Selected Verses of the Ashtavakra Gita (Part 2) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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- Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks as part of a retreat in Marlboro (New Jearsy) on the Ashtavakra Gita. This is Part 2 of the lectures.
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Pranam swamiji with gratitude
All seekers without a physical Guru eventually reach this video. Eternally grateful Swamiji . 🙏
Absolutely.
🙏 Namaste ji
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It is the continuous white screen of a movie on which the film appears . as said by the great Nisarga Datta Maharaj .Thanks Swamiji
Namaste from Kathmandu, Napal. I am a software developer (and so I think 🙂) trapped in my flat due to the ongoing covid-19 crisis. So in all my time alone, I've been listening to you. Thankyou for the series. It has definitely helped me (my mind) understand and be aware of the awareness.
I started watching you from more than a year now with your IIT lecture on "Who am I?".
But the question within is still there ... Again, thankyou.
What a beautiful exercise at the beginning of lecture..Keep everything outside and see what remains, that's YOU, the pure awareness :)
Thank you Swamiji, What an impact you are making on my life. You are helping me to go beyond Apara Vidya. Now a virtual guru, hope I can meet you in real.
Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
The more I listen intensely to this series of talks, the greater clarity I receive. Thank you whole-heartedly Pujya Swamiji. Also, during this talk, Swamiji's true nature was revealed. Out of respect for Swamiji, I will not say at which point during this talk; but if you listen carefully, you will just intuitively know! We all have the benedictions of a true living Master!
Wonderful satsang! Thank you Maharaj. From this angle indeed it feels like we sitting at the feet of Swamiji maharaj . प्रणाम
Very true 🙏🙏🙏 in the lap of master 🙏🙏🙏
Pranam maharaj . How much pains do u take to explain to us ...d subtleties of vedant !
We r indebted to Thakur Maa , Swamiji, d holy Trio, for sending one of their best sons , to give us knowledge of d Ultimate..
A BIG THANKYOU !
@Awdhesh Singh. Wonderful explanation
@Awdhesh Singh. sir,beyond ramakrishna is ma kali
🙏🏼Swami Sarvapriyanandaji🙏🏼
🙏🏼Immense gratitude🙏🏼
wahAhaAh Wonderful Chamatkaric Vishmaypurna thanks gratitude Dhanyabad Dhanyabad Dhanyabad Dhanyabad Dhanyabad Dhanyabad Dhanyabad Dhanyabad Dhanyabad
Best speech, just like Aastavakra Archarya. Not easy to be Aastavakra teacher in English language. Aastavakra means eight impact which gave you freedom, your awareness is your teacher. Dont have to follow anybody, save yourself.
Pranam swami ji
"Awareness " very beautifully experienced Swamiji, Sarvasakhi
sakhi or sakshi!
I think in these troubled times this Advaita Vedanta philosophy is the tonic for the people to be calm & peaceful....
The best of advaita philosophy is explained most beautifully by swamiji. May God bless him and Vedanta society for their efforts in keeping true spirituality alive
Absorbed and mesmerized for one and half hours.
Greetings from India .... listen to your lectures everyday ... Pranam
Profoundly grateful Swami ji. Upanishads are my greatest treasure.
Thanks Swami Ji for sermons & uploading such wonderful videos.
Feeling blessed .
In Total Gratitude for this very uplifting knowledge explained very beautiful! Thank you so much Guruji! 🙏🙏🙏🌹🌹
Fascinating, convincing and intelligent explanation of "Witness Consciousness" by Swamiji.
Consciousness is witness.
Hari Om,Pranam,Swamiji
🤗🌾🍃🕉💐Thank you again - Hari Hari 💐🕉🍃🌾🤗
West expression. Nothing more required by any other Swami about the Reality . Swami Saravapriyanand has cleared all beautifully. Very very thanks.
Wahwah AhaAha wonderful Chamatkaric Vishmaypurna wonderful DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude kripake liye koti koti koti dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Thank you Swamiji 🙏
Radhe radhe Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏
Heard it for the nth time. Such a Blissful experience. Koti koti Pranams to Swamiji. 🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful expositions! Thank you, Swamiji.
WOW - perfect explanation 🙏🙏🙏
Namaskaram Guru 🙏🙏🙏
Namaskaram.
O Swamiji I want to cry at your feet😌...
Great great orator ❤🙏. Please share his India schedule for events.
2019 all session are on different countries, you can download schedule from website mentioned in discription section.
Pronam Swamiji you have taught me to view life in different way
Nice
Charan Sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so much for bringing us this awesome video. This helps a lot. We love your very presence.
Thanks for sharing the highest knowledge - I bow down to this most learnt swamiji.
Thank you swami o great guru
Thank you. Much gratitude for making us think insightfully.
Thank you so much !!
Oh, no words as to how I enjoyed this lecture.
Shir Sastang Namaskar to SWAMIJI
JAI RAMAKRISHNA
Eagerly waiting for all remaining discourses at the retreat Namah Shivay .
OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI
Holy Trio bless us all is my earnest prayer. Joy Thakur.
Fantastic clear transparent explanation a thousand salutations for removing the layers of maya
Thank you for your teaching
Thank you soooooooooo much for uploading this vedio in RUclips
Wonderful🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you 🙏 I finally found what I was looking for. To see me as Brahman and to see Brahman in everything and everyone. Your teachings are extraordinary for its simplicity and clarity. Today's class and meditation did for me the understanding I've been looking for all these years.
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Sir please add the next video of this series..
Pranam Guruji it’s wonderful the way you explain 🙏thank you.
🙏🙏best explanation
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One and only one 🙏
Lovely ! thanks
Thanks Swamiji lucidity of your lecture, yet at my end , 'mananam' and 'nididhyasana' is required, and cycle repeated one or more, most probably. Pronams to you and God Almighty .
Very great understand is coming Mj! Thank u so much for ur lectures and for uploading also....
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5/13/21. simply wonderful
You are my virtual Guru.....but I want to meet You.....pranam....from Varanasi, India
I am from West Bengal, India....Have you ever meet Swamiji....?
Pranam Swamiji....I am unfortunate enough not to hear you physically at your live classes
Interesting statement
"I am unfortunate enough not to hear you physically at your live classes"
Who is this "I"
Where does fortunate and/or unfortunate and/or the absence of these exist and to who does it relate to?
What is it to "hear" or hear physically, through what and to whom is this being addressed?
"you" how is this non different to the "I"?
"Physically"? What physical body? There is only Self.
"Live"? What is time? what is here, what is then what is there what is nothing what is anything? I abide in the glory of Self.
"Classes"...
There is nothing more that can be said.
One meditation technique is given in this video. Please listen from 14.25 min onwards for 15 min.
After listening to your patient explanation of atman being separate from mind, intellect and body I have understood that atman is different at least at intellectual level. But I couldn’t get a handle of why there’s only one atman. Any further guidance on what to read, listen will be highly appreciated.
question your questions, and then you may find your answers....
Thankyou Swami ji 🙏
For my own reference, guide to emptiness 15:00
Namaskar Swami Ji! If consciousness is pure and its same in all living beings then what leaves the body? And how it's given the new body? In Upanishad it is mentioned that atma has an "avran" of samskars and accounts of bad and good karma that results in getting another body. Pls clear my doubt.
Soo nice ,when you said leaving everything, I really experienced body disappeared
Swamiji when remaining verses of Chapter 3 of Bhagwat Geeta will be uploded
I'm waiting too
Simple explanation of complex concepts.
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Swamiji, what happens to awareness when one is unconscious? I was once unconscious. At that time I was not aware of that awareness. If awareness is ever present, then why we r not aware of it during deep sleep or unconscious state?
My second question is what is the difference between deep sleep and enlightenment.
Could it be that your mind was absent at that time which is why you have no recollection? But aren't you aware of the gap? Around 37.40 he addresses are using deep sleep as example
Vivekananda has stated that an ordy man goes into sushupti as an idiotand returns as idiot onlybut not an enlightened one
@@thyagarajant.r.3256 swamiji also said that never argue with fools
there is no unconscious state , u are right, in deepsleep for example, the memory dont record this event, so you have just instantly forgotten, that u were there....enlightenment is deep sleep with memory recording (samadhi)
I love these talks. But how does one realize Brahman? I'm aware of the consciousness in waking and dreaming states, but not in sushupti. Or is consciousness different from awareness and I'm only aware of the awareness?
From Christian to Sanatini. Namaste 🙏
Only narcissistic souls want to live forever. Advaita vedanta is the way of those who fear death
I was raised Catholic and remain truthful to its message of Love. That being said the Ashtavakra Gita points to Oneness. The only question which is not answered: 'WHY IS THERE DIVERSITY IN THE WORLD IF THE WORLD IS ONE"? The answer is that it it is not good for Man to be alone hence we return to the Catholic conclusion: "Love each other"!
Consciousness and unconsciousness are indistinguishable.
there is no unconsciousness....what u call unconscious is a state of only consciousness with no memory, instantly forgotten
Hello Swamiji, aap india aate ho kya? I wants to meet you...and wants to invite you to my home. My family will be truly happy to have you. Om shanti Shanti...
Sankhya is given by Kapilmuni.
Krishna says among sages he is
Kapilmuni. Then is Adwaita saying Krishna is wrong ?
I am confused.
Only for dhyanaßuch statements were madeSecondly there might have been more than 1 kapila
Question: when we do this process of leaving eveything outside and the very thing we use to do this is the body mind apparatus, how can you think further of leaving everything outside when you leave the body/mind outside without which we cannot be aware - so dont we need this apparatus to realize the "self" and everything is self in a unified package?
What is meant by leaving the body and mind outside is that you stay still. You stop engaging with thoughts as well as physical sensations; withdraw your attention from them. Simply put, be in silence. Silence of the mind: don't engage with thoughts but just watch them arise and pass, dispassionately. Silence of the body: refrain from unnecessary physical movement and simply watch the senses function naturally,
rather than engaging with their objects. These two ways of staying still eventually yield a deeper silence. This is essentially what is meant.
yes u are still aware, without the bodymind, just that memory would not record this event, like in deepsleep, or before birth, but here swami speaks theoratically, not actually, if u could actually leave bodymind, there would be no question about it
it only appears as a unified package....
its hard to explain, maybe i raised even more questions...
Respected Swamiji, Pranam
Can you suggest which Ashtavakra Gita book you are referring (author, publisher etc)
The heart of Awareness
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Truth of self is made so clear, yet remains a question why all this mess
for. Any purpose
Swamiji is going to do everybody a Jeevanmukta excellent Swamiji Namaste
No purpose in life
no purpose, just entertainment...
After giving of anesthesia what goes ?? Pl explain
Excellent one ... is there any way to contact swami through mail ?? If we have some doubts will he answer us through mail ...
WHAT VERSION OF ASHTAVAKRA DO YOU SUGGEST SWAMI AND ALL?
Any version will do.
For a simple and lucid english version try Byrom's 'Heart of Awareness'.
Several versions which have original Sanskrit shlokas, English translations and commentaries as well for those that are so inclined.
The talk has a few aspects where I found it difficult to follow what Maharaj was trying to convey.
At 36th min, The example of Absent Rekha (Rekha abhava) where he is asking who is aware. Well the awareness within Rekha right now can witness a mind that imagines a time where Rekha wasn't there and Rekha was a blank. But if we were to go back to that exact period before Rekha how would the awareness that shines thought Rekha feel Rekha Abhava? The awareness that shine forth through Rekha's parents would know but not Rekha's awareness. The only escape from this quagmire could to say all awareness is one etc. But somehow I am not finding convincing enough to agree that Rekha's awareness exists before Rekha.
Beautiful question. The thing is at one point tarka's abilities saturate. We will need to meditate on the point of origin of Rekha. With time it will become clear but it will be beyond words.....As Ramakrishna Paramahansa told once when you boil butter it keeps spluttering till there is water in it. When the water from butter evaporates there is no sound left.
Pranam Swamiji. It would Be helpful if you repeated the questions that devotees ask. 🙏
these two stages of existence remains till one knows the self .ignorance about self is the cause of duality.once self is known simultaneously it is clearly seen that matter merges into one reality , and duality ends. it is not like one knows self first and then he again knows braman separately. because knower is only one .
Pranam Swamiji.
Pranams Swamiji!Is the world is maya or projected by Maya? Or world is projected by Avidya that is not knowing Brahman as Brahman which is our real self taken as that is due to Adhyasa world ? Kindly clarify.
The world is projected by māyā and hence is a manifest form of māyā, just as spoken words are the projection (manifestation) of the power of speech. That capacity or power to speak is the power of knowledge. Its expression in speech is the manifestation of that power. I know I can speak, I know how to speak and so I speak what I know. Like that, māyā is essentially the power of knowledge, and hence is the cause of its subsequent expression as the world (just as with speech and its power).
All that is here is knowledge, forms of knowledge, forms of Brahman, made manifest by the power known as māyā. Thus, in this way, pure, unmanifest, unexpressed knowledge (Brahman) appears to be known, appears to manifest by means of its own intrinsic power of knowledge, the (creative) power called māyā.
Avidyā, ignorance, is an improper recognition or misunderstanding of knowledge, which naturally leads to a mistaken view of that knowledge. That mistaken knowledge of the world is the error of taking something to be what it is not. That error is called adhyāsa. Adhyāsa is the direct consequence of avidyā. Ignorance, being an individual expression of the mysterious power of māyā, is like a cover, due to which mistakes about ignorance and its products are extremely likely. Hence, it is because of ignorance and its power to obscure that which is true that Brahman - and our identity with Brahman - is not appreciated. Not being appreciated or recognised, that identity remains unknown until the error born of adhyāsa is corrected by true knowledge. Then, to use the famous analogy, in the clear light of knowledge the apparent snake is recognised to be a harmless rope. The dim, late evening light had obscured knowledge of the rope. That power of obscuration is the power of ignorance, avidyā. When covered by semi-darkness it is unclear what is there, and the rope, not being seen for what it is, is taken to be what it is not. That mistake, that taking the rope to be what it is not is adhyāsa.
I not only asked but repeated requests made for Websites of chhandagyopanishada n Mundakapanishada which are being referred by you most of the times but is there anybody to kindly bother ? Those who are attending n Samriddha Divottees they shld gain more
Knowledge, undoubtedly but have to give a little bit opportunity to them who are absolutely Newcomers !!!"
Still Thanks a lot !.
Swami ji thank you for your grace on us 🙏... I have some doubts about Sat... The Existence... If there is no Chit... There is no scope for existence... And logically I believe existence depends on consciousness (Chit) Therefore I think only Chit is Brahman ( Brahman/chit only self illumining)
If Chit is depending on Sat... Is that not a dependency of Brahman?
If there are 2 things like Sat and Chit... Is it not a duality?
Forgive me if I misunderstood the concept and kindly help my mind in understanding it... Sorry for my bad English
Also I understood that interdependency is relativity... Where ever relitivity comes into existence there would be world and it is impermanent... So if sat and chit are interdependent then it's a relitivity.... So I was logically thinking only Chit the Brahman is the ultimate truth and not dependent on anything
I was getting intuition that Chit has become/transformed to sat some how but not sure (one master pointed out I may find answer for this in Chandogya upanishad) . Mind is virtual reality glasses .... And Chit is seeing/perceiving himself like as world therefore sat exists only to our senses through mind ....but the real truth is Chit.... Which is the ultimate Brahman... I feel if I have to define
Maya In laymen terms is Mind which do avaran and Vikshepas... And gives strong impression about the world and Body. Kindly rectify me... If I am wrong.
Kindly don't ignore this message 🙏
keep listening, one day all your doubts will dissolve automatically. No need to hurry.
The truth whichn exist is only one , this one is not like 1,2,3..., it is different .therefore the word Adwait is formed .
now sat , chit .anand is not three different things . It is three names given to one reality ,
Here Sat means which can not be divided further ,Chit means the ultimate knower , anand means its own nature . and these are ultimate Qualities of NIrguna .
only logic will not make it understand . but only samadhi can clear all doubts .
Swami ji what if we all are dead each and every person animal. Now the consciousness does not have anything to illumine🤔
Not really on topic but I try it anyway:
If I am not wrong karma, Jnana and Bhakti yoga should be practiced, or karma yoga results in Bhakti yoga? I am struggling with the concept of Bhakti; as much as I like the practical idea of it, I am a bit confused to whom I sacrifice if I don’t have a personal god as Krishna, Jesus etc. ? Brahman is beyond everything So it can’t be that. Neither does it sound right to choose a deity randomly and force to believe in him. Are there any sources or anything about this? I would be very thankful
Brahman is without form. To build a relationship with him, you choose a form that resonates with you according to the attributes of that form while remembering that form is still ultimately Brahman. Some like the strength and courage attributes of Hanuman, some like the lover quality of Krishna, others the motherly quality of Shakti etc.
who says everyone should practise bhakti yoga.....if u are beyond that, dont go back, whole purpose of bhakti yoga is to bring u to that point, so congratulations, u made it....its like praying and at the same time saying: i received your prayer....
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...So if in sushupti the experience is same for all beings then what happens to ego in deep sleep.What is the tangible entity that the ego holds onto in the waking state? Is the ego the atman in a deluded state ?
Ego basically a mechanism act and react based on the energies stored in form of purvkarma .In deep sleep since no input is received from panchendriyas , it seems to be dead .but soon as one wakes up it start working .
Atma watches this , when it withdraw completely and starts watching self it is samadhi , and freedom .
@@ravindrakulkarni7121 thanks.. on deeper reflection I think ego uses the mind in the waking state.The impurities.. (as you say a,result of purvakama)of the mind create this false sense of I. However as the mind is absent in deep sleep,
there s no ego sense too.
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All the three States waking,dream, and shushupti, are the states of body and mind .
For all these three states soul is a sakshi , it never involved in any state. It simply watches all , and that watching only provides the life to these states . As soon as it refuses to watch these , maya ends , and only self the brahman remains. That's it .
Tatva masi.
Hari om tatsat.
there is no unconscious state , in deepsleep for example, the memory dont record this event, so you have just instantly forgotten, that u were there....enlightenment is deep sleep with memory recording (samadhi) , ego is mind , there is no mind in deep sleep, ego is not atman.....ego is not holding onto anything, either u use it or not, its your choice....