Dear Swamiji you can't imagine how beneficial are your teaching. My first time after 30 years in the field, get the truest meaning of the Eastern philosophy!! Grateful 💐💐💐💐
Dear Swamiji, Namaste! Thank you for the transmission of the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta in its purity and living satsangs coming from the Heart! I allow myself to quote the words of the merciful blessed Satguru Sri Ramana Maharshi about nididhyasana : CHURNING THE MIND: To install the mind firmly in the heart until these forces are destroyed and to awaken with unswerving, ceaseless vigilance the true and cognate tendency which is characteristic of the Atman and is expressed by the dicta, Aham Brahmasmi (I am Brahman), and Brahmaivaham (Brahman alone am I) is termed nididhyasana or Atmanusandhana, i.e., constancy in the Self. This is otherwise called bhakti, yoga and dhyana. Atmanusandhana has been likened to churning the curd to draw forth butter, the mind being compared to the churning rod, the Heart to the curd and the practice of constancy in the Self to the process of churning. Just as by churning the curd butter is extracted and by friction fire is kindled, even so, by unswerving vigilant constancy in the Self, ceaseless like the unbroken filamentary flow of oil, is generated the natural or changeless trance or nirvikalpa samadhi, which readily and spontaneously yields that direct, immediate, unobstructed and universal perception of Brahman, which is at once Knowledge and experience and which transcends time and space. OM TAT SAT ओम् तत् सत्
Swamiji, I am grateful to you for this wonderfully insightful discussion on nidhidhyasana. While I had previously heard your narration of Swami Vivekananda's lion story in some of your podcasts, your mention of Pujya Swami Dayananda's metaphor of using Vedanta as a mirror for dispelling's one's viparita bhavana was new and very meaningful for me. It reminds me that I must resist the temptation of consuming Vedantic knowledge as a delicacy for the intellect.
Aatmiya Swami Ji. Jay Thakur. Hare Krsna. Appreciating the features of distinction as also relationship between the 'Mind - Emotions, Senses, Intellect' and eternal "Consciousness". Needful role of Meditating is clearly explained. Loving you one and all my fellow learning colleagues Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
Dear Swamiji, Namaste. I am hearing the lion story for the first time. It’s so so apt to explain nidhidhyasana. Loved it. Will remind myself everyday. Namaste and lots of grateful pranams
Respected Swamiji, I watched all your 14 videos on Atma Bodha with rapt attention over last 7 days. I have found your discourses to be very profound and insightful. And there's tremendous clarity in your diligent and word-by-word explanation of each and every Sloka. I am eagerly waiting for the next discourse. Praman🙏
Thank you Swamiji for sharing your wisdom. I am profoundly grateful for having access to your teachings. This lesson has been very special, from the amusing tale of the lion who thinks he was a sheep, to the profound teaching of niddidhyasana. Namaste.
I deeply appreciate all of your lessons. That being said, I have to admit that the idea that somehow remembering that consciousness is not affected by sadness would remove suffering is lost on me. You emphasize the fact that most people are conditioned to think that consciousness is affected by sadness when most people don't even know that consciousness is different than the mind. Even when one such as myself completely gets that I am sat chit ananda I do not understand how that saves the jiva from suffering. I think that you mean that suffering is a state of mind I don't see how that State of mind relates to Self-knowledge. To be clear, when I feel sadness I don't feel like I'm affected by sadness. I've never felt like I'm affected by any of my feelings. I don't know anybody that does or has ever described it that way.
Thank you, Swami Tadatmananda for all of your lessons. I watch them religiously, ever since your series on the Vedantic teachings of the Mahabarata. I wish I had the bandwidth to really learn the Sanskrit right now. I just moved to Mexico, so I am focusing on learning Spanish right now
Thank u so much Swamiji for the wonderful session. Your teaching are so simple to understand. Will practice what u have taught after my meditation session. Need your blessing. 🙏
Excellent lecture. I'm glad I caught it LIVE. The best lecturer ever, such clarity in every sentence on every topic. So, the Light Body is the only body we have. There is no body. Absolutely everything is in the mind... so, the mind is not in the body. The body is in the mind. ... Why do we have to experience DEATH then? It's so painful to lose loved ones. Where do they go? Do they exist as their "earthy selves" in the spiritual realm after the garment is off? How long? When do they decide on coming back or not? ... and can they see us?? xx.
Consciousness begins to perceive itself only when it manifests itself in a bodily form, in an unmanifested form, pure consciousness is nirguna BRAHMAN - the Absolute Reality, which is not aware of Itself, since it is the One Existing. Just as the dreamed characters lose all their stories and experiences and disappear with awakening, so after death all jivas lose their individual consciousness and memory of the stories that happened and their lifetime relatives, returning to their original perfect state of Sat-Chit-Ananda - Pure Perfect Ultimate Reality ... Nisargadatta Maharaja was once asked whether it is useful to pray for deceased relatives, he replied that praying for the dead is necessary first of all for the living, priests because they get paid for it, relatives in order to experience a state of relief after prayer. Deceased individuals become nothing or the fullness of the Absolute, Brahman.
@@ustinovvadim2114 It's backwards. Consciousness becomes UNconscious in human beings. None of us remembers anything when we arrive to this damn' place. Only when a person him/herself becomes enlightened is when it all becomes conscious... Everyone is a candle but not everyone is lit. None the less, none of these answered the questions.. X
That's also the way for sheep to know the some truth about him..Recall the teaching of negation "neti neti"..Among the lions at least sheep will now that it is not a lion..And if it gets lucky and alive than the possibility of knowing it's true self is a little more..The sheep doesn't know who it is but it is sure about this fact that "I am not a lion"..As far as death is concerned body will die any way..But to know a fraction of truth before death is far better than dying in ignorance..So either way Sheep wins if it has a little awareness.
@@manojsrivastava3626 i believe you are right. We learn, we try to remember what we are. Like a wave that knows it will disappear into the eternal ocean. But nevertheless, tries to remember that it is itself the ocean. Thanks
Thank you for these talks in simple language and great clarity Swamiji! May I know the what music plays at the beginning of the video? It is quite pleasant to ears.
Swamiji, you say that nidhidhyasana is the experiential confirmation that the problems of the body belong to the body, not to the consciousness. We are in the phase of denial of what we are not (neti, neti), but is there also an experiential confirmation in the affirmative phase that I am consciousness, I am That, I am sat-cit-ananda-brahma?
Whenever I hear a guru speak about how consciousness/awareness/Brahma "reveals" objects, I get confused because that means duality: subject/object. And, more troubling, it means that there are objects outside of Brahma. Why do gurus say this, when everything is Brahma? How could there be anything outside of Brahma, when everything is one, non-dual? In Verse 8, it states, "Created from the sentient, underlying reality, eternal and all-pervasive, are all things that exist, like a bracelet made from gold." There can't be anything outside of Brahma to be revealed because everything is Brahma.
You answered yr own question basically. It's because it's one. Thought becomes reality. Form follows thought. It's one continuum... In SAMADHI, movement and stillness are one, the dance and the dancer are the same. What you seek is the seeker.. xx..
If "everything" is taken to mean the universe of all that can be perceived by the senses or experienced by the mind or conceived/inferred by the intellect then I would suggest that everything is an appearance of Brahman. Not sure if that is what you meant when you said "everything is Brahman".
@@rsr9200 Yes. I don't understand the statement that consciousness "reveals" things. That assumes that there's consciousness here, and objects there, but we just don't notice them until consciousness "shines" on them. But everything IS consciousness.
@@Stella.J.000 But why would we say that consciousness "reveals" anything, if everything is consciousness? One part of consciousness (the awareness part) reveals another part of consciousness (the illusion of the world)? But consciousness has no parts.
@@alukuhito I agree that from the perspective of absolute reality Consciousness alone exists and therefore has nothing to reveal. However, since all teaching of Vedanta happens in empirical reality and since all texts exist in empirical reality, I suppose one has no choice but to resort to using duality-laden pedagogical techniques to guide a seeker towards the non-dual absolute truth which cannot be described by words or grasped by the mind. So, when a text says that Consciousness reveals an object, the obvious question is "to what is the object revealed?". I would interpret that to be the individual mind. Furthermore, I suspect the metaphor of Consciousness as the light illuminating the mind to reveal the vrittis or mind ripples is probably just limited for that usage scenario and cannot be generalized. Are you referring to any specific verse of Atma Bodha?
try different meditation techniques (e.g. with a mantra), Swarmi Tadatmananda wrote a book about different meditation styles which he is at the moment turning into videos as a playlist on this channel
Dear Swamiji you can't imagine how beneficial are your teaching. My first time after 30 years in the field, get the truest meaning of the Eastern philosophy!! Grateful 💐💐💐💐
Respected Guruji , Pranaams with Gratitude, on this Gurupoornima . 🙏🏿
39:30 My pond is meditation, every morning 1 hour. That “pond” is my reminder 🌱💫
Dear Swamiji, Namaste!
Thank you for the transmission of the knowledge of Advaita Vedanta in its purity and living satsangs coming from the Heart!
I allow myself to quote the words of the merciful blessed Satguru Sri Ramana Maharshi about nididhyasana
:
CHURNING THE MIND: To install the mind firmly in the heart until
these forces are destroyed
and to awaken with unswerving, ceaseless vigilance the true and cognate tendency
which is characteristic of the Atman and is expressed by the dicta, Aham Brahmasmi (I am Brahman),
and Brahmaivaham (Brahman alone am I) is termed nididhyasana or Atmanusandhana, i.e., constancy in the Self.
This is otherwise called bhakti, yoga and dhyana.
Atmanusandhana has been likened to churning the curd to draw forth butter,
the mind being compared to the churning rod, the Heart to the curd and the practice of constancy
in the Self to the process of churning. Just as by churning the curd butter is extracted
and by friction fire is kindled, even so, by unswerving vigilant constancy in the Self,
ceaseless like the unbroken filamentary flow of oil, is generated the natural
or changeless trance or nirvikalpa samadhi, which readily and spontaneously yields
that direct, immediate, unobstructed and universal perception of Brahman,
which is at once Knowledge and experience and which transcends time and space.
OM TAT SAT
ओम् तत् सत्
Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher, bless me.
Shanti, shanti, shanti 🙏
Swamiji, I am grateful to you for this wonderfully insightful discussion on nidhidhyasana. While I had previously heard your narration of Swami Vivekananda's lion story in some of your podcasts, your mention of Pujya Swami Dayananda's metaphor of using Vedanta as a mirror for dispelling's one's viparita bhavana was new and very meaningful for me. It reminds me that I must resist the temptation of consuming Vedantic knowledge as a delicacy for the intellect.
Aatmiya Swami Ji.
Jay Thakur.
Hare Krsna.
Appreciating the features of distinction as also relationship between the 'Mind - Emotions, Senses, Intellect' and eternal "Consciousness".
Needful role of Meditating is clearly explained.
Loving you one and all my fellow learning colleagues Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
Swami Ji, your presentations are precious and have profoundly effective for SELF understanding and find the path of Moksha.
Dear Swamiji,
Namaste. I am hearing the lion story for the first time. It’s so so apt to explain nidhidhyasana. Loved it. Will remind myself everyday. Namaste and lots of grateful pranams
Dear Swami Tadatmananda, this lecture couldn't be more timely! Thank you form my ❤
Respected Swamiji, I watched all your 14 videos on Atma Bodha with rapt attention over last 7 days. I have found your discourses to be very profound and insightful. And there's tremendous clarity in your diligent and word-by-word explanation of each and every Sloka. I am eagerly waiting for the next discourse. Praman🙏
Thank you Swami ji. 🌱 1:02:56
decades of life, so much teaching , but no one ever teaches you this...the reality
Very well explained.
Very nice video.
Pranam Guru ji.
Dear Swamiji, thank you so much. I think this is the best video ever.
Subtle ideas of the Vedanta explained so clearly from Swamigis experience.
Thank you Swamiji for sharing your wisdom. I am profoundly grateful for having access to your teachings. This lesson has been very special, from the amusing tale of the lion who thinks he was a sheep, to the profound teaching of niddidhyasana. Namaste.
Love these sessions, thank you sooooo much! Namaste SwamiJi.
I am fully committed to your teachings, dear Swamiji. Thank you very much 🕉🙏💗
Dear Swamiji, Thank you for explaining Atma Bodha, with simple illustration. No words to appreciate your efforts.
Really loved this session. The lion's story is very interesting and I can recall it again and again. Thank you and pronam Swami ji.🙏🙏
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@@damarubhatta Aaj Tak
Thanks Swami ji for giving knowledge of pure consciousness.
*INSPIRING*
SHIR SASHTANG NAMASKAAR TO
SWAMIJI.
Thank U for Ur time on this, and Ur wisdom once again
Excellent and calm explanation for a difficult subject.
My salutations to you
I love these sessions of Pujya Swamiji. Hari Om 🙏
I deeply appreciate all of your lessons. That being said, I have to admit that the idea that somehow remembering that consciousness is not affected by sadness would remove suffering is lost on me. You emphasize the fact that most people are conditioned to think that consciousness is affected by sadness when most people don't even know that consciousness is different than the mind. Even when one such as myself completely gets that I am sat chit ananda I do not understand how that saves the jiva from suffering. I think that you mean that suffering is a state of mind I don't see how that State of mind relates to Self-knowledge. To be clear, when I feel sadness I don't feel like I'm affected by sadness. I've never felt like I'm affected by any of my feelings. I don't know anybody that does or has ever described it that way.
Thank you for the wonderful lectures! Real treasures.
Thank you, Swami Tadatmananda for all of your lessons. I watch them religiously, ever since your series on the Vedantic teachings of the Mahabarata. I wish I had the bandwidth to really learn the Sanskrit right now. I just moved to Mexico, so I am focusing on learning Spanish right now
Namo Namaha Swamiji.
Thank you Swamiji.
Thank you for an illuminating lecture (as usual)! 🙏🙏
Sri Guruve Namaha🙏🙏🙏
Thank u so much Swamiji for the wonderful session. Your teaching are so simple to understand. Will practice what u have taught after my meditation session. Need your blessing. 🙏
Beautifully explained.
Thank you very much.
Namaste Swamiji.
Thank you Swamiji 🙏🙏
Excellent, very clear and direct Gratitude !!!
Gratitude for your teachings! 🙏
Thank you Swamiji..Om Tat Sat
Thank you Swamiji you are a blessing regards
TY Swami. Esse
Anybody else watching this series again after a year? Anybody? Maybe I'm the only SOB who needs to go back to school, again and again....
🕉🕉🕉🙏
Thank Yuo , Yuo make Things so clear to understand
Excellent lecture. I'm glad I caught it LIVE. The best lecturer ever, such clarity in every sentence on every topic. So, the Light Body is the only body we have. There is no body. Absolutely everything is in the mind... so, the mind is not in the body. The body is in the mind. ... Why do we have to experience DEATH then? It's so painful to lose loved ones. Where do they go? Do they exist as their "earthy selves" in the spiritual realm after the garment is off? How long? When do they decide on coming back or not? ... and can they see us?? xx.
Consciousness begins to perceive itself only when it manifests itself in a bodily form,
in an unmanifested form, pure consciousness is nirguna BRAHMAN - the Absolute Reality,
which is not aware of Itself, since it is the One Existing. Just as the dreamed characters lose all their stories
and experiences and disappear with awakening, so after death all jivas lose their individual consciousness
and memory of the stories that happened and their lifetime relatives,
returning to their original perfect state of Sat-Chit-Ananda - Pure Perfect Ultimate Reality ...
Nisargadatta Maharaja was once asked whether it is useful to pray for deceased relatives,
he replied that praying for the dead is necessary first of all for the living, priests because they get paid for it,
relatives in order to experience a state of relief after prayer.
Deceased individuals become nothing or the fullness of the Absolute, Brahman.
@@ustinovvadim2114 It's backwards. Consciousness becomes UNconscious in human beings. None of us remembers anything when we arrive to this damn' place. Only when a person him/herself becomes enlightened is when it all becomes conscious... Everyone is a candle but not everyone is lit. None the less, none of these answered the questions.. X
@@PhillipBell There is no mentioning of suffering, nor fearing in the text.... It doesn't really answer the questions.. xx..
@@ustinovvadim2114 Very nicely explained. 👍
Mandukya Upanishad Gaudapada Karika 2:32
There is an other version where it is a lost baby sheep that goes to a lion pack and gets eaten.
Not the same meaning at all.
That's also the way for sheep to know the some truth about him..Recall the teaching of negation "neti neti"..Among the lions at least sheep will now that it is not a lion..And if it gets lucky and alive than the possibility of knowing it's true self is a little more..The sheep doesn't know who it is but it is sure about this fact that "I am not a lion"..As far as death is concerned body will die any way..But to know a fraction of truth before death is far better than dying in ignorance..So either way Sheep wins if it has a little awareness.
@@manojsrivastava3626 i believe you are right. We learn, we try to remember what we are.
Like a wave that knows it will disappear into the eternal ocean. But nevertheless, tries to remember that it is itself the ocean. Thanks
😃 I'd like to hear that version! Just to get a different take, you know...😃
🙏🏽🕉️🌺
Thank you for these talks in simple language and great clarity Swamiji!
May I know the what music plays at the beginning of the video? It is quite pleasant to ears.
I read somewhere that consciousness is some kind of mixing of mind and aatmaa. Is consciousness only experience of that or is it aatmaa itself?
how do you see yourself in the mirror of words? or is this just a clever way of discovering atma in the words of vedanta?
❤
Despite all the conditioning, today I became like the sheep who finally realized he v was a lion.
By the Grace of Aachrya Shankaraji I am well Placed in Sat Sang of you a and Wish to remain in It Until Alive? Thanks.I.OmShanti.
Namaskar
Thank you
Thanks 🙏🏾 so much for this videos. Let me know how to donate money to your channel to help out. Learned so much sanscrit is hard.
XLNT 😇👌🙏!
Swamiji, you say that nidhidhyasana is the experiential confirmation that the problems of the body belong to the body, not to the consciousness. We are in the phase of denial of what we are not (neti, neti), but is there also an experiential confirmation in the affirmative phase that I am consciousness, I am That, I am sat-cit-ananda-brahma?
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Whenever I hear a guru speak about how consciousness/awareness/Brahma "reveals" objects, I get confused because that means duality: subject/object. And, more troubling, it means that there are objects outside of Brahma. Why do gurus say this, when everything is Brahma? How could there be anything outside of Brahma, when everything is one, non-dual? In Verse 8, it states, "Created from the sentient, underlying reality, eternal and all-pervasive, are all things that exist, like a bracelet made from gold." There can't be anything outside of Brahma to be revealed because everything is Brahma.
You answered yr own question basically. It's because it's one. Thought becomes reality. Form follows thought. It's one continuum... In SAMADHI, movement and stillness are one, the dance and the dancer are the same. What you seek is the seeker.. xx..
If "everything" is taken to mean the universe of all that can be perceived by the senses or experienced by the mind or conceived/inferred by the intellect then I would suggest that everything is an appearance of Brahman. Not sure if that is what you meant when you said "everything is Brahman".
@@rsr9200 Yes. I don't understand the statement that consciousness "reveals" things. That assumes that there's consciousness here, and objects there, but we just don't notice them until consciousness "shines" on them. But everything IS consciousness.
@@Stella.J.000 But why would we say that consciousness "reveals" anything, if everything is consciousness? One part of consciousness (the awareness part) reveals another part of consciousness (the illusion of the world)? But consciousness has no parts.
@@alukuhito I agree that from the perspective of absolute reality Consciousness alone exists and therefore has nothing to reveal. However, since all teaching of Vedanta happens in empirical reality and since all texts exist in empirical reality, I suppose one has no choice but to resort to using duality-laden pedagogical techniques to guide a seeker towards the non-dual absolute truth which cannot be described by words or grasped by the mind. So, when a text says that Consciousness reveals an object, the obvious question is "to what is the object revealed?". I would interpret that to be the individual mind. Furthermore, I suspect the metaphor of Consciousness as the light illuminating the mind to reveal the vrittis or mind ripples is probably just limited for that usage scenario and cannot be generalized. Are you referring to any specific verse of Atma Bodha?
So meditation is not contemplation?
introduction's song name please?
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In my case the body pains are following also in meditation why? I can stop thinking but my body become louther
try different meditation techniques (e.g. with a mantra), Swarmi Tadatmananda wrote a book about different meditation styles which he is at the moment turning into videos as a playlist on this channel
Pronaams!🙏
I have thought I was a sheep for 64 years.
Impossible story. A lion can't survive eating grass.
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