List of questions with timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 04:17 - All knowledge depends on the knower, known, and instrument of knowledge, yet we are taught that we are none of these. How can this be reconciled? 19:48 - If science can be used to know the self, does this mean that Vedanta is not a unique instrument for self knowledge? How can science be used for the study of something without objective qualities? 30:24 - How can we remove doubt? How is one guided to know Brahman clearly and continuously? 46:43 - How does one become a monk or nun? 48:56 - How do you explain the problem of evil within the realm of consciousness? 01:01:00 - Is Purusha the same as pure consciousness? When we say “I am imperishable”, how do we know? 01:09:00 - Is consciousness everywhere, not just in living things? What is the glue that binds Brahman and Maya together? 01:18:35 - We are told we are one consciousness. Where does Karma come in? 01:25:49 - Will the witness, sakshi, register anything?
Each "Ask Swami" episode is an eagerly awaited event and Swamiji never fails to elevate and enlighten. To me, the show also gives a feeling of connectedness with seekers from all over the world. Though there are a number of questions and answers in each session, the common thread of Advaita helps in reinforcing the central concepts again and again from different angles. Thanks to Swamiji and the Vedanta Society of New York!
I cannot thank you enough swami. I am deeply humbled and amazed by this channel, it's like finding a box of elixir in the ocean of poison! Greeting from Vadodara, Gujarat, India
When you look for the "I" and you don't find it, it is because the "I" has found itself in pure consciousness. Thank you Swamiji for sharing these precious and luminous words.
Dear swami ji 🙏🏻. On today’s auspicious occasion of guru poornima, I would like to express my gratitude to you for imparting knowledge which really matters 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Perhaps Karma is the duty which one self must be responsible for throughout the quest to destroy evil. A this point!!! The crowd becomes, my lovely friend; Bloodthirsty.
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻 As you mention always doubts which are asked by others clear my doubts also. Your explanations are always very insightful… Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this very useful session of Q& A🌹
Amazing session. There is nothing left to say really.. it is just gratitude for having lifelong questions answered with such clarity and elegance. God bless swami, the vedanta society and even RUclips for allowing this gems to be shared.
Charan sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so very much for breaking down so complex concepts into simple and understandable points. We are forever grateful to you.
It's cristal clear yet the questions ll arise later in time. That's why continuous hearing, dwelling are the prescribed sadhana in Advaita. In yoga/samkhya asanas and meditation are the prescriptions. Combining both is satisfactory because if I can't practice Meditation (samkhya) due to some urgent work I can still hear these teachings while driving meaning one way or other I am keeping track of my Sadhana pranmas swami🙏
Always an enlightening talk, the questions asked and the answers and guidance Swami provides. Thank you! At 48:00 Swami tackles the question of evil again, and mentions (as he has before), at 52:00, the book *The Problem of Evil and Indian Thought* (it's not "in" Indian thought). Anyone looking for this book--the actual paper version--will face a challenge. There don't seem to be current editions of the book. Various original copies are out there but they are expensive (I'm not going to pay $80 for an edition, plus shipping, for example). I use soft copies/e-versions, but I'm still a person who likes to sit down with a book. As well, this is the type of topic where I don't want to be reading the bulk of it through a screen. You can find a copy of the book online, gratis. I found the First Edition: Delhi 1976, printed in India (in English). It's about 343 pages. I sought out the cheapest printing in my city (which happened to be near the major university, no surprise; cheaper than the city's libraries and any other printing outfit), put it on a USB, and had it printed. I even enlarged the pages so it's a little easier to read, and did 2-sided printing. With a clear cover and a nice back, and the "good binding" (coiled), it came to under 20 dollars. Cheaper than if I tried to get my hands on any edition I've seen online, and they are rare. (I'm surprised even my city's local library didn't have a copy of this, they have everything.) I should have done this sooner! Eager to read it, even just looking at the table of contents and skimming some of the content. Now I can sit down with the book and really dive in. And I have the PDF that I can have handy when I can't carry the book and have a moment to read, am waiting for something or someone etc. Cheers
I absolutely loved this video; thank you, Swami Sarvapriyananda. I particularly enjoyed the part at 1h 20, in which you shared the account of King Janaka--so relevant! Deep gratitude for all of the insights you share. 🙏🏻
Humble Pranams Swamiji 🙏 Very nice session, really enjoyed, thank u so much for ur wonderful insights 🙏🙇💐 Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🙏 💐 Jai Maa 🙏💐Jai Sri Swamiji 🙏💐
Aatmiya DIVINITY Jay Thakur HARE KRSNA Experiencing amazingly JOYOUS AWARENESS participating in this session...... So many Questions and Answers...... # Unified field of Knowledge # Unified field of Awareness # Unified field of Consciousness 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
I just read a quote by quite an eminent historian [George Grote (1794-1871)] who says, "In the natural process of growth in the human mind, belief does not follow proof, but springs up apart from and independent of it; an immature intelligence believes first, and proves (if indeed it ever seeks proof) afterwards." My question is what it means and whether there is any contradiction between this and the teachings of Advaita Vedanta.
I have it, this answer too. Akoshic Records are completely different and unattached to Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality is an alchemical process. Akoshic Records are sensory vibration of memory filter. With common and dissimilar outcomes yet the average experience is vastly paradoxical as compared.
Swamiji’s explanation of Sat and Chit aspects of Brahman while answering the question how do I always be one with Brahman was excellent. But there is a third aspect “Ananda” - this cannot be just ‘understood’ intellectually. Lord Krishna crearly calls out “sukham atyantikam” and “aparam labham” - supreme bliss and gaining which no other gain is considered higher. This means the person who has “achieved “ the one ness will also experience the supreme ananda. Consequently if somebody intellectually claims they have understood the one ness without an iota of doubt, still feels not unfulfilled, then it is back to the drawing board.
When you say, as Sarvapriyananda does when he speaks, “it’s just the way things are” - he does reveal a faith in, “the way things are.” But what is this, “the way things are” - although we all have doubt, so maybe it’s not doubt - he’s human, after all, and the error in accepting the confusion of how things are is, indeed, faith, not knowledge nor realization.
Hi Dean. That 'just the way things are' is Swamiji inviting you to experiment with the line of thought he posited (use the doubt to point back to 'who or what is doubting?' which will lead you straight back to consciousnesses). The words he used are not a belief, but observational reality. Apologies if the comment is confusing!
A spiritual journey and a spiritual practice. Experienced in this world of good and evil. Samadhi the journey or study; is a quest. Sadhana the practice or activity is dharma based. The possibility or opportunity anywhere dharma exists is attached to the light of modern sadhana. This is both good and bad. Therefore Samadhi is both good and bad. This is karma based. Duties and the pair of attachment and release this is samadhi. Dharma. So therefore karma comes from dharma. Action and consequence. Now, good and evil.
To the lady who asked about Brahman I suggest please read about Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi, books by Arthur Osborne and RUclips videos by David Godman
Meso American Yoga. So like three empires and a vast wilderness of tribal totems. Then this Yoga and a Confederation of Totemic Knowledge. The wilderness of Totem is the four corners of the Tantric Scriptures. The Great City Square of Akoshic Splendor. These Four Corners. This place is where three empires were United through Totemic Divination. You can recognize it as the Gift of the Sun; derived from the scriptures of the three empires. America and Canada are the physical world environs of the Four Corners. Namaste
Swamiji You are appearing me like Don Bradmon on the pitch of spiritual cricket where you are hitting only Sixes and Fours for any questions ball and no mercy on any hard fast question bowler. Also no any single or dual runs and exist till end without falling wicket.
I am 0:34 a talkative person amd do this alot. I write comments in some and many social media contacts!! I believe we as humanities children have acquired a precisely similar problem. Neurokinetics as it is performed through artificial intelligence attachments and nodes. Both in the physical and the virtual Worlds. So what? You maybe ask me so what. Well, I have a bright light in my mind and it seems to me many people as in accordance with observable satisfaction are pleased with my observations. Unfortunately for me; I have yet to disseminate in public. This is pain untouched by experience. These bright ideas I am fond of, hmmm.
List of questions with timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
04:17 - All knowledge depends on the knower, known, and instrument of knowledge, yet we are taught that we are none of these. How can this be reconciled?
19:48 - If science can be used to know the self, does this mean that Vedanta is not a unique instrument for self knowledge? How can science be used for the study of something without objective qualities?
30:24 - How can we remove doubt? How is one guided to know Brahman clearly and continuously?
46:43 - How does one become a monk or nun?
48:56 - How do you explain the problem of evil within the realm of consciousness?
01:01:00 - Is Purusha the same as pure consciousness? When we say “I am imperishable”, how do we know?
01:09:00 - Is consciousness everywhere, not just in living things? What is the glue that binds Brahman and Maya together?
01:18:35 - We are told we are one consciousness. Where does Karma come in?
01:25:49 - Will the witness, sakshi, register anything?
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But this advaita make me more ego person what is the solution
Each "Ask Swami" episode is an eagerly awaited event and Swamiji never fails to elevate and enlighten. To me, the show also gives a feeling of connectedness with seekers from all over the world. Though there are a number of questions and answers in each session, the common thread of Advaita helps in reinforcing the central concepts again and again from different angles. Thanks to Swamiji and the Vedanta Society of New York!
गुरु ब्रह्मा गुरु विष्णु गुरु देवो महेश्वरः। गुरु साक्षात् परब्रह्मा तस्मै श्री गुरवे नमः॥
10:00 Reflected Consciousness
Happy Guru Purnima to the Swami Sarvapriyananda ✨
Pranaam Swami Saravpriyananda ji. Always stay blessed 💞
I cannot thank you enough swami. I am deeply humbled and amazed by this channel, it's like finding a box of elixir in the ocean of poison! Greeting from Vadodara, Gujarat, India
When you look for the "I" and you don't find it, it is because the "I" has found itself in pure consciousness.
Thank you Swamiji for sharing these precious and luminous words.
প্রণাম মহারাজ!
Dear swami ji 🙏🏻. On today’s auspicious occasion of guru poornima, I would like to express my gratitude to you for imparting knowledge which really matters 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Swami S showed incredible wisdom in his answer to the children. Tears in my eyes.🙏❤️❤️❤️
कूलच❤❤❤
Fear of pain untouched by experience?
Pure consciousness as it becomes contacted with the sound of Wisdom.
Grateful Swami Ji for this profound knowledge wrapped with love🙏🏼❤️
Very beautiful satsang 👍🏾🙏🏾❤️
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Fantastic inputs Swami ji
Pranam Swamiji ❤, Your very Existence is God Himself, what else is there other than Him.Where IAM not You don't exist !!!
Thanks to Swamiji's beautiful and clearly articulated answers/explanations, I had several "ah...got it" moments in this Q&A session.
JAI SHREE RAMAKRISHNA
JAI DEVINE HOLY MOTHER SHARADAA MAATHAA🌹🌹🌹🌹
Drive safe dear swami, i love u
Perhaps Karma is the duty which one self must be responsible for throughout the quest to destroy evil.
A this point!!! The crowd becomes, my lovely friend; Bloodthirsty.
My humble obeisance at your lotus feet Maharaj on the auspicious day of Guru Purnima 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Om gurubhyo namah 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for everything Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj.🙏🏻
Nectar of Nonduality....🙏
Gratitude to you Swamiji on this guru poornima 🙏 I feel truly blessed to have an opportunity to hear your discourses
Thank you 🙏🌹
Happy Guru Purnima Swamiji❤
"Everywhere is in you Conciousness " ...love that !
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻
As you mention always doubts which are asked by others clear my doubts also.
Your explanations are always very insightful…
Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this very useful session of Q& A🌹
Pranam Swamiji! 🙏🏻
SWAMI SARWAPRIYAANANDA❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹
Pure gold, as always.
Probably a better use of my two hours than watching Das Boot, though I'll do both. I'll do both you bet.
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@@jesseeglington2602 , eckoloi.
Yes pure gold and pure awareness
Charana Vandana Swamiji!
Many many Respects & pranaams to you swamiji on the auspicious occasion of guru purnima today 🙏🌺. Your teachings are priceless🙏🙏
Jai Guru Swamiji 🙏🌹❤️
Swami that was fire, I kindly offer my most heartfelt and sincere gratitude!
Amazing session. There is nothing left to say really.. it is just gratitude for having lifelong questions answered with such clarity and elegance. God bless swami, the vedanta society and even RUclips for allowing this gems to be shared.
Pranam guruji 🙏🙏
डार्लिंग आनंदी गुरुपौर्णिमा🙏🙏🙏
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
HAR HAR MAHADEVVVVVVVV❤❤❤
Just Awesome session on knowledge based philosophy
🙏
Koti Koti Pranams!!!
Pranam Maharaj
Pranam swamiji on gurupurnima 🙏
🌼🌼🌼🙏🙏🙏🌼🌼🌼
Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🌟🙏🌺
Charan sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so very much for breaking down so complex concepts into simple and understandable points. We are forever grateful to you.
Sita Ram Swami thank you so much , i cant go a day without your teaching ,God bless you.
It's cristal clear yet the questions ll arise later in time. That's why continuous hearing, dwelling are the prescribed sadhana in Advaita. In yoga/samkhya asanas and meditation are the prescriptions. Combining both is satisfactory because if I can't practice Meditation (samkhya) due to some urgent work I can still hear these teachings while driving meaning one way or other I am keeping track of my Sadhana pranmas swami🙏
Always an enlightening talk, the questions asked and the answers and guidance Swami provides. Thank you!
At 48:00 Swami tackles the question of evil again, and mentions (as he has before), at 52:00, the book *The Problem of Evil and Indian Thought* (it's not "in" Indian thought). Anyone looking for this book--the actual paper version--will face a challenge. There don't seem to be current editions of the book. Various original copies are out there but they are expensive (I'm not going to pay $80 for an edition, plus shipping, for example). I use soft copies/e-versions, but I'm still a person who likes to sit down with a book. As well, this is the type of topic where I don't want to be reading the bulk of it through a screen.
You can find a copy of the book online, gratis. I found the First Edition: Delhi 1976, printed in India (in English). It's about 343 pages. I sought out the cheapest printing in my city (which happened to be near the major university, no surprise; cheaper than the city's libraries and any other printing outfit), put it on a USB, and had it printed. I even enlarged the pages so it's a little easier to read, and did 2-sided printing. With a clear cover and a nice back, and the "good binding" (coiled), it came to under 20 dollars. Cheaper than if I tried to get my hands on any edition I've seen online, and they are rare. (I'm surprised even my city's local library didn't have a copy of this, they have everything.) I should have done this sooner! Eager to read it, even just looking at the table of contents and skimming some of the content. Now I can sit down with the book and really dive in. And I have the PDF that I can have handy when I can't carry the book and have a moment to read, am waiting for something or someone etc. Cheers
Questions is properly solved when it dissolve.dhanyawad swamiji.
46:43 you don't wanna miss the best question asked by the little one !!
God bless you
Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Pranam thakur pranam maa pranam Swamiji
Pronams Maharajji 🌷 🌷 🌷 🌷 🌷 seek your blessings.
Namaskar Swamiji.
Very righly said swami.
Help others will cleanse your mind and body ultimately soul realisation.
Everytime hear poojya swami ji I discover something new 🙏
The ultimate knowledge 🙏
19/08/2023. Saturday. Om Satyam Gnyanam Anantam BRAHMAH.🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳⛳⛳🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
What a good talk!!! One of the best I ever heard in my life!! packed with profound concepts and examples. Good humor also!!! Blessing to you Swami!!!
Sidenote: A totem has a front and a back side. A chakra has two sides. Each totem has seven chakra.
Samrasta
Pranams Maharaj.
Amar pranam neben🙏
Gracias Swami
I absolutely loved this video; thank you, Swami Sarvapriyananda. I particularly enjoyed the part at 1h 20, in which you shared the account of King Janaka--so relevant! Deep gratitude for all of the insights you share. 🙏🏻
Humble Pranams Swamiji 🙏
Very nice session, really enjoyed, thank u so much for ur wonderful insights 🙏🙇💐
Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🙏 💐 Jai Maa 🙏💐Jai Sri Swamiji 🙏💐
Nanyah pantha vidyate ayanaya......pranam
Oh, wow! Really good questions. Thank you very much Swamiji
❤️ Thank you ❤
😍🌹
Haha the questions are good and Swami just cuts through the confusion. Amazing ❤
Aatmiya DIVINITY
Jay Thakur
HARE KRSNA
Experiencing amazingly JOYOUS AWARENESS participating in this session...... So many Questions and Answers......
# Unified field of Knowledge
# Unified field of Awareness
# Unified field of
Consciousness
😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
Thank you Swami and Diane🎉!! All the talks and q&a have been extremely helpful along this journey. We are free!! Happy 4th❤
Excellent answers to such intelligent questions... Pranaams Swamiji 🙏
Swamiji 🙏
Such a beautiful man.
I just read a quote by quite an eminent historian [George Grote (1794-1871)] who says, "In the natural process of growth in the human mind, belief does not follow proof, but springs up apart from and independent of it; an immature intelligence believes first, and proves (if indeed it ever seeks proof) afterwards." My question is what it means and whether there is any contradiction between this and the teachings of Advaita Vedanta.
Vedanta never asks one to believe. Vedanta wants one to realize Brahman!🙏
I have it, this answer too.
Akoshic Records are completely different and unattached to Virtual Reality. Virtual Reality is an alchemical process. Akoshic Records are sensory vibration of memory filter. With common and dissimilar outcomes yet the average experience is vastly paradoxical as compared.
Swami! You recently came to Mumbai for an event. If time permits do come to Madras we would love ❤ to have your darshan.. 🙏🙏
Wonderful 🙌🙌✨
I often wonder why the 'dream state' exists & what purpose it serves for the jiva.
Swamiji’s explanation of Sat and Chit aspects of Brahman while answering the question how do I always be one with Brahman was excellent.
But there is a third aspect “Ananda” - this cannot be just ‘understood’ intellectually. Lord Krishna crearly calls out “sukham atyantikam” and “aparam labham” - supreme bliss and gaining which no other gain is considered higher.
This means the person who has “achieved “ the one ness will also experience the supreme ananda.
Consequently if somebody intellectually claims they have understood the one ness without an iota of doubt, still feels not unfulfilled, then it is back to the drawing board.
❤ 🙏🏼
Pranams Swamiji. Thank you very much 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇🙇
❤
Kindly add the following question (preferably a separate short video)
Subject : famous 13 silence of The Buddha
When you say, as Sarvapriyananda does when he speaks, “it’s just the way things are” - he does reveal a faith in, “the way things are.” But what is this, “the way things are” - although we all have doubt, so maybe it’s not doubt - he’s human, after all, and the error in accepting the confusion of how things are is, indeed, faith, not knowledge nor realization.
Hi Dean. That 'just the way things are' is Swamiji inviting you to experiment with the line of thought he posited (use the doubt to point back to 'who or what is doubting?' which will lead you straight back to consciousnesses). The words he used are not a belief, but observational reality.
Apologies if the comment is confusing!
A spiritual journey and a spiritual practice. Experienced in this world of good and evil. Samadhi the journey or study; is a quest. Sadhana the practice or activity is dharma based. The possibility or opportunity anywhere dharma exists is attached to the light of modern sadhana. This is both good and bad. Therefore Samadhi is both good and bad. This is karma based.
Duties and the pair of attachment and release this is samadhi. Dharma. So therefore karma comes from dharma.
Action and consequence. Now, good and evil.
To the lady who asked about Brahman I suggest please read about Bhagawan Sri Ramana Maharshi, books by Arthur Osborne and RUclips videos by David Godman
the answer for the cause of all suffering is "sarva anartha hetu , atma anvabodha eva" not knowing our self is the cause of all sufferings
Meso American Yoga. So like three empires and a vast wilderness of tribal totems. Then this Yoga and a Confederation of Totemic Knowledge. The wilderness of Totem is the four corners of the Tantric Scriptures. The Great City Square of Akoshic Splendor. These Four Corners. This place is where three empires were United through Totemic Divination. You can recognize it as the Gift of the Sun; derived from the scriptures of the three empires. America and Canada are the physical world environs of the Four Corners.
Namaste
Swamiji You are appearing me like Don Bradmon on the pitch of spiritual cricket where you are hitting only Sixes and Fours for any questions ball and no mercy on any hard fast question bowler. Also no any single or dual runs and exist till end without falling wicket.
I am 0:34 a talkative person amd do this alot. I write comments in some and many social media contacts!!
I believe we as humanities children have acquired a precisely similar problem. Neurokinetics as it is performed through artificial intelligence attachments and nodes. Both in the physical and the virtual Worlds. So what? You maybe ask me so what.
Well, I have a bright light in my mind and it seems to me many people as in accordance with observable satisfaction are pleased with my observations. Unfortunately for me; I have yet to disseminate in public. This is pain untouched by experience. These bright ideas I am fond of, hmmm.
for organizing am busy n talked to known Uber who will be coming on wednesday n will be reaching
At Triangular Park at Didi's house..
Then !!!
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