The Purpose of Life is...WHAT? A Vedic Perspective.
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Vedic scriptures don't specify a single goal of life, they specify four - kama, pleasure, artha, wealth, dharma, righteousness, and moksha, enlightenment - four purusharthas. Q&A with Swamiji #10.
The sages of ancient India, the rishis, had a holistic view of life, recognizing both the value and limitations of worldly life (samsara) as well as the importance of transcending worldly life to become enlightened through the discovery of the ultimate source of contentment that lies within us all, the so-called inner divinity called atma, the true self.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: www.arshabodha...
'One minute silence for them who don't get access to his teachings'
*Most underrated spiritual Teacher*
It's just matter of time, dear. When one is ready, Guru appears. One is pulled here without his knowledge.
People call it Synchronicity, randomness etc.
Let us hope that they come here very early in their lives.
*ShriGurubhyoNamaha*
Prostrations to Vishwagurus over Space and time.
@@seeker6089 Hey buddy it's look like you have much greater wisdom than I do. Can you tell me how to gain one pointedness of mind. I tried meditation for 40 min each sitting but it's less likely to concentration and more like flow of thoughts.
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(Vedanta NY - Vedantic Meditation 5 videos) Swami Sarvapriyananda
They will help you.
Listen carefully, try to connect the dots.
@@seeker6089 TYSM
Very important lucid explanation from Swami ji , sincere Namaskaras to swan ji, it gives proper direction to conduct life for the spiritual seekers
We-e-e-ll, the Puritans were scared to death they might not be among the elect that God chose to be saved. Consequently, they were deeply concerned with signs indicating they were one of the elect; one of the signs of God's election was accumulating wealth by hard work. So. they did have a this-world orientation, in addition to desire of going to heaven.
The purpose of human life is to work yourself out of this jail called maya ( the material universe )
& even further - out of the spirit, pure mind, and the un-material.
"Gate gate paragate, parasamgate, bodhi, suaha." - As zen followers say.
Wouldn’t call it a jail
@@garrettdenny3643 A jail is something you would want to escape from because of the dangers there similarly the wise want to escape this material world because of the miseries and danger here in the material world.
@cutting edge The people who understand that they as consciousness are not " of " the world but are of something that transcends it seek enlightenment and liberation while those in ignorance never see any reason to become liberated.
Jail is definitely not the correct term
Thanks so much Swami! Mucho love from Colombia
As an Indian, though I have heard about these four goals, I did not know the dependency among them. This video has made it clear to me that unless the first three goals are pursued, last one the Moksha will be difficult to attain for majority of human beings. Thanks Swamiji
I dont think that is necessarily true. What about the sanyasins then? What about Sant Ramdas, Tukaram, Sai Baba of Shirdi and the many other saints of India?
Always refreshing sir. As always thank you for your works.
Excellent explanation of goals of life and vendantic perspective. All respect to you, Tadatmanandaji.
So simple explanation of complicated concepts ... Thank you Swamiji !
Simple yet masterful. Thank you and Pranam Swamiji :) 🙏🙏🙏
Namaste Swami, I miss your old kind of videos beautifully explaining the teachings of vedanta through long videos and documentaries. If possible please do post such kind of videos atleast occasionally
He's currently doing Atma Bodha videos, which are about an hour long and come out once a week.
I want to know... if the amoebas were only give plain water and sugar which would they go towards...??? The enlightened ones perhaps would stay put in the normal water and be very very silent. The others would bring them a bowl of rice once a day and ask for prayers.
Lot of clarity I got on life after listening to your various videos 🙏
I am from the Philippines, where and how can I fully learn the wisdom of advaita Vedanta and Arsha bodha center?
Swamiji, thank you!
Self-knowledge is truly the most worthy goal in life.
The one who is Awareness itself, Sri Ramana Maharshi, said these words about it:
For a jiva who is suffering due to dying and taking
birth,
the most worthy thing to do and to attain with full love,
is [to have] the experience of the great state of Jivan-mukta,
having subsided and known [its own true nature],
so that the rising [of the ego], which is the coming to life [of the jiva]
because of [its] forgetting its own reality [Self], may die.
The supreme experience [brahmanubhava] -
which
has the glory of not knowing any other thing -
of the great enjoyer of the bliss of true knowledge [meyjnana-maha- anandi],
who has attained the state of Silence [mouna], the form of That [tadakara]
which shines triumphant on the destruction of oneself [the ego],
cannot be conceived by anyone whosoever.
OM TAT SAT
ओम् तत् सत्
What does "Om tat sat" means?
@@protey117, namaste!
Om Tat Sat is the eternal pranava sound.
Om Tat Sat represents the unmanifest and Absolute Reality, PARABRAHMAN. Whoever utters these sacred sounds,
for me it is the heartbeat of Parabrahman Himself.
Of course, this is a poetic perception and freedom,
but the mantra cannot be translated literally,
because it is the Blissful Grace sounding
within the single Heart of humanity.
@@ustinovvadim2114, спасибо за скорый, содержательный и поэтичный ответ! Thanks a bunch for this highly inspiring and rapid answer 🌈🌈🌈
@@ustinovvadim2114, as prana is a vital energy, "pranava sound" should stand for some kind of energetic impulse with a sound equivalent "Om tat sat"? Which corresponds to the biblical concept of logos of God that was it's manifestation in the beginning of the cosmic creation & that simultaneously embodied & identified God.
@@protey117 , namaste!
Thank you for the inquiring buddhi and the subtle insight into what lies beyond the mind.
The Mandukya Upanishad says: "Om! This sound is all this. Here is its explanation:
Past, present, future - all this is the sound Om (Aum).
And everything else that is beyond the three times is also the sound Om ...
The fourth [state] has no parts - the ineffable, dissolution of the manifested world, bringing happiness, nondual.
So the sound Om is the Atman. Whoever knows this, penetrates [with his] Atman into the [higher] Atman. "
The Supreme Reality is our eternal search, the perfect ideal and our true essence.
For me, PARABRAHMAN opens its arms in these three words -
OM TAT SAT
ओम् तत् सत्
Wonderful explanation! Hearing this again gives a different perspective. Not enough to listen once!
Thank you very very much Swamiji, I started my spiritual journey just recently and I get inspired by almost every spiritual guru I heard so far. Since everything I hear is new to me. But there were still a lots of questions, which not make sense from what they are saying. After listening to your teachings it's start making sense. This is really helpful. I will be looking forward for more devine knowledge from you :).
Thanks a lot! Wonder, how people get to build up & maintain this tricky balance.
Every time I listen to your spiritual discourses I find a new dimension to my spiritual learning. My reverence to you Swamiji
We hear about moksha, growth and realisation that we are that we are and that that we are is complete and needs nothing else. So in your lecture you said to live is to grow but... to grow for what if I am complete. I can only think that there was a journey or learning thanks to Kama but now I want to dis-learn as I realise that everything I learned just keep me in this cycle of wanting, craving, suffering. To live is to grow... inwards, letting the outside noise and necessities to vanish as smoke in air. Please comment. Namaste.
I’m guessing it is meant in growing and perfection of the other 3 paths to reach the realisation of what was always there, moksha. He says the first 3 need to be fully understood and balanced before even beginning the path of moksha
The universe is complete, but it's not done growing. (Will it ever be?)
It seems every jeevathma's life is actually a space time capsule or seed. That each individual seed characteristics makes them to manifest during the evolution of space time fabric. Thus paramathma knows the essence of all jeevathmas life's which is past, present and future of them.
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Thank you guru ji...
Thank you Swami Tadatmananda for sharing your wisdom ☘
- Deus pode ser realizado
- A meta da vida humana é realizar Deus
Deus, do irreal nos leve para o Real.
Nos leve da escuridão da ignorância para a Luz do Conhecimento Espiritual.
Nos leve da morte para a Imortalidade.
Obrigado Swami
Dharma protects the one who protects it. Aum Namo Narayanaya 🙏
Thank you for this video 🌻🙏
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Thank you for this explanation.
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I wonder what he says about renunciation? Jesus and buddha were "homeless" i guess. I think someone could have no money or house and still be happy content etc.
Love your presentations. Wisdom with compassion.
I have a serious issue with the concept of Artha. If someone cannot earn a living for medical reasons or whatever and cannot accumulate 'wealth' in terms of financial means - then what implications does this have? Is the person not entitled to 'grow' in other means and work towards Moksha, liberation, enlightenment, or is the person unworthy of that because he/she cannot earn Artha. I find it a little discriminatory and frightening because you're (Vedanta) essentially saying that disabled people or people unable to work are doomed. Forgive me if sound a little harsh, but it worries me extremely.
artha isn't wealth as in financial wealth ... it is the lack of a direct translation that makes it confusing ... even knowledge, skills ,arts, land, cattle, wealth, equipages and friends is artha . And "artha" also means "meaning/understanding or goal " ...Loosely put it is about material possessions and understanding of them . And it is about finding your dharma , earning the artha of your tendency and completing your kama(desires) and of course all of them righteously so that you can begin your journey to moksha ... If one doesn't full fill any of the earlier three (dharma,artha,kama) his ascent to moksha shall remain unachievable as his atma (soul) keeps going back to the unfulfilled(kama/artha)or unclarified(dharma) .
artha = resource management... so if a person has any disability, they still got to eat... so others can provide if one cant help themselves... its practical, that you need stuff to sustain life (not riches)... arthshastra is how to manage resources well,, not how to accumulate personal wealth... your body is also an artha, tool to be used, resource available
@@ravitejvarma well said,... body seeks artha for survival, kama for progression, dharma for knowing and moksha is the aim
Thank you , Swamiji.
Pranam swami,
You have explained the most complex questions for human life in under 15 minutes.
This will be by main principle till the day i leave my body.
lots of gratitude,
|| HARE KRISHNA ||
Guruji You are the Best ❤️🙏🙏
Loving this style of teaching I feel the glow of Mr Rogers in him ... but make it advaita Vedanta
Im mensurable insight of Vedantha, explained.So helpful . Pranams
नमस्ते स्वामीजी |धन्यवाद| सनातन धर्मं की बहुत हि सुन्दर ज्ञान दिया| love and pranaam from india
This is not the purpose of life. This is about HOW to live.
The question is why the universe exists and why human consciousness exists.
@Aditya Kumar Pandey
Then his question is wrong. Personally, I think there is a meaning, but that we are not looking closely enough. So problem Vedas.
J Krishnamurti also gave the same answer - Purpose of life is to live.
I think one should focus and practice towards moksha only because kama & ardha causes addiction and one can be easily lost in these. Also one will be lost in the continuous cycle of rebirths in hell, heaven and human realms. Also, if someone has plenty of bad karma from previous existences then he will not be able to attain kama & ardha but he can still target and practice for moksha if he is wise enough and able to see the truth. Also, the pursuit of kama & arhda leads one to do develop -ve karma and hence one gets trapped in -ve states of suffering. Moksha means end of attchment (clinging to pleasures, desires etc...all attachments dropped), ultimate peace and end of suffering. Moksha is opposite of kama & ardha. Moksha is the only goal and moksha is the only true peace.
But once the Moksha is reached what happens? Do we float in eternal bliss of non existence for ever and ever, energy of atman dissolved in the energy of Brahman? Or what?
Excellent and educative to those who strive to balance the first three goals of life ultimately leading the one and only goal for getting liberated from lust/pleasure, the accumulation of good or bad wealth arrest one in bondage and even dharma make one to cling on heaven and return back to birth after emptying the functionality of good karma...thus the only chief goal is mukti...
So beautifully explained...Salutations Sir.
As a muslim , i have to say your research about islam is not complete, (sorry to say)
In islam human goal is not to just reach to heaven..
in islam this life is a test and if you pass this test you can live eternal life with full of happiness and joy , or if you pass the test you can live your life as you wish .
Or if you fail you can be punished,
And there is not any reborn or suffering, you have only one life on earth or you can say you have only one chance ..
i invite you to read Quran (islam holy Book ) For further understanding
Thanks for the information in this video ..
Dear sir, your Guru rightly said that the ultimate goal is to leave. I also agree to this answer.but what does it mean? It means to leave this world because this world is not our true Home.This world is a rented house.we would have to leave this world one day as we don't belong to this world.Our real home is somewhere else.we have forgotten our true home .where there is no death,no suffering ,no pain,no birth ,no old age.we remain permanent or everlasting.and there we leave for ever no coming and going.
According to islam, heaven is not an ultimate goal but have a company with God make the ultimate as quran says the heaven dwellers rewards more than heaven !
Thank you Swamiji.
The purpose of life is to live, if u r alive mission accomplished, if not it doesn’t matter anymore.
How can I like this twice?
*Lucid*
Hitting the nail on the head
My pranaams
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Thankyou ❤️
Thank you for the effort 🙏
Something I've been telling myself, grow or die.
Thank you Swamiji you are a blessing
Clear and excellent
🥺 thank you guru ji🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Your teachings are very good and thank u very much dear
Thank you Swamami ji🙏🏻
Very nicely said.Thank you
I was kind of obsessed with moksha, but now with your teaching I am seeing :)
Me too!!
As for me, I want moksha! The hell with a temporary heaven!
@@davidjohnzenocollins In the video, swami tadatmananda explain that all four are important.
Swami ji you are a wonderful teacher. Please forgive my ignorance. I'm a skeptical and agnostic person but I feel your wonderful knowledge will show me the right path and pacify my uneasiness.
If you note carefully, my comments on other religions are not told to criticize, but to clarify by means of contrast and comparison. This approach is widely used in Sanskrit commentaries and elsewhere.
@@SwamiT @Arsha Bodha Center - Swami Tadatmananda pranaam swamiji, i hope i am not polluting your channel, i have posted many genuine questions, and I hope you can answer. if you advise, i can compile a single email with my questions. most of them are related to two things 1) practical use of vedanta on spiritual path, what TODO is there for students 2) can we go deeper in analysis of vedantic texts, as old books were meant to invite people on path to God, and now people are much more curious and need deeper analysis...
you can also tell me to shut up :)
humbly, immense respect and gratitude for your channel
Sanatan is not a dharma.
You need to be ardent student of the Vedas and Upnisadas.
@@999titu sanatan = year aatan - since beginning of time.... dharma = best way forward... there is no need to be ardent student of text, only need is to live an intense life without hypnotism and with hunger for truth
@@SwamiT Okay I am novice and try to get your points properly.
Clearly explained...Beautifully said ,
Thanks ❤ very informative
3:24 When did Islam become a Western religion? Surely no one sent me the memo 🤣 but yeah, I get it
It's Abrahamic in origin, like Christianity and Judaism.
Buddhism , Sikhism , Buddhism and Hinduism are part of Sanatan tradition.
westwards to India :) and in any case, all religions point to same thing, expression, situation and texts are different, but ultimate pointer is same
@@999titu thank you for your reply. Abrahamic? Yes. Western? Naaa
All abrahamaic religions began in roughly the same geographical place....the middle east.
In academic settings, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are considered "western religions", as they all originated within a stone's throw from each other, and are differentiated from "eastern religions" like Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. P.S. I used to play billiards in Egypt with an Armenian fellow named Rafi. Good dude. Much love, brother!
I don't always agree with his comparison to Christianity. Christians believe many various things about pleasure. The bible quote "eat drink and be merry" is popular.
christians are a divided lot, so are other religion, so is every human... most texts were written, translated, interpreted by second hand sources, so better to ignore all that and move on with what we see and what we know
@@smausil I'm just always trying to understand why people make such broad judgments against western monotheism as a whole, when there are multiple perspectives you can explore from the Bible. Unity consciousness is certainly better than duality consciousness, but why throw the baby out with the bath water when even now as an Eastern thinker, i regularly think of bible passages when explaining different situations
@@davidbinder1382 I dont have judgements, but observations, and i mentioned all religions and people, not just christianity. catholics, Protestants to dozens of different variations in types of churches and practices. Different versions of bible etc... so, there is lot of variety in christianity as I observed. I met a few from different sides and spoke at length with them..... I see similar human tendencies of holier than you and i know more approaches. you find same in islam and hinduism and each religion... I dont see religion as religion, i understand humans made them as it feels to suit their current knowledge and ego... ofcourse bible has nice passages, so does koran and other texts, but even our elders can tell great stories...
i say unity or not, dual or not, just be conscious and avoid traps of stories, and we all will be better off. (i aint communist, but i feel the need to stay rational and practical)...
there each quote (from bible or elsewhere) can be understood differently and used differently in life by different people
they can be useful, but it still take the interpreting human to make a meaning out of it for themselves
you are right, there can't be comparisons and judgements among religions... every word in different mind becomes different
AUM. Aatmiya DIVINITY
HARE KRSNA..................
Amazingly simple, understandable description.
Kam, Arth, Dharma assuring Satisfaction while MOKSHA is leading to Deep Inner PEACE and Contentment.
Satisfaction, Happiness are the physical Wordly experiencing where as Deep Inner PEACE and Contentment are Realising of Spiritual valuable.
Very respectfully Loving ❤️ ING You One and All DIVINE ❤️❤️🙏 NOW and HERE in this Light and Moment and Vibrations Experiencing HAPPINESS, Satisfaction and deep Inner PEACE, Contentment and Freedom from desire, dear, anger keeping 🤬🤬
I Am OK NO Matter What
AUM. TAT Sat. ❤️❤️🙏
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Thank you so much🙏🙏
"blessed beyond measure" hehehehehe hehehehe 😈
Suffering is enlightenment
Thank u so much Swami ji,
How u Beautifully Explain about Purpose of Human Life.
The Purpose of Human life is to attained Spiritual Atmik Inner Self Conscious own true Nature of happiness is Real , infinite , never ended.
And at last get Moksha, Freedom from all causal body Sufferings. In both Present as well as in Future also.
But happiness of Physical, Mental Body Material World Pleasure is fleeting with in a moment.
That is Pleasure of Comma, Artha are less Important than infinite inner self Soul Pleasure.
Inner Self is Real.
Out Side Self World is Unreal.
In Eyes of God.
This is True Ultimate Reality of the Universe.
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Thank you 🙏
I am not easily impressed by any teaching, even I have been trying to listen to so many Gurus. But, when I found your channel a couple weeks ago, it like I found explanations in each of your video of what I am asking so far. Thanks a lot Swamiji.
🙏 Hare Krishna .
Thank you 😊
Hello, Swami. Thank you for your videos.
I would like to point out that you have mischaracterized Judaism and its outlook on life. Judaism does not consider the goal of life is to go to heaven. Judaism considers this life to be vital. Life is to be enjoyed. It is taught that when we die we are asked why we omitted to partake of such legitimate pleasures that were available. Judaism recognizes that it is impossible to live fully spiritual lives if our physical needs are lacking. There is the expression, "Where there is no bread, there is no Torah (Dharma)."
To live the life according to Dharma.artho kam Moksha ...is the purpose but Swami ji please tell something about who does not live life according to the dharma ....what happens to him ...so that the terrorist , liar ,harmful person realized their fate
Thankyou brother
The purpose of LIFE IS LOVE for, although "truth is one - rig veda", it is not good for one to be alone. 🙏
Thank you swamiji
No religious tradition has more examples of extreme aceticism than Hinduism, yet the Swami chose to use a Christian sect, the Calvinists, as his example of aceticism gone amock. Besides this minor criticism, it was an excellent, informative video.
Namaskaram 🙏 Truth is one so should be the Enlightenment experience no? How can the initiator of Buddhism be considered enlightened while the notion of self isn't the same nor there a common finding about the reality of existence? And why the term belief is used? Isn't Advaita experimental and experiential? It is not an approach to believe in no? It is incoherent how an enlightened being gives an opposite explanation to what a whole line of enlightened and avatars declared regarding Atman or self. Please extrapolate on this issue.
Existence it's useless.
I was calling myself Bramhan girl & my father asked me what have I done to be called as Bramhan other than only being born in the bloodline.
In short, I'm here, begining my journey to get wisdom from our sources. I'm also learning Sanskrit so that I can decipher all that myself but I need to start here.
I'm so grateful to be born in India, seeing the majority of humans being unaware & ignorant of the real treasures that our ancestors have left for the world.
Who said that Life has a goal? It is just a rational mind’s concept that everything should have a goal. It is not true. First one should define what life is, then you will see it does not have a goal, although one can have as many goals in his life as one wishes. As to my observation - Live does not have a Goal.
I find the list to be incomplete. Moksha is absolute knowledge but there are people dedicating their lives to relative knowledge. Like the sciences or languages or even art. You cannot say it is only artha since the main goal is not to earn money but to further the field of knowledge.
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Grow Sar and die asar, is the purposes of life.
🙏Jai Shri Ramakrishna. 🙏
Om
Excellent!
4/4. Im dead.
No purpose...none needed. Life is play...and play is something not done for a purpose.
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Thank you, for being so clear with your teachings!!
Om
Thank you
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What a sensible and well balanced philosophy ❤️🙏
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