Live Satsang (Q&A) with Swami Tadatmananda (30 June 2024)
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Weekly satsang at Arsha Bodha Center for local and online students. Send your questions to SwamiT@ArshaBodha.org Please include your name, location and indicate "Satsang Question" in the subject line. Past satsangs available here: • Satsang with Swami Tad...
0:00:00 Intro
0:01:10 How to deal with toxic people?
0:04:02 What would qualify a student for the highest teachings of Vedanta?
0:11:22 What is the simplest way to know Brahman for a worldly person?
0:14:35 Is it possible for an enlightened person to be peaceful and irritated simultaneously?
0:19:40 How can I overcome my obsession with worldly pursuits?
0:26:15 If there is one Consciousness which I am, why can’t I know your thoughts?
0:28:29 Why does the mind snap even after raga and dvesha are defeated?
0:34:50 How does the subtle body travel if it doesn’t have a container?
0:40:10 How can we say that Brahman exists independent of the unmanifest and manifest states?
0:49:20 Isn’t the doctrine of karma tangential to Advaita Vedanta?
0:54:47 What is the difference between me and Ishvara?
0:58:07 How can an individual say, “I am enlightened”?
1:03:50 Is prana an essential part of the sukshma sharira?
1:06:16 Are self-realization and enlightenment the same?
1:11:40 Outro
Every Satsang, clear and precise reasoning and answers! Thank you, swamiji! 🕉
Very grateful to Swami ji for taking our questions and removing ignorance from our minds. God bless Swamiji with good health
प्रणाम स्वामी जी 🙏🙂
🙏 Thank you Swami ji.
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Hello Dear Swami ji. This is by far the absolute best Satsang I have had the pleasure of listening to. Really great questions and answers so crystal clear. Funnily enough many of my own questions were answered today. I am forever amazed at how quickly answers present themselves to me whenever I have a doubt or spiritual confusion. Ishvara at work I guess. Thank you so much and blessings to you ♥♥♥
Shanti, shanti, shanti 🙏
I heard this talk today. I listen when I can apply my total concentration so the meanings seeps deep inside me and I can benefit from it. Thanks for answering my nir/saguna Brahman question. This talk also helped me in a very mammoth issue that I am facing for the past 6 years. The snapping of the mind 😊 🙏🏻. Prior I was regularly in nidhidhyasana but from 6 years gone in habbitual sanskara sanidhi. I will change myself and do regular nidhidhyasana. You are a big help Swamiji 🙏🏻. Pranam
Thank you 🙏🌸
Thank you for excellent answers. They were eye opening for all of them, especially, the chaning view regarding karma yoga
Thank you, Swami-ji. 🙏 Regarding that last point about self realization, the interesting thing for this jiva is I just can't remember the point when I realized who I was. I know it was years ago, but I definitely can't pinpoint it. In a way, that's strange, being such an important discovery. Anyway, thank you for the videos that always help with manana.
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1:00 Great answer! Before you mentioned the burnt seed, I was imagining an unfleshed skeleton as the “enlightened ego.” That the ahamkara still operated as an organizing tool, but it wasn’t fleshed into a personality. I’m definitely going to watch the “Ego Death,” video. Sri Ramakrishna referred to the “enlightened ego,” as a “ripe ego,” that remains to be a servant of God. I always enjoy these Q&A sessions. Thank you! 🙏
Thank you Swamiji. I have a question. At 47 min 09 sec (the technical part on Brahman and the forms) If Brahman can exist without being a form, how does this vision is different from the buddhist point of view that you have discussed recently (that "being" is reduced to the forms that it takes). How can we maintain the idea of a brahman independant from its forms if he cannot exist without forms...I don't know if I'm clear 🙂
🙏Dear Swamiji, is reciting mantras internally during normal daily activities considered as meditation ??
Or if anybody knows please tell me.
Thank you, with loving kindness 💜 🙏 📿
No questions were taken by you in last 2/3 sessions from the congregation. Any particular reason?
Namaste Swami Ji, I know you don't answer comments here, but it will be great if you can clarify my doubt in one of the next SatSang raised by your answer of Cody's question (timestamp 54:48). You finish the answer by saying "Ishwara is not the consciousness, Ishwara is the creator, sustainer and destroyer of the cosmos". By consciousness I assumed you meant "All pervasive consciousness or the Brahman". But in other Satsang (can't recall exact one) you mentioned Ishwara is Brahman. Will truly appreciate if you can remove my ignorance :)
Salutations to u, i Hope u are fine... I understand that at the macro level there is no difference to the all-pervading consciousness, that is, brahman and isvara have no differences... but at the micro level, while we are identified and limited by the mind and body, the difference will be noticed, until ignorance Will exist. Om Tat Sat 🙏🏼🤍
I really want to believe these teachings. But my christian upbringing won't let me move past the fear of hell and judgemental.
Empty your mind of all concepts. Recognize that reality itself has no built-in meaning, and that each point of view is valid.
If you were from another culture you would have different beliefs, but beliefs are just that: beliefs, not facts.
Also remember, there is no hell, nor heaven.
No need to fear, God is the same for Hinduism and Christianity. They are just different paths to the same goal. Further if it brings any peace to you in Hinduism it is said that heaven and hell are for finite periods of time just like your life on earth. Further there is plenty of evidence that humans do reincarnate on earth proving heaven and hell even if they do exist is for a short time span. Hope it helps.
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@@bernardolopes1291 very well put
Thank you! Im trying.