I'm glad that you emphasized the relationship between lifestyle and samadhi. The hectic Modern, greedy life is not condusive to a healthy spiritual life, much less Samadhi.
Guruji, you are a priceless gift of this era! This era is ruthlessly promoting greed, materialism and power in the name of technology. The way of life that you share is the only way to avoid suffering and diseases. Thank you 🙏
It is said that 72000 Nadis are the energy airways just like airways for airlines without any physical existence. These can be thought of as paths where Prana energy radiates into the body despite there r no anatomical existence i.e. radiation path of energy waves. I can be wrong as I have little knowledge abt this. Swami ji, looking forward for next episode and I m grateful to u for such excellent discourses . I can not express how much greatly I have been benifitted from ur discourses.
Only two episodes in, and this is already one of my favourite series. Although I'm familiar with the concepts, Swami Tadatmananda provides a really interesting perspective on them. Hopefully there will be further episodes in future....
Thank you Swamiji for another insightful video. You continue to hold our hands and show us the path laid down by our ancient Rishi’s. Forever indebted to them and your guidance. Pranam.🙏🏼
Aatmiya DIVINITY AUM TAT SAT AUM HARE KRSNA Experiencing amazing 'Contentment' receiving this presentation. Difficult topic explained in an easy and practical way. I Am OK NO Matter What 😊❤
Thank You Swamiji for this interesting program. Even that I went quite deep in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras it is very helpful. I really like the music you've chosen and the image with computer circuit in the background. Om Shanti! Peace, peace, peace! 🙏
Swamiji, we feel it easy to understand or listen but it's somewhat challenging to implement Or take it into practice. A lots of attentiveness, awareness is needed. Your guidance will be very helpful.
Swamiji, is it possible for your team to upload the audio for the background music used in this video? I can use it for my meditation as sometimes I like meditating to music when my mind wont just become quiet. Whoever created the background music, did a great job !!
Thanks for this invaluable information. Unfortunately the entire Mankind is running behind worldly things. Their journey of life is towards downwards. And very rare people are accepting the truth of life. The proof of this fact is that,this video is getting very less likes.
Very nice. I've come to appreciate the good Swami's videos as a treasure and resource, and this is another in a growing list of precise, informative videos. I'd just add a couple of minor things to potentially clarify some little corners for some. Basic calming meditation isn't just "the calming of the sympathetic nervous system," it's actually _the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system,_ which is what's active when you're asleep and your body is regenerating (to some extent also when you're relaxed and digesting food). The important thing is that if you activate the parasympathetic nervous system _while the spine is upright,_ you remain awake mentally, while your body is in the same relaxed, regenerating state as when you're asleep. After a while, it is in fact possible to get a complete "body off" sensation, where you're no longer aware of the body at all, which knocks out a huge source of potential distractions in one fell swoop. There is a distinct sensation of "dropping" or "settling," a slightly unusual experience that a beginner will probably never have had before (although it's somewhat reminiscent of the sensation of sinking into a nice, hot bath), that denotes parasympathetic activation. This is the only real "trick" to meditation (the rest being more about insight - into the truth of the teachings, into reality, etc. - time and practice, and getting-used-to). I would say that parasympathetic activation (that "drop" while awake and alert) plus "body off" (which comes a bit later with more practice) together are the real "foot in the door" to all this. I think for most people it shouldn't take more than about 3 months regular, focused practice (at least a half hour a day) to get to this point. Re. "anga" - it might be helpful to think of them as the spokes of a wheel that enable it to _go,_ rather than as limbs. (I'd venture to say that the correct mental image is probably an 8-limbed swastika, which unites the connotations of "limb" and "spoke".) IOW, they all "run" concurrently. So for example, some preliminary breathing with counting can be very useful to get the above-mentioned parasympathetic activation - which then forms the basis for deeper and more extended exploration of pranayama, which feeds back into self-control and the cultivation of virtues, on the one hand, and meditation on the other, and so on and so forth. It's a gradual process of iteration on all fronts, one helping another, one bearing the weight temporarily, then giving way to another, like the spokes of a wheel changing place in relation to point of contact.
Everyone seems to want samadhi, yet it's just a state that comes and goes. Going for samadhi isn't much different than going for sex, food, money, or anything else. Transient experiences.
The I - Maker or I - Thought (Ego) and the world of appearance depends upon each other. Infact everything rises with I - thought I.e the idea of separate identity, which moreover is behind our ignorance of working tirelessly to sustain this illusory world 😢😢😢😢😢 swami Tadatmananda may all your limbs be protected Aum pc pc pc
I don't understand. Seriously, the first 5 minutes of this video broke me. I've been studying Yoga and meditating for about 20 years and I've always overlooked, or maybe avoided the knowledge of Ahankara because it sounds like we don't exist and after death there is nothing. In order to have an "I" there has to be memory. I assumed after death I would be able to recognize the "Mike" I was, but realize I am more than Mike. But that would require memory. Some say the Chitta is another dimension of mind that is beyond Ahankara. A state of pure awareness and intelligence without memory. But it makes me question if we could even experience it - or if you could even be aware of it. If I have no memory, I have no context for anything. I couldn't recognize a chair or have any knowledge of what it is used for. I can only foresee my non-self becoming overwhelmed and either "click out" or "fall asleep" or just exist - for no reason, with no purpose, no abilities, and no memory. So, logically, no me = no memory = no awareness. If we look for Samadhi, which is union with God - which can happen during life and will happen at death anyway ... why Yoga? Is Yoga just about living a good life? Being healthy, being kind and loving, being fair, treating others with respect and having morals, values and principals? I understand why that is good for humanity and society and individuals, but I'm in it to know what actually happens when I die. If there is something non-physical and I need to prepare for it, or something I need to change now that will affect the way I perceive or experience the afterlife, I want to do it. But if there is no afterlife to speak of, or if I'm going to reach the same state of Samadhi I will reach anyway ... why yoga? After 20 years, I can unequivocally praise the benefits of meditation and it's effects on my mind and mental state, my beliefs, my thoughts and my behaviors. But other than that, after all this studying, I'm no closer to understanding what happens after death than I was 40 years ago. All the sudden, I'm starting to think I've wasted a lot of time. I want you to know, I'm only writing this here because I respect you, respect what you are doing, believe you are extremely knowledgeable and I love your videos. I'm just starting to see the world as varying groups with their own ideas and their unique X number step process, or strategy that solves a worldly problem. I looked to Yoga to understand not how to live, but to know what happens when we die. What will "I" be aware of? If there is no "I" There is no memory. And with no memory, there can be no awareness. Not even bliss. Because to know you were in bliss would require an "I" and memory.
It might be worth thinking of the philosophical distinction between self as a publicly-observable entity, and self as privately accessible only to itself. I as an external observer can observe you, I can see whether you're awake or asleep, etc. with a bit more scientific progress I might even be able to probe your brain, and tell what you're thinking. And to some extent you too can think of yourself in such terms - you can "introject" (so to speak) that public view of you. That you are a body, a father, a carpenter, etc. If someone says, "Mike, are you here?" you can easily and normally respond "yes, I'm here." At that public level, there's really no confusion. And you can take the same kind of public view of me. That body, that father, that carpenter, etc., that entity that responds "yes, I'm here," _that will all die._ But there's also a _private_ sense of "I" that represents _what you are to yourself._ That's the thing you're looking at with spiritual practices, more than anything else (though the "public" you is also involved to some extent). What is it that's aware of all of these things? Of the body, of the thoughts, the sensations, etc.? That awareness or capacity or space-for is what you really, really are, and you may discover that that thing is immortal, vast, impersonal (in one sense, yet deeply personal in another). In that discovery, the "public" sense of being Mike is not involved, in fact that's the thing that drops away in this understanding, just as it does in death, and what's left is what you really, really are, settled in itself, with a feeling-tone of "peace that passeth understanding." It's monstrous beyond language, beyond all intellectual understanding, at right-angles to all ordinary experience, a (possibly initially terrifying) glimpse of infinity, yet at the same time the simplest, plainest thing that even a child can understand. As the Swami said in the first video, it's not that the aim of these practices is "union with x," it's more like "realizing that you're already x (once the mud has settled)" From what you say I get the sense that you might be a Christian, and if so I should add that for a Christian (who is devoted to Ishvara, God, in the form of Jesus), it's not quite right to say that you "realize you're already God," but it's something close to that, it's realizing - again, not in words, in language, but in _experience_ - that you and God are already intimately one, at a really, really deep level, that God's essence is the same as your essence, and that if you aren't exactly God - a being whose "public self" (in the above terms) is far beyond your understanding, truly infinite - you (what you really, really are) are at least a "chip off the old block," and always at home, always at peace, just as He is.
"I" doesn't require memory, unless you equate "I" with "ego". Your definition of awareness is not how Vedanta defines awareness. Awareness is who you are, not an object. Awareness is the ultimate subject. You say samadhi is union with God, but as an individual (Jiva) you are always in union with God, like a wave is always part of an ocean. What happens when you die? You don't die. The physical body dies. You're here, so that's good, but you seem to be missing all the fundamentals of Vedanta, which makes me wonder how you got here. You might want to go back to the first of Swami-ji's Bhagavad Gita videos and go through the entire series. That might be a better yoga (knowlege yoga) instead of physical yoga. You haven't wasted time because time is just a thought in your mind. Time is in you, you're not in time. Anyway, it's clear you're missing the basics of Vedanta, and Swami-ji teaches Vedanta.
There is no memory needed in the Vedanta world for the continuity of an awareness. For an identity like Mike, yes, but for the person-behind-Mike, no. And as others have pointed out, that person-behind does not die...the body does. In fact in Vedanta you will find an explanation of what happens after death, with the concept of various shariras (bodies/koshas) etc. Good luck, there is no wastage of past time. Most of us blunder about often, even those who we admire as gurus.
Creo que possiblemente qualquiera actividad que implica causar daño a si o a otros. Actividades sexuales que impliquen envidia, agressividad, lujuria (oscurece la mente), desinterese o descuido por lo otro o por si misma/o, fortificación del apego à propria actividad sexual, uso del otro para producir placer para si misma/o de forma egoísta, etc. Creo que sean cosas asi.
I'm glad that you emphasized the relationship between lifestyle and samadhi. The hectic Modern, greedy life is not condusive to a healthy spiritual life, much less Samadhi.
12:59 "Emotional problems require emotional solutions not spiritual solutions"
Thanks Swamiji for Great wisdom 🙏
Guruji, you are a priceless gift of this era! This era is ruthlessly promoting greed, materialism and power in the name of technology. The way of life that you share is the only way to avoid suffering and diseases. Thank you 🙏
The part about losing your self in the music in relation to the ego utterly blew my mind.
It is said that 72000 Nadis are the energy airways just like airways for airlines without any physical existence. These can be thought of as paths where Prana energy radiates into the body despite there r no anatomical existence i.e. radiation path of energy waves. I can be wrong as I have little knowledge abt this.
Swami ji, looking forward for next episode and I m grateful to u for such excellent discourses . I can not express how much greatly I have been benifitted from ur discourses.
Pujya swami ji pranam
I was eagerly waiting for this wonderful program.
Only two episodes in, and this is already one of my favourite series. Although I'm familiar with the concepts, Swami Tadatmananda provides a really interesting perspective on them. Hopefully there will be further episodes in future....
Excellent.... thanks 🙏.
Thank you Swamiji for another insightful video. You continue to hold our hands and show us the path laid down by our ancient Rishi’s. Forever indebted to them and your guidance. Pranam.🙏🏼
Thank you Bindhu 🙏
The music on these last few videos has been really nice!
Aatmiya DIVINITY
AUM TAT SAT AUM
HARE KRSNA
Experiencing amazing 'Contentment' receiving this presentation.
Difficult topic explained in an easy and practical way.
I Am OK NO Matter What 😊❤
Thank You Swamiji for this interesting program. Even that I went quite deep in Patanjali's Yoga Sutras it is very helpful. I really like the music you've chosen and the image with computer circuit in the background. Om Shanti! Peace, peace, peace! 🙏
super nice graph at 22:29 !!! thank you for the clarity
Om shanti
Thank you once more very much for your precious lesson !🙏🏻
Swamiji, we feel it easy to understand or listen but it's somewhat challenging to implement
Or take it into practice. A lots of attentiveness, awareness is needed.
Your guidance will be very helpful.
So much insight...eagerly waiting for further episodes of this series..🙏🙏
Great series! Wonderfully explained! Looking forward to the next one! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you, very good🙏
Thank you for explation.
🙏 TQ foryour simplified explanation of ashtanga yoga .
Swamiji, is it possible for your team to upload the audio for the background music used in this video? I can use it for my meditation as sometimes I like meditating to music when my mind wont just become quiet. Whoever created the background music, did a great job !!
Thanks Swami Ji 😊
Thank you Swamiji 🙏
Thank you Swami.
Obrigado ❤🙏🇧🇷
Pranam Guruji 🙏
🙏🙏 Thank you Swamiji.
Thanks for this invaluable information. Unfortunately the entire
Mankind is running behind worldly things. Their journey of life is towards downwards. And very rare people are accepting the truth of life. The proof of this fact is that,this video is getting very less likes.
Thankyou swamiji
Very nice. I've come to appreciate the good Swami's videos as a treasure and resource, and this is another in a growing list of precise, informative videos.
I'd just add a couple of minor things to potentially clarify some little corners for some. Basic calming meditation isn't just "the calming of the sympathetic nervous system," it's actually _the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system,_ which is what's active when you're asleep and your body is regenerating (to some extent also when you're relaxed and digesting food). The important thing is that if you activate the parasympathetic nervous system _while the spine is upright,_ you remain awake mentally, while your body is in the same relaxed, regenerating state as when you're asleep. After a while, it is in fact possible to get a complete "body off" sensation, where you're no longer aware of the body at all, which knocks out a huge source of potential distractions in one fell swoop. There is a distinct sensation of "dropping" or "settling," a slightly unusual experience that a beginner will probably never have had before (although it's somewhat reminiscent of the sensation of sinking into a nice, hot bath), that denotes parasympathetic activation. This is the only real "trick" to meditation (the rest being more about insight - into the truth of the teachings, into reality, etc. - time and practice, and getting-used-to).
I would say that parasympathetic activation (that "drop" while awake and alert) plus "body off" (which comes a bit later with more practice) together are the real "foot in the door" to all this. I think for most people it shouldn't take more than about 3 months regular, focused practice (at least a half hour a day) to get to this point.
Re. "anga" - it might be helpful to think of them as the spokes of a wheel that enable it to _go,_ rather than as limbs. (I'd venture to say that the correct mental image is probably an 8-limbed swastika, which unites the connotations of "limb" and "spoke".) IOW, they all "run" concurrently. So for example, some preliminary breathing with counting can be very useful to get the above-mentioned parasympathetic activation - which then forms the basis for deeper and more extended exploration of pranayama, which feeds back into self-control and the cultivation of virtues, on the one hand, and meditation on the other, and so on and so forth. It's a gradual process of iteration on all fronts, one helping another, one bearing the weight temporarily, then giving way to another, like the spokes of a wheel changing place in relation to point of contact.
Thank you!
Santosha - contentment
🙏🙏
Everyone seems to want samadhi, yet it's just a state that comes and goes. Going for samadhi isn't much different than going for sex, food, money, or anything else. Transient experiences.
The I - Maker or I - Thought (Ego) and the world of appearance depends upon each other. Infact everything rises with I - thought I.e the idea of separate identity, which moreover is behind our ignorance of working tirelessly to sustain this illusory world 😢😢😢😢😢 swami Tadatmananda may all your limbs be protected Aum pc pc pc
🙏🙇♀️🙇♂️🙏
Guruji, what music is this please
What music is this?
I don't understand. Seriously, the first 5 minutes of this video broke me. I've been studying Yoga and meditating for about 20 years and I've always overlooked, or maybe avoided the knowledge of Ahankara because it sounds like we don't exist and after death there is nothing. In order to have an "I" there has to be memory. I assumed after death I would be able to recognize the "Mike" I was, but realize I am more than Mike. But that would require memory. Some say the Chitta is another dimension of mind that is beyond Ahankara. A state of pure awareness and intelligence without memory. But it makes me question if we could even experience it - or if you could even be aware of it. If I have no memory, I have no context for anything. I couldn't recognize a chair or have any knowledge of what it is used for. I can only foresee my non-self becoming overwhelmed and either "click out" or "fall asleep" or just exist - for no reason, with no purpose, no abilities, and no memory. So, logically, no me = no memory = no awareness. If we look for Samadhi, which is union with God - which can happen during life and will happen at death anyway ... why Yoga? Is Yoga just about living a good life? Being healthy, being kind and loving, being fair, treating others with respect and having morals, values and principals? I understand why that is good for humanity and society and individuals, but I'm in it to know what actually happens when I die. If there is something non-physical and I need to prepare for it, or something I need to change now that will affect the way I perceive or experience the afterlife, I want to do it. But if there is no afterlife to speak of, or if I'm going to reach the same state of Samadhi I will reach anyway ... why yoga? After 20 years, I can unequivocally praise the benefits of meditation and it's effects on my mind and mental state, my beliefs, my thoughts and my behaviors. But other than that, after all this studying, I'm no closer to understanding what happens after death than I was 40 years ago. All the sudden, I'm starting to think I've wasted a lot of time. I want you to know, I'm only writing this here because I respect you, respect what you are doing, believe you are extremely knowledgeable and I love your videos. I'm just starting to see the world as varying groups with their own ideas and their unique X number step process, or strategy that solves a worldly problem. I looked to Yoga to understand not how to live, but to know what happens when we die. What will "I" be aware of? If there is no "I" There is no memory. And with no memory, there can be no awareness. Not even bliss. Because to know you were in bliss would require an "I" and memory.
It might be worth thinking of the philosophical distinction between self as a publicly-observable entity, and self as privately accessible only to itself. I as an external observer can observe you, I can see whether you're awake or asleep, etc. with a bit more scientific progress I might even be able to probe your brain, and tell what you're thinking. And to some extent you too can think of yourself in such terms - you can "introject" (so to speak) that public view of you. That you are a body, a father, a carpenter, etc. If someone says, "Mike, are you here?" you can easily and normally respond "yes, I'm here." At that public level, there's really no confusion. And you can take the same kind of public view of me.
That body, that father, that carpenter, etc., that entity that responds "yes, I'm here," _that will all die._ But there's also a _private_ sense of "I" that represents _what you are to yourself._ That's the thing you're looking at with spiritual practices, more than anything else (though the "public" you is also involved to some extent). What is it that's aware of all of these things? Of the body, of the thoughts, the sensations, etc.? That awareness or capacity or space-for is what you really, really are, and you may discover that that thing is immortal, vast, impersonal (in one sense, yet deeply personal in another). In that discovery, the "public" sense of being Mike is not involved, in fact that's the thing that drops away in this understanding, just as it does in death, and what's left is what you really, really are, settled in itself, with a feeling-tone of "peace that passeth understanding." It's monstrous beyond language, beyond all intellectual understanding, at right-angles to all ordinary experience, a (possibly initially terrifying) glimpse of infinity, yet at the same time the simplest, plainest thing that even a child can understand.
As the Swami said in the first video, it's not that the aim of these practices is "union with x," it's more like "realizing that you're already x (once the mud has settled)" From what you say I get the sense that you might be a Christian, and if so I should add that for a Christian (who is devoted to Ishvara, God, in the form of Jesus), it's not quite right to say that you "realize you're already God," but it's something close to that, it's realizing - again, not in words, in language, but in _experience_ - that you and God are already intimately one, at a really, really deep level, that God's essence is the same as your essence, and that if you aren't exactly God - a being whose "public self" (in the above terms) is far beyond your understanding, truly infinite - you (what you really, really are) are at least a "chip off the old block," and always at home, always at peace, just as He is.
"I" doesn't require memory, unless you equate "I" with "ego". Your definition of awareness is not how Vedanta defines awareness. Awareness is who you are, not an object. Awareness is the ultimate subject. You say samadhi is union with God, but as an individual (Jiva) you are always in union with God, like a wave is always part of an ocean. What happens when you die? You don't die. The physical body dies. You're here, so that's good, but you seem to be missing all the fundamentals of Vedanta, which makes me wonder how you got here. You might want to go back to the first of Swami-ji's Bhagavad Gita videos and go through the entire series. That might be a better yoga (knowlege yoga) instead of physical yoga. You haven't wasted time because time is just a thought in your mind. Time is in you, you're not in time. Anyway, it's clear you're missing the basics of Vedanta, and Swami-ji teaches Vedanta.
There is no memory needed in the Vedanta world for the continuity of an awareness. For an identity like Mike, yes, but for the person-behind-Mike, no.
And as others have pointed out, that person-behind does not die...the body does. In fact in Vedanta you will find an explanation of what happens after death, with the concept of various shariras (bodies/koshas) etc.
Good luck, there is no wastage of past time. Most of us blunder about often, even those who we admire as gurus.
When is part 3 coming?
Swami a qué se refiere cuando dice actividad sexual inmoral.
Creo que possiblemente qualquiera actividad que implica causar daño a si o a otros. Actividades sexuales que impliquen envidia, agressividad, lujuria (oscurece la mente), desinterese o descuido por lo otro o por si misma/o, fortificación del apego à propria actividad sexual, uso del otro para producir placer para si misma/o de forma egoísta, etc. Creo que sean cosas asi.
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Sir please do this series regularly instead of commentary on bhagavad geeta.