Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Oct 24th, 2021
Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Oct 24th, 2021. List of questions with timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
03:35 - If the Self is the only reality, who is the doer?
12:05 - How can it be said that Self is free, and yet all beings are in the Self?
27:24 - What is the role of psychedelics in mystical experience?
39:30 - Why is the path of Bhakti supposed to be dualistic?
51:05 - Why is fear of God discussed in religion?
57:27 - How can we deal with thoughts of dispassion towards the world?
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If you ask me, On any given day, a talk on Advaita Vedanta is much much more interesting and worth attending than attending a cricket match on TV. A talk on Non-Duality never bores me. It is always interesting for me. Always will be.
@alfluchow8202
2 жыл бұрын
Shanti Swami How much must God has loved us that we can listen these teachings through a teacher-wave like you. Pranam
@robertoflores2078
2 жыл бұрын
This is much more entertaining than NETFLIX.
@alfluchow8202
2 жыл бұрын
@@robertoflores2078 yes Roberto. We are so blessed!!!
@thyagarajant.r.3256
2 жыл бұрын
That is because you are blessedalready
@deedhesi8014
2 жыл бұрын
Truth has the largest hook.
This man is so Enlightened that you need sunglasses for his class. Thank you for radiating Knowledge / Wisdom / Love in all that you do.
@notavailable708
2 жыл бұрын
@@spiritualseeker. hehe 🙃
@shaktibhushanmaity
2 жыл бұрын
bang in target! correct❤
@shyamapurva9321
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you
I literally wait for Swami Sarvapriyananda's videos! I really hope once in this lifetime I can meet him in person and take his blessings.
@jarcenas6184
2 жыл бұрын
I met him in New York..He glows..He is awesome..I hope you meet him one day😄
@rupeshchitari
2 жыл бұрын
Same here
@smitachhetri1648
2 жыл бұрын
😇same here... atleast once in my life I want to meet him . I'm awe of his knowledge & way of explanation ... 🙏
@ganeshkelkar7033
2 жыл бұрын
Extraordinary ability to convince the listner about true spirituality!
@ganeshkelkar7033
2 жыл бұрын
Extraordinary ability to convince the listner about true spirituality!
The clarity that flows from the talk of the Swami is something that I rarely find elsewhere. I really consider myself very fortunate to have him around us.
Hope to run into Swamiji someday... at an airport, a railway station, or on the streets somewhere... I will throw myself at his feet for a full Sashtanga Namaskar. His words and his videos... just can't express my gratitude enough for his guidance in my own spiritual quest.
36:25 I'm a young person in Colombia, where we have a tendency to pretend substances and experiences are the path to spirituality. Listening to you sharing with us the accurate and wise lesson about the power and importance of simple Acts as the path to enlightenment is truly revealing and necessary in my culture. May god bless your existence and your role as a device of the divine to get us closer to the path of enlightenment.
I'd love to attend a session and meet Swami. He has touched my life so profoundly. Thank you Swami
What a marvelous way of teaching Advaita! Swamiji, you are not worldly, you are heavenly. Millions and millions of my humble pranams to you.
One of my greatest desires is to meet you in person some day, swami ji! Your talks have touched my life in a very significant way. I am so blessed to have stumbled upon your videos on you tube.
How easily wisdom flows from you Swamiji. How fortunate I am to have found your discourses. Thank you for every word you utter. Thank you. 🙏🏼
Humble pranams, trying to imbibe your teachings is the best way to express gratitude
WONDERFUL DISCOURSES, I can listen to Swami ji for hours, Thank you
Wow. I have attended many of Swamiji's lectures. Each one pushes me deeper and deeper into the concepts of advaita. Swami handholds us so nicely and we are all very fortunate to have him and I consider him an incarnation of Swami Vivekananada himself.
Swami ji is in those extremely rare group of persons who can view the window from this world 🌎 to the other world 🌍. Which is restricted for common man like us.
I consider Swamiji as my Guru in spiritual quest. Listening to him has helped me sail through toughest moments of my life. I bow down to your feet in gratitude.
It's heartening to find the Swami keeping healthy and happy🙂🥳!! His brotherlike, mentor-like, friendly attitude is so endearing. May he live healthy and happy life! Jai Sri Sri Thakur, Jai Sri Sri Ma, Jayatu Swamiji🙏🙌
Ever so greatful to you for answering my question🙏
Swami Sarvapriyananda ji,as always ,eternally grateful to you. You are unparallel in explaining the intricacies of Advaita and you synthesize all the seemingly contradicting philosophies in your lectures. There is but one humble request from my side to VEDANTA NEW YORK to compile all these lectures into books. My pranaams to you Maharaj
I pray with all my heart to the lord and thank him for having the privilege to hear Swami. Such a blessing to even listen to him, virtually.
To empower yourself to empower others selflessly,egolessly,fearlessly is Sri Ram Tatva Sadhana
Thank you Swamiji, all the team and the people who asked questions. Excellent. Much gratitude to all.
Advaitha,Philosophy is really wonderful,if understood properly! I liked the example of the crystal clear lake.If at all the lake has a tendency to talk, it may say,”I don’t hold any trees,hills or sky in me,but definitely help you see them in me, with a clear notion at the background that I am just water with purity and clarity.Even if you watch or not, still I am what I am.”My humble salutations Swameejee!
Great explanations and examples from Swamiji. The Ashtavakra Gita, a classical text in the Advaita Vedanta tradition, is very relevant to today's daily life. Thank you for sharing the knowledge.
Only listening to your lecture is capable of removing all the illusions which surround me and give me bliss of mind
Swamiji excellent talk it cleared many of my doubts. All things appear in me, sustain in me and then one day disappear in me. Wow. It takes away my fear. Thank you
Thank you for this beautiful talk.
I’m a late comer to take benefit from his videos. But it is my experience that his explanations are most lucid. His knowledge seems to be exhaustive, not only in Advait Vedanta but across the philosophical spectrum and also in so named, secular knowledge. Now it seems I am becoming addicted to only his explanations. Maybe one day I can hear him while experiencing his aura.
Pranaam Swami ji 🙏🙏
Liked that aspect highlighted about swami Ranganathananda ji... "Oh no, if he goes into temple of Sri Ramakrishna it's difficult to get him out" 😊.. So sweet... How much such an advaitin was devoted to Thakur if you think, it's blissful thought in itself..🙏
@deviprasadreddy1433
2 жыл бұрын
47:30 😊🙏
Swami Ji. You are divine connection. Your teachings are to the core the essence of life. What to hate and love when all we see experience is we ourselves. What our karmas should be in that case?
Absolutely brilliant !Namaste Rev.Swamiji
Excellent as always! Thank you, swamiji!
Wish I meet u someday and listen to ur lectures on life !! Touching ur feet will purify my life. . M drawn to ur lectures daily morning . Pranams .
Hare Krishna Hare Ram
Perfect understanding of” me and not in me” clarity of Sarvappriyanand. 🙏🏾👍🏽
Pranams swamiji. gratitude for such a clear & profound explanation. 🙏
May our heart be full of devotion 🙏❤️ what an inspiring Q and A. Pranaams to Swamiji and to the people who asked these relevant questions Wonderful ! Definitely beats cricket!
Vedanta is everything that I have always thought about and imagined! 🙏
Swami ji is the best
Pronam Thakur Maa Swamiji Maharaji
Swamiji, can't thankyou enough 🌼🙏
Indians, who watched the cricket match in preference to this lecture have been defeated twice!
@VipinKumar-do8vf
2 жыл бұрын
Lol.. very witty
@thyagarajant.r.3256
2 жыл бұрын
Defeated or lost??
Swamiji, it is a pleasure and a feeling of joy listening to the answers to the questions and the removal of doubts in our reading and understanding of Vedanta. Please have similar sessions very often. Know that there are so many readers listening to you, either directly or find time to listen to such treasures. Keep yourself in good health for the benefit of all of us., as mentioned in Vedanta. Om shanti.
@1:18 Actually, you won over Cricket ! There were 1000+ viewers watching live :)
@rohansaxena5606
2 жыл бұрын
@@notavailable708 Agree with you :) Well, on the other hand , this is the Dangerous aspect of Advaita. We just do not care about the misery in this world and we just brush it off calling it maya ! Yes, this is all a dream. But, instead of having a BAd dream, why not have a Good dream ? ! We need to work hard to make it a good dream , bringing people out of MISERY We need to have a Missionary Zeal to lift the world out of Misery.
@amitbiswas1885
2 жыл бұрын
It doesn't matter for half "Gyanis".
@nachoswachos2201
2 жыл бұрын
@@rohansaxena5606 Agree with you here, but I would argue that unless you yourself have clarity and realisation within, the missionary zeal to make the world a better place according to your own perspective does more harm than good. True action comes from realization, and spiritual enquiry is not a lack of action, it's utmost inner action, or rather, a non-action. Ridding yourself of your own misery doesn't just remove your misery, it ensures that you don't spread it across to everyone around you :-)
@rohansaxena5606
2 жыл бұрын
@@nachoswachos2201 Swami Vivekananda's message is " Be and Make " . So, let's be those enlightened souls and also show some urgency to lift the world out too. ok ? ! :)
@nachoswachos2201
2 жыл бұрын
@@rohansaxena5606 There's no difference between lifting yourself and lifting the world. One cannot do one without the other. So yeah, I agree, if someone claims to better himself apart from bettering the world, or if someone claims to better the world apart from bettering himself, it's no betterment at all. Both happen together like you said, which is actually the basic principle of Non-Duality
Swami ji reminded me of Swami Vivekananda ji.
Brilliant and convincing answers 🙏
Pranam 🌹❤️🙏 Swamiji very nice
42:00 Sant Dnyaneshwar is the best Example of this. Can say that he was the one who started this Tradition of Advait Bhakti first in Maharashtra( first in India too) "Tuza tuchi dev, tuzaa tuchi bhaav, mitalaa sandeha anya tatvi " Its said in marathi, " Kaayaa hi Pandhari, Atmaa haa Vitthal "
@theperfectcelibate8669
2 жыл бұрын
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Divine soul..such a enlightening talk..🙏🏻🙏🏻
What an amazing set of answers ...I am a strong follower n I am so grateful for you Swami thank you for your gift of this video.
Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I learnt a lot from thisQ&A session--I express my gratitude.
Thank you, Swami ji.
Pranam Swamiji . Non Dual Is Sound Investment & Duality Is Appearing As DIVIDEND , BONUS ETC. On It .
Thank you so much swamiji
🙏 🙏 🙏 ❤️❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹. Can't find words enough to thank you...... ❤️
I feel so small limited to understand this ocean ,but yes lucky to reach this opening....
Thank you Swami ji 🙏 🙏
আমার প্রণাম নেবেন 🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏🌹🙏 না মহারাজ, বেদান্ত হেরে যায় নি, জিতেছেই বলা যায় 🙏🌷 কোনো একটা সময় দেখেছিলাম, 1179 watching live!! পরে হয়তো আরো বেশি হয়েছিল, ঠিক মনে করতে পারছি না 🙏🙏
Happy Thoughts शुभेच्छा
I love 💗 listening to Swamiji. Advaita Vedanta is definitely for me. I do believe, however, that meditation is something we can practice every day; Jñana Yoga would be easier if we could focus on one mental viewpoint of reality, instead of accumulating much knowledge. If one lives in an ashram, Jñana Yoga becomes practical. I want Swamiji to give me one way I should look at the World, and let it sink in every day. ♥️
@himic1524
2 жыл бұрын
Watch Aparoksh Anubhuti video series of Swami ji, if not already
@thyagarajant.r.3256
2 жыл бұрын
Swami vivekananda has stated that jnanayoga is difficult but of short duration whereas bhaktiyoga is easy but very slow in attaining the goal
प्रणाम स्वामीजी !
Pranaams to Maharaj
FANTASTIC
Koti Pranam swami 🙏🙏
Pranam janai pujyapad Maharajjir shreecharane.
Pranam Maharaj 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thank you swamiji
Self is not a doer of action,when understand everything is you,there is material and spiritual when there is senses .when you realise that your are the self(everything is you) nothing more to be desired,known.Then action ends,you realise real nature of yourself.when you have to be man,the world appears.But self realised person will be witness,not a doer of action,if you want always to be in self,you can't be in this physical body or physical world.First,we have to be witness,and to be witness always.Then absolute realition comes,there won't be physical world.self and self alone exists 🙏
Swamiji is so popular in abroad. must take security , he is our God Government of India must think of it..
@chendaforest
2 жыл бұрын
God will protect him.
Super explanation responding to use of drug substances to enhance spiritual experiences and why it is not at all beneficial.Much needed explanation.
Dhanyosmi swamiji Bharath maataa ki jai Jai sanaatana dharma
Please ask swami questions on chakra. How to ground ourselves when overthinking happens as we are bound by body. And mind works based on health and situation of body
amazing
God is in me, God is knot in me. To be, or Knot to be, that is the question.
swami i am so blessed to hear your lectures what is horoscopes in IHDIAis there any reality in horoscope science does not has any positive proof can you please comment it is effecting so many lives and aiso financially
One should renunciate all that interests him and come to God.Great Acharyas are made like that.Swami Vivekananda
Om shri Gurubho Namaha. Dr.V.B.Chikkanaragund
"All things in me & I am none of them" as conscious beings we perceive the world by our conditioning within our conscious realm.we actually experience the world within us.Not knowing or knowing very well that I am none of that and with no center ,I am every where it's just that this body & mind is a tool a medium of expression & creation and it is true to our nature that I (Ego) indulge in the play of Maya and in that indulgence we experience karma and it's beliefs, it's output and we get so caught up with life,we get attached to our ideals and bear it's consequences .I am none of that, it is the ego that has assumed itself as the experiencer and the doer.
In order for love to flow there must be duality, that is why God created the many, love is the dynamism of the silent absolute..FWIW.
Maharaj pranam.
I can proudly say, I live in the time of Swami Sarvapriyananda. Dream of touching your feet once.
Thanks
Great explanation, Non duality
Having been around the tail end of counterculture I can say that I don't know one person whose life was spiritually enhanced by psychedelics . A one off experience may have some use but it may also be disastrous - someone I knew actually thought they could fly and obviously couldn't , and have consequently been confined to a wheelchair for 50 years following a broken neck . However , because of politics , research into psychedelics has been suppressed which is sad because they may have value in the therapeutic setting . Sri Ramana Maharshi was vocally against marijuana use , unlike many ' gurus ' and ' sects ' in India 🕉️
I tottaly understand.
Om Shanti Shanti Shantihi
🙏🙏🙏 Guruji
"আপনাকে জানা আমার ফুরাবেনা..." প্রণাম স্বামী।
@1:20 Swamiji talks about the IND vs PAK match.. With the light of his Vedanta teachings we know in reality there is neither a stadium nor audience. Neither field nor pitch and wickets. Neither Batsmen nor Bowlers nor fielders. It's that one consciousness appearing as name and form. Yet by knowing everything audiences are still drawn towards the void match rather than Vedanta. 😔 .
@tusharkukrety4626
2 жыл бұрын
😂lol . This thought only came after when India starts performing gully level cricket .
@MrHynotiQ
2 жыл бұрын
What if India were 70/0 in 4 overs? ;-)
Salutations!
Wahwah AhaAha DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad AnanndAya ACARYAJI
After enlightenment continue playing the game except now you will play it ethically without focusing on the fruits of karma. Bring your ego to zero and play the game of life as much as you want.
@notavailable708
2 жыл бұрын
If we are not the doer how can we “bring the ego to zero”
@vs9324
2 жыл бұрын
@@notavailable708 If you know you are not the doer then how can you have an ego?
@thyagarajant.r.3256
2 жыл бұрын
Yes ,this was what swamivivekanandaold the world famous agnostic ingersollalsot
@thyagarajant.r.3256
2 жыл бұрын
@@notavailable708 your ego is only an insignificant subset of cosmic consciousness. The usual analogy is that a sleeping infant drinks milk from the mother without being conscious So also a true jnani has apseudo ego
@vs9324
2 жыл бұрын
@@thyagarajant.r.3256 This is what even Swami Chinmayananda has said in his commentary on Geeta.
Consciousness egobeing and worldbeing itself.
Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna
Swamyjis answers enthrall me and I am so grateful for each thing conveyed I only pray these things are permanently imbibed in my understanding. Hari Om Swamyji.
JAY RAMAKRISHNA.
After much listening, Ayahuasca and meditation remain my prefered experience. Try Ayahuasca.
🙏🙏🙏
God