Consciousness: What does it mean? - Wisdom series by Sri M
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Sri M - "The mind which is 'chitta', which is conscious has many distractions and waves and movements in it. One part of the same mind, seeing these disturbances wants to see how it would look if these disturbances are cleared. When these distractions and waves are cleared, when the 'vrittis' of the 'chitta' are removed, then that chitta in its pure state is not different from Purusha and Purusha is consciousness...."
This is an online talk, part of the Wisdom series, which took place in Madanapalle on the 4th of May 2020.
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About Sri M
Born in India, Sri M is a spiritual guide, social reformer, educator and writer. He first met his Master at the age of nine under the jackfruit tree, in the compound of his house in Thiruvananthapuram in the Indian coastal state of Kerala.
The full account of his astonishing and amazing experiences are published in his memoir from 2011 titled “Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master - A Yogi’s Autobiography“, which became an instant bestseller. He has written a sequel to his autobiography, titled “Sri M - The journey continues”. He has written two more books - Shunya, his first novel and his latest one being - 'On Meditation', a book which answers questions on meditation.
Sri M has traveled the world fulfilling his life’s mission to teach and guide people as instructed by his Master, Maheswarnath Babaji. Over the years, Sri M’s mission as a spiritual guide, social reformer and educator have given rise to many initiatives including:
- high-quality, multi-lingual education, free to rural children
- Satsang Rural School - an unique and innovative approach to education.
- Co-educational, residential school committed to providing in-depth exploration of knowledge.
- Affordable, preventive and curative holistic health care
In 2015, Sri M went on a 16-month journey, Walk of Hope, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, spanning 5000 miles across 11 states of India, to bring attention to humanity’s need for peace, harmony and tolerance.
Sri M says: “Go to the core. Theories are of no use.” His message seeks to transcend the outer-shell of all religions, by exploring their mystical essence and thus nurture the innate goodness in every human being.To know more about Sri M and his programs, please log on to :
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Thank you….grateful for this beautiful explanation. I have been looking for this answer for long times.
Consciousness is pervading . When we are awake , we can experience and be aware through consciousness ( which manifests at evolved human brain). Conscious mind which is responsible for day to day activity and subconscious mind is having records in form of memory and emotions. Subconscious mind keeps popping thoughts and emotions constantly and brain get stuck in that and keeps chattering it . If brain goes into silent state , then we can experience pure consciousness ( satchitanand )
The word you were looking for is "PLANKS". Babaji this is a very important video to me in my journey. Beautifully explained. I'm able to understand with more clarity🙏
I'm revisiting this video after some time. These are gems of youtube, worth the study
Thank you very much SriM !!!
I have got some understanding about the consciousness and it's appearance through brains/cells/subatomic particles. I am so thankful to you for this understanding. Pranam Guruji..
Its not accidentally that I just look now to your explanation of consciousness...Last week I wondered again, but on an other level what it is...so thank you very much!!!
Pranams,
regarding the video,
few understanding which stuck my mind
1) consciousness is all pervading, which means to say consciousness is God.
2) consciousness uses Man's brain as an apt vehicle to operate through. as human brain is highly developed vehicle.
3) consciousness has the capacity to operate more efficiently . if that is the case how to know or can you please give instances in day to day life where the consciousness is operating efficiently through brain.
note: the summary understanding is consciousness is the king.. and the body/brain/ mind is a vehicle . when it is no more usable it drops the body and take a different one. which is death.
the other question which arises is, what is the difference between atman(jeevatman and paramatma) and consciousness.
Thank you very much, this is the best video i have watched on consciousness. want to meet you.
may you and God bless this Communion.
best regards,
Harish
ॐ नमः शिवाय 🙏🌹💐
So beautifully explained. Possibly the best and most easy to understand explanation of consciousness I've ever heard. Thank you Guruji! ❤❤
Guru ji you gave new dimension to think about consciousness never thought before in such way 🙏🙏 koti koti pranam
Thank you Sir.. wonderfully explained 🙏🙏🙏
8:46 - what a subtle hint, Guruji indicating 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
What an amazing interpretation of consciousness. Sri M🙏
Thank you Sri M and Namaste for so nicely and effectively explaining consciousness. I answered some of the key questions I had. Your explanation helped me to understand better. 🙏🙏🙏
Many pranaams 🙏🏼🙏🏼. Scientists at one point have to take the help of Mystics to understand the universe and life in general.,It may be now or a few years down the road. But experience is definitely more powerful than discovery.
Like many Mystics say, there is an intelligence way bigger than the brain which made the brain itself from a single cell . What is that intelligence?
Indeed Indeed marvellous!! No other way to explain it.
Turiyam
Wonderful explanation, SIr. Salutations to you and your guru lineage
It makes sense this way. Brilliant explanation
Thankyou sir, Your explanation was so simple and easy to understand. Now I understand that consciousness is something that's beyond the human brain, and every life (including plants, animals, single celled organisms), and non living entities have a consciousness associated with them (in a way suitable for them). I have heard great Swamis speaking that we are all part of the same consciousness. I would like to listen to your approach of arriving at the above idea.
If someone know a video of Sri M talking about this, then kindly guide me to the video
Koti koti parnam guruver🙏
Wanted to learn more about Chitta, Thankyou 🙏🏻Grateful you are here.
nice, for many thousands of years, the difficulty of explaining it is always an issue for it because their is no words to describe it, the game is to seek it by experience 😊
"Sankalpa is part of consciousness. Specialized cells of brain operates with sankalpa to create things" reminds me visualisation in law of attraction
So so true❤
പ്രണാമം ശ്രീ എം .🌺🌺🌺🙏🙏🙏
So well said.
the great guru
🕉🙏🏼I bow to you Sri M.
Thank you sir hari om
AUM shri Gurubho Namaha. Dr.V.B.Chikkanaragund
जो प्रयत्न हुए लोककल्याण अर्थ हि प्रयास आप से हो रहा; इसके लिए जनाव को साधुवाद ! ऐसे हि प्रयास करने वाले संसारमे कमि नहि , पर वास्तविक कल्याण किसिका कोहि किसिसे हुए नहि। कहनेका भावार्थ लोककल्याण तभि कहा जा सके हे जब समग्रमे जगतका कल्याण समाया हुवा हो। यहि कल्याण से जगतपतन को रोक सकते हैं। तब हि जगतका उत्थान सम्भव हे ; जगतउत्थान करना मानविय लक्ष या मानव जन्मका सार्थकता हे, अन्यथा एकाध मानवोंका कुछ कल्याण से सार्थक नहि हे। इसके लिए हि सतोगमय बनना होता है। सनातन दैवीक धर्म का हिन्दू नामक पंथ के तमाम शास्त्र पुराणों मे सत्य आँटेमे नुन मिशल छिपेहुए हे। वहि सत्यको उजागर कर हि सतोगमय किया जा सकता है नहि तो जो जैसा हे वहि रतने से न तो ऊर्धोगति न हि जगतउत्थान केवल अधोगति और जगतपतन हि हे जो जगजाहेर हे। तमाम ऋषि महर्षियों देवी देवतावोंसे अनेक युगोंसे बारबार प्रयत्न करने पर भि जगतपतन हिना क्या यहि उधाहरण पर्याप्त नहि ? रावण का अन्त पश्चात द्वापर मे कंशादि कौरवों का संहार पश्चात और पतन का कलियुग क्यों ? क्या राजा परिक्षित को सुख शान्ति मिला ? जबकि श्रीकृष्ण और अर्जुन का पोता था वह। कलियुगका प्रारम्भ हि कष्टदायक वह भि राजाको तो अन्य सर्वसाधारणों का हालत क्या रहा होगा ? केवल राजावोंका हि कथापुराण हम सुनते सुनाते आए कहिं साधारण मानवोंका कथा हे ? महाशय चिन्तन करें, जबतक असत से विमुख हो सतोकि ओर चले बेगर असतमे हि रहते कोहि किसिमका कल्याण हो नहीं सकते। शास्त्रपुराणों मे छिपे सत्यपर दृष्टि पहुँचाना होगा तब हि अध्यात्म कहा जा सकते हैं। हर मानवका कन्सेस को सतोकि ओर मोड सके तो कन्सेसनेस हो सके। चेतना भया! धन्यवाद!!!
ഓം ഹ്രീം ശ്രീ ഗുരുഭ്യോ നമഃ 🙏🙏🙏
Beautifully said....
Namaste!
Oh my ! Wat an explanation !! We gotta know that conciousness operates thru the brain ....but, how to harness the power of the brain so tat the brain becomes soo capable tat it reaches conciousness ?
Thank you so very much!🙏
Well explained Sir thank you.
As Sri M Babaji proceeds to explain what Consciousness is we see how he proceeds by ruling out one by one like the intelligence/"consciouness" of the cell a Human being and more. Why he has rightly connected consciousness with non-living things too. He had pushed the frontiers all the way into the microcosm - upto quarks and "quantized reality" at sub-atomic why sub-elementary particle levels, and even below almost reaching kind of "micro-infinity". At the end of talk-period we find that no "ultimate" definition has been possible. We are reminded of Upanishadic Dicta, like नेति नेतीति वै श्रुतिः - THAT which the shrutis try to speak of through statements 'Not this, Not this,' thus which take the form of a 'process' rather than a statement!
Even if advances in Quantum Mechanics is likely to 'push' the frontier of our understanding of Reality, the final expression IS NOT going to be an affirmative statement at all leave alone a clear cut definition. One can take a look at namas like एवमित्यागमाबोध्याय नमः which translates to "That which cannot be the conclusive statement of the process of Induction" -leave alone using Deductive Logic and valid inferential schemas. Thus the only way of "knowing" What Consciouness is - is to BE THAT. Thus so long one is in the knowing-mode - which is like the extreme of savikalpa samAdhi- Consciousness - has still eluded the person. Thus whether is Scientific Thinking or Spiritual Process both have to end up in a non-definition state. If at all something 'is possible' to "experience" by BEING or BECOMING. No words.No Statements. Only process can be loosely formulated and left for the individual to apply, explore, "experience" for oneself. Strictly speaking could that "state" be rightly called as "experiencing" even?
In that state, you are the experiencer as well as the experienced. Yes that is an experience and i have experienced it smoking dmt. :)
pranam Babaji
Thank you 🙏
Consciousness is something beyond your physicality. Find out what it is, that's the purpose of your life.
Salaam, Qadambosi baba 🙏
Namaskar🙏
guruji 🙏
Thank you. Well explained
Very clear explanation
Namaskaram SriM Babaji. Can you please show us those paintings in the back? Are you painting during this lockdown Guruji. Please show us. It looks so beautiful. Thank u. 🌺🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Some are gifts.
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I heard a podcast of Swami sarvapriyananda, he explained it beautifully that Consciousness is the white canvas of a painting, the maya is the starch of canvas which absorbs the colours and the outline of people on the canvas is the universe. The faces of the people are us or the world. The people in the painting are nothing but the canvas itself they are the canvas meaning consciousness.
Amazing sir!
Thank you
I'd like to hear your views about consciousness and Samadhi the link
ty so much sir.⚘⚘⚘⚘
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Pranams puyja Guruji
Nice talk! What are these waves or disturbances you refer to, which when removed can help experience "pure" consciousness? What are we being distracted from. Is purpose of all life contemplation of / meditation on the self (consciousness)? Are these thoughts and their outcomes not a part of the same consciousness?
Will be great to hear from you
Thanks
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We can think beyond senses what is called in Vedanta as Sasmita Samadhi. In English it is called Bereft of Body that is without the physical body we can think. Here brain works as a Catalyst Agent.
Difficult concept but nicely explained 🙏
Om Namo Bagavathe Vasudevaya
Aum hreem shree gurubhyo namaha
Was this reposted? I could swear I’ve heard this exact talk before . Regardless, I hope to find your guidance and love for the years to come if it is possible/ destined 🙏
Deja Vu
I found my real guru
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Thanks for explaining. Greetings from James J in Limerick city Ireland
BRAIN IS THE INSTRUMENT THAT PRODUCES THE CONSCIOUSNESS. THERE IS NO MUSIC WITHOUT AN INSTRUMENT SIR. I NEED INSTRUMENT TO PRODUCE MUSIC.
I think consciousness is connected with soul. When soul exit from the body, consciousness also exit from body.
I read consciousness resides in a different plane (dimension)
Does Chit(22:36) in sat chit ananda means -chitta or the eternal?
साष्टांग दंडवत स्वामीजी , Swamiji can you give lecture in hindi language please.
Would it be an appropriate analogy to say consciousness is like electricity and brain is like the wiring?
This explanation of consciousness was very helpful.
Namaskara guro how
can I study kriya yoga in kollam
SriMji, you refer in the early part of you talk, to consciousness in the context of thoughtlessness...why? What does thoughtlessness or the lack of it...have to do with consciousness, Guruji? Are cells limited in their lifetime? Why so? How do they carry individual consciousness? They are alive makes sense, but calling each cell conscious, needs redefining and understanding consciousness differently. Trying to understand consciousness the way you put it. Is it the inertia of quantum superpositions, that prevents every particulate matter, to avoid changing its state of existence? Did you mean the 'things' you were calling the smallest quantum things, as the multi dimension strings, that interact in various ways to create various superpositions that are perceived as different states of existence, some of which, human beings call as matter? If the energy is what consciousness is, then I understand you. Please clarify what did you mean by consciousness? If quantum existence is consciousness, what would explain Entanglement? Isn't Manasa different from Chitta? Vritti of the chitta or the manasa is restnessless? Isn't Chitta supposed to be the objective intellect that does not waiver, (unlike the manas, which is fickle) and discriminates by non-preferential attribution?
Why do Indian's ask so many questions?
@@mrbwatson8081 because they are seekers of Truth, curious and have the thirst to learn and explore.
@@rajapal9736 asking questions is a good thing for sure. But haven't you noticed that the answer to a question, is the door to a million more questions.. I would love to know, Is there a question if answered you would have no more questions..?
@@mrbwatson8081 There is one such🙏
Raja Pal so what is the question of all questions..? I am a 🧞♂️ .... what is your question?
Latha16jul namSkaram guruji
I am grateful
Pranayam guru. Is there any satsang in kollam district
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Is consciousness and soul the same ?
Soul….consciousnes🎉❤ is making the decision on how to do….characteristics of the soul. There is another one reside in the soul that is love which is the starter ….decide on what to do….
damn... too deep for me... he's got it sorted but i don't... cool insight though!
What are you conscious when you are giving this talk?
Hai sri M bro...
BRAIN IS VERY CLOSE TO CONSCIOUENSS AND THIS IS WHY SCIENCE TALKS ABOUT IT.
I can see a hand sanitizer on the table
THERE IS NO WORD THAT CAN DEFINE CONSCIOSNESS YET PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO DEFINE IT. NO NO
Quarks
NO NO NO CONSCIOUSNESS IS MORE CLOSE TO BRAIN THAN BODY AND MIND.
String!!!
hicks?
Imagine Consciousness was divided in such a way it reflected the spectrum of colours you see on charts.
Different species have different access to specific bands of colour.
Imagine if Consciousness was apportioned in the same way.
And humans got the 5G version.
I don't think consciousness can be realized what he is saying, when we are in consciousness there is no physical boundaries, all physical things start from from our body, consciousness can only be realized by being in the moment...There will be no thought, only emptiness or sense of being in the moment..and be here......If anyone want....We can teach process that work for me, of being self conscious
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