Introduction to Vedanta Part 8 - Swami Sarvapriyananda - April 26, 2016
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- vedanta.org In a series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda lucidly unfolds the fundamentals of Advaita Vedanta presented in Drg Drsya Viveka. This talk - delivered on April 26, 2016 at the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, CA - covers verses 21 to 25 in "Drg Drsya Viveka: An Inquiry into the Nature of the Seer and the Seen".
Eternally indebted to Swami Sarvapriyananda ji for making such a grand scripture available to the lay people. Also same gratitude goes to the admin of Vedanta Society of Southern California youtube channel for making these lectures available to the world. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
You echo exactly what I feel...
Swamiji, you have become my virtual Guru already... I sincerely pray I will get to learn from you personally in this lifetime and help me enlighten...
I offer my deepest respect and koti koti pranam...
Truly .
Can't express in words how much I resonate with this comment! Purely extremely grateful🙏
I yearned for this experience and I feel very blessed that I have found Swami Sarvepriyananda even in my twilight years - 72 years / Retired, time to reflect and reinvent myself with the hope that I will evolve and continuously improve / even in small increments / I have found more joy in everything I do - 🙏❤️🕉 to all
I have to listen to this lesson over, and over, and over again.
me too
@@johnk8174And me
Me too
I think I experienced the nirvikalpa samadhi for a whole 2 seconds. Right during the lecture. When swamiji was talking about how the whole existence is spread out upon my own existence. The sentence just hit me and boom. It was so pure. And ecstatic. Just Amazing. Dopeeeeeeeeeee.
Coming back here after listening to many other lectures and teachings of Swami. Its very clear now. Drg disya is something beautiful because of its simplicity
Thank you so much, Swami Sarvapriyananda and Vedanta Society. Words fail to capture my gratitude for your wisdom.
I love when the swami gave the example of the day of sunlight and said, "you are something much more beautiful than that".
All gratitude to the Path of Vedanta for revealing our true nature directly. May all the instruments (swamis) present and encient tolerate our slow awakening. You put me in the light and I will not look back. Om Shanti 🕉
I am blissful with the fact that one Brahman (Swami) taking out veils of Maya from another Brahman (me) with Jnana and consciousness. Dhanyawadah 🙏 keep rocking
Never heard such an explanation of meditations so vividly. My humble Pranam
Really, you are living Vivekanand of our age, I don't have the proper word to express your contribution to my life
Big ditto🙏🙏
This Part 8 is the best lecture of Swami Sarvapriyananda. My "Manah poorvaka namaskarams" Nistala mohanarao
In TOTAL GRATITUDE FOR THIS VERY ENLIGHTENING TALK ON THIS HIGHEST KNOWLEDGE SO SIMPLIFIED!
Thank you Thank you Thank you !🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
asanga asmi, satchidananda asmi, swaprabha asmi, dwaita varjita asmi.I am Existence-consciousness-
Bliss, unattached,self-luminous and free from duality.
Thank you for these words. I am very interested in incorporating this meditation into my practice and have been trying to get these words put together from Swami Sarvapriyananda's teaching. This helps a lot.
I wonder if the Retreat on Loon Lake are any different from this presentation of Drg Drsya.
Thank you so much swamiji. Initially I was very skeptical of vedanta. With each of your lectures i understand it clearer. Thank you. I felt so free just by doing this meditation one time. I am convinced now. Thanks alot swamiji
Swamy many many koti namaskaras to you for the joy of listening to you.
What i think mere words when reading gets bundles of life and make me exuberent as swamy explains!! Ex ," swanubhuti rasavesha"
Love you svaamy and ever grate ful for making me " conscious ness"
You are great Sir! I truly appreciate your class. I hope one day I be blessed to be in your presence.
Koti koti pranaams Swami ji for making this so clear to us… your explanations are very very good 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🌹🌺🌸
I was absolutely mind blown when he said the mirror-reflection analogy. Thank you, swami. Your guidance has helped me so much.
Swami Sarvapriyananda jee, thank you for guiding us towards knowledge of ancient vedanta.
Thanks to all who have uploaded lecture videos
sencerely thanks to swami sarvpriyanandji for teaching such tresure of knowledge of our ancient vedanta.. please upload part 9....we are eager to learn more in adaitvedanta...
Yes waiting eagerly for Part 9. Please do the needful!!
Most profound and deep in this series sofar ,needs many revisions. Pranams swamiji for this nectar.
Simply exceptional.
thank you for bringing light onto our minds and help us see through the veil of Maya
I feel the same way - and I have been a seeker for 50 years 🙏🕉❤️
Thank you Swamiji for your crystal clear explanations.. Brahman reveals through you to all of us.. Rather I am understanding who am I by your words.. Thank you Swamiji for your karuna on us, to help us and for reaching us to us by stooping to our level..words are not adequate to express the gratitude that wells up in my heart..
Thanks a lot for blessing us with this amazing knowledge. So liberating. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
সশ্রদ্ধ প্রণাম নিবেদন করি মহারাজজী।
this is awesome stuff and such clearly explained by swami sarvapriyananda
pranams,, we are really blessed to hear from swami ji
It's so much like the mindful meditation of the buddhists, the thoughts that arise are not me, not mine and not permanent.
+wannabe withgod No, the mindfulness differs in many ways.
As swamiji explained already:
Mindfulness : Let the thoughts come up and settle down, that is it.
while over here it is: let thoughts come, don't concentrate on them, concentrate on the witness of thoughts.
Hope this helps :)
+Gurender Singh yes, sometimes I wonder why Lord Buddha did not teach his
followers to trust in God. Buddhism seems somewhat shallow to me because of this fact despite the profound knowledge it propagates about the human mind. Can you tell me more about it?
+wannabe withgod Yes you are absolutely right, it is like:
We(Sanatna Dharma) say, there is chariot and the operator of chariot as well.
Body,mind + Pure Consciousness(Atman)
While Buddhism says:
There is chariot but no operator, hence no Atman.
They deny the existence of Atman i.e Brahman..while come to think of it, from perspective of our teachings they are denying "existence Absolute" itself, I don't exactly know on what grounds they say so.. since i am not much in Buddhism but one thing is for sure, Buddhism because of this, had faced multiple defeats in debate with some of the Great Acharyas, like Adi Shankara, Mandana Misra ETC.
Lord Bhudda use to say, beyond mind it is Void, Void, Void.. i.e Nothingness.. taking this into consideration, it is like to us that the whole universe emerges from Nothingness.. therefore not acceptable, i have tired thinking from Buddhism perspective also, To prove that there is "void" is much harder than proving that there is "Atman or Brahman", in case of Atman or Brahman, no efforts are required(when realized), it is "we" ourselves, "we" are that "I" but Buddhism denies it all.
Well to me, overall, the final Goal of both of the Dharmas are same, i.e Moksha or Nirvana, however, if you are looking for "better logical path", then the Sanatna Dharma holds upper Hand, no doubt in that. :)
+Gurender Singh You may be right, several paths to reach the same goal, Nirvana, Moksha, realization of Brahman.
+wannabe withgod Yes exactly.. Pick up the one you find most suitable & that is pretty much it :)
Beautiful explanation Swamiji ! Dhanyosmi 🙏🏾🙏🏾 koti koti dhanyavaadah 🌸🌺🌹
thank you and pranams to swami sarvapriyananda ji
eagerly waiting for part - 9
Thanks O Enlightened one.. For enlightening me
Listening to the session it feels like "That" infinite existence-consciousness is right here, right now, everywhere and everytime available to us infact it's us just we don't appreciate it, we don't know it in which everything appears and disappears.
Superb 🙏🙏❤️
মহারাজজী আপনি কত সুন্দরভাবে বলেন।মনে হয় সহজ।আমরা সব পারবো।কিন্তু পারি না।তবে চেষ্টা করে যাচ্ছি প্রতিনিয়ত।
Namaste Swamiji.... good explanation...Thank you
Amazing Person. Extreme effective ness.
My mananam effort -
SatChidAnandam is everywhere, it is all there is. Where Sat is borrowed, asti is experienced, it is called sthoola; where Sat+Chit is borrowed, asti+bhati is experienced, it is called Sookshma; where Sat+Chit+Anandam is borrowed, when the sookshma becomes Satvika, asti+bhati+priyam is experienced, called Sukhakara vritti.
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This is great. Eagerly looking forward to next session.
Good. Thanks swamiji. And also Vedanta Society of Southern California (Hollywood). This is clear.
Pranam Guruji 🙏
Wonderful. Kotishah pranam.
Pranam Swamiji
It is fact that all experience goes away... All person, object, emotion...
But we still is attached to the experiencer... The mind memory perception...
Now 'asangaham' dettachment... Is it actually detaching from this experiencer, this knower, this seeker.??
Asme Asanga, Sachidanada, Swapraprasada,Asme Dviata Varjita.🙏🏼
Is there any prudent human being in this world who does not feel his own BEINGNESS or PRESENCE? NO. Every one of us feels our PRESENCE always and we never feel our absence even for a second. So it is very easy to stick on to this feeling of our PRESENCE which expresses itself as "I Am". "I-ness" is Consciousness and "Am-ness" is Existence. This subtlest feeling is not a thought and not an imagination but is an Absolute Reality. Once we understand and realize this, we can drop the FEELING of "I-ness and Am-ness". Once "I" realize that "I Am" Conscious-existence, why should "I" try to feel IT, as IT is there even if "I" don't feel IT. Hence the next step is just to BE in My Own Absolute Silence.
eagerly waiting for part 9,and how much ahead it wil go just wanted to know.
thanks to swami sarvpriyanandji,
Awesome🙏🙏
Thankyou swamiji
awesome... mind understand it all
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🙏🙏🙏 Guruji
Hi Swamiji. I have finished the whole course online once. I am going through this again so that I completely understand. I have been trying to practice the exercises that you mentioned. I have tried it many times but I'm struggling with it. What I don't get is how do I act or complete my thinking, if I leave the focus on thought and detach from it. I am unable to go to step 3 of the exercise, but what do do next? I am supposed to not act? If I have to act, I need to continue my line of thought and concentrate on it. And I cannot not act for things involving me - for eg. I'm working, some asks me a question, someone shouts at me, I'm doing a daily chore. What do I do?
I am aware Swamiji may not read this or reply to this. But if anyone who can help here or share thoughts, please do.
Hello, you can write to swamiji in Vedanta Center in NYC as they have session on Q & A with Swamiji once a month or so. Apart from that my basic understanding is as follows: although our essential self is Brahman, we have to perform our transactional self roles (husband, father, employee, student etc) to the best of ability. One example swamiji has used previously is we know the sky is not really blue, but we continue to notice the blue colour and appreciate it even after this knowledge. Or we know that there latitude and longitude are imaginary but we use it flights, gps etc. also, as swamiji has said previously if we don’t differentiate in daily life Brahman in shape of a car will us, Brahman in the shape of pedestrian crossing the road lol. The idea is understand and notice the oneness but continue in our daily life. It helps overcome worry and sadness.
I hope this helps. Good luck on your journey!
For anyone interested in learning more about Vedanta concepts please refer to lectures by Swami Paramasukhananda ji of RKM Chennai Math. He also explains things in very easy language, interspersed with humor. Very interesting lectures. Here is the link: www.chennaimath.org/lectures-in-english-swami-paramasukhananda-6356
masterful
Good work
thank you.
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Obrigado!
thank you sir
@32:30: It is impossible to be aware of the awareness of a thought (or to make it simple, just the awareness of a thought). Possible with a flower (sight) or OM (sound) or wood (touch) becoz the experience stays for extended period, but a thought comes and goes. When a thought is running in the brain I'm thinking the thought. When I realize that I've to be aware of the thought, there is no thought at that moment. This is because both the thinking of the thought and the decision to be aware of the thought are both the works of the mind (manas). So, when I wanna be aware of a thought (or aware of the awareness behind the thought) at that moment the awareness has no object, and the brain would be just empty (no-mind state). The purpose is served, but it doesn't represent being aware of a thought. Eckhart Tolle said in The Power of Now that it is like a cat (mind) watching a hole (brain) for a mouse (thought) and the mouse never comes out. Not sure why this is suggested as a meditation technique. ANY COMMENTS from folks here?
Nothing is impossible
Shivam Khanna did u understand what I wrote❓
Madhukiran Attivilli Yes, I understand it’s difficult to contemplate how to be aware of the awareness or realise the light through which all thoughts or objects are being reflected, since this would be a function of the brain.
Shivam Khanna Not difficult. It’s impossible. Awareness (or consciousness or Brahman) is beyond mind and helps the mind to be conscious of objects (including thoughts). Now, when I wanna be aware of thought, firstly... to be aware of a thought is a mind’s decision, and so is a thought... which means the original thought that I wanna be aware of is already gone. After a while, the 2nd thought also will be gone from mind... and if I succeed in being aware of thoughts, it actually means I’m left with a still mind (or no mind) with nothing running in the brain. This would be a fantastic achievement, but technically this doesn’t represent being aware of a thought. It is just a phrase that spiritual teachers use. Since our mind is a single cpu, either there can be a thought or no thought... it is not feasible to be aware of a thought, technically. When awareness is seen as a noun, it represents Brahman. When awareness is seen as a verb, it represents the mind.
Shivam Khanna Writing my just written long msg in a compact way... a thought is a highly transient object... unlike a sight or sound or smell or taste or touch. It is technically not feasible to be aware of a transient thought.
very profound
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My mind says: "Why should I do these meditations? To get liberation??? But I am not something that will attain liberation. I am that pure consciousness. If I do meditation, that would imply I don't accept the fact that I am That. So, I shouldn't do meditation. "
What should I do?
You have used 'I' nearly seven times in your statement. find out who this 'I' is. It is inquiry not meditation. If one knows one's true self it results in the understanding that the "I" is not limited to the body/personality but in fact it is infinite awareness which is the real 'I"
There is a difference between knowledge of something and empirical experience of that something. You have the knowledge that you are consciousness but to get the actual experience of it you should meditate.
The term meditation implies in the normal sense, meditator, meditating on an object.
In inquiry it is not so. Just recognise subjective awareness and hold it. In this process, the difference between 'janana' and 'vijnana' ( knowledge and experiencing that knowledge)
merge. It is not a subject recognising an aobject. Both are same. therefore the difference you mentioned does not arise
Meditation: 24:00 onwards
58:25 gold
Are you, your self a Dharma practitioner? I would like to have a personal talk relayed to Buddha. I am located in the city of Alhambra southern California.
24:00 the techniques begin
Does plants have borrowed consciousness?
Important question 🤔
I understand Swamiji. But when a lion comes before me either directly or in dream, How I can think that myself and lion are the same, even though I understand that consciousness for both are the same. Somehow I get that fear. Is it not? How to be away from that thought?
Chandramouli Ramachandr
Technique 1: 28:00
34:20 that's what its all about
sir to get enlightened is important utmost then why focus on Jana hitarth.serve other???? please reply
Please watch other lectures.
First realize yourself and then you can do anything you want..it's just a play. :)
Satyam gyanam anantam brahama . Existence consciousness bliss. Sat chi Ananda.
My qs is are these three the qualifier of brahma. Because if everything is brahma then external objects just has existence and internal (suksha sarira) has both existence and consciousness and then at certain mental state (swattik) has all the three existence consciousness and bliss.
Then by this definition the external which has just existence and the internal which has both existence and conciseness, are different. So how Brahma represents both?
So even if I take only the existence consciousness and bliss aspect and remove the name and form aspect, still I will not experience brahma in everything .
Is it that at enlightened state existence will be equal to consciousness will be same as bliss?
+Pranab Mukherjee the Sat-chit-ananda is one and the same thing only, the thing is different names..
think it like this:
Existence is consciousness is Bliss itself, they are not different, they(rishis) named them differently to make people understand the concept. :)
Now existence, Consciousness & bliss being same thing brahman is outside as well as inside too therefore it is the same brahman everywhere.
Hope it helps.
+Gurender Singh Thanks. Let me rephrase the qs. How pure existence and pure conciousness are non dual? if I say ' Conciousness exists', then existence appears as conciousness. It is also true in subjective term, ' pure existence only exist in my conciousness only. How these two also desolves into Brahma?
+Pranab Mukherjee Yes, see, what you are doing is you are separating Consciousness part from existence part.
It is like you are trying to separate h2o molecules from water .. did this helped?
Now, think,
See, existence, Consciousness & Bliss are one and the same thing, like water.
How far is water from being H20 molecules, how far is Clay from Clay pot? that far is Existence, Consciousness & Bliss from Brahman, it is brahman itself, different names are given because brahman when expresses itself at certain place acts as existence(outside), on the other place(inside) acts as Consciousness, on certain place acts as Bliss.. But this does not make brahman mixture of 3 separate things.. it is the nature of brahman itself.
Those above 3 things are one & the same entity.. just the description is given with 3 different words to make people understand of the concept "Brahman".
Try to apply these on your real life.
How far is existence from Consciousness from Bliss itself? it is not. it is one. that one is Brahman.
Like:
We sometimes use to say, This world is from Maya which is from Brahman, now, that does not meant that, Maya is different from Brahman which is cause of world, No, it is one and the same thing, Brahman.
The difference arises, when it is perceived by someone for "understanding" part, when it is done i.e realized, then one comes to know that indeed, everything was Brahman at first place.
Hope this helps :)
+Pranab Mukherjee some people have become yogis and have written Upanishads by their contemplation, no doubt all is consciousness.......doubts exist yes, ultimately they will vanish if u become enlightened, ofcouse still i didn't achieved it yet ;)
Swami ji when everything is brahman what will go to heaven or hell after death acc to hindu mythology.
Subtle body. But the subtle body as well as the heaven and hell are both Brahman.
please read our scripture and aware about our real religion
59:37 sugar dolls and mother and child story
if the existence consciousness Bliss is identical with me then how it is possible to say that the Brahman is what who is within me..then we have to admit Davita.
+Dalia Chattopadhyay Existence Consciousness Bliss is you yes but that is brahman at first place.
therefore you are brahman in your real nature.. more over, everything is brahman too therefore no Dvaita.
it is like, we are mistaking Brahman for world, like: Mistaking rope for snake, snake was never there, it was our ignorance regarding the rope, rope is rope, does not matter whether you mistake it for snake, garland ETC.
Similarly, Brahman is brahman, no matter how you see it, world, dreaming or deep sleep state, it is brahman itself, mistaking brahman for anything does not affects it and that brahman everything.
it is inside you, it is you, it is outside, it is everything :)
Hope it helps.
+Dalia Chattopadhyay As per the text and lecture, there is no "me". What you call "me" or "I" or ego is just reflected consciousness. This is just a process or methodology to reach the final realization that there is nothing but Brahman. If there is anything other than Brahman then Brahman is limited. If it is limited then it is perishable. There is no you, me, us and them. This is the highest realization, the end game. This is my superficial understanding. Anything deeper you have to go to the pros ( consult any swami in the RKM order).
I think many are in samadhi 🤣
15:53 Headline in Scientific American: Scientists Bust Myth That Our Bodies Have More Bacteria Than Human Cells -
The number is roughly equal, scientists say
So we are all half humans at best. :)
100% Brahman.
I was raised Catholic
Came to Tibetan Buddhism
Now found Advaita Vedanta
I’ve come to realize that
Vedanta is Mahayana Buddhism with God mentioned and
Mahayana Buddhism is Vedanta without mentioning God