I'm so very grateful for you and your teachings swami sarvapriyananda 🙏😇 I dont know if you ever read these comments but please know I am a recovering drug addict (2years clean) and you have helped changed my life for the better as well as those around me because I always share your videos and encourage people to learn and watch ! We love you!
Awesome....this is a very powerful note. There is nothing beyond you...and you decide what you want to be in life. You have demonstrated that through your words and followed up with deeds. This certainly is the most empowering declaration I've ever heard. May THAT Divinity envelope you and permeate you in and through as always and may you realise that beauty soon... Om Shanthi ... Shanthi... Shanthi-hi...🙏🌻🙏
In every heart, a sacred light resides, A boundless Self, where all of life abides, A shimmering truth, eternal and profound, In unity with all, our essence is found. Through every creature, vibrant life doth flow, From the mighty oak, to the tiniest sparrow, In harmony and oneness, we are entwined, The Self in all beings, a truth to remind. We see the reflection of our innermost core, In the eyes of the world, the one we adore, The laughter of children, the song of the wind, All beings in the Self, our truest kin. As rivers and streams to the ocean return, Our hearts intertwine, as we grow and we learn, The tapestry of life, woven with love and grace, A cosmic symphony, we each have our place. In the sacred dance of the Self, we unite, An endless embrace of darkness and light, For in every being, our true nature resides, The Self in all beings, where love forever abides.
I am listening but I do not understand the Sanskrit language, yet it holds my attention. I follow the natural flow and rhythm which lead me towards a meditative state. It feels familiar and natural. I will try to study more from an English translation. Very interesting. Thanks. 🙏
Pranam Swamiji, अब दिख रहा है।प्रकाश की किरणें प्रदीत्व करने के लिए निशब्द हु। प्रफुल्लित हो रहा जैसे अपने पहाड़ में स्वच्छ, निर्मल बहते जल को देख कर होता है।
If there were something true that could be proven about religion that's not being proven, that's because knowledge of that proof must bear some dangerous consequences.
You know it's always been the goal of rajas witchcraft to alter one's state of consciousness in order to gain some real power over the course of this dream. Being something that exists in this universe, I am Evil, upon introspection, benefitting from removing all other things that exist and replacing the God that makes me die with my own ego. The dream is bigger than me. And it doesn't want me to wake up.
The title itself explains everything, "self in all, all in self". Good example for this statement is dream. Thank you Swami ji for awasome teaching 🙏🙏🙏
What a blessing for all of us that truth has taken the shape of this swami. I'm deeply grateful for all these wonderful teachings !! Truely the Heart of Awareness!
💖Thank You Swami Sarvapriyananda🌺for sharing Divine Wisdom and Divine Vision 🌈So It lS In The💖Reverence that The Spirit-ual Understanding lS Revealed. It lS in That Spiritualy A w a k e n Awareness of The💖that lndividual S o u l or Jiva transend the lntellectual knowledge and lS in Direct Conection with The Divine Mind🙏
Pranam Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 a brilliant talk by you as always....a wonderful revelation of the ultimate reality ....step by step....from the very basic knowledge to the highest level of truth and infinity....you are just awesome Offering my deepest gratitude and pranam to you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Pranams Swamiji . brilliant talk as you always do . Astavakra is a favourite for me too . I'm taken aback and thrilled at the revelations it gives. Thank you for explaining it so well . 🙏 Please come to Chennai sometime 🙏
To watch others get beaten and tormented in front of you, and to endure the heartbreak and pain of it- this is Vedanta practice. To see the reality, to have the enemy in your sights and not pull the trigger. Am I walking away by going back to my perfect life? Is not this entire universe the "second 🏹 arrow?"
Yes ,... if it gives consolation. Action and Inaction ( or Restraint to action , whatever ).It is very much there in World. You may be instinctive, prone to Action , I may be comfortable, at peace with Inaction ( Not always , dear ) It is powerful Maya , inexplicable ( meaning, not necessary to dwell in ). You know Bhagwat Gita , which talks both of War and Peace......
@@jayaramaniyer5979 thank you for the reply. It is certainly easier to find consolation and comfort when there is some distance and it seems a sad yet remote reality; but when its happening right in front of you, and to you then - well it just feels desperate, helpless. And now that I'm safe and out of harms way, (although I know others are definitely not) I will certainly dwell upon the beautiful Gita, our beloved Swami's wonderful presentation of Vedanta text and Always Advadhoota Gita has been a most valuable favorite. Even extreme violence torment and the very flashing eyes of death can be our own awakening. awakening. Aloha
@@leonesolurson7067 Lovingly , yes. Violence and non - violence is there and will be there. No escape , for the worldly person , who is caught in the Maya. For Gyani , he engages in both these , free from attachment, in the attitude of Renunciation. By one's Karma ( Sanchita ,accumulated or whatever ) one is placed in situations of Violence. And otherwise. With gyana , he is untainted by the effects - Violence, Passiveness , whatever......
@@jayaramaniyer5979 indeed, its alot of big talk until one is in that situation. You can feel quite the enlightened one while reading such beautiful philosophy from the safety of sn ashram or mountain cave. All of that aside, lets just say I've assumed the exact same attitude as the rest of nature, the ocean, the sky. All of this vedanta gets a bit prolix, wordy. People start to become philosophers, think they are getting smart, learning something valuable that they can cling to. Then the wilderness reclaims them, and they are devoured again and deciminated- oblivion. And this is maya
hello Swamiji, Thank you for the sessions on the path of discrimination, or the inward path. Please hold a session on the outward path..that is interact with the world with this understanding that we are awareness and experience the world with this understanding. Thank you
What I'm able to understand, from what I've heard from your teachings, is that when you say, "People are sent out to live when they are ignorant", it means they are still not separate from God but they continue to perceive themselves as so... such things are truly deep and they make living life so much more joyful than if we didn't perceive life in such a way!❤❤❤❤
Biswaswarup Mukhopadhyay; For what? B.S. from a Bang Bandhu worshiping vicious and kalpanic Durga with EIGHT HANDS 8 riding a lion murdering mahishasura with a trishul. Kali with blood dripping from her tongue. Now claim Ahinsha is the Hindu doctrine while worshiping murderers and kalpanic deities. Like Sri Ram, a double murderer for Sita haran. A CHORE stealing from the neighbors, Krishna lusts at their women bathing at the Yamuna ghats as a PERVERT. KRISHNA encouraged and personally assisted the Pandavas in mass-murdering 100 Kauravas claimed to be the sons of blind Dhritarashtra and Gandhari, Statistically and Biologically jhoot and bakwas. Facts lead to the truth. The truth shall set you free. Satyemeva Jayete.
@Arka I was an atheist for 39 years. I became Muslim after doing Ramadan last year. I love all religions and Swami Sarvapriyananda is a great teacher. I studied Ayurveda, Yoga and Advaita Vedanta. From a non-dual perspective you can't deny any religion. They all lead to the same goal; the One. Muslims need more non-dualism teachers. They are all too scared to look for answer outside their religion. They even avoid Sufism, the spiritual path in their own religion. I feel blessed that the One is guiding me in non-duality. Most people do not understand that non-duality is the right path. It is even mentioned in the Quran as the higher path, but Muslims can not understand their own Quran. All religions are true and I hope that more people search for answers in other religions. It will connect humanity in a positive way.❤
@@amitbiswas1885 Thank you so much. I studied Ayurveda from an acharya. I am aware of that it goes against the Ayurvedic principles. With the knowledge that I received during my study I think that I can make better choices for my body.❤
@Arka I ought to follow The One and not man. Your essence guides you on the right path. Do not let other people's fear influence your path. If I did I would have been atheist and that is because I was born in a family of atheists. Try to find out by yourself what a religion is. Every religion leads to the One. You just have to understand who you are and then you can understand the book of your religion. An average Muslim or Hindu does not know their own religion, just keep that in mind for yourself. Let that be your tip. Only follow the guidance of people who are close to the One. Not your friend, not your parents, not your siblings, not your neighbour who is just doing what they have been thought. This leads you quicker in going away from the One that is what is the worst thing. May you benefit from Swami Sarvapriyananda. ❤
Swamiji, I am a virtual listener to all your brilliant and enlightening talks....when will you be coming back to India? Won't we ever get an opportunity to listen to you directly ?
Thanks Swamigy. You cannot know the goodness you give us . Very jovial, honest absolutely to answers, unbelievable knowledge, and his spiritual living, makes a perfect guru for us . 🙏🌳
Hello Swamiji, Thank you for the teachings 🙏. Please host an in-depth sessions on 1.07.53 (the technique of Phat Phat Phat) and Kashmir Shaivism. Thank you
Instead of being just itself consciousness ventured to live a practical illusion it weaves out of itself in a mind posture. Consciousness will have a hard time drifting back to its pure self and being just itself.
"Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your self-realisation. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened -- at the moment when you were born, when you realised yourself as being- knowing-feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right. You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way." --Nisargadatta Maharaj
🙏🙏🙏🙏 🙏very grateful for having found you. Your teachings are liberating and life changing. My mother understands only Hindi, would you be able to recommend another swami channel who delivers advait Vedanta teachings in HINDI. Ever grateful 🙏🙏
You can refer Acharya Prashant. He gives lectures in Hindi. Now if you wand to listen the Valmiki Ramayana in hindi then I can share you a link of a Swami of the same mission.
You can listen to swami Anubhavananda sarasswati . He is direct disciple of swami Akanadanandaji. He speaks in Hindi and English. His Gita lectures are awesome. He is called smiling swami.
But how can I stop when I'm so vividly awake! Let me listen to the last five seconds to remember my comment. Oh yes. Now there it was! And I say this. There is no difference between us except the fear (respect) of suffering.
Swami ji you are amazing.l have learnt so much while listening to you.Your smile is extremely charming and l learn from you with a smile.We are lucky to have you.Thanks a million times over.
Saankhya Darshana seems more scientific than the life denying modern interpretation of Vedanta. Vedanta is similar to Saankhya, but states the same in a negative way like Buddhists. Even Krishna says that he is Kapila (Proponent of Saankhya) among Munis. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Much love, much appreciated! Please, as we are all the same being in a multitude of forms and lives, I would like to share an insight. We exist on several levels, by degrees of cause and effect. In order to make a change to the effect, one has to work on the level of cause. Our physical level is the effect, our mental level is also effect, our spiritual level also, but they are relatively closer to the cause. If one seems to achieve a change, then it is because it was caused by the next higher level, and so on. It means that you need not worry or strive, except if you are meant to do so, and then you can't help it, anyway. You can strive, but it doesn't cause anything. Not saying you shouldn't strive. Just do what you please, or what you feel compelled to. That would be perfect.
I started listening to Swami Sarvapriyananda more than two winters ago. I have been through most classes at least twice and repeats of many more times. I am only saying because if it is something he has said then I believe I have probably heard it. My question is - I don’t have any visual mental imagery. I understand vritti is just a movement of the mind. So that isn’t a real big issue. I don’t dream either. Except perhaps in a 20 second all dark short narration which I can do more effectively awake. That easily could just be a hypnagogic hallucination when waking up. How do I use the waker and dreamer analogy empirically if I don’t have a dream to reference. So I do the five sheathes or seer and the seen and take it back to the Witness. How then can I get past the waker awareness without dream awareness to compare it to. The two witnesses and blankness leave one Witness outcome but I can’t do that unless I use a concept of a dream. But if I can’t personally follow the deconstruction then it won’t work. At least Swami Sarvapriyananda has said it won’t. I think my question is there but I am not exactly sure how to maybe word it. Thanks for any help with this.
Hello. I know you are writing with a question, but do you mind if I ask you a question instead? I’m a public school teacher and I’ve had several primary and secondary students who have also told me they do not think in images or mental movies. The first time the conversation came up with a student, I thought we were just having a misunderstanding because I couldn’t imagine not seeing mental images. Now I know it is called aphantasia, yes? I do now try to remember to ask my students whether or not they form mental images / movies when they read/think/etc. - because it is only fair in what I would expect of them in output, yes? I mean, I can’t ask them to draw the scene that came to mind during such-and-such chapter, right? Or can I? So, my question to you: what learning strategies do you think work best for you? I apologize for jumping on this opportunity to ask; I would just like to be a little better prepared / informed for the next time- and for all my students in general. I hope you don’t mind me asking. But I am also curious about your comment because it sounds like you are satisfied with your analyses of the 5 sheaths and the seer/seen. I would think that if those inquiries work for you, that can be sufficient in the understanding and Vedantic knowledge. You mentioned you cannot relate to the dreamer state, but isn’t the point of these inquiries in moving from the so-called external transactional world and sensory experiences of the gross body inward to the subtle body of the mind with all of its intricacies and implications, and onward to the ‘constant’ witness of the whole concoction? Whichever of the inquiries you use, I though the point was NOT to identify with any changing, temporary, or limited ‘state’ (whether as waker/dreamer/deep sleeper or as the 5 sheaths, etc). Does your mind ever wander in a daydreaming fashion, not with mental images etc, but maybe with thought narrations or something of that nature? Such as times when your mental ‘controller’ is loosened a bit, you don’t notice what is happening in the world around you at all, and/or seemingly random thoughts bubble up (and you don’t know where they came from)? That might be close enough to a dream state for the inquiry. . . but don’t take my word for it. I hope you don’t mind me asking the questions. I work with such varied students with such varied conditions that I am really just interested in knowing how minds work - I mean minds that I am not personally and subjectively experiencing. And it sounds like you inquire into your own mind enough to have helpful input!!! Thank you. And I hope you do get the answer to your question from someone who actually knows. 🙏
@@KriB510 Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your reply. I will now try to answer. The 5 sheaths and seer/seen is only the beginning he says. I think I more or less experience the gross body and the subtle all the time. I am not sure what you mean by going into the subtle body. I meditate to a blackness every time I meditate. I have emotions though they are likely not a lot like yours. I have a inner voice that’s my voice the same one I am reading and writing this with. Sometimes it seems to argue with itself not that I think it’s ‘me’. ‘Me’ seems to reside in the part of me that knows or knows it doesn’t know. I can’t visually (including other 4 senses) experience anything subtle. Memory is a recollection of details with no images. If I guess at the future it is only an intuitive knowledge. I am much better at controlling this chariot compared to couple years ago. Finding Advaita Vedanta and Swami Sarvapriyananda about one and a half years ago helped me to look at the world how I do now. From the beginning I knew that I couldn’t argue with what he was saying though I am still trying to understand much of it. I am 36 and 2 years ago the mental images became known to me. I dream in the exact way I often meditate. All darkness and my inner voice/sub-vocalizing might create a brief dialogue or I might ‘feel’ or ‘know’ some happening lasting maybe 30 seconds or some very short time. If that is a ‘dream’ I know I am doing it when it is happening, while knowing it will be over or it just ends very quickly and it is very similar to when I am falling asleep or waking up. Not at all like dreams that I have heard about or read about. Not at all in any way like sensory experience sight, sound, etc. Now to my current understanding… When you use 5 sheaths or seer and seen you can reach the Witness. Subject and objects. You can get to awareness (I am not sure of proper caps momentarily). The awareness is actually reflected consciousness. When awake you reach the waker’s intellect and awareness. Next you have this dreamers world and you have an experience that is a “dream”. Janaka wakes up and asks ‘is this real or is that real’ Astavakra replies ‘neither this is real nor that is real, you are real’. This and that are waking and dream and getting rid of the ‘you’ found in waking and dreaming points to a deeper you. Deep sleep along with the deeper you gets rids of the mind. So waking and dreaming and deep sleep show that you are Brahman. Swami says that you must empirically or experientially follow these or they don’t work. So how do you negate the waker without a dreamer? If understand what playing a video games is like but I can’t use that knowledge as a dreamers world I think it had to be a actual dreamers world. That leaves me with many questions. If you can’t get past the waker in the waker’s world then you aren’t going to be able to get to an unlimited state of Brahman. My mind does sort of wander but not like daydreaming. I like this example I have asked many people. I ask if they have ever driven to or from work or back from being out and if they don’t remember how they got there… maybe it will for you too but for me it sounded crazy but almost everyone I have asked says they have done that. I think that it is fair to ask students to do anything you would ask any other student to do. I am not sure but being as there is no data and that there are so many different adaptations to learning I have read of that it might be best to let each figure it out however they can. Neuroplascity gets worse as you get older and any attempt to deviate from “learn this” might be more harmful then help full. Though as much as I wanted to be creative I always seemed to draw a blank. Thank you again for you reply. It was helpful to see the depth of your writing and I think you have me on good grammar. I wish that I had teaching advice for aphantasia. Probably the compassion and kindness you seem to express. Thank you 🙏
@@andrewgardner2281 Thank you very much for writing, and thank you for your suggestions. And also sorry for the late reply (and also for writing too much!)! I don’t know you at all, and so I don’t know what brought you to Vedanta - whether you are seeking God realization, a glimpse at ultimate Truth, direct experience, self-knowledge, transcendence of worldly suffering, understanding, freedom from attachments, intellectual knowledge, a different life circumstance, or something else altogether. But either way, it sounds like you have a spiritual teacher - even if it is only on the internet, so I would just have faith in your spiritual teacher - and in yourself - and in the inescapable truth, and just continue the journey it sounds like you began 1.5 years ago. I was graciously introduced to Advaita Vedanta just slightly longer ago than you (about 2 years ago), and it sounds like I might have listened to fewer of Swami’s lectures - but I do keep up with the current recordings. In other words, don’t take my word for anything I am about to say. I do also listen to a variety of videos (I recently started listening to Jiddu Krishnamurti. Have you listened to him? I am curious how he would resonate with you. From what I can gather, he really just focuses on inquiry into waking mind and experience.) You wrote that you’re not sure what I mean by going into the subtle body and that you meditate to blackness, but you are aware of this internal blackness, yes? - is that not your subtle body? I have heard it said of the gross body (since it is transactional in nature) that ‘you’ are aware of your gross body, and ‘others’ are also aware of your gross body. The subtle body is that part of you that only you know. Only you as subtle body are aware of the blackness that you meditate to. I wouldn’t know that you meditate to blackness unless you told me that - that is your personal subtle body experience, your inner world. The inner voice you mentioned is your subtle body - I don’t hear your inner voice, it is known to only you. Your inner voice IS subtle. So, that is what I mean by going into the subtle body based on what you wrote. It sounds like you became aware of the absence of mental images in your mind after you began your Vedanta journey. Honestly, that might be a blessing and not a hindrance. I am just saying that because it seems like a whole lot of people I know get caught up in imaginings and wishful thinking and projections of their inner worlds onto their unsuspecting outer-worlds, and that can cause a bit of trouble sometimes, to state it lightly. Maybe you might just see things for what they are. That might be as much of getting rid of the mind as you need. In any case, there is no deficiency in you. You mentioned you meditate to blackness. Aren’t there many meditators who strive for that? I’m asking because I don’t know. I don’t personally have the disciplined meditation practice that I would like to have, though I have been making sure I do at least the bare minimum of practice in sincerity since I was initiated with RKM about 1.5 months ago!! I am here writing now because I heard in brief a youtube video today that made me think of what you wrote earlier. If you are interested in taking a quick listen, it is on a channel named “Samaneri Jayasara - wisdom of the masters,” and the video is called Thomas Merton - a meditation on pure love. It was uploaded today. The very beginning of the video mentions the ‘best’ and ‘rare’ beginning in contemplation wherein ‘images vanish, concepts and words are silent’. Well, I thought of what you had written at several times when I heard this video. I think Thomas Merton was a Catholic monk, but I was also reminded of non-dual teachings several times in listening to it. If you are not opposed, you could take a quick listen. You compare your meditation to your dreamless sleep, but aren’t you awake and aware during meditation (and not during sleep)? Can’t you use your blank state during meditation in contrast to your very present and interacting wakeful state (with your mind that does not wander or daydream) to negate both states while knowing that “I” is not a ‘state’? Anyway, take care. I am most likely the one who needs to investigate the ‘states’ a little more deeply lol. It sounds like you are well on your way.
@@KriB510 Thank you again for your thoughts. I found Swami when I typed in “God without all the rules” or something similar into google. I felt that every religion I have studied in life was beautiful in its own way and I opted out of my born into denomination (Catholic) at a young age. All I knew was that Swami made sense in that I couldn’t find holes in his teachings and he promised evolution and understanding if I continued. That is saying a lot with a little and praise to him. I like Krishnamurti yes and he does I believe clearly understand a lack of visual mental images at least in concept and maybe personally(?). I feel that trying to take on knew terminology and meanings is okay as a side project but that it is best to have one primary source as my means of learning. I will say I was listening to Krishnamurti a little before Swami Sarvapriyananda and it was very hard for me to get a lot out of it but listening to him lately is a much more enjoyable experience. Thomas Merton is good. I have listened to a couple things he has wrote. The inner voice thing in case your curious is like this. Most people subvocalize when they read. It is actually a newer human process. It wasn’t very long ago and people when reading read aloud. Now we have learned to read internally but it is only our outward voice turned inward. Your voice box still moves. Side note NASA has invented patches that when put on your throat will allow you to talk as if reading internally to type. But inner voice is different. It is a part of your imagination and memories and dreams (so I have been told). You may hear music or your family members voices etc. If you ask people if they hear voices it is very usual that they will say no. But if you lead people to what is being said they usually understand and then yes they do hear voices in that sense. Often I find people don’t even understand that there subtle happenings are until you walk them through what is just normal and automatic for them. I do get curious of what it means for someone who would have this terminology and to have common subtle experiences. People are more or less brought up to not talk or understand there inner going’s. It is almost as if taboo to talk about your inner world. That is probably a lot of the reason why it took me so long to figure out the literal meanings or words like imagination, visions, memories, visualization etc. It is so crazy to think that all this time all the people I’ve known had been doing what all it is people do on the inside. First of all I am not trying to find flaws in his teachings. I have gained much from his teaching and it is so much it is not easy to articulate. It is just that take today’s Katha 23 for example. So much information and his talks recently seem to reflect that he is evolving the expectations for his followers to have prior knowledge of his teachings and attentiveness in order to really be able to follow. It is truly might be a very simple issue though I haven’t heard it addressed. Today he really makes it seem like people should have sensory experiences similar to waking. He had explained things using an analogy of dream that I get confused in because I am not sure how important it is. I don’t talk or hear or see in my ‘dreams’ I don’t have a body. What does it mean for you to withdraw your senses inward or inside? My belief or understanding is that since all this waking world is mind then I have to accept that my senses are in the mind all the time. Dream doesn’t seem all the convincing because of all the doubts surrounding what is being said as ‘normal’ but the fact that all the senses enter into the brain and that the brain and all ‘that’ is therefore mind only. At this point I am no longer even really seeking an answer to the dream issue but everyday I have been burdened by this question. It is the intellect that must have it’s doubts resolved. If it wasn’t that my mind gets in a whirl to often over it it wouldn’t be much of an issue. And maybe it will turn out to have a very simple answer. So it is and isn’t that important or in the words of Swami (is it important) yes … and no. Congratulations on RMK initiation that has to be a very feeling. I hope to someday be on your journey. Truth is you are the first person I have ever conversed with who had this terminology and time to have it mean something or sink in. I am looking forward to anything you have to tell me. Right wrong confusing or whatever. Or if this is it then. 🙏 and thank you for your efforts. And very sincere happiness for you initiation.
@@andrewgardner2281 Thank you! That was a very nice, natural, and interesting read!!! You were born into Catholicism, and I was born out of Christianity, meaning I was the only child in my family who my mother chose NOT to Christen or Confirm into Christianity (in a Christian country). I was slightly upset about that, but I suppose that means I wasn’t indoctrinated as a youngster, except during Bible hour in primary school. I had never heard of Thomas Merton until right before I wrote you last time, but it sounds like you are already familiar with quite a few spiritual writings/ideas etc. Basically, the talk that brought me to Vedanta was given by Swami Vedarupananda at the Southern California center. I listened in person shortly before lockdown, and it wasn’t recorded. He has since given basically the same talk again over youtube during lockdown (it’s a little different from the first one I heard, though). The talk is titled, “The Mark of Madness.” So anyway, this talk directly answered what I was seeking at the time, and provides basically the gist of what brought me to Vedanta. I have been instantly loyal to Sri Ramakrishna ever since; I cannot help that. He/his life has helped me understand some people in my environment better, so he is very real for me. Before that, I didn’t even know about saints in India or wandering monks etc. it opened a whole new view for me - and I am forever thankful for that, so I am ever loyal to RKM. I have also recently started listening to a Swami from another advaita Vedanta group called the Chinmaya Mission in South Africa. The swami’s name is Swami Abhedananda - he is very internally oriented in his teaching, so I feel like I am learning from the inside out and not from the outside in - that is my experience of it, if I had to describe it. I have been listening to him for less than a month, though. It might be focused a little less on logic and more on encouragement of character (as in ‘qualified student’) and devotion - not sure yet, but it is helpful for me at this time. I tried to search to see if he had anything about dreams, and he has a talk called ‘the three states of consciousness’ you might be interested in. I found it pretty good and very interesting. That talk is not so much about devotion/qualified student characteristics etc. - i found it very informative/interesting. So when it comes to asking what it means to draw the senses inward, I am probably the wrong person to ask because I takes me preparation and work to pull my senses / awareness/ interaction outward sometimes. I have a very active inward world, even though I think I separate imagination from outward reality pretty well (to whatever extent we are able to do that). I am that person who zones out during my drive home that you mentioned, and I can get lost in thought pretty easily. But I also have a family and I work very much ‘in the world’ and focus fully on people in my presence when I know I must interact with them, so I definitely have to focus outwardly and interact, but as soon as I have the chance - I immediately withdraw inward whenever possible - not that i am trying, that is just more my natural tendency, i think. I am that person who could be looking straight at you, but my mind could be a million miles away and I might not be really ‘looking’ at you at all. Anyway, if you have questions about what that is like, I would be happy to try to answer. Sometimes I don’t know if what is in my mind is imagined or real, though, for example, I do work with students who have a wide range of health issues. For example, I had one student who had lost a lot of her previous abilities, including her ability to speak, from a stroke (I mean, she had a lot of health issues even before this stroke), but I knew she was trying so hard to communicate, and she was still coming to terms with the condition, I suppose, because she would cry a lot, but wouldn’t be able to move or communicate - and a couple of times at night or early morning, it was almost like she would come into my head, SO clearly, to say something to me. It would overtake my entire mind almost. I didn’t know if it was some kind of communication happening in the moment, or if it was just my mind processing something that it might have picked up on earlier, OR if it was even anything at all. Anyway, these are the things I think about and also part of WHY I think about them. I had also very recently listened to a doctor who helped develop / developed a speech library / algorithm for a computer program that can ‘speak’ based on reading the recordings of brain activity from electrodes placed in a human’s brain during speech formation. A little different from what you mentioned regarding NASA, but still related. Thanks so much for your well-wishes etc. Hope you get your doubts cleared!! It is very interesting for me. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Pranam Swami ji. Your lectures are mind illuminating. Thank you. I have 3 questions for you. 1) Have you experienced Enlightenment ? 2) How it feels like at that moment 3) Is it possible for someone to reach that level (get enlightenment) without a Guru ?
Yes it is possible - but definitely much easier with a skilled guru. The last comment is correct though, there is no reaching, it is here and now and it is your natural state of being. It's like asking how far do I have to go to sit where I'm sitting right now? How much effort is required, and do I need someone to help me? No, you don't need help to sit where you are sitting, because you are already sitting there, there is no effort required in getting thete. The guru is the one who points that out to you
Putting it harshly as stupidity bevkufi gets one jerked out of the ignorance.May be the many lives spent assuming it to be otherwise is the only practice which keeps us in ignorance. In a way it is the concept of suicide when we feel we will escape all the sorrow and sufferings which just vanishes the moment we become enlightened or realise we are the consciousness.
So you'll have to allow for that dreams include suffering. And furthermore, that would mean that our dreams at night include suffering. Perhaps that's why so many of us don't remember, instead of self-deception to avoid being caught having so much fun in them!
Dear Swami. Many thanks. I love listening but I try not to use youtube any more as I think there are clear signs it is involved with unethical activity. Is there any way your videos can be released directly from the VSNY website also? Many thanks.
@@Bluntopinions yes...He is presently in India...Belur Math, Kolkata...but very busy giving lectures at different places. I have had the blessed opportunity of meeting him... touching his feet... getting his blessings. As my son said yesterday after looking deep into him..." He looks like a Buddha." Yes he is a Buddha... always in Meditation. 🙏
@@rockingrishi1407 I attended one of his lectures at a Ramkrishna Mission Math, Kasundia, Howrah. Otherwise it isn't just possible to see him face to face.
Pranam Swamiji immense respect and gratitude 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I'm so very grateful for you and your teachings swami sarvapriyananda 🙏😇 I dont know if you ever read these comments but please know I am a recovering drug addict (2years clean) and you have helped changed my life for the better as well as those around me because I always share your videos and encourage people to learn and watch ! We love you!
Fabulous to know this change, let your life be totally rejuvenated with full of bliss 😁🙏🏻
Awesome....this is a very powerful note. There is nothing beyond you...and you decide what you want to be in life. You have demonstrated that through your words and followed up with deeds. This certainly is the most empowering declaration I've ever heard. May THAT Divinity envelope you and permeate you in and through as always and may you realise that beauty soon... Om Shanthi ... Shanthi... Shanthi-hi...🙏🌻🙏
Swami SARVAPRIYANANDA is modern day ‘ Swami VIVEKANANDA’. There is no doubt about that.
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Spread the message, my friend 🙏🙏🙏
The Lord is with you and 'in you.'
Thank you.
Swami Sarvapriyananda is Gem for Humanity
No Doubt about that I have been following him since last 3 years and never felt bored listening to his lecture.
In every heart, a sacred light resides,
A boundless Self, where all of life abides,
A shimmering truth, eternal and profound,
In unity with all, our essence is found.
Through every creature, vibrant life doth flow,
From the mighty oak, to the tiniest sparrow,
In harmony and oneness, we are entwined,
The Self in all beings, a truth to remind.
We see the reflection of our innermost core,
In the eyes of the world, the one we adore,
The laughter of children, the song of the wind,
All beings in the Self, our truest kin.
As rivers and streams to the ocean return,
Our hearts intertwine, as we grow and we learn,
The tapestry of life, woven with love and grace,
A cosmic symphony, we each have our place.
In the sacred dance of the Self, we unite,
An endless embrace of darkness and light,
For in every being, our true nature resides,
The Self in all beings, where love forever abides.
Thank you so so much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏
I am listening but I do not understand the Sanskrit language, yet it holds my attention. I follow the natural flow and rhythm which lead me towards a meditative state. It feels familiar and natural. I will try to study more from an English translation. Very interesting. Thanks. 🙏
Pranam to Ramakrishna Paramhansa Dev, Jagajjanani Mother Sarada, Swamiji Maharaj and all the monks of the order. Pranam Swamiji.
Pranam Swamiji, अब दिख रहा है।प्रकाश की किरणें प्रदीत्व करने के लिए निशब्द हु। प्रफुल्लित हो रहा जैसे अपने पहाड़ में स्वच्छ, निर्मल बहते जल को देख कर होता है।
Spirituality is beyond religion.
If there were something true that could be proven about religion that's not being proven, that's because knowledge of that proof must bear some dangerous consequences.
You know it's always been the goal of rajas witchcraft to alter one's state of consciousness in order to gain some real power over the course of this dream. Being something that exists in this universe, I am Evil, upon introspection, benefitting from removing all other things that exist and replacing the God that makes me die with my own ego. The dream is bigger than me. And it doesn't want me to wake up.
No spirituality has religion 4 religions Hinduism Buddhism Jainism and Taoism
Eastern philosophy and religion are best while Western philosophy and religion is disgusting
@@ganeshshukla1284 , so then you are shamana and not priest? Are you two-bodied and not a cleric?
🙏🏻Jai Maa Kali🙏🏻
Thankyou Swamiji🙏🙏
Thanks very much for this wonderful teaching! So evident, so logical, so clear, so liberating!
Stay blessed and warm greetings from Switzerland
The title itself explains everything, "self in all, all in self". Good example for this statement is dream.
Thank you Swami ji for awasome teaching 🙏🙏🙏
Jai Ramakrishna ! Iti Shivam ! Swaha . Thank You for a Very Profound Lecture on the Absolute Reality of Him Who Is ! Om Shanti !
What a blessing for all of us that truth has taken the shape of this swami. I'm deeply grateful for all these wonderful teachings !! Truely the Heart of Awareness!
Body which becomes avyakta gives sorrow to dear ones knowing fully well that atma is immortal.Swamiji .
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Pranam Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
a brilliant talk by you as always....a wonderful revelation of the ultimate reality ....step by step....from the very basic knowledge to the highest level of truth and infinity....you are just awesome
Offering my deepest gratitude and pranam to you 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
"The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success !"
- Ramakrishna Paramhangsha,
Pranams Swamiji . brilliant talk as you always do . Astavakra is a favourite for me too . I'm taken aback and thrilled at the revelations it gives. Thank you for explaining it so well . 🙏 Please come to Chennai sometime 🙏
@@Srividya_youtube yes he's too good.
To watch others get beaten and tormented in front of you, and to endure the heartbreak and pain of it- this is Vedanta practice. To see the reality, to have the enemy in your sights and not pull the trigger. Am I walking away by going back to my perfect life? Is not this entire universe the "second 🏹 arrow?"
Yes ,... if it gives consolation. Action and Inaction ( or Restraint to action , whatever ).It is very much there in World. You may be instinctive, prone to Action , I may be comfortable, at peace with Inaction ( Not always , dear ) It is powerful Maya , inexplicable ( meaning, not necessary to dwell in ). You know Bhagwat Gita , which talks both of War and Peace......
@@jayaramaniyer5979 thank you for the reply. It is certainly easier to find consolation and comfort when there is some distance and it seems a sad yet remote reality; but when its happening right in front of you, and to you then - well it just feels desperate, helpless. And now that I'm safe and out of harms way, (although I know others are definitely not) I will certainly dwell upon the beautiful Gita, our beloved Swami's wonderful presentation of Vedanta text and Always Advadhoota Gita has been a most valuable favorite. Even extreme violence torment and the very flashing eyes of death can be our own awakening. awakening. Aloha
@@leonesolurson7067 Lovingly , yes. Violence and non - violence is there and will be there. No escape , for the worldly person , who is caught in the Maya. For Gyani , he engages in both these , free from attachment, in the attitude of Renunciation. By one's Karma ( Sanchita ,accumulated or whatever ) one is placed in situations of Violence. And otherwise. With gyana , he is untainted by the effects - Violence, Passiveness , whatever......
@@jayaramaniyer5979 indeed, its alot of big talk until one is in that situation. You can feel quite the enlightened one while reading such beautiful philosophy from the safety of sn ashram or mountain cave. All of that aside, lets just say I've assumed the exact same attitude as the rest of nature, the ocean, the sky. All of this vedanta gets a bit prolix, wordy. People start to become philosophers, think they are getting smart, learning something valuable that they can cling to. Then the wilderness reclaims them, and they are devoured again and deciminated- oblivion. And this is maya
@@leonesolurson7067 Yes , agreed
Pranam Swamiji
hello Swamiji, Thank you for the sessions on the path of discrimination, or the inward path. Please hold a session on the outward path..that is interact with the world with this understanding that we are awareness and experience the world with this understanding. Thank you
1:06:04 to 1:07:52 Swamiji just opened my jnanendriyas, unravelled the core of the subject at one go. Truly the gist of the talk...
What I'm able to understand, from what I've heard from your teachings, is that when you say, "People are sent out to live when they are ignorant", it means they are still not separate from God but they continue to perceive themselves as so... such things are truly deep and they make living life so much more joyful than if we didn't perceive life in such a way!❤❤❤❤
Swami ji you are great. Your teachings are so clear and most of questions get dissolved. Thank you very much 🙏🙏🙏
Koti koti Pranam Swami ji🙏🏻
Pranaam Swamiji
Thank you very much Swamiji 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽. Pranams 🙏🏽
thank you Swami ji for such a beautiful lesson on Ashtavakra Gita! Your insights are always valuable and uplifting :)
Pranam Maharaj. Thank You soooo much for starting this great text. Pronaam neben 🌸🙏🏻🌸
Biswaswarup Mukhopadhyay; For what? B.S. from a Bang Bandhu worshiping vicious and kalpanic Durga with EIGHT HANDS 8 riding a lion murdering mahishasura with a trishul. Kali with blood dripping from her tongue. Now claim Ahinsha is the Hindu doctrine while worshiping murderers and kalpanic deities. Like Sri Ram, a double murderer for Sita haran. A CHORE stealing from the neighbors, Krishna lusts at their women bathing at the Yamuna ghats as a PERVERT. KRISHNA encouraged and personally assisted the Pandavas in mass-murdering 100 Kauravas claimed to be the sons of blind Dhritarashtra and Gandhari, Statistically and Biologically jhoot and bakwas. Facts lead to the truth. The truth shall set you free. Satyemeva Jayete.
I was looking forward to your talk. I am fasting during Ramadan. And this will help me so much. ❤
It's really a tuff job for our body to digest foods that we consume after the Sun sets. May the almighty give all strength to you. 🙏
@Arka I was an atheist for 39 years. I became Muslim after doing Ramadan last year. I love all religions and Swami Sarvapriyananda is a great teacher. I studied Ayurveda, Yoga and Advaita Vedanta. From a non-dual perspective you can't deny any religion. They all lead to the same goal; the One. Muslims need more non-dualism teachers. They are all too scared to look for answer outside their religion. They even avoid Sufism, the spiritual path in their own religion. I feel blessed that the One is guiding me in non-duality. Most people do not understand that non-duality is the right path. It is even mentioned in the Quran as the higher path, but Muslims can not understand their own Quran. All religions are true and I hope that more people search for answers in other religions. It will connect humanity in a positive way.❤
@@amitbiswas1885 Thank you so much. I studied Ayurveda from an acharya. I am aware of that it goes against the Ayurvedic principles. With the knowledge that I received during my study I think that I can make better choices for my body.❤
@@irmabronder You can't be Allah. That's shirk. All religions are not the same. Hindus worship idols. Will Mzlims accept it?
@Arka I ought to follow The One and not man. Your essence guides you on the right path. Do not let other people's fear influence your path. If I did I would have been atheist and that is because I was born in a family of atheists. Try to find out by yourself what a religion is. Every religion leads to the One. You just have to understand who you are and then you can understand the book of your religion. An average Muslim or Hindu does not know their own religion, just keep that in mind for yourself. Let that be your tip. Only follow the guidance of people who are close to the One. Not your friend, not your parents, not your siblings, not your neighbour who is just doing what they have been thought. This leads you quicker in going away from the One that is what is the worst thing. May you benefit from Swami Sarvapriyananda. ❤
This is amazing
Pranam🙏🙏
Pranams Swami ji🙏❤
Dear Swamiji, You always blow my mind! Pranams.🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful, inspiring talk. Thank you for your teachings, Swamiji!🌱
Swamiji, every time you bring out a subtle point in a unique way. I can hear you any number of times! Thank you so much❤🙏🌹
Thank you team for upload 🙏🙏
Again unique lecture video.... Pranam Swami Ji 🙏🙇❤️🌹🙇
Swamiji, I am a virtual listener to all your brilliant and enlightening talks....when will you be coming back to India? Won't we ever get an opportunity to listen to you directly ?
Namoskar punya swamiji
Neti Neti Neti 🙏 Iti Iti Iti 🙏
Thanks Swamigy. You cannot know the goodness you give us .
Very jovial, honest absolutely to answers, unbelievable knowledge, and his spiritual living, makes a perfect guru for us . 🙏🌳
আপনার কাছে আমি এক অপিশোধ্য ঝৃণে আবদ্ধ।আপনার চরনে হৃদেয়র ভক্তি , অন্তরের শ্রদ্ধা নিবেদন করি। আমার বুদ্ধি জ্ঞান সমৃদ্ধ ।জয় মা।
This Swami is a bloody legend...
Shat shat naman Guru Deva 🙏🙏
May God bless all of us.❣️❣️❣️
हरिःऊँ,प्रणाम, स्वामीजी.
Pronaams!🙏
নমস্কার মহারাজ। ধন্যবাদ। 🙏♥️🕉️
glory to prabuddha mahabharatam 🇮🇳❤
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Hello Swamiji, Thank you for the teachings 🙏. Please host an in-depth sessions on 1.07.53 (the technique of Phat Phat Phat) and Kashmir Shaivism. Thank you
Swamiji when i listen then i am good with teaching. After few hour i am the same person i was before.😢
After Sravana comes Manana. So after listening to swami think and reflect upon what he taught.
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Thank you 😊
Happy Thoughts, शुभेच्छा।।
Jai swami ji
Something special for everone
Can't really express my gratitude to you swami🙏🙏🙏...
Pranam Swami ji nicely explained conscious ness 🌹❤️🙏🙏🙏
Instead of being just itself consciousness ventured to live a practical illusion it weaves out of itself in a mind posture.
Consciousness will have a hard time drifting back to its pure self and being just itself.
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glory to sri ramakrishna 🇮🇳❤
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"Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your self-realisation. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened -- at the moment when you were born, when you realised yourself as being- knowing-feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right. You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way." --Nisargadatta Maharaj
glory to Mahavatar Babaji 🇮🇳❤
Wahwah AhaAha wonderful Chamatkaric VISHMAYPURNA wonderful DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude dhanyabad dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad wahwah AhaAha wonderful SWAMIJI
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🙏🙏🙏🙏 🙏very grateful for having found you. Your teachings are liberating and life changing. My mother understands only Hindi, would you be able to recommend another swami channel who delivers advait Vedanta teachings in HINDI. Ever grateful 🙏🙏
You can refer Acharya Prashant. He gives lectures in Hindi.
Now if you wand to listen the Valmiki Ramayana in hindi then I can share you a link of a Swami of the same mission.
@@sumitdutta7043 thanks a lot Sumitji🙏 sure pls give me his name as well.
You can listen to swami Anubhavananda sarasswati . He is direct disciple of swami Akanadanandaji. He speaks in Hindi and English. His Gita lectures are awesome. He is called smiling swami.
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But how can I stop when I'm so vividly awake! Let me listen to the last five seconds to remember my comment. Oh yes. Now there it was! And I say this. There is no difference between us except the fear (respect) of suffering.
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Swami g, please tell about some books to start my journey on Vedanta. Kindly guide
Swami ji you are amazing.l have learnt so much while listening to you.Your smile is extremely charming and l learn from you with a smile.We are lucky to have you.Thanks a million times over.
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Pranams Guru Maharaj...what is conscience ? Part of mind ? Or is it a sign of awareness?
Swamiji i request you to please read and explain BRAMHRAMAYAN by bhola baba. 🙏🏼😀
Thank you Swami! So is science currently in samkhya stage?
Grateful you will continue online too. Though you may be bored it isn't true
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Saankhya Darshana seems more scientific than the life denying modern interpretation of Vedanta. Vedanta is similar to Saankhya, but states the same in a negative way like Buddhists. Even Krishna says that he is Kapila (Proponent of Saankhya) among Munis.
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Brilliant Swamiji. How about the title of this video....?
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Very clearly explained dear Swamiji but i wish realisation can take place right this instance🙏🏼🌷Om
I am literally shocked that swamiji knows about swami akhandanand saraswati ji mahabhag
We are blessed to atleast listen to you.
When and where we meet just a big desire
1:01:00 swamiji started describing the matrix
Much love, much appreciated! Please, as we are all the same being in a multitude of forms and lives, I would like to share an insight. We exist on several levels, by degrees of cause and effect. In order to make a change to the effect, one has to work on the level of cause. Our physical level is the effect, our mental level is also effect, our spiritual level also, but they are relatively closer to the cause. If one seems to achieve a change, then it is because it was caused by the next higher level, and so on. It means that you need not worry or strive, except if you are meant to do so, and then you can't help it, anyway. You can strive, but it doesn't cause anything. Not saying you shouldn't strive. Just do what you please, or what you feel compelled to. That would be perfect.
I started listening to Swami Sarvapriyananda more than two winters ago. I have been through most classes at least twice and repeats of many more times. I am only saying because if it is something he has said then I believe I have probably heard it. My question is - I don’t have any visual mental imagery. I understand vritti is just a movement of the mind. So that isn’t a real big issue. I don’t dream either. Except perhaps in a 20 second all dark short narration which I can do more effectively awake. That easily could just be a hypnagogic hallucination when waking up. How do I use the waker and dreamer analogy empirically if I don’t have a dream to reference. So I do the five sheathes or seer and the seen and take it back to the Witness. How then can I get past the waker awareness without dream awareness to compare it to. The two witnesses and blankness leave one Witness outcome but I can’t do that unless I use a concept of a dream. But if I can’t personally follow the deconstruction then it won’t work. At least Swami Sarvapriyananda has said it won’t. I think my question is there but I am not exactly sure how to maybe word it. Thanks for any help with this.
Hello. I know you are writing with a question, but do you mind if I ask you a question instead? I’m a public school teacher and I’ve had several primary and secondary students who have also told me they do not think in images or mental movies. The first time the conversation came up with a student, I thought we were just having a misunderstanding because I couldn’t imagine not seeing mental images. Now I know it is called aphantasia, yes? I do now try to remember to ask my students whether or not they form mental images / movies when they read/think/etc. - because it is only fair in what I would expect of them in output, yes? I mean, I can’t ask them to draw the scene that came to mind during such-and-such chapter, right? Or can I? So, my question to you: what learning strategies do you think work best for you? I apologize for jumping on this opportunity to ask; I would just like to be a little better prepared / informed for the next time- and for all my students in general. I hope you don’t mind me asking.
But I am also curious about your comment because it sounds like you are satisfied with your analyses of the 5 sheaths and the seer/seen. I would think that if those inquiries work for you, that can be sufficient in the understanding and Vedantic knowledge. You mentioned you cannot relate to the dreamer state, but isn’t the point of these inquiries in moving from the so-called external transactional world and sensory experiences of the gross body inward to the subtle body of the mind with all of its intricacies and implications, and onward to the ‘constant’ witness of the whole concoction? Whichever of the inquiries you use, I though the point was NOT to identify with any changing, temporary, or limited ‘state’ (whether as waker/dreamer/deep sleeper or as the 5 sheaths, etc).
Does your mind ever wander in a daydreaming fashion, not with mental images etc, but maybe with thought narrations or something of that nature? Such as times when your mental ‘controller’ is loosened a bit, you don’t notice what is happening in the world around you at all, and/or seemingly random thoughts bubble up (and you don’t know where they came from)? That might be close enough to a dream state for the inquiry. . . but don’t take my word for it.
I hope you don’t mind me asking the questions. I work with such varied students with such varied conditions that I am really just interested in knowing how minds work - I mean minds that I am not personally and subjectively experiencing. And it sounds like you inquire into your own mind enough to have helpful input!!!
Thank you. And I hope you do get the answer to your question from someone who actually knows. 🙏
@@KriB510 Sorry for the late reply. Thank you for your reply. I will now try to answer. The 5 sheaths and seer/seen is only the beginning he says. I think I more or less experience the gross body and the subtle all the time. I am not sure what you mean by going into the subtle body. I meditate to a blackness every time I meditate. I have emotions though they are likely not a lot like yours. I have a inner voice that’s my voice the same one I am reading and writing this with. Sometimes it seems to argue with itself not that I think it’s ‘me’. ‘Me’ seems to reside in the part of me that knows or knows it doesn’t know. I can’t visually (including other 4 senses) experience anything subtle. Memory is a recollection of details with no images. If I guess at the future it is only an intuitive knowledge. I am much better at controlling this chariot compared to couple years ago.
Finding Advaita Vedanta and Swami Sarvapriyananda about one and a half years ago helped me to look at the world how I do now. From the beginning I knew that I couldn’t argue with what he was saying though I am still trying to understand much of it. I am 36 and 2 years ago the mental images became known to me. I dream in the exact way I often meditate. All darkness and my inner voice/sub-vocalizing might create a brief dialogue or I might ‘feel’ or ‘know’ some happening lasting maybe 30 seconds or some very short time. If that is a ‘dream’ I know I am doing it when it is happening, while knowing it will be over or it just ends very quickly and it is very similar to when I am falling asleep or waking up. Not at all like dreams that I have heard about or read about. Not at all in any way like sensory experience sight, sound, etc. Now to my current understanding…
When you use 5 sheaths or seer and seen you can reach the Witness. Subject and objects. You can get to awareness (I am not sure of proper caps momentarily). The awareness is actually reflected consciousness. When awake you reach the waker’s intellect and awareness. Next you have this dreamers world and you have an experience that is a “dream”. Janaka wakes up and asks ‘is this real or is that real’ Astavakra replies ‘neither this is real nor that is real, you are real’. This and that are waking and dream and getting rid of the ‘you’ found in waking and dreaming points to a deeper you. Deep sleep along with the deeper you gets rids of the mind. So waking and dreaming and deep sleep show that you are Brahman. Swami says that you must empirically or experientially follow these or they don’t work. So how do you negate the waker without a dreamer? If understand what playing a video games is like but I can’t use that knowledge as a dreamers world I think it had to be a actual dreamers world. That leaves me with many questions. If you can’t get past the waker in the waker’s world then you aren’t going to be able to get to an unlimited state of Brahman.
My mind does sort of wander but not like daydreaming. I like this example I have asked many people. I ask if they have ever driven to or from work or back from being out and if they don’t remember how they got there… maybe it will for you too but for me it sounded crazy but almost everyone I have asked says they have done that.
I think that it is fair to ask students to do anything you would ask any other student to do. I am not sure but being as there is no data and that there are so many different adaptations to learning I have read of that it might be best to let each figure it out however they can. Neuroplascity gets worse as you get older and any attempt to deviate from “learn this” might be more harmful then help full. Though as much as I wanted to be creative I always seemed to draw a blank.
Thank you again for you reply. It was helpful to see the depth of your writing and I think you have me on good grammar. I wish that I had teaching advice for aphantasia. Probably the compassion and kindness you seem to express. Thank you 🙏
@@andrewgardner2281 Thank you very much for writing, and thank you for your suggestions. And also sorry for the late reply (and also for writing too much!)!
I don’t know you at all, and so I don’t know what brought you to Vedanta - whether you are seeking God realization, a glimpse at ultimate Truth, direct experience, self-knowledge, transcendence of worldly suffering, understanding, freedom from attachments, intellectual knowledge, a different life circumstance, or something else altogether. But either way, it sounds like you have a spiritual teacher - even if it is only on the internet, so I would just have faith in your spiritual teacher - and in yourself - and in the inescapable truth, and just continue the journey it sounds like you began 1.5 years ago. I was graciously introduced to Advaita Vedanta just slightly longer ago than you (about 2 years ago), and it sounds like I might have listened to fewer of Swami’s lectures - but I do keep up with the current recordings. In other words, don’t take my word for anything I am about to say. I do also listen to a variety of videos (I recently started listening to Jiddu Krishnamurti. Have you listened to him? I am curious how he would resonate with you. From what I can gather, he really just focuses on inquiry into waking mind and experience.)
You wrote that you’re not sure what I mean by going into the subtle body and that you meditate to blackness, but you are aware of this internal blackness, yes? - is that not your subtle body? I have heard it said of the gross body (since it is transactional in nature) that ‘you’ are aware of your gross body, and ‘others’ are also aware of your gross body. The subtle body is that part of you that only you know. Only you as subtle body are aware of the blackness that you meditate to. I wouldn’t know that you meditate to blackness unless you told me that - that is your personal subtle body experience, your inner world. The inner voice you mentioned is your subtle body - I don’t hear your inner voice, it is known to only you. Your inner voice IS subtle. So, that is what I mean by going into the subtle body based on what you wrote.
It sounds like you became aware of the absence of mental images in your mind after you began your Vedanta journey. Honestly, that might be a blessing and not a hindrance. I am just saying that because it seems like a whole lot of people I know get caught up in imaginings and wishful thinking and projections of their inner worlds onto their unsuspecting outer-worlds, and that can cause a bit of trouble sometimes, to state it lightly. Maybe you might just see things for what they are. That might be as much of getting rid of the mind as you need. In any case, there is no deficiency in you.
You mentioned you meditate to blackness. Aren’t there many meditators who strive for that? I’m asking because I don’t know. I don’t personally have the disciplined meditation practice that I would like to have, though I have been making sure I do at least the bare minimum of practice in sincerity since I was initiated with RKM about 1.5 months ago!! I am here writing now because I heard in brief a youtube video today that made me think of what you wrote earlier. If you are interested in taking a quick listen, it is on a channel named “Samaneri Jayasara - wisdom of the masters,” and the video is called Thomas Merton - a meditation on pure love. It was uploaded today. The very beginning of the video mentions the ‘best’ and ‘rare’ beginning in contemplation wherein ‘images vanish, concepts and words are silent’. Well, I thought of what you had written at several times when I heard this video. I think Thomas Merton was a Catholic monk, but I was also reminded of non-dual teachings several times in listening to it. If you are not opposed, you could take a quick listen.
You compare your meditation to your dreamless sleep, but aren’t you awake and aware during meditation (and not during sleep)? Can’t you use your blank state during meditation in contrast to your very present and interacting wakeful state (with your mind that does not wander or daydream) to negate both states while knowing that “I” is not a ‘state’? Anyway, take care. I am most likely the one who needs to investigate the ‘states’ a little more deeply lol. It sounds like you are well on your way.
@@KriB510 Thank you again for your thoughts. I found Swami when I typed in “God without all the rules” or something similar into google. I felt that every religion I have studied in life was beautiful in its own way and I opted out of my born into denomination (Catholic) at a young age. All I knew was that Swami made sense in that I couldn’t find holes in his teachings and he promised evolution and understanding if I continued. That is saying a lot with a little and praise to him. I like Krishnamurti yes and he does I believe clearly understand a lack of visual mental images at least in concept and maybe personally(?). I feel that trying to take on knew terminology and meanings is okay as a side project but that it is best to have one primary source as my means of learning. I will say I was listening to Krishnamurti a little before Swami Sarvapriyananda and it was very hard for me to get a lot out of it but listening to him lately is a much more enjoyable experience. Thomas Merton is good. I have listened to a couple things he has wrote. The inner voice thing in case your curious is like this. Most people subvocalize when they read. It is actually a newer human process. It wasn’t very long ago and people when reading read aloud. Now we have learned to read internally but it is only our outward voice turned inward. Your voice box still moves. Side note NASA has invented patches that when put on your throat will allow you to talk as if reading internally to type. But inner voice is different. It is a part of your imagination and memories and dreams (so I have been told). You may hear music or your family members voices etc. If you ask people if they hear voices it is very usual that they will say no. But if you lead people to what is being said they usually understand and then yes they do hear voices in that sense. Often I find people don’t even understand that there subtle happenings are until you walk them through what is just normal and automatic for them. I do get curious of what it means for someone who would have this terminology and to have common subtle experiences. People are more or less brought up to not talk or understand there inner going’s. It is almost as if taboo to talk about your inner world. That is probably a lot of the reason why it took me so long to figure out the literal meanings or words like imagination, visions, memories, visualization etc. It is so crazy to think that all this time all the people I’ve known had been doing what all it is people do on the inside.
First of all I am not trying to find flaws in his teachings. I have gained much from his teaching and it is so much it is not easy to articulate. It is just that take today’s Katha 23 for example. So much information and his talks recently seem to reflect that he is evolving the expectations for his followers to have prior knowledge of his teachings and attentiveness in order to really be able to follow. It is truly might be a very simple issue though I haven’t heard it addressed. Today he really makes it seem like people should have sensory experiences similar to waking. He had explained things using an analogy of dream that I get confused in because I am not sure how important it is. I don’t talk or hear or see in my ‘dreams’ I don’t have a body. What does it mean for you to withdraw your senses inward or inside? My belief or understanding is that since all this waking world is mind then I have to accept that my senses are in the mind all the time. Dream doesn’t seem all the convincing because of all the doubts surrounding what is being said as ‘normal’ but the fact that all the senses enter into the brain and that the brain and all ‘that’ is therefore mind only. At this point I am no longer even really seeking an answer to the dream issue but everyday I have been burdened by this question. It is the intellect that must have it’s doubts resolved. If it wasn’t that my mind gets in a whirl to often over it it wouldn’t be much of an issue. And maybe it will turn out to have a very simple answer. So it is and isn’t that important or in the words of Swami (is it important) yes … and no.
Congratulations on RMK initiation that has to be a very feeling. I hope to someday be on your journey. Truth is you are the first person I have ever conversed with who had this terminology and time to have it mean something or sink in. I am looking forward to anything you have to tell me. Right wrong confusing or whatever. Or if this is it then. 🙏 and thank you for your efforts. And very sincere happiness for you initiation.
@@andrewgardner2281 Thank you! That was a very nice, natural, and interesting read!!!
You were born into Catholicism, and I was born out of Christianity, meaning I was the only child in my family who my mother chose NOT to Christen or Confirm into Christianity (in a Christian country). I was slightly upset about that, but I suppose that means I wasn’t indoctrinated as a youngster, except during Bible hour in primary school. I had never heard of Thomas Merton until right before I wrote you last time, but it sounds like you are already familiar with quite a few spiritual writings/ideas etc.
Basically, the talk that brought me to Vedanta was given by Swami Vedarupananda at the Southern California center. I listened in person shortly before lockdown, and it wasn’t recorded. He has since given basically the same talk again over youtube during lockdown (it’s a little different from the first one I heard, though). The talk is titled, “The Mark of Madness.” So anyway, this talk directly answered what I was seeking at the time, and provides basically the gist of what brought me to Vedanta. I have been instantly loyal to Sri Ramakrishna ever since; I cannot help that. He/his life has helped me understand some people in my environment better, so he is very real for me. Before that, I didn’t even know about saints in India or wandering monks etc. it opened a whole new view for me - and I am forever thankful for that, so I am ever loyal to RKM. I have also recently started listening to a Swami from another advaita Vedanta group called the Chinmaya Mission in South Africa. The swami’s name is Swami Abhedananda - he is very internally oriented in his teaching, so I feel like I am learning from the inside out and not from the outside in - that is my experience of it, if I had to describe it. I have been listening to him for less than a month, though. It might be focused a little less on logic and more on encouragement of character (as in ‘qualified student’) and devotion - not sure yet, but it is helpful for me at this time. I tried to search to see if he had anything about dreams, and he has a talk called ‘the three states of consciousness’ you might be interested in. I found it pretty good and very interesting. That talk is not so much about devotion/qualified student characteristics etc. - i found it very informative/interesting.
So when it comes to asking what it means to draw the senses inward, I am probably the wrong person to ask because I takes me preparation and work to pull my senses / awareness/ interaction outward sometimes. I have a very active inward world, even though I think I separate imagination from outward reality pretty well (to whatever extent we are able to do that). I am that person who zones out during my drive home that you mentioned, and I can get lost in thought pretty easily. But I also have a family and I work very much ‘in the world’ and focus fully on people in my presence when I know I must interact with them, so I definitely have to focus outwardly and interact, but as soon as I have the chance - I immediately withdraw inward whenever possible - not that i am trying, that is just more my natural tendency, i think. I am that person who could be looking straight at you, but my mind could be a million miles away and I might not be really ‘looking’ at you at all. Anyway, if you have questions about what that is like, I would be happy to try to answer. Sometimes I don’t know if what is in my mind is imagined or real, though, for example, I do work with students who have a wide range of health issues. For example, I had one student who had lost a lot of her previous abilities, including her ability to speak, from a stroke (I mean, she had a lot of health issues even before this stroke), but I knew she was trying so hard to communicate, and she was still coming to terms with the condition, I suppose, because she would cry a lot, but wouldn’t be able to move or communicate - and a couple of times at night or early morning, it was almost like she would come into my head, SO clearly, to say something to me. It would overtake my entire mind almost. I didn’t know if it was some kind of communication happening in the moment, or if it was just my mind processing something that it might have picked up on earlier, OR if it was even anything at all. Anyway, these are the things I think about and also part of WHY I think about them.
I had also very recently listened to a doctor who helped develop / developed a speech library / algorithm for a computer program that can ‘speak’ based on reading the recordings of brain activity from electrodes placed in a human’s brain during speech formation. A little different from what you mentioned regarding NASA, but still related.
Thanks so much for your well-wishes etc. Hope you get your doubts cleared!! It is very interesting for me. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Pranam Swami ji. Your lectures are mind illuminating. Thank you.
I have 3 questions for you.
1) Have you experienced Enlightenment ?
2) How it feels like at that moment
3) Is it possible for someone to reach that level (get enlightenment) without a Guru ?
try bipasana meditation.
There's no reaching, it's hear and now.
Yes it is possible - but definitely much easier with a skilled guru. The last comment is correct though, there is no reaching, it is here and now and it is your natural state of being. It's like asking how far do I have to go to sit where I'm sitting right now? How much effort is required, and do I need someone to help me? No, you don't need help to sit where you are sitting, because you are already sitting there, there is no effort required in getting thete. The guru is the one who points that out to you
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Kindly resolve this-
If I sit in a room, does the whole universe outside the room not exist beyond my consciousness?
Putting it harshly as stupidity bevkufi gets one jerked out of the ignorance.May be the many lives spent assuming it to be otherwise is the only practice which keeps us in ignorance. In a way it is the concept of suicide when we feel we will escape all the sorrow and sufferings which just vanishes the moment we become enlightened or realise we are the consciousness.
So you'll have to allow for that dreams include suffering. And furthermore, that would mean that our dreams at night include suffering. Perhaps that's why so many of us don't remember, instead of self-deception to avoid being caught having so much fun in them!
Dear Swami. Many thanks. I love listening but I try not to use youtube any more as I think there are clear signs it is involved with unethical activity. Is there any way your videos can be released directly from the VSNY website also? Many thanks.
I know for a fact Maharaj ji is in India. How can he be in two places at the same time?🙂
Please tell me how do you know?
I want to meet Swami of he is in India.. please tell me.
@@Bluntopinions yes...He is presently in India...Belur Math, Kolkata...but very busy giving lectures at different places. I have had the blessed opportunity of meeting him... touching his feet... getting his blessings. As my son said yesterday after looking deep into him..." He looks like a Buddha." Yes he is a Buddha... always in Meditation. 🙏
@@anirbanchatterjee4895 hey. Where did you meet him?
@@rockingrishi1407 I attended one of his lectures at a Ramkrishna Mission Math, Kasundia, Howrah. Otherwise it isn't just possible to see him face to face.