Reincarnation in Hinduism | Swami Sarvapriyananda
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
- Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the topic, " How is the cycle of reincarnation possible?".
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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. ABOUT US Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.
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The Hindu tradition is that knowledge (especially spiritual knowledge) is not to be exchanged for money. These days the rule is sometimes broken but overall it continues to be maintained.
Absolutely! 100% agree 🙏🙏
This is the essence of Sri Ramana's teachings. 'Be what you are and remain as you are without having any thoughts. Don't try to meditate on the Self, on God. Just abide silently at the source of the mind and you will experience that you are God, that you are the Self.🙏🙏
The swamiji is truly enlightened... he satisfied the curiosity of an educated mind a bakhta mind & a questioner mind.. in one.answer .. his answer feels like they come from the depth of Supreme knowledge @!
Look at the masterful way he turned the very same seed example itself into the answer 👌👌
Don't believe everything you HEAR. 👂
Incidentally, are you VEGAN? 🌱
Known as Whataboutery also😂
@@JohnSmith-sl6eg, kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
Incidentally, Slave, are you VEGAN? 🌱
@@FilipinaVegana I would have repeated in English, but unfortunately I am not able to read or write English
If you can meditate then u can have answers of yours own questions!!!
Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🌺🌺🌺🙏
Reincarnation only applies to the illusory "me"...Brahman alone exists. There is no other (i.e. nonduality).
There is no illusory you for that which is you is Brahman Think about it.
I am not really concerned about what any particular person BELIEVES. You may believe that there is an old man with a white beard perched in the clouds, that the Ultimate Reality is a young blackish-blue Indian guy, that the universe is eternal, that Mother Mary was a certifiable virgin or that gross physical matter is the foundation of existence.
The ONLY thing that really matters is your meta-ethics, not your meta-physics.
Do you consider any form of non-monarchical government (such as democracy or socialism) to be beneficial?
Do you unnecessarily destroy the lives of poor, innocent animals and gorge on their bloody carcasses?
Do you believe homosexuality and transvestism is moral?
Do you consider feminist ideology to be righteous?
If so, then you are objectively immoral and your so-called "enlightened/awakened" state is immaterial, since it does not benefit society in any way.
@@waldwassermann, in your own words, define “BRAHMAN”. ☝️🤔☝️
UNBORN WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE.
@@FilipinaVegana I don't understand what are you trying to say here? Metaphysics can affect your ethics. By orienting yourself towards spiritual life you naturally become a person who benefits society as whole. And collectively, we create a society worth living in.
Swamiji is one of the finest we have today.
The Buddhist view was certainly new information for me. Loved Swami ji’s gentle, yet masterful, way of putting forward his points.
Straight to the Core! What a beautiful answer!!!
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻
Very deep question & very satisfying answer 🙏🏻
Even a small piece of a circle seems like a straight line, just beautiful
Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj Very deep question & very satisfying answer . Pranams Swamiji..
I am satisfied by your answer
Thank you Swamiji for your knowledge and wisdom. Pranam
Thanks to Brother Hani for asking a very good question.
All questions comes to a point, from which the question seems to disappearing....
Where no thing exists... Non duali reality..... Everything falls in silence.
Swamiji the question actually very intriguing, the answer touched all the points of philosophical views and explanation, which seem real in our worldly life... But the end... It is peace n bliss.
Pranam swamiji
Pranams Swamiji.
Maharaj I havent realised what is Brahman! You have talked about 'Bhuma' which literally means vast. When I try to listen to your discourse, I merely touch upon the idea of vastness which in my limited domain of knowledge is edgeless as the ocean!!
আমার প্রণাম জানাই আপনাকে।
Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher, bless me.
Swami please send a live session.🙏🇮🇳🕉️
Thank you, Swami, for the clarification !
Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🌺🌺🌺🙏
WoW ANSWER
I feel blessed that in this Janma I am able to hear from Guruji… 🙏🙏🙏
Pronam swamiji 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Good explanation on reincarnation.
Thankyou true knowledge!
Absolutely!, we are Chidananda Rupa, Shivoham Shivoham!, At the Advaita Level there is no illusion of birth and death!!
Even for that matter, Vishishta Advaita is also transcendental. Om Namah Shivay!!
A tree would never go back into a seed but it produces a seed that has the potential to become a tree.
Admirable impromptu answer to a deliberated thought-provoking question.
Although I appreciate the spirit in which the questioner labeled himself as a “Vedantin Sufi” and although I have no objections per se to that, I submit that “Vedantin Sufi” is an oxymoron. By definition, a Vedantin is one who accepts the infallibility of the Upanishads as the means of knowledge of our true nature and also accepts the infallibility of the Vedas of which they are a part. Therefore, reasoned logic dictates that a rational Vedantin cannot accept the Sufi single birth notion while simultaneously accepting the Vedic rebirth doctrine.
While these contradictory doctrines may be viewed as lower level truths, I submit that they must nonetheless hold up to the test of reasoned scrutiny. I am not persuaded that embracing reason defying lower level truths is helpful for realizing the Absolute Truth. I prefer lower level truths that cannot be refuted through reasoned logic and for me the Vedic rebirth doctrine fits that bill.
They all just want to insert vedantic ideas into their religions to save them from dying! You can see rise in the area of spirituality these days, because times has changed and people are no longer going to believe in stories of the holy books! So interpreting their stories in spiritual or Advaitic sense is the only way for their survival! This is the truth!
🙏Pronam Gurudeb
Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Kindly repeat that in ENGLISH, Miss.☝️
Incidentally, are you VEGAN? 🌱
The purpose of Maya is Love.
In your own words, define “LOVE”. ☝️🤔☝️
Purpose of Maya is timepass.
I feel intuitively there is a great truth to this statement. Everything in maya gives itself knowingly or unknowingly to another. Like sunlight becoming food to the grass and grass becoming food to the deer and a deer becoming food to the lion. It is a form of love. My ego stops me from seeing it clearly 😢
Pranams Swamijy
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In Lurianic Kabbalah there are 2 books concerning the topic of incarnation : The gates of incarnation and The book of Incarnation written by Rabbi Chaim Vital.
The Unborn Gita is also a lovely book.
Who composed it?
@@FilipinaVegana It was written by Pradeep Apte. Available on Amazon and also a YT reading.
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Sige. Salamat, Po! 👍
Incidentally, are you VEGAN? 🌱
@@FilipinaVegana mostly.
@@Koort1008, did you know that in ancient Bhārata (India), a person who consumed ANY type of animal was known as a “Chandāla” (dog-eater) and was not even included in mainstream society, but was an outcast?🥩
So, do you ADMIT that you are an animal-abusing criminal, Mr. Dog-eater? 😬🙄😬
Amazing .. in the advaitic perspective.. if birth itself is Maya, why delve into topics of rebirth!
The movie example was the climax, matrix moment.
Absolutely true and the movie Matrix was heavily inspired from the ideas of advaita vedanta philosophy. The music (Neodammerung and Navras) of the movie are nothing but Sanskrit verses from the Upanishads talking about Brahman! 😂
@@AdvaiticOneness1 wow … never knew that … thanks.
@@asofotida443 you can search on RUclips, lyrics of neodammerung
Transactional reality becomes meaningless , the very moment you touche the TRUTH. Once you get dissolved , will the TRUTH become meaningless by any chance?
1. One should not compare Aristotelian philosophy with Vedantic philosophy. 2. We should not compare the process of birth and death of a tree with the process of rebirth of an ego. 3. We shouldn't, but we can to be didactic. In this case we have the following. The essential energy of the tree, which is Life itself, appears as a seed that produces a tree. When the tree's physical body dies, its vital energy continues into other seeds that will produce new trees and more seeds...
What is this “EGO” of which you speak? 🤔
@@FilipinaVegana good morning. Here ego is synonymous with soul, reflected consciousness, individual or individualized consciousness, individuality... Give it whatever name you want. But remember, it's just an example.
As I understand it, the Vedic rebirth doctrine holds up just fine when cast in Aristotelian logic. However, the questioner in this video seems to make an erroneous assumption about how the doctrine operates. He mistakenly concludes that the doctrine is logically flawed by erroneously assuming that an actualized form of a sentient being somehow reverts to a potential state before getting re-actualized in the next birth. However, that is not how rebirth operates at all in the Vedic doctrine.
On the contrary, the potential for rebirth is forever baked into the causal body of a sentient being. This causal body carries the karma accumulated over countless previous births of that sentient being. Only a tiny fraction of that accumulated karma is selected for actualization in a particular lifetime and that selection determines the type of subtle body and physical body the sentient being will have during that lifetime. Thereafter, in the next lifetime, the type of subtle and physical body acquired by that sentient being will depend on which particular subset of the accumulated karma in its causal body is selected for actualization. Thus, the potential for actualization in various forms over countless lifetimes is never lost for one in samsara. Furthermore, the logic of this doctrine is unassailable.
@@rsr9200 good morning. You are totally correct.
After moksha, and after reaching the highest evolution beyond it, can it start all over again? does it go on forever? if so then moksha and samara really doesn't exist. how many times have we achieved moksha? how many times have we entered into samsara again? How many times do we go to sleep to awaken and then go back to sleep? Was there a beginning to it? there can't be a beginning to it, and there can't be an end. Would this explain the possibility of beings who never were under the control of samsara, who are in a way always been a jivanmukta of this world but who incarnate to pull jivas out of this samsara, but who also have to evolve to the final stage of Avatar? Could they have started from a different starting point then we do? something in between a jivamukta and avatar, can there be beings who have a level of evolution much higher than us but never were entrapped in what we are entrapped in, yet still walk the path towards the final evolution?
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We are already in bliss many many times, we don't know that often. Unfortunately
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Neither the doctrine of a single birth nor the theory of hereditary transmission can satisfactorily explain the life of the soul with its unborn temperature and idiosyncrasy
Sir I am 18 years old and I have a doubt on karma and reincarnation although advaita says karma and reincarnation are possible in this level of world but the population of all the species keep increasing and there are plenty of people who are bad but enjoy their life should karma be believed......and why is there suffering inspite of god ....I don't have a convincing answer for the problem of evil in religion.... and should brahman. Be considered god ???
One belief is that the universe is a very huge place with many habitable planets other than the Earth, and an individual soul can be reborn there according to various factors. As for karma what I've read from the works of gurus like sri Aurobindo and Mirra Alfassa, poverty / bad health and suffering need not necessarily be always a bad thing, a soul is placed in such a condition if it is a requirement for its spiritual progress and that's a blessing. Blessing because the goal is liberation as opposed to the enjoyment of earthly stuff.
Brahman is impersonal, it is above God. A personal God is called Ishvara.
Pranaam maharaj🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Sins are increasing, Humans are also increasing.
How is that possible?
So is it Human-to-human rebirth?
Try a movie: (The) *Ground Hog Day.* It is funny, close to the real thing/reincarnation, and it will stay with you longer than any philosophical treatment.
"Reincarnation is not an orthodox Indian doctrine but a popular Indian belief" - Ananda Coomaraswamy
What might seem to be a doctrine of so-called "reincarnation" in the Hindu scriptures is actually a profound and complex phenomenon of either metempsychosis or transmigration. In fact, there is no such thing as "reincarnation" in the entire Indian tradition. Actually, the doctrines of metempsychosis and transmigration are poorly understood in the modern West. These are co-opted and distorted by the New Age for their own nefarious ends.
It shows how little you know of indian literature. Lol, new age you say...karma and reincarnation are as old as the Upanishads.
@@sharauro Yes you are right. We all know very little about the Vedic and Vedantic literature. It is so vast, profound and complex that one lifetime is not enough! A Sadguru of the calibre of Swami Chandrashekhar Bharati Swamigal, Chandrashekharananda Saraswati, Swami Karpatri or Ramana Maharshi are indispensable. Regarding reincarnation, please read my entire comment carefully. What now passes of as "reincarnation" (i.e. return of Jiva to this earth in a human body) is a metaphysical impossibility. What researchers such as Dr. Ian Stevenson study as cases of so-called reincarnation are actually cases of metempsychosis (transference of psychic elements of a deceased person into an already living person, especially where the death is premature). The fact that suddenly that living person starts "remembering" his "previous" "life" is erroneously interpreted as a case of "reincarnation". What the Vedas and the Upanishads actually teach is transmigration, which is also taught by esoteric Islam, esoteric Christianity and esoteric Judaism, not to speak of ancient Greek and Egyptian tradition. These are not my views but the views of ALL the great Indian Sages and philosophers, including the great Ananda Coomaraswamy, whom I quoted. Thank you 🙏
@@sharauro So-called reincarnation (in fact a metaphysical impossibility in the light of the traditional Vedanta itself!) is a result of a literal and shallow interpretation of our deep and profound Sacred Scriptures by Neo Vedanta and New Age. Our intellects are clouded and darkened by passions and sentiments owing to the influence of the dark age of Kali Yuga. Hence great Ishvarkotis and Vijnanis (not even Brahma Jnanis) are required to interpret the Shastras according to traditional orthodoxy for our modern humanity. These Vijnanis alone are able to penetrate the obscure veils of Avidya Maya and reveal to us the Reality as It is, they alone know the nuances and intricacies of our Avidya Maya. Some of them I have named in my previous reply to you. 🙏
@@nsamant20 Sir, When you say that the Vedic transmigration is different from the reincarnation, can you please clarify how you have come to this conclusion with specific Vedic quotes. Also can you please provide The instances of Islam, Christianity and Judaism supporting your theory of metapsychosis. Thanks.
@@ncsh9301Continuing from my previous reply to you Sir, please read one of the greatest Sufi Sages: Ibn Arabi. Also please read the profound and remarkable commentary on Quran by Imam Qashani, over 700 years ago in Persia. These Imams and Theologians of the past were great realized souls and not speculators and shallow thinkers.
When will this guy visit poland?
There is a book by brian weiss" only love is real" he is an American psychiatrist and hypnotherapist the book is all about rebirth
REINCARNATION IS FOR ALL MANKIND.
NO,I AM NOT A HINDU.
Razor blade answer
Can someone explain the last part about, "there is no birth". i didn't understand it.
Advaita Vedanta asserts that birth and death are illusions because they are perceived within the framework of Material world of names and forms, which obscures the underlying truth of non-duality. When one transcends this illusion and realizes their oneness with Brahman, the concepts of birth and death lose their significance, as the true self is eternal and beyond such distinctions.
In a scientific perspective: you can think about the big bang Singularity. Life is like an unbroken thread extends far back from the Big Bang singularity, sparking the evolution of the cosmos, which in turn ignited the evolution of life on Earth. Our momentary birth and deaths are mere Illusions, we are always one with the Universe.
What is our relationship with each other, and our family (ex. mother, father) in the after-life?
BTW, I've heard that if you live sufficiently long (84 years), then you will have consumed up all your stored karma, and that your subtle/astral body (pranamaya, manomaya, and vijnanamaya) pops gently as if it had a weak membrane.. and you won't reincarnate. In contrast, if you die young, that energy is much stronger and won't dissipate as easily, and therefore you linger as a ghost or must reincarnate.
Incidentally, I've heard many descriptions where the end-of-life light that one sees, is actually a trap. It's used by higher energy beings (reptilian in nature) in order to draw us in, harvest our energy, and cause us to reincarnate in an endless loop.
If your personal experience continues forever that seems like a very important question, even in advaita.
Whats the book name? Someone help
Reza Shah-Kazemi - Paths to Transcendence
Actually Guruji don't believe rebirth. His every lecture he proved that. Why all time say karma karma karma. No good karma exist here. All illusion
Haha…And that’s one more ‘no non-sense’ reply! Right to the point, that’s how you rock in Advita…😂
Indian Tradition and Abramahamic Tradition
शरीर नशवर,आत्मा अजर अमर
The Hindu gurus do not believe in the creation of a new soul along with the body as the words of Bhagawad gita Even as a man casts off worn out clothes and puts on others that are new so does the embodied being cast off worn out bodies enter in to other that are new
We can't agree fully with your findings about glorifying bhuda concepts compare with our Sanadhana Dharma
So, don't agree 😅
I don't agree with swamiji on this answer..looks like he sanitised it to suit the questioner's concept of life and death. karma and reincarnation are central in dharma understanding. Vivekananda himself talks about this at length in Raja yoga, karma yoga. It is an important part of dharma itself. Why sanitise it to suit your western audience?...Advaita might be correct, but so do these as long as there is "maya". Cannot brush it aside and say its all nothing.
Karma and reincarnation only applies to the material world! The Pure Consciousness, brahman is untouched by these chains! The whole purpose of Hinduism is to escape from the karmic cycle of birth-rebirth ,and attain moksha, where you become one with brahman!
Pranam Swamiji
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