Why does Advaita call this world false? What good does it do? | God Alone Is, All Else Is Not
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the topic, “Why do we call this world false?"
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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions. ABOUT US Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.
It is amazing how today I was trying to remember in which lecture did Swami explain this exact point.
I was ready to look for it in many lectures, I actually started with one today, and tonight, I opened UA-cam, and the first thing I saw was this video. How amazing!
He discusses this topic at the very end of his lecture on Maya from several years ago!
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God alone is, Everything is not ! 🙏🏻♥️
this is a unique philosophy which can finish all your fears in theory
Good Morning Maharaj.
Great topics. Thankx.
Everywhere is God present in our life every moment.
One thing I want say. From the past years I have been practicing Raja Yoga and Jnana Yoga parallelly. First insights I got is from meditation that I am the witness consciousness and the world is an object to me including the body.
2nd insight I got from Jnana Yoga that I am the witness consciousness and the world is an appearance on me. It is not real(At first insight I included world to be real also).I found that I am both observer and substratum of the illusion called world's(waking,dreaming and deep sleep).
Now my 3rd insight from Jnana Yoga thought me that I am observer,substratum and illusion. Infact, there can be no independent thing ever known as illusion(of the world) from me the consciousness. Not even the thing called illusion can exist as a separate thing from consciousness.
Your conclusions are on point. Thats why personal experience beats everything. Individually experiencing should always be given importance bcoz everything anyone says will always be a pointer. Only an individual should put that effort.
@@inmyworld97 Yes, and I want others to put effort by their own. Don't believe anyone until you gets a prove either through your own experience or through your own sharp enquiry. Enquiry means not just intellectual arguments, but arguments with real time experience facts.
To paraphrase Ramana, illusion is illusory. I and I have seen this. 🙏🏾
@@inmyworld97true. Knowledge only goes so far. Let's also see that ALL experiences are pointers 🙏🏾
I get it now. wow you and me are one Swami it all is so peaceful there is no fear nor hate no anger no darkness all light. the peace is so intense.
Love listening to Swamiji
Swami Sarvapriyananda is Gem for Humanity
Absolutely wonderful answer🙏🙏
॥जय श्रीरामकृष्ण||
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Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻
I apologize for my recent disrespectful comment to you Swami. I have been extremely stressed about my country being on the verge of losing it's democracy. I hope you can forgive me, I am truly sorry for my disrespect.
I love seeing people do this, more and more lately. Self reflection is POWERFUL & beautiful. God Bless. 🙏
In the context of Advaita, the world is considered false because of its impermanence. Universes come and go, while the Supreme Self remains the same and is thus considered real.
🙏🙏PRANAAM MAHARAJ
Excellent explanation which clarifies! Pranams, Swamiji. 🕉🙏
The statement "the world is false" is misleading, leading to the devaluation of our lived experiences. Advaita Vedanta's snake-rope metaphor illustrates *pratibhasika satta* (illusory existence), where misperceptions arise from ignorance. However, a more accurate analogy is the pot-clay relationship: while the pot is clay, clay is not limited to the pot. Similarly, Atman-Brahman underlies all names and forms but is not confined to them.
An even more insightful analogy is wave, ocean, and water. Ishvara is the ocean, individuals are waves, and the shared reality is water (Atman-Brahman). Waves (individuals) are forms of water (Brahman), emphasizing our non-separation from the underlying reality. This analogy underscores that while names and forms resolve into Atman-Brahman upon inquiry, they follow an intelligent order, or Dharma.
Names and forms are not arbitrary or false; they embody the cosmic order. Recognizing our true nature as Atman-Brahman, we must respect Dharma. Some distort these teachings into life-denying doctrines, but true Advaita Vedanta affirms the empirical world as an expression of Brahman, advocating harmonious engagement with reality.
Beautiful explanation.
A classic. Thank you for the repost.
Best explanation!🌼🌻
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If God is then there can’t be other but Shankarites posit Maya. A lot of mental gymnastics then ensues. I lean towards Sri Ramakrishnas view that it’s a both/and scenario. Much love 🙏❤️
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Be Still And Know I Am God.
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Sastanga pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. Swami Vedantananda Puri
Philosophy means Darshana, I.e . To see the world in a completely different way ,
So it is said that if anyone sees the world the way it is (not the way we think or the world shows)
Then reality or truth is not faar
Love your stuff kick on love it ❤️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🌈
"God alone exists and each soul is God passing through imagination in order to realize its own divinity."
- Meher Baba
The true sense in which the jagat is an illusion is it appears as a snake when in reality it's the rope, the two cannot coexist, as soon as you see the rope the snake perception vanishes for ever. And as in the mirage analogy though you continue to see the water in the mirage you know it's an illusion, in other words the world is as illusory as the water in the mirage.
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Jagat Satyam , Brahma Nirgun: Madhwa Charya. Dwaita ✌️
Pujya swargiye Swamy Dayanand Saraswati also used to say the same thing. Look for his talks. Arsha Vidya Gurukulam. NJ.
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Just like Gold in Jewellery, Substratum is the Truth and not the names and forms. Names and forms begins from Prana, Mind, Body to the whole world.
Think ,It will be helpful to not to get illusive in the world.
Sarvam Brahmamayam🙏
It helps you not give shit.
Not "giving a shit" is the superficial takeaway. But that's also just nihilism. The deeper lesson is to "not give a shit" until compassion stirs you. And compassion should always stir you. And behind that compassion? Who gives a shit.
@@R_Priest I think It matters what is behind that compassion, because that will determine whether one would make a brief detour to a compassionate way of thinking, or be "unthinkingly" compassionate as a permanent state of being going forward 🙏
@@heddwyn3914 Yes.
Hello I am a student of class V my name is Soumyajeet. My father is the biggest fan of you and telling and distributing only me by telling me aham bramha , so tell me how I will do my studies. Kindly please tell me how can I manage with aham bramha who is bramha ?I think ghost bramha daitya has possess to father and how can I get rid from my father?
Your father is imposing the knowledge without realising it.
If God Alone Is, How Can there be Any Rest?
That is called "pralayam" that means temporary end of the creation. again the god will bring the universe after some time as its before the end. [here end means god will hold the entire universe inside with him]
If the ocean alone is, how are there waves?
That's why there is nothing else
Before commenting on something we need to seek knowledge or at least preliminary idea abt that topic. Sad that hate & superiority complex r present on spiritual insights too.
Claiming to be God is totally blasphemous and wrong. India has a tradition of worshipping materially inclined spirits, that they summon with food and drink offerings and wrongly call gods, yet they have no tradition of worshipping Almighty God. Instead they claim Almighty God is impersonal and they are are God, because they read about it somewhere. This is very sad and kills any hope of attaining salvation via Deification.
_"Why does Advaita call this world false? What good does it do?"_
So what good does it do to call this world false? How is calling this world false useful?
It's the preliminary step in order to realize that the world is true.
@@R_Priest Yeah but you just labeled the objective world as false... how is that a preparation for anythijng? lots of people have called the world false and not gotten anywhere with it. it's just an idea in their heads, right?
One of the last two videos uploaded “foundational texts of Indian philosophy” with Swami tattwamayananda elaborates on this topic for you to contemplate on. Either #67 or #68, I don’t remember which one 👍🏼
@@Corteum To say that the world is "false" is to say that it is "not two". In the Buddhist vernacular, "empty". When you realize "emptiness", then you can appreciate "fullness", ie, the truth of the world, JUST AS IT IS.
@@R_Priest So what youre saying they mean is that the world is not false, but that our interpretation of it is false... or r ather, our idea of the world as dual/separate is false... and that this can be first understood to some extent before the actual direct experience of knowing it. is this how you mean?
Cartesian dualism is to be blamed for this .
No...thought is to be blamed for this...and there is nothing anyone can do.. Thought is the one that created the separation..
Are gods different from living beings. How will you relate god to a unicellular amoeba or paramecium. If god is consciousness then is god absent in an unconscious person due metabolic cause or for that matter any cause. You can not say every way of belief related to this world, humans , god is right. My belief has no meaning, truth remains the truth whether we know or we don't know. A philosopher's work is to reveal the truth. He is not a philosopher who says everybody can believe his own way. That is theology and not philosophy. With reverence you are practicing theology and not philosophy. A person who slaughters innocent animals to appease gods is living in falsehood and no way can he be supported that his belief of god is also right. Only A philosopher has the courage to speak the truth as Galileo showed.
It seems you are mixing the word consciousness from Vedanta and and Science.
@@sumitdutta7043 kindly clarify.
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The biblical prophet Elijah has returned, as prophesied, and testifies: "Unless thine eye be single..." Yeshua One with Christ ("Jesus Christ") taught Advaita, though organized Christianity doesn't understand, and does not. That's going to change when the Phoenix of Truth rises from the ashes of illusion. And we are entering the most trying of times, the burning fire known to Christians as the biblical Tribulation, with the anti-Christ mentality rising and soon to begin wreaking its full destruction. But all is part of the One Mind's design, which is perfect and complete and guaranteed to return all souls to their limitless Reality from this illusory realm of limitation. The best-kept secret in this entire world is how and why we fell into limitation. But that secret and all important mysteries have been revealed and published in these "end times": the end of the old Cycle of Time that the New Cycle may be born. Seek and ye shall find.
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