Swamiji, after listening to your discourse, I don't feel like listening to anybody else. I think this is the most profound knowledge I have ever got in this series of 6 videos. Thank you.
at around 36:10 "unfortunately, the witness can not be seen..." ultimate in witness protection program 🙂🙂🙂🙂 Swamiji, all levity aside, although I lean more heavily towards Buddhism, I find your teachings very very applicable to my path with exception of the creator God concept. Thank you for such clarity, both in your voice and presentation.
Hi, he says that seer and seen are different, but on a relative level when the mind is the observer, isn’t it the same as the observed? The mind is the observer and the contents of the mind can be observed, so therefore the idea that seer and seen must be different is invalid. Can you help me with this because it is making me feel like that the true observer (awareness) doesn’t necessarily have to be different than the observed (the mind).
@@garrettdenny3643 On the relative level, i.e., Maya, there is a distinction between the Observer and the observed, but on the absolute level, i.e., Brahman, all is one. This mirrors the process of Self-Realization, where most of us must first see this distinction, via 'neti neti', Advaitic meditation (“I am not my thoughts and perceptions, I am the awareness of them), etc., after which all distinctions will collapse into one.
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices there is a famous statement brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati there is yet another quotation Atman alone abides,but MOTHERalone decides!!
Namaste. Thank you for this important sat sang. All the 3 or 4 types of yoga are important. As Shankara said, if you want to cook the rice, you need not just fire, but even the pot and the water. The fire is the jnana yoga, the knowledge, the primary cause for cooking ot get liberation, but as you cannot cook the rice just with fire, you cannot get moksha just with knowledge without preparation using bakhti-karma and Raja yoga.
@@Dheeraj_415 I do not remember now where is the complete example, but a smaller version is in the beginning of Atma Bodha, where knowledge is said to be the direct way for enlightment like fire is for cooking
Why after watching this, it makes me want to cry. Is it because I don’t want to accept my own existence to being a witness of my mind? Or is it because I’m scared after discovering that the witness is me & i can never see that witness because I am the witness.
It hit me like a ton of bricks. The seer and the seen have to be different. We cant be our minds because it wouldnt be possible and if it was it just wouldnt make sense. Like if I have a thought - my brain created that thought. My brain cant also be the same thing that knows that thought - otherwise there would be no reason to have a thought if you already know it. You cant create a thought while simultaneously knowing the thought. That wouldn't make sense - so something has to know and understand that thought - and it cant be the maker of the thought, it has to be ME.
Swami ji me bharat se hu aur me bhi wo sab Jaanana chahta hu jo aap btate hai jo upnishado me kha gya hai. My humble request is that plzz provide hindi dubbing to all of ur vedios so that they can be understood by many Indian people like me..
चित्त is mind. मन is mind. बुद्धि is mind. What else? Forgive me Swami ji. It is प्रमाण, विपर्यय, विकल्प, निद्रा, स्मृति। Must be told as it is. It seems that चित्त is cyclical tendencies of चित्त।
There's a doubt ( which is revealed by consciousness). Consciousness reveals everything but to whom? To itself? For example, this doubt is revealed by consciousness and now I am asking it. Does this doubt revealed to me or mind or intellect?
"What if all consciousness in living organisms are the same ? dna & surroundings give the shape to express the consciousness !!" is it you are talking ?
So the mind because of objects has become lost or also is the or has the infinite become lost, So if a person understands fully or that persons mind understands fully then the infinite is not lost. It is just a question. So is the infinite lost or not. Perhaps listening to this may...Non duality is hard to understand. I alone exist. How does knowing and not knowing become one or how do they both exist I guess is my question.
Yes. You have forgotten your true nature. Hence you have to remember. Metaphor: In a dream we believe we are a single person (individual consciousness inside a body). When we awake we realize that we are the dreamer of the dream world, the content of the dream world and the observer of the dream world. This is what Advaita is stating.
Yes. Metaphor: The spider's web is coming from the spider (Consciousness/Brahman). The spider is conscious of the web. The web (subtle objects: mind, intellect --- and gross objects: buildings, tables) is not conscious of the spider. The spider exist independent of the web. The web does not exist independent of the spider.
I enjoy and appreciate the analysis very much. The chanting itself I find tedious and not really necessary as Swami explains the Sanskrit immediately afterwards, this style of presentation bares all the hallmarks of old time religion where rituals take precedence over the truth itself, it feels like an academic intellectual exercise. The content, the message of Advaita Vedanta whether in English or Sanskrit is important but as your teaching is going out to an English speaking audience, perhaps your use of Sanskrit could be cut back. With respect and gratitude 🙏
I think the question is: Are these guys who are talking about this, Realized themselves? Or, are they still seeking, as are the rest of us? If it's the former, then let's keep listening. But if it's the latter, then we should go elsewhere.
Sankara's Advaita states that one Brahman under the influence of Illusion or ignorance (maya) forgets its own divine nature and thinks itself as Men, animals, plants and celestial beings. This one Brahman try's to wipe of its influence of illusion or ignorance by its own efforts being inside the any of the body like man or animal or plant or celestial. All diversity is ignorance. Thus Sankara defines that there is only one Brahman by negating the world and living beings as never existing. If it exist then Brahman is under the influence of illusion.
No not entirely correct jiva is under illusion and not Brahman. Bhagavadpada is referring to the empirical reality-world we live in to be unreal even though we see it bec it doesn’t exist in deep sleep. What is real needs to be ever existing. Pranams
Bramah satya and jagat (cosmos) is appearance of Brahman itself or mithya or projection of Brahman but the appearance or projections are temporary and looks real because of maya power of Brahman
Swamiji, after listening to your discourse, I don't feel like listening to anybody else. I think this is the most profound knowledge I have ever got in this series of 6 videos. Thank you.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is the Vivekananda of today's age.
Try out his video on 'Who am I?'. It's perhaps his most famous video.
at around 36:10 "unfortunately, the witness can not be seen..." ultimate in witness protection program 🙂🙂🙂🙂
Swamiji, all levity aside, although I lean more heavily towards Buddhism, I find your teachings very very applicable to my path with exception of the creator God concept. Thank you for such clarity, both in your voice and presentation.
🙏 Namaste ⚘️ 🙏 swami ji's Your introductions was very impressive ❤❤
I wish to meet him once. He is terrific.
Pranams Swamiji ❤
Thanks a lot to infinite existence consciousness bliss which explained itself through your mukharvinda (mouth) and cut the shackles of my ignorance.
Clear analysis of Sakshi Bhava. Nice presentation by Swami. Thank you Shivananda Ashram for hosting the event.
Wonderful explanation swamiji.
Pranam swamiji
Brilliant, thanks for posting!
Hi, he says that seer and seen are different, but on a relative level when the mind is the observer, isn’t it the same as the observed? The mind is the observer and the contents of the mind can be observed, so therefore the idea that seer and seen must be different is invalid. Can you help me with this because it is making me feel like that the true observer (awareness) doesn’t necessarily have to be different than the observed (the mind).
@@garrettdenny3643 On the relative level, i.e., Maya, there is a distinction between the Observer and the observed, but on the absolute level, i.e., Brahman, all is one. This mirrors the process of Self-Realization, where most of us must first see this distinction, via 'neti neti', Advaitic meditation (“I am not my thoughts and perceptions, I am the awareness of them), etc., after which all distinctions will collapse into one.
There is no shortcut to Self realization. Truth reveals itself in him who has lived out his Karmma through uncountable births and deaths.
That is where the necessity of grace of Mahamaya comes!!
Thanks swami ji to share this sacred konwledge with us
Swamiji thank you so very much
Feeling so good 🙏🏼
I will strive to be worthy of you as my teacher, Swamiji.
Good desire. Wish you attainment of Brahman 🙏🙏🙏
@@mukundlimaye8210, kindly explain how Brahman "ATTAINS" Brahman. :/
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices when ignorance leaves us!!
@@thyagarajant.r.3256 are you ABSOLUTELY certain of that? 🤨
@@SpiritualPsychotherapyServices there is a famous statement brahmavid brahmaiva bhavati there is yet another quotation Atman alone abides,but MOTHERalone decides!!
beautiful teaching! Hari Om Swami!
Be careful!! It is Haraam to learn these Kuffar stuffs
Excellent explanation to understand the infinite consciousness
Namaste. Thank you for this important sat sang. All the 3 or 4 types of yoga are important. As Shankara said, if you want to cook the rice, you need not just fire, but even the pot and the water. The fire is the jnana yoga, the knowledge, the primary cause for cooking ot get liberation, but as you cannot cook the rice just with fire, you cannot get moksha just with knowledge without preparation using bakhti-karma and Raja yoga.
Where did Shankara say that?
@@Dheeraj_415 I do not remember now where is the complete example, but a smaller version is in the beginning of Atma Bodha, where knowledge is said to be the direct way for enlightment like fire is for cooking
Wonderful explanation! So lovingly spoken and explained !!!!thank you Swami ji 🙏
Thanks for this wonderful series of talks. Swamiji is compelling !
Wahwah AhaAha wonderful understanding dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad
Thank you guru for great explanation 🙏🙏
Superbly explain truth
Pranam Most Revered Maharaj 🙏
Wonderful analysis. If one wants to know Vedanta, he should listen to him.
wonderful explanation.
Wonderful explanation ... brilliant as always ... thanks for posting !
Jay guru dev naman
Only Pranaams
Thankyou for such valuable content.
43:51 Mind blown!
Yes....So brilliant insight
Why after watching this, it makes me want to cry. Is it because I don’t want to accept my own existence to being a witness of my mind? Or is it because I’m scared after discovering that the witness is me & i can never see that witness because I am the witness.
I think u just answered your own question :) dumbass
So deep thinking dear. As we can't see ourselves, Hence saint says see yourself in the Nature, the beauty, the suspense, the Unborn...
Namaskaram Guru 🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏
Difficult subject made easy thorough very scientific and gentle approach, an outstanding scholar
Great
SASHRODDHO PRONAM MAHARAJ.
Bless you, Swami. Jnana=Freedom.
❤..jammu watching..
23.6.2024
Great...... Simply immense
How can i thank Swami Ji! 🌸 LOVE YOU ALOT ❤️❤️! Love from dinanagar, gurdaspur, punjab, india, world.
It hit me like a ton of bricks. The seer and the seen have to be different. We cant be our minds because it wouldnt be possible and if it was it just wouldnt make sense. Like if I have a thought - my brain created that thought. My brain cant also be the same thing that knows that thought - otherwise there would be no reason to have a thought if you already know it. You cant create a thought while simultaneously knowing the thought. That wouldn't make sense - so something has to know and understand that thought - and it cant be the maker of the thought, it has to be ME.
thank you guru jee
Excellent.
good talk. 37.0
pranams gurudev
Best
Which direction we should face for study
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want to see swami ji and sadhguru ..pronam swamiji ..
Swami is so much more genuine! Beyond compare'!
Swami ji me bharat se hu aur me bhi wo sab Jaanana chahta hu jo aap btate hai jo upnishado me kha gya hai. My humble request is that plzz provide hindi dubbing to all of ur vedios so that they can be understood by many Indian people like me..
Swamiji i have a question. We often hear SATCHIDANDA.. But why Nirvana Shatakam says CHIDANANDA Roopo SHIVOHAM, why the SAT is missing there??
Sivoham is SAT.
Freedom is Unconditional Bondage is Illusion
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चित्त is mind.
मन is mind.
बुद्धि is mind.
What else?
Forgive me Swami ji.
It is प्रमाण, विपर्यय, विकल्प, निद्रा, स्मृति।
Must be told as it is.
It seems that चित्त is cyclical tendencies of चित्त।
There's a doubt ( which is revealed by consciousness). Consciousness reveals everything but to whom? To itself? For example, this doubt is revealed by consciousness and now I am asking it. Does this doubt revealed to me or mind or intellect?
Amazing explanation... With a little bit of repetation but still a very good explanation 👌🏼
What is knowledge?
Is it not the past .
What is observer ?
Is it not the knowledge itself reflecting itself out?.
"What if all consciousness in living organisms are the same ? dna & surroundings give the shape to express the consciousness !!" is it you are talking ?
So the mind because of objects has become lost or also is the or has the infinite become lost, So if a person understands fully or that persons mind understands fully then the infinite is not lost. It is just a question. So is the infinite lost or not. Perhaps listening to this may...Non duality is hard to understand. I alone exist. How does knowing and not knowing become one or how do they both exist I guess is my question.
Yes. You have forgotten your true nature. Hence you have to remember. Metaphor: In a dream we believe we are a single person (individual consciousness inside a body). When we awake we realize that we are the dreamer of the dream world, the content of the dream world and the observer of the dream world. This is what Advaita is stating.
Great lecture as always. I'm kinda glad he mentioned Sam Harris hehe
Is mind, intellect are also manifestation of Brahman??
Yes. Metaphor: The spider's web is coming from the spider (Consciousness/Brahman). The spider is conscious of the web. The web (subtle objects: mind, intellect --- and gross objects: buildings, tables) is not conscious of the spider. The spider exist independent of the web. The web does not exist independent of the spider.
Mind and intellect do not exist. They are words .
I enjoy and appreciate the analysis very much. The chanting itself I find tedious and not really necessary as Swami explains the Sanskrit immediately afterwards, this style of presentation bares all the hallmarks of old time religion where rituals take precedence over the truth itself, it feels like an academic intellectual exercise.
The content, the message of Advaita Vedanta whether in English or Sanskrit is important but as your teaching is going out to an English speaking audience, perhaps your use of Sanskrit could be cut back. With respect and gratitude 🙏
I think the question is: Are these guys who are talking about this, Realized themselves? Or, are they still seeking, as are the rest of us? If it's the former, then let's keep listening. But if it's the latter, then we should go elsewhere.
Swami ji thanks you ramind me who am I ? I am witness.I have forgotten this
Sankara's Advaita states that one Brahman under the influence of Illusion or ignorance (maya) forgets its own divine nature and thinks itself as Men, animals, plants and celestial beings. This one Brahman try's to wipe of its influence of illusion or ignorance by its own efforts being inside the any of the body like man or animal or plant or celestial. All diversity is ignorance. Thus Sankara defines that there is only one Brahman by negating the world and living beings as never existing. If it exist then Brahman is under the influence of illusion.
No not entirely correct jiva is under illusion and not Brahman. Bhagavadpada is referring to the empirical reality-world we live in to be unreal even though we see it bec it doesn’t exist in deep sleep. What is real needs to be ever existing. Pranams
Bramah satya and jagat (cosmos) is appearance of Brahman itself or mithya or projection of Brahman but the appearance or projections are temporary and looks real because of maya power of Brahman
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pranams gurudev