you answered all queries swamiji.. Pranam.
Wonderful answers and helps to understand karmayoga. Thank you Swamiji.
The clay pot segment touched my heart. Such a beautiful explanation.
These short videos are a great help. Thanks Vedanta NY.
This is excellent discussion thanks Swami. I'm trying too see my work and dealing with my mother as worship. However neither is often easy. The company I work for is not investing in the tools I need to do my job right and its getting worse. Also mom's dementia has been tortuous she has been delusional for years. I was taking care of her at her home untill last year when she go an infection in her leg. Had to get IV antibiotics in the hospital. While she was in there she became totally confused. It was so bad that she couldn't return home. I had to sell the family home this June to pay for her care. She is now in the last stages in a dementia unit. It is a slow and painful process for both of us. At least she doesn't know where she's at most of the time. We are the last of our family left.
So true! Thank you Swami.🧡🌹
Sri Swamy Sarvapriyananda guruji ko namaskar. Thank you so much for your good informations.
Thank you very much for wonderful instructions. We have a lovely religion but being in a secular country we have little idea about different aspects of our Sanatana Dharma. If somebody has the patience to explain the sheer beauty of the Adwaita Vedanta to interested persons like us it is the greatest gift. My pranam to Maharaj.
thank you swamiji. i have been struggling myself to come to terms with these two opposing forces - of karma and vairagya. if sustenance were not an issue, maybe it would be easier than it is now. because the primal requirement for being sakshi is the sustenance of the witness. and this exercise of understanding oneself as the witness does bring upon one the feeling of apathy. this feeling of apathy comes due to the person trying to move from activity to witnessing, and in my personal case which others may or may not experience is laziness which maybe a natural tendency in some, thinking if everything is maya and will follow its entire course until the sun burns out or man again becomes god, the physical and spiritual limits, what is the need for me to exert effort in this ever changing worldly flux. moving ahead from the need to work for sustenance, i reasoned that it is knowledge and experience that opens up the mind and this again comes from work. physical work in the world sets into motion various emotions from the challenges, success, failure and new understandings and from this comes new insight. also mental work within, exerting the intellect and memory to improve the understanding of the aspects of the mind, body and world. and hence having reasoned this, i am trying to direct all my actions, all my karma towards this end, for the gain of knowledge and experience. this gives me a solution to the problem of karma and vairagya. it maybe called disinterested work, but even in that lies the interest of man to reach god and hence there remains a motive afterall - aatmano mokshartham jagad hitaaya ca.
another issue that i am struggling with and am working my way towards is bhakti. strengthening my bhakti towards god. after having come across the works of vedanta and finding truth in them, one works towards understanding the mind, body, emotions, worldly things, etc. and within himself tries to identify with the true self. but having disattached himself from worldy things, there is now no god that is to be seen or felt and hence the problem of placing bhakti towards god. for if i were to do it blindly towards some unimaginable being or force might go down the road of dogmatism. as Swami Vivekananda himself questioned the existence of god and placed importance of questioning everything before believing it, i find myself not questioning the existence of god, but of finding a source to feel god and hence find a strong connection towards god. i have seen money and i can easily visualize it and feel it and i know what i am going after. similarly i may have seen pain of others and i know i am working towards alleviating that. there is an emotional connect in all of these. but i havent had the slightest glimpse or feeling of god, other than reading books and understanding god to be the force behind everything. so without this emotional connect how is one to bring a strong bhakti towards achieving god.
lastly, if god was eternally god, then why does he not stay that way. why this drama of god becoming man and man again becoming god.
thank you.
Soham I can totally relate to your struggles of spiritual actions verses dispassion and detachment. I appreciate your input! It clarifies that my motivation is the dance of making "everything" spiritual. My understanding of God comes from my being raised in a penecostal church in southeast USA. If I can describe my understanding of the force that is God, it's the peronalization of Brahman to the personality. The feeling of Bliss and unconditional Love for all. Bhakti strengthens that feeling and is witnessed in the physical body, all for the sake of realizing the Ultimate reality.
You are right
Again and again teachers of advaita stress the importance of high ethics/Moral. There is no way we shall have even a glimpse of the Param-Atma, the Divine, if we allow ourselves to be a burden to our beloved brothers and sisters and other sentient beings. We all must overcome any tamasic tendencies, before we can wake up to recognize the divinity in others - and finally ourselves /in reaching beyond the Jaggath-Maya-perception. Peace !
Beautiful. I feel you Soham
@@wilhelmbeck8498 Some spiritual teachers eat meat etc depends on culture , if one is in state of connection with source no action can really be morally compromising or generate karma in that state
Wonderful explaination. Thank you 🙏
Swamiji it is a blessing to listen to your spiritual classes, it renew my outlook one topic to another. My long face become round within a year by daily listening to one classes. The clarity of spirituality gyana is amazing.Thank you for non-duality topics.
Thank you for this excellent explanation Swamiji.
Exactly my questions
Thank you Swamiji.
Questions troubling many
Now I understand, thank you Swamiji
Your speech is really relevance to bring calmness into our mind
Namaste Swamiji 🙏
Humble Pranams to u 🙏
So beautifully explained, really loved it👌👏👏👏🙏
Thank you Swamiji 🙏
Jai Sri Rama Krishna 🙏🌺 Jai Maa 🙏🌺 Jai Swamiji 🙏🌺
Amazing 👏👏
Many many thanks to you Swamiji for this explanation 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼...I was in great conflict...had to struggle during work...hope this will bring me on the right path and will keep me focused when working
প্রণাম নেবেন মহারাজ
Profound question 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Pranaam swamiji
Jay Sri Guru Maharaj
Pranam Swamiji.
6:32 it's all one, everybody is you yourself.
Thank you Swamiji beautifully explained
thank you swami ji
Swamiji, one request, will you please share your thoughts on some practical aspects which house holders like me can inculcate for self realisation. Pranam.
Can't have a better explanation , awesome , merging knowldege of advaita and bhagwad Geeta, I request you to come up with few more videos to throw some light on kar mayoral though advaita
Jai Sri Ramakrishna
The seeker with a philosophic turn of mind is not satisfied with the little pleasure of this life anxious to know true nature. and reality at the back of the phenomenal world
This problem was must to be solved.
Very enlightening knowledge ! Pranam at the feet of Swami ji.
It's for me.
Thank you 💖
Can be beautifully summed up in last one phrase- Such type of apathy is "Tamsik, not satvik"❤🙏🏻
Brilliantly explained, maharaj :) thanks a lot.
thanks for these videos swamiji
🙏🙏🙏🙏 awesome speech Swamiji👏👏👏
Pranam 🙏
Very well explained. My doubts cleared. Very difficult to practice , though.
profound questions!
bliss
Very insightful and wonderful. Is Apathy and vairagya one and the same ?
Does Swami Sarvapriyananda visit Europe? In case yes, is there any schedule of his visits?
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2:14 that was one hell of a brain upload
Hari Om swamiji . How to do spiritual things ?
Can you please speak on covid. I’d like to know your thoughts on all the suffering and deaths.
Hello. What’s the name of the music which is played on the starting. Thank you
Is there any hymn by Adi Shankaracharya which would be a second step in advait study, after the alienation by his Nirvana hymn. That would help with generating Brahm drishti. He did a great job with Sivoham
Upload short videos rather thn larger one
Without changing things, there is no room for growth, it is because change exists that there becomes an experience of growth as well as value of things that are here while keeping the ultimate reality in a conscious state. Golds don't come without dirt, neither are diamonds formed without roughness. If there is a universal consciousness, that means the essence of who you are, as atman and the essence of your real self the paramatman are both interacting with each other appearing differently while being one. So the real you is the entire essence of existence. Not existence but the essence of it and so many things out in the universe you have not yet explored about your true self, the supreme consciousness. So many realisations and dimensions of life are there which are your true self, wouldn't you want to explore it through life? Thats the true reason why atman appeared and perceived itself seperately. Because it can experience growth, which it cannot if it remained infinite and merged in perception from the start. You are the universe seeing and perceiving itself. This vedic knowledge is not philosophy, its a certain reality, many realities exists by perception but the intellectual perception is the illusion which doesn't work as it concentrates more on form than its way of expressions and qualities consciously which our very nature is built of, consciousness
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Without crossing the 2nd step means without perceiving the sansar as Brahman,can anybody get Nirvan/Moksh?
Why Vedanta is so much complicated to understand. Sometime its being said I the witness of consciousness is different from the body and mind, sometimes its being said body and mind is not different from consciousness. Why there is contradiction??? Would you plz explain simply?
If all is brahman then what does it matter if i live or not. Why should I act and act morally. Why should i pursue my interests or have compassion.
Where can one send questions to Swamiji.?
All possible questions already answered if you look for it . The answer provides soloce for me
Was the answer because one activity is sattvic and one is tamasic? And which was which?
Avoiding activities under pretext of Advaitic understanding is tamasic
@@shrikantvarku5428 I don’t feel motivated to work. How can I get out of this trap?
Many of the videos leave an incomplete speech. The complete answer to the asked question is yet to given by swami ji.
Pls ensure to upload complete speech.
These incomplete speeches make more confusion.
Every india watch sandeep maheshwari he has ecplained non dualism very best see his spirituality channel
Yeah! Swamiji knows him ... Swamiji has mentioned him (indirectly ) in one of the videos.
@@swatihaldavnekar4392 in which video he has mentioned him
ua-cam.com/video/4nrlQxDmK_4/v-deo.html see at 11:00
Headache , one one one or two two two ??
We are not condemned to Maia. We are not here on probation. We are here to play the game of life, and try to find out what IT is, so that it can know it too, the only wat it can: through us, so you can found out who you really are at the core... but... who you really are at the core, manifested itself in Maia though that body and mind of yours. Why? To play the game... so play it! Make it an interesting one.
George Kozi
Advaita philosophy is nothing but a unnecessary complications. It is not 'Dharma ' too. It is ridiculous that some Institute trying to promote this weird philosophy. Take up humanity. All mental problem will be easily solved.
Please enlighten me your understanding of humanity.
@@bvshenoy7259 It is doing good for yourself, good for others and good for the world. No need for thinking 'I am God '.it's a unnecessary and weird complications. This complications may destroy family life
@@mrbmandal1 Good to others, Good to world. Very Good. Karma yoga is also a way. Start doing that. Then you will find that you don't have time to write comments here.
@@mrbmandal1 can you please tell more about the goodness .. I'm bit confused between good and bad.
U r bind with ego
I don't know why these so called "swamy"s and monks dont teach Indians CLEANLINESS, COURTEOUS DRIVING, AND RESPECT FOR WOMEN instead of all this hokus pokus
Big brother, not even children's listen what we teach them. Everybody do whatever they consider right or wrong irrespective of teaching. Don't you think brother he is trying to broaden our current perception towards life
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Cleanliness, courtesy or respect would not be an issue if individual perception increases somehow be it Indians, americans, british or any nationality.Don't you think brother.
@@pinkaltewari7069 sister, we disagree, so forget it. Cleanliness will broaden our mind, cleanliness is Godliness, i live in the USA, and i know how dirty indian streets, air, and water are.
@@conesillyvalley7182 you already know more than the person who lives in "INDIA" like me. I agree with what you said, we have many things to do.
@@pinkaltewari7069 i am not saying that i know more because i live in America, but after traveling around the world, i have seen what clean (land, water, air, food, mind) does. I am indian also so i feel sad about lack of sanitation, hygiene, etc etc in india
@@conesillyvalley7182 you are right in mentioning problems they are innumerable. But question is who is going to make difference between current reality of our country and future possibility.
There are many Monks and gurus who are trying to transform individuals to solve all these problems.
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