How The Universe Was Created I Proof of Multiverse & Truth About Lokas I Swami Sarvapriyananda
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- In this thought-provoking conversation with Amira Arora & Swami Sarvapriyananda, he takes us through the ultimate truth of life, the existence of the universe, and the different paths towards enlightenment. Swami Ji opens up about his time in the Himalayas as well as the power of Sindhis and grace.
Please like, comment, share, and subscribe to this channel as it would really help us bring more guests on the show and spread their knowledge to you.
Follow us on Instagram-
...
/ underthetree.show
...
Swami Sarvapriyananda is a Hindu monk belonging to the Ramakrishna Order. He is the current resident Swami and head of the Vedanta Society of New York, a position he has been serving since January 2017. He grew up in Bhubhaneshwar in the Indian state of Odisha. From childhood onwards, he was inclined towards spirituality and was inspired by the lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. His family was also devoutly religious, who were initiated devotees in the Ramakrishna Order tradition. Swami Sarvapriyananda has stated that his first goal in life was to become a pilot and the second was to find God, with the second goal later becoming his only goal. After passing school, he completed his Business Management degree from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. Sarvapriyandanda joined the Ramakrishna Order in 1994 and took his monastic vows in 2004.
Swami Sarvapriyananda served as assistant minister of the Vedanta Society of Southern California in 2015. He was later appointed head of the Vedanta Society of New York, a position he has been serving since 6th January 2017. He was also selected as a Nagral Fellow for the year 2019-20 at Harvard Divinity School.
ABOUT VEDANTA
Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.
#ramakrishna #swamivivekananda #swamisarvapriyananda #vedanta #spirituality #ramakrishnamission
My right ear enjoyed this conversation.
Very nice experience to hear from Swami Sarvapriyananda Maharaj, what he has said always that we are not the body, not the mind, not even the intellect. We are one unchanging awareness!!
Thank you Maharaj 🌹🌹
Yes:)
My understanding of the Lokas is the following:
The Lokas are actually descriptions of the state of a jivatma's body's mind (pains / pleasures) when the body dies. These pains (negative emotions like anger, regret, anxiety, sadness etc.) or pleasures (positive emotions such as happiness, satisfaction) are, of course, a consequences of one's past actions (sanchita karma). These emotions leave an imprint / tendencies on the jivatma. These tendencies (wasanas) are nothing but the building blocks of a jeevatma's body's personality (karana sharira) in its next birth.
One of the primary hypothesis of the Sanatan philosophy is that the jivatma never dies and takes body after body and lives lifetime after lifetime in the material universe through the jivas (bodies). So, to fill the gap between one lifetime to the next, a residence for the jivatma is postulated in one of the lokas which are just metaphysical realms.
The prarabhda karma (those past actions who consequences are to fructify in the next birth) of the jivatma determine what sort of body (can be animal or human) it takes up next. The pains or pleasures experienced by this next body are determined not only by the actions of this body but also by the prarabhda karma of the jivatma. Please note that prarabhda karma is a subset of sanchita karma (also known as the proverbial "paap kaa ghada").
The Lokas from the highest to the lowest states of mind are described below:
1. Satya Loka means the state of pure consciousness, meaning a jivatma (a person) loses the ego of thinking he / she is different from the Brahman (all pervading consciousness, life force). He realizes that he is not the body, he is not defined by how much money he has or what is his status in society and he realizes that his happiness lies not in material things because all that is just maya (illusion). He is in fact a part of this all pervading life force that pervades through the entire universe. So, he already has everything. One may call Brahman as God. So, he is in fact God, because God is all and all is God. A jivatma is said to be in Satya Loka on attaining Moksha. This is the highest Loka.
2. Tapar Loka: This is the state of mind wherein a jivatma no longer cares about material things and is highly spiritual.
3. Jan Loka: This is the state of mind in which a jivatma is creative and has developed the understanding that material things are worthless. Since creativity is an intrinsic quality, it brings joy to create new things. But, understanding that material things can only bring temporary happiness, one does not fall in love with those creations.
4. Mahar Loka: This is the state of mind wherein one is filled with love, compassion, empathy and forgiveness.
5. Swarga Loka: This is the state of mind wherein one does good work without worrying about the results.
6. Bhuvar Loka: This is the state of mind wherein one does good work with the desires for good results. Modes of passion exist.
7. Bhur Loka: This is the basic state of a person's mind. This is the state of mind wherein one is in the mode of passion, meaning one is attracted to other people and things and derives thrill and short term pleasures. He wants to enjoy sense gratification. For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have a happy family, with nice children, wife, and house.
8. Atala Loka: A state of mind with lustful feelings.
9. Vitala Loka: A state of mind with lustful feelings and desires for riches, like money and other precious things.
10 - 13. Sutala Loka, Talatala Loka, Mahatala Loka, Rasatala Loka: As one gets progressively morally depraved, one goes down the Lokas.
14. Paataal Loka: The state of mind of the worst of creatures such as rapists, murderers etc.
These Lokas are also explained as all kinds of stories wherein Swarg Loka is from 1 to 5, Martya Loka is 6 and 7 and Paataal Loka is from 8 to 14. Yamraj / Kaal (God of Death) is supposed to live in the Paataal Loka. The jivatmas with more positive and less negative imprints go to the Swarg Loka and those the other way around go to the Paataal Loka. Those with a balanced positive and negative imprints go to the Martya Loka.
These Lokas also have an alternative meaning in planetary system terms in other schools of Sanatan philosophy.
Wow
Thank you so much for watching!
Very interesting! What do you personally think about multi-universes?
@@akbaxb165 The ancient Sanatan scriptures talk about multiverses. Astrophysicists are still working on this issue with no definitive answer yet though postulations have been made. But if indeed maya (everthing other than Brahman) and Brahman (the source of all forces in the universe including life force) are perpetual in nature, constant births and deaths of verses is inevitable since we already know that our universe was born from big bang. So, we just have to wait for scientists to find definitive answers.
This is not the traditional understanding of the lokas and no one whose worldview is rooted in shAstra will endorse this unnecessary indulgence in pointless speculation. Regarding your position expressed in the other comment about waiting for scientists to find definitive answers, this is ignorance and cluelessness of the highest order. Material energy is both gross and subtle, and for anyone to come up with something as nonsensical as this, there is clearly no good grasp of foundational precepts of the Dharmic conception of reality. Why don't you wait for scientists for prove the existence of God and of the AtmA in order to believe in those concepts as well, in that case? Your post simply makes little sense. That's it.
Pranam to Thakurji and to all🌺🙏🌹
💕🙏🏼🙏🏼
Namaskars to Swamiji and as always his profound insights
This is true in physics terms too - and high school students are posed the problem that's similar and it goes as
Take a metal spring (like in the pen) compress it, and therefore has energy compressed within - out the compressed spring in an acid bath (in compressed state) and it dissolves - what happens to stored energy, does it vaporise - answer is no, the internal energy of the acid broth goes up - that's the closest of examples to the vasnas and samskaras that we could up inside us through our living
Thank you for watching!
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻
Thank you for watching!
Pranaam maharaj🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for warching!
People who have near death experiences say the other world is more real than this
This is the dream
Yes, indeed.
One life to live is the Christian belief in God and his word, and this is why Swamiji we Hindus need to stop using their term God!!
Indeed
Christianity didnt invent the term god
It's advaita na, oneness 🎉
@@individualisttv9247 who did?
@@dharmayogaashram979The term god was in use in Germanic languages before those people converted to Christianity. They were polytheistic.
❤❤❤❤❤
❤️❤️❤️
What I Love About Sanathana Dharma Is That
As Other Religions, Sanathana Dharma Also Believes In Heaven And Hell.
But There All Religions Stop.
Where As Sanathana Dharma Also Tells, More Than Heaven And Hell, Our Focus Should Be On MOKSHA.
Because Even In Heaven Or Hell, Our Soul Is Still Away From Our Creator,
But Once One Attains MOKSHA, Than That One Will Merge With Our Creator For Ever.
Agreed!
Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank you for watching!
6:01. Live more consciously 👏
7:00. Materialism
8:50
Thank you so much for watching!
Thanks for sharing, but please get some good microphones, especially the lovely lady- what she says is so hard to understand. This is such an interesting subject and such a shame that the audio was unclear.
Thank you for watching! There was some glitch in my microphone and we were recording in nature, but it won't happen next time:)
@@AmiraAroraOfficial no worries. Thanks
wonderful interview
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Reality is infinite imagination so there is no limitation to what consciousness can
Imagine to experience! Naming just few lokas is man’s limited perception
om namachchivaaya om
Jai Sri Krishna!
I dont believe in these things, but its good to listen....
Imagination is a great thing human has got. From observation comes imagination too. When there can be multiple planets , multiple galaxies, multiple organisations system, multiple organisms , multiple cells . It's logical to think of having multiple universe as well. It can be wrong and it can right too ... we need proof for it but there is a limit when it comes to our understanding. Human is not that intelligent to understand all these we need to evolve and it will more years.
Thanks for watching!
Very interesting
:)
Good work but poor audio
Thank you for watching!
While addressing in Chicago, Swami ji said, as Hindu, we say "we dont know". Is that true in Hindiism !?
In a way, yes...It depends on the context.
@@AmiraAroraOfficial I understand. For me the context is the life, which we know after birth and before death. Then how to comprehend all of these. Cause I believe Vedanta has the answer of these, even if we eliminate the metaphysical faith system. Then "we don't know" is a very universal and logical starting point. Thank you for the response.
THere is no death
Indeed
WHAT ABOUT EVOLUTION THEORY, that does not fit with our Upanishad and Gita ji?
There are many theories that exist...
@@AmiraAroraOfficial yes, yoga, meditation, kirtan and puja have very good and healthy effect on mind and emotions, but our scriptures do not support evolution theory. We also believe in Manu and Shatarupa like Adam and eve. And this does not fit with modern science. So, how should we deal with it?
Evolution would be perfectly compatible. The illusory action of Maya behaves as the yin and yang. So birth and death drive evolution is easily aligned with vedic thought and philosophy. Hope this helps
@@ALushPairthis isn’t true, evolution in the Darwinian sense isn’t propagated in Vedic scriptures, rather, they talk about evolution from the perspective of soul which could take birth as any form of life, be it human or animal
@@abhasgupta354 I never claimed that a theory that arose thousands of years later was in the text. I said that they are compatible. The cyclical nature of life and death, convergence and evolution, are evidentiary of a grand cosmic principle, it is not refuting of it.
If the final goal is Moksha, so will all the living creature go extinct one day if Moksha attained by all ?
And if we don't remember anything from the past life, how does it even matter if we reincarnate or not, as consciousness is life, without it nothing matters anyway.
Everyone, please feel free to add your thoughts to this thread!
@@AmiraAroraOfficial It is not possible for everyone to get the Moksha not even statistically speaking. In the strictly and hard core Advait Vedanta view, no creature ever existed and none will (other way, it means you were never bounded so that you need Moksha to be freed.). It is just the play of maya (illusion) like movie being played on the screen. The movie will begin and finish but screen was there and will be there forever. Re. reincarnation: The reason you don't remember past memories is because you wouldn't be able to live this life had you remember the past lives consciously. Nature (Ishwara - Consciousness (nirmgun baramha) + Maya= Sagun baramha) is a great designer or I would say movie maker. You need to dwell into subconscious mind in order to access them (this is my interpretation) and there are accounts of yogis/monks who had accessed them. Hope it helps.
Imagine Suffering for 100 years and after 100 years again that cycle repeats untill moksha, the only thing is you don't remember suffering doesn't mean you didn't suffer.
@@arjungothic1841 even if I don't reborn who is gonna taste the outcome. Surely it will not be me, cause I will be realised from the cycle. And if I reincarnate, it is not necessarily everyone is feeling the pain, even in ignorance people are finding peace and living happily. If I am a small creature, then I would not even know about suffering and will just react.
@@saikatchattaraj3
1. Your orginal self is sat chit Anand as per shaastra, and nature of moksha is such it's the supreme highest bliss and state of complete fearlessness said by many saints in many ways
2. If you reincarnate you will go through pain and pleasure loop ➿ constantly some times more.pain sometimes more.pleasure but never
Stable, unending, supreme, pristine (untouched by suffering) bliss the one Bound in sansaar cycle never experience that.
Therefore it is said 1 out of thousands walks on this moksha path , rest others are comfortable and have agreed to the Suffering but a mumukshu says I don't compromise with Suffering I dont desire even a smallest suffering hence moksha is the path they take
For other worldly people sensual pleasures are enough for them , and they have made an Unconscious or conscious agreement with life's Suffering.
Swami please visit patallok and stay there
:):)
We do live only once. I did think about it very deeply to come to this conclusion. I think swamiji is entirely wrong here. Even if we are conciousness. It would not matter after we leave this body because we don't know if we will be born again. If we are born again the kind of life we live on that plane of existence and in that time will be entirely diffefrom how we are living in todays time. Life and our personality changes from time to time and according to that era so definitely we would not be the same person. We will forget about what happened with us in the past. So whats the point? Only thing which is in our hands in now and we do need fo live it fully. So I have to disagree with swamiji here.
Please read the holy scriptures of Hinduism - they will give more clarity
What do you mean by you? Your ego? That is born and dies again every moment, no need to wait for bodily death.
So you mean there is nothing called karma even if we are not the body but the consciousness? The karmic reactions begin and end with the body itself?
Read Gita and Upanishads. This YOLO thought process will only lead you to doom.
Anchor voice not clear
Unfortunately, there was background noise and my mic had a glitch, hence the noise issue. But, I assure you this won't be an issue going forward:)
I respectfully disagree with you. First, why do we need a religion? If you like to find what the truth of life is, why do you need to wait for the next life? How do you know that there is next life for a fact? Right now, we live on this earth. That is a fact and we all can experience it. How do we experience the world? Through our senses. So, our experience of the world is a sensual experience. Based on sensual experiences, we assume "I" exists. Does it? Who is "I"? It is nothing but our sensual experience s. But, we want that "collection of experiences" to be mine. That is our identity. Me, mine, ours, etc are borne out of an illusion of assumption of existance of "me", which is nothing but accumulation of sensory experiencea. Even with a bit of alteration of neurons our brain due to diseases or injury, our identity can be altered. Our memories can be permanently erased. That is a fact! If we accept that simple and obvious fact, how can we say when all our brain activites cease to exist at death, "I" or ""me" will continue? Without getting upset, please think as a reasonable human beings. The other point is, compassion, empathy, love, care, etc have no religious labels. They are pure human qualities we have developed through out our human history. They are essential components of own mental health and helpful for the existence of harmonious society. I meditate all the time. It is not to have a better life when I pass away, but it calms my mind and help mecfunction efficiently. Being aware of my activites, thoughts, feelings, emotions etc, make me a fuller human being. Who cares whether I will be born again or not? I live as a good human being completely contended. Make your life heavenly now, if there is a heaven after life, great. If not, you already lived in heaven here on the earth. Thanks!
Well said
Thanks for your insight.
As you are scientist read Dr David Bohm's dialogue with J Krishnamurti about ending of time to end I illusion. Vedantic view is that there is only Brahman, wholeness is only real and nondual then where to position I in the wholeness to see things outside separate from wholeness to describe real Loka and scientist's experiences. Space-Time is not fundamental at plank length and plank time space-time has no meaning.
I disagree that “I” is just accumulating sensual experiences. It is dumb YOLO logic.
Lokas are not Lokas
!!!
Claims carries burden of proof maharaj.....existance of heaven or hell and reincarnation are claims...and scriptures also claims it...where is the proof? The questions which we are trying to find...the gaps and whatever....putting claims without a proof...isn't it that u are justifying a logical fallacy?
Can you prove what you saw in your dream? Not everything can be proved. Heaven and Hell are true. Internet is filled with testimonials of reincarnation. You can be in denial waiting for proof.
Well religion is pointless because religion means a particular system of FAITH and faith means a strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than PROOF.
All so called Guru's and Teachers fail to explain how the intelligent species FORMED. I say FORMED because the intelligent species were initially FORMED not BORN. That cannot be denied. Your BORN only lives once but your FORM is passed on through the reproductive process. Your Form purpose, once Formed, is to survive by evolving its biological host the physical body and brain.
Reality couldn't care less about state of consciousness nor what one perceives. Consciousness is a tool that the FORM implemented as a send and receive message tool via our neurone transmission lines and consciousness is fleeting and easily lost or not required.
How the Universe was created was not explained in the video. Oh well.
Acharya prashant doesn't agree even though he is also adwaita vedanti
Everyone has different views, I suppose...
He is a hard core upanishadic followers,,straight experience,,nothing wrong..
@@arkodas3298he's a bigot
You cannot compare a fraud like Acharya prashat with a real sannyasi
He is not an acharya in its real sense,whats the need of taking up neo commercial gurus seriously
Hawking opinion is no after life
@achintyabiswas5388 - Hawking will realize his mistake in his next/subsequent lifetimes. Don't worry. For now, please listen to and have faith in what His Holiness Sri Sarvapriyananda is saying, and this channel has kindly shared it for the world to hear.
If you believe in Hawking, then fine, too. Go listen to his videos. This channel is not for you.
Hawking has been proved to be puppet of the 'elites' recently. His theories are mostly FAKE! They haven't been proven and rather debunked!!
I wouldn't associate it with science. These are metaphysical philosophies.
Agreed.
There is no end to,life. Physical body is created with certain elements like earth, fire, air, water, atmosphere which go back to the original form after decay of physical body. Elements / matters is never destroyed. The life moves on to another physical body
Mambo Jumbo
Any point other than that it's not for you?
Its mambo jumbo because its the reflection of your own mind. Its the state of mind you brought yourself into.
Agreed.
don't use your brain plz..this mambo jambo is being your brain capability..
wait till you realize the waking world is the real mumbo jumbo