23: Upadesha Sahasri (ch11 v10-12) One Thousand Teachings on Advaita Vedanta by Sri Shankara
Vedanta class taught by Swami Tadatmananda at Arsha Bodha Center. Videos of all classes taught so far are available here: • Upadesha Sahasri - One...
Text with Swami Tadatmananda's translation available here: arshabodha.org/teachings/upad...
Vedanta is not a subject matter, a spiritual doctrine, or a philosophy - it is a method of self-inquiry (atma-vichara) based on the wisdom (vidya) of the ancient rishis, as found in the Upanishads, a part of the sacred Vedic scriptures. This method can lead you to discover your true, divine nature (sat-chit-ananda atma) and gain moksha, freedom from suffering.
Swami Tadatmananda is a traditionally-trained teacher of Advaita Vedanta, meditation, and Sanskrit. For more information, please see: www.arshabodha.org/
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Pranaam, Swami-ji! Thank you so much for this! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, Swami-ji.
Pranam Guruji 🙏
Thank you, Swami ji, for such a lucid explanation of the pancha kosha! How naturally this leads to the true nature of Aham...that Aham is Brahman, the ultimate truth as Aham as the observer approaches Aham as the observed.
Pronam Swamiji, A most brilliant discourse, particularly of verse 11.11 ! A new dimension indeed! Gratitude and gratefulness! 🙏
🙏Jai Shri Ramakrishna 🙏
Pranams and grateful thanks for taking up this absolutely brilliant text by the acharya
Thank you for this class! 🙏🕉️🙏
When You become enlightened the world has not changed!
Namaste, om shanti. Thank you.
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Namaste Swamiji Once again superb lecture, clearing all my doubts. Having listened all ur lectures, I have started feelings of vairagya ( वैराग्य). And I m more focused to understand more on such teachings. My prostration at ur feet Swamji
Namaskar Swamiji. Wow, today's class was so special and full of treasures. I had few deep realizations which I will contemplate further as they didn't quite leave the depth. Thank you so much for fantastic explanations of this superb Shankara's text. Drishtanta's were very powerful and beautiful too. Om Shanti! 🙏
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Namaste Swamiji, Thank you very much for this great lesson. The understanding comes and go. There is a knot unsolved… Why atma is more real? If it is not a question of belief it must be shown through neti-neti, through atma-vichara. Please go on “pushing” us every week. Pranam.🙏🙏🙏
Dear Swami, many thanks for brilliant clarification about koshas, facilitating a new perspective for understanding. Incidentally, in mathematics, a true "point" has no dimensions at all, and is a "pointer" beyond space and time. Such a point might serve as a metaphor for anandamaya kosha, similar to the metaphor of the screen.
Thanks very much for this exciting teaching, dear Swamiji! Please allow me the following question: You said, that the description of the Koshas as sleeves is questionable, because atma is not inside the other koshas. How then is Krishnas statement in the Bhagavad Gita to understand (chapter 10, verse 20) that atman is located in the heart of a beeing? Thanks in advance for every helpful response. May you all stay blessed and warm greetings from Switzerland
Thank you for great teaching Conclusion (fom my perspective) Atma = Akash (space) = endless universe In one of teachings from Bhagavad Gita it is mentioned that our soul is small (10.000 time smaller than a tip of the needle, if I am not mistaken) but consist of same material as our Sun is made of. Don't you think that ancient Rishis was trying to tell us that Atma is cowered by 5 layers of ignorance maya, and that we in reality are part of the endless universe? And that is why we all are connected to one all pervasive God, Ishvara. Best regards
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We are qualitatively (and not quantitatively) the same as Brahman. Brahman which being beyond universe, it's appearance/disappearance, experience of it, beyond the experience and beyond what is experienced and yet facilitates all and is not involved with any of it. So to say we are part of the endless universe (which is one of countless a forms of Brahman) doesn't really give any insight into the substratum, Brahman. Thread is to T-shirt, a Hat, a jumper just as Brahman is to the Universe, Existence, Time, Space Atma is a smaller but the same quality of Brahman Hence Atma (Our true self) and Brahman are also both eternal We are all One same quality of Brahman
This world is unreal in the sense that it is temporary and ever-changing. The whole universe is also unreal. The real is the One who create the worlds and the universes. This is the teaching of Vedanta. Actually the pot is unreal, the clay is also unreal. The Real one is the one who create the pot and the clay. But we cannot see the One, the Pure Consciousness by any sense organs, as it is beyond all objects. Our body is not our real self, so as this world is not God, but the belongings of God. Everything we have belongs to God only, but they are not God. God is beyond all Maya. Maya is only the instrument of God. Maya is the slave and can never be the Lord That is the Islamic faith. When we look at the sun, we should worship the One who creates the Sun, not the Sun itself. There is some divergent views in Hindu faith. Some close to the Islam, but some mix up the Maya as the Real.