Desire and Knowledge - Two Blazing FIRES in Advaita Vedanta
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- In the Bhagavad Gita, fire is metaphorically "the Fire of Desire" as well as "the Fire of Knowledge." The ravenous, insatiable fire of desire is burnt to ashes by the blazing fire of self-knowledge - a unique instance of fighting fire with fire!
Kama, desire, burns inside one's heart, always demanding more pleasure. That kama burns within due to ignorance (avidya, ajnana), in particular, failure to recognize your true nature, atma, as the source of contentment, peace (shanti), and fulfillment (ananda). That ignorance is burnt by the fire of knowledge (jnana), called jnana agni by Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: www.arshabodha...
The series of videos released by Arsha Bodha Center invariably give us immense pleasure and knowledge that only Swamiji Tadatmanandaji can impart in his inimitable way and always with such utter clarity of expression. We are indeed blessed by having such a great teacher in the true Vedantic lineage in our midst. My desire is to visit his Ashrama and listen to him in person, which I hope will someday be fulfilled. A thousand salutations to our Swamiji...
Sanat Bakshi 100% agree! He is MY FAVORATE teacher and swamiji. I’d love to visit his ashram too one day. His videos are the best! His clarity is exactly what is needed for explaining the subject of avaita Vedanta. Wonderful soul he is.
Dhanyavad swamiji!! ;)
@@TheSynthFreq Yeah is a blessings he had a background in computer engineering :)
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Namaste Swami. Wonderfully explained. I feel a 'drying out' within myself each day as I learn from yours and others videos, now to find a blazing fire to sit next to. Om Shanti shanti shanti
I feel my question has been answered. The Divine also works through algorithms, it seems! Thank you for the teaching, Swamiji!
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It totally does. The intelligence of Devine is just unfathomable.
One consumes us ( kama agni) one helps us from getting consumed ( gyan agni). Thank you for this teaching. It really helped me.... as the meaning of not having desires or desires to be cause of unhappiness was not clear to me. Thank you.
Best explaination since Adhi SankaraAcharya. Only Nyana Agni can remove ignorance.
Namaste. Swamiji, I love your clear and pleasant way of explaining the teachings of Vedanta. I find that the greatest source of "moisture" in the wood of the mind is the difficulty in accepting that we really are unlimited and infinite conciousness-beingness
Very nice, I am the next lamp :) Thanks Swami ji.
Synchronicity at work here - just this morning I decided not to go to Starbucks for my "treat" because it was becoming a habit!
It is indeed at work here.. The moment I read this comment the time was 2.22 PM 😐
Well how long do you think that will last? Root cause of our pleasure seeking desires can be an addiction.
@@afrosamuri05 The moment you replied it was 21.21 😂
@@afrosamuri05 Addiction is the soul's quest for perfection... through such things we gain experience and compassion. Destroying "bad relationships" can be achieved through this process (of addiction) and we can move on from such unhelpful relationships, that do not serve the greater good... Addictions are thus a blessing... seen with the eyes of wisdom.
@@buddhaneosiddhananda8499 Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences. Not really sure you understand that brother. Key to life is balance, moderation and harmony.
Swami Tadatmananda is really a great teacher and his teachings video easy to follow and understand and in the meantime very profound. I wish to have him as my guru and I consider him as such in my meditations. I am Buddhist and still feel very difficult after many years to understand the differences of interpretation about what is called Atma in Hinduism and Consciousness in Buddhism. All my love to Swami Tadatmananda.
My sentiments exactly!
Bro Hinduism Buddhism and Jainism are mainly same only some points are different love from a hindu 😊
Significance and symbolism of “Fire”, explained so beautifully.
Swamiji, Thank you. You have helped kindle the fire of gnana and are truly a new age (teaching over the net) Guru. Please conduct a comprehensive course on Vedanta thru webinars. Many of us who are in no position to attend classes in person nor is the situation permitting any time soon, shall benefit with your excellent narration of the profound knowledge and help make a beginning. Bow to you with utmost humility, OM NAMAH SHIVAYA.
Gracias, Swami Tadatmananda⭐⭐⭐ , por guiarnos tan maravillosamente🐣, y ser nuestro Gurú, en la ansiada búsqueda,del fuego del conocimiento🌟.
Abrazos sinceros desde Chile, 💖🍁💖
Wonderful - what a brilliant video. I really appreciate the clarity and sincerity of your explanations. Thank you for all the effort 🙏🏻😁
Very heart touching. This reminds me of T. S. Eliot's quote: ". . . . fire by fire."
Watching you from Ukraine 🇺🇦
Bless you!
Thank you Swamiji
Greatly appreciated this knowledge I am really grateful to have you as my Guru and feel blessed to have explored this channel. Lakh lakh paranam ❤🙏🙏
Perfectly explained....coffee example is so true for me..
Thank you, Swami-ji. Om.
What an immensity in gurujis ability to articulate concepts of vedanta eloquently...
We must first understand the goal of spiritual practice if we want to be successful.
Absolute, profound, truth. With much love and respect! Thank you.
Koti koti Pranav swamiji
Dhanyawad guru jii🙏🏻🌹
Brilliant vedio & explanation. Namaskaram to Gurudev. 🙏
Brilliantly explained!
Burning Kamagni in Njanagni
Thanks Swamiji🙏
Beautiful explanation. So much clarity.🙏
So beautifully explained. Swamiji, you are a wonderful teacher .. thank you for casting the warmth of your fire on "wet wood" like me 😊🙏.
Its really very beautiful very good message
For me you are that Guru. Thank you Swami Ji
so happy to see your work and love expressed
Thankyou for giving such knowledge
So true.
Thank you for the video.
this was so great, i believe you helped me to get some steps closer to ignite my igni :)
thank you master.
Excellent info
Fire is also called as Jataveda. The destroyer of ignorance.
Very informative 🙏🙏
Excelente! ❤
Thank you
Saludos desde México gran maestro. Agradezco los subtítulos en español, quiero contactar con gente afin a estás enseñanzas para compartir puntos de vista y experiencias. Deseo saber si hay algún centro o escuela de Vedanta Advaita en mi país. Muchas gracias por todo.
Beautiful, thank you 🙏
Thank you Swami ji for the beautiful explanation :) Moreover, the background classical music makes it more interesting and enjoyable to listen to your teachings :)
Thank you so much for your lessons 🙏
Our desires will lead to immortality... we MUST satisfy them.
Beautiful.
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Beautiful thinking and difficult to achieve, nonetheless beautiful again.
good
Quite a difference between the sweet Fruit Loops and the bland Cheerios!
Both desire and knowledge are unquenchable fires...
How do I get there swami?? I like your videos. Keep them coming. More teachings and practices. I feel like the teacher is finding his student or the other way around. Please I beg of your blessings. I want to dry my wood and light the fire. Namaskar.
wow wat a logic
Muchas Gracias!!!!
Thank you.
GRATITUD. GRACIAS ........
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what book is that on the table swami ?
🪵🙏 TY Swamiji
C est possible traduction en français toute ma gratitude🙏🍃💚🍃
very good!
we stand on the shoulders on giantic rishes, adapting i.n famous sentence :)
This desire compel us to take rebirth
To end the cycle of rebirth, we must achieve true immortality, ie. never dying.
@@buddhaneosiddhananda8499 Thanks 🙏 kindly elaborate or recommend manuscript u r from which country.
The gurú original is bhagavan Sri krishna ¡¡ this is the conclution
Would be great if Swami could shed some comparitive insight between Advaita Vedanta vs Jainism , one of the 6 Sramana traditions(the tradition during Gautama Buddha's time that goes against Vedic Brahmin tradition) that survived until today (together with Buddhism).
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Where can I find Vedanta teachings?
Are you still looking for teachings of Vedanta?
I learnt it my watching/reading lectures on/by Swamy Vivekanand, Sri Aurobindo and Rama Maharshi. They were prominent Gurus from large century.
the upanishads
Sri Ramakrishna and Swami vivekananda books are a good source.
Interesting, the only apparent time to fight fire with fire
Edit: you literally just said that after I posted this comment 😂
Notion that Newton discovered gravity is no more valid, please refer recent comments by the University of Manchester,hence this metafor is also not valid and may please be corrected
Does vedanta teaches the relationship between desire and the value assigned to the "object" of desire? Would one desire something that has no value for him?
It is in the very nature of the soul to have desire, which gains experience and wisdom through the experience of achieving such desires.
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Excuse me brother but you are writing nonsense.
Soul is in itself the only limitless value that there is. Its only function is Being.
However the "act of knowing" is directed towards limits that will never give you a limitless experience.
There is no wisdom, knowledge or love that our mind can access at the moment because it is filled with limited thoughts.
Surrender and forgiveness are the only tools we have.
For how long are you going to be experiencing limits in hopes of finding limitlessness?
@@konstantinNeo Desire is the soul's guidance.
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Wrong again brother.
Soul is the eternal unalterable.
You are confusing it with the mind.
The mind is the "act of knowing".
The trinity goes like this:
"Mind in the state of self knowledge."
1 the self
2 the knowledge of the self
3 the act of knowing
Our mind is on the state of "knowing limitations".
Soul has nothing else but Being.
The Mind chooses what to think.
Choose to stop the investment in the limited.
The Being comes into awareness.
@@konstantinNeo Prakasha Vimarsha correct?
I think that's what he might have been asking for?
Guru,
Your example of kindling the wet wood with the help of match sticks one after another is not a good example. What in actuality we used to do in villages was that we collect dry wood sticks and dried grass sufficiently and burn them putting underneath the thick woods so that the their fire and heat gradually dried down the wet wood pieces and kindle eventually.
The same analogies can be made in spiritual journey of sanatana dharmma where the helping traditions, conventions, rituals, festivals, etc. along with the dharmik stories, contexts, puran, saptahas, guru sermons, etc. help kindle the very 'wet' conditions in the case of knowledge-worthiness of ours.
Bishwa Prakash Subedi why do you attach any value to rituals? How do the enhance knowledge?
@@sdutta8 this is serious question. plz help me find the answer. i enjoy rituals as they are down from my forefathers. they help protect one from distracting mind engage to religious milieu.
Bishwa Prakash Subedi I think we all have to find our own answers to this question, which I agree is a serious one. The answer must resonate with our ‘gunas’, which are different for each individual. I myself have moved away from rituals as I failed to see any value in them that was consistent with the core teachings of Vedanta. I don’t think I resonate very well with the path of Bhakti - I don’t feel any.
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Dear Mr. Dutta, I fully agree that the rituals per se are no more than the means of pastime with essentially no spiritual value in them. For the spiritual upliftment we must devote wholeheartedly ourselves to the practices (sadhanas) directed by the vedas, upanishads or other Hindu scriptures or rishis / aptas as per the temparament and / or gunas one have.
By the way, what sadhana(s) are you practicing? I am, I think, pretty much spoiled one and am not involved in any meaningful homa, tapa, yoga, japa, swadhyayan, etc. Flipping from this to that, I have become too old to be of any use in the Almighty's abode, it at all.
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Bishwa Prakash Subedi 0 Pranams Rituals and other like Japa. pilgrimage Pooja etc are for cleaning the mind. One need to do but one shdt et stuck here. Liberation moksha are freedom can be only attained by knowledge. No other means. All these rituals help u make u fit to enter into jana joga. They are only means not end just like the poll ( I forget the name) which took you up now u need to throw the poll or leave the poll to jump on the other side. U cannot get stuck to the poll. These rituals are like that they help u but they don’t lead to moksha
Keep Your Wood Dry
Cat trynoet,,
Great! Very moving, he spoke to me here. This is what I have been going through, but didn't know the name of it--jnanagni. I will write about it on my blog. (And he never asks for money, unlike the charlatans.)
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Thank you🙏