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Appreciate your efforts, thanks. And I like legend too

Hare Krishna! Thank you for uploading this video. Please can you tell me which translation you use for the Rig Veda? Thank you so much. 😊

Thank you, Professor! Such beautiful teachings! Can I know what book you are referring to so that I can get a copy? I’m not an official student of yours- just a lover of your work. 🙏🏻

Thanks for the lecture

Very interesting. Thanks for putting in a lot of effort to create these videos. Appreciate your enthusiasm

Many thanks x

That's good explanation

A gift to the world. Thank you.

Thank you very much Dr Edwin for your wonderful lectures!! However, the audio quality could be better.

What an amazing treasure trove of wisdom you've created here Pundit Ji 🙏🏽❤ I'm sincerely grateful to you and That which led me to this discourse.

Please share a link for the text being used.

Do you have an opinion on Alan Watts?

Hope that there would be multi-part series on Mimamsa & Vaisheshika schools of philosophy as well 🥲

Dear Prof please can you consider continuing the Yoga sutras? I've rewatched your classes on padas 1 and 2 till they're dog-eared 😅

Edwin throws Christian Gnostic cosmology a bone in the intro! In some ways it could be summed up by Brahma as poser and Brahman/Purush the one and true reality!

33:57 According to the Bhagavata Purana, the present age of the universe is about 155.52 trillion human years old.

4:56 Vyāsadeva is also the author of Brahma Sutra. Scriptural proof - Bhāgavata Purāṇa 1.1.7 यानि वेदविदां श्रेष्ठो भगवान् बादरायण: । अन्ये च मुनय: सूत परावरविदो विदु: ॥ ७ ॥ BP 1.7.1 शौनक उवाच निर्गते नारदे सूत भगवान् बादरायण: । श्रुतवांस्तदभिप्रेतं तत: किमकरोद्विभु: ॥ १ ॥ BP 1.7.11 हरेर्गुणाक्षिप्तमतिर्भगवान् बादरायणि: । अध्यगान्महदाख्यानं नित्यं विष्णुजनप्रिय: ॥ ११ ॥ BP 12.4.41 पुराणसंहितामेतामृषिर्नारायणोऽव्यय: । नारदाय पुरा प्राह कृष्णद्वैपायनाय स: ॥ ४१ ॥ BP 12.4.42 स वै मह्यं महाराज भगवान् बादरायण: । इमां भागवतीं प्रीत: संहितां वेदसम्मिताम् ॥ ४२ ॥

Many thanks Professor Bryant. 🙏❤️

Very interesting, thanks. You have done justice to the topic. I am interested in uttara minamsa myself

Any update when the Prof will be doing zoom classes on the 3rd Pada?

Actually Ramakrishna's "yata mata tata path" shouldn't be seen as new agey woo woo. It is rather in the same Rig vedic sense of truth is one , the sages call it by various names. This is clear from the gospel of Ramakrishna. He speaks of various forms of realisations, bhavas, mahabhavas. He clearly speaks of how the bhakta doesn't want to merge with the divine. Bhakta wants to taste the sugar and not become the sugar. And then there are so many instances where we find him appreciating different mystical and spiritual views and experiencing them. I am mentioning this because I see that you referred to "yata math tata path" to criticize the view that all spiritual paths are the same. But that really is not the import. And indeed Ramakrishna is one of the prime examples of diverse, spiritual explorations. A life of experiencing the divine in various forms. To think that Ramakrishna's statement is against pluralism of mytical experiences is a massive misunderstanding. And in my humble opinion it doesn't suit someone of your intellectual and religious strength... Pranam 🙏 Hare Krishna , Jai Ramakrishna , Om...

@44:50 It could be a silly argument but it's foundational to Christian Gnostic thinking: that this is exactly what Yaldabaoth said (and did)..;

Namaste!!! 🙏

It's a Christmas miracle!

The first option is correct. The whole Brahman transforms into the world.

Please provide pdf of this nyaya sutras with commentries

Thank you. I am not a very devotional type.. I have been given a Siva mantra by a renowned yogic- Vedanta teacher sometime back in my mail conversation.. though I am not a regular japa practitioner… 19:59 I am spread on to many things .. I like some of the mindfulness teachings and Buddha’s teachings …but not Buddhist philosophy of non self ..I did some orientation on yoga Sutra with a student of Krishnamavharya.. and liked it…I feel the disconnection and feel the need for Connection with divine …I started attending an Advaitic Bhagavadgita study with a monk in Sankaras tradition…but I feel that denying individual soul status to a person by Advaitha …not making intuitive sense… when I raise this issue, the teacher sticks to their monistic stance…at the same time I do not want to be a full time vaishnavite .. I want to have the choice to continue with Shiva as deity and be open for other deities….essentially I do not fit in any school… how do I proceed … can you study Visishtadvaita Bhagavadgita by Sri Ramanujacharya to get a vishistadwaita perspective with out being a vaishnavaite…but continue with Shiva… not sure about my continuing study on pure play Advaitha ( though I find Yoga- Vedanta from shivananda lineage is some what different.) . I find Ramanuja’s ideas of developing capacity of self awareness and capacity for awareness of god intresting… do you have any suggestion for me on how to proceed…

A Christian Gnostic here with a great love for Madhvachara and also the Anurag Sagar....

I love the Prof's tangential explanations and riffs; they're so packed with information.

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The story of Bharata is one of my favourites. I really enjoyed this. I also find the Q+A section inspirational. I know Professor Bryant says he is planning to do Mimansa next but I cannot wait for more of the Bhagavatam. x

Het there, in your estimation did the idea of Prakriti in antiquity, from those who held this view, contain the idea of proto-sentience or what we would call panpsychism today?

The point on Capitalism is wrong and unfounded. The fact that anyone can listen to this talk, seperated by ocean and continents in a seamless manner is also a result of markets. Markets do not just create desire, They facilitate coordination of varuous plans that individuals, including their rightful swadharma actions, Prices are just signals which conveys useful information that people need about availability of resources, for whatever purpose they migjt serve. Every society faces the natural fact of scarcity, and markets are best means possible for producing abundance, Rich countries are cleaner than poor countries and the more a country grows, they easier it can transition into a cleaner society, china has become much cleaner in the present only due to expanding enough economically. A Dharmic society will naturally require the means of that produce abundance and prosperity for most of humanity and markets are the scientifically best way of achieving it, The central planning vs spontaneous order debate has settled that question in the last centuries with USSR failure, And failure of socialist run protectionist countries like India and Chian , Both of whom later liberlaised and expirenced prosperity much more than before. Moreover, Advertising is a form of communication useful information to consumers, it serves the same purpose an abstract does in case of a paper, informing the reader/consumer why they should be interested in it and spend time/money or both

This was a good lecture. Thank you. So matter has no reason to evolve towards any teleological end. True it is that a mass of particles will gravitate towards some state, when acted upon by certain impersonal (non-conscious) forces; or, will remain in the same state if not disturbed in any manner. But these are mere states and such changes in particle configuration are incapable of imitating the tremendous creative power inherent in _conscious intervention_ . Teleology would imply a degree of organization of matter that goes far beyond the mere state change mentioned above. It would involve almost at every step the choosing of a "correct" course of action from a set of alternatives. Only a conscious entity -- an intelligent mind -- is blessed with such a capability.

OMG, after 65 years of working on the God problem" finally I find you who can articulate about the context and the historic documents. A million thank yous. Please get a book out on these presentations.

Love from India

Thanks sir 🙏

Very nice exposition Will it be possible to have a lecture on how one can defend the notion of an enduring self from the criticism of neuro science? How would these traditional arguments go through when the purvapaksha is neuroscientist who claims self is an illusion created by neurons

What a gift 😍

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इसका मतलब हमे जो सही लगता है वो करना चाहिए और जीवन भर अपनी बुद्धि को refine करते रहना चाहिए शास्त्र पढ़कर, जगत को देखकर, ज्ञानियों से बूझकर। क्योंकि अगर एक भी वृत्ति रह गया तो पुनर्जन्म होता रहेगा, इसीलिए शास्त्र पढ़ो, ज्ञानियों से बाद करो, दुनिया को देखो परखो।

What is the title and author/translator of the text being used?

The reference to the Moody Blues' in Search of The Lost Chord, "This god and universe vibrate complete. Some, we get a sound so sweet Vibrations reach on up to become light And then through gamma, out of sight Between the eyes and ears there lie The sounds of colour and the light of a sigh And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe But it's all around if we could but perceive To know ultraviolet, infrared and X-rays Beauty to find in so many ways Two notes of the chord, that's our poor scope But to reach the chord is our life's hope And to name the chord is important to some So they give it a word, and the word is...

The reference to the Moody Blues' in Search of The Lost Chord, "This god and universe vibrate complete. Some, may get a sound so sweet. Vibrations reach on up to become light, and then through gamma, out of sight. Between the eyes and ears there lie, the sounds of colour and the light of a sigh. And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe, but it's all around if we could but perceive. To know ultraviolet, infrared and X-rays, beauty to find in so many ways. Two notes of the chord, that's our poor scope, but to reach the chord is our life's hope. And to name the chord is important to some, so they give it a word, and the word is... Ohm"

I became lost in the maya again for a while, but I knew that listening to Professor Bryant explaining Bhakti Yoga would get me back on track. Inspirational. The Bhakti texts are everything. Thank you x

Hello. Wonderful session. Can I just ask, what does the word Paramatma mean? I understand Brahman is the impersonal absolute, and the Atman is the personal within each being. Bhagavan is Isvara with a particular form. But can you explain what Paramatma means? Is Paramatma the same as Bhagavan? Thank you so much x

Very disappointed with the printing used in your book. It is so light. I had read this in a review but did not expect so light colored print. Like ordering a shirt and receiving a faded one. Great book. Bad print.

Hare Krishna! Grateful for everything you do dr. Edwin Bryant! 🙏🌞🙏

It'd be so great if u could do the series on Mimamska & Vaisheshika😭

Thank you for this Hare Krishna! 🙏📿