How does Reality manifest when mind is not at play? | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Swami Sarvapriyananda discusses the question, “How can revelation happen when we silence the mind?"
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Monumental talk. The amount of wisdom and insight packed here is insane.
@nymphacasander9784
5 ай бұрын
❤ .. is ULTRASANE..SUBLIME SANE !..❤
Incredible description of the mind - as in the little child watching a movie and images flickering across the screen, where the screen can't be seen or realised until the movie is turned off and only then is the nature of the screen is seen. I've never heard this before, but I found this description incredible!
Brilliant question and even more brilliant answer. Humble pranams to the questioner and Swamiji. 🙏🙏🙏
Both the question and the explnaation, are awesome & very profound. Gratitude and Pranams
The yogic path of silencing the mind is what worked for me. Only silencing the mind is not something you can do. It slows down on its own, like a spinning top eventually comes to rest.
Once Enlightened always enlightened.
What a beautiful example Swamiji gave! So logical and hence so convincing.
Your explanations are just brilliant. The movie analogy was so perfect !
Very practical, bhakti, yogic, advaidic, teaching. ❤
@dasgoood2811
5 ай бұрын
all lead to the Same! That's a perfect Harmony among all paths
Duniya to duniya😢 Wow I will never forget in my life❤
After listening him for 5 years… I feel this can be a breakthrough…..
@enlightenment00
3 ай бұрын
😂
He has answers of all questions on spirituality..
Sarvapriyananda is the best teacher. Such enthusiasm, amusing stories and very well spoken teachings.
He is a gem of indian philosophy
The answer to the question is volition. I was at work and the body was working, "I" had become absorbed while walking to work and it persisted for about 3 hours, working was still able to continue, until "I" had something very important to attend to, that was what took me out of that state of Oneness, my consciousness returned to the body .
I have no idea why, but this teaching is so beautiful that it has brought tears to my eyes. I guess when the heart hears Truth it knows without question and my tears are an expression of That! Such beauty! 🥲 💮
@janetownley
4 ай бұрын
Yes! 🙏🏻 Thank you for sharing that
@Chubbywubbysandwich
2 ай бұрын
I cant remember when I cried last .. but I cried at multiple moments in this video and I do not know why
@neil6477
2 ай бұрын
@@ChubbywubbysandwichI think that when we allow the heart to open, we touch something much deeper and truer than anything our thoughts or rational mind can understand. We then express this pure joy and the tears flow. To open to Truth is beautiful, isn't it?
@adriandeasy8810
2 ай бұрын
There are more teachings of this nature by om namah Sri bhagavate ramana maharshi and om namo Sri bhagavate nisagadatta maharaj and Sri swami annamalai and Sri mooji baba all on you tube mooji has alot of meditations on KZread also om namo Sri bhagavate pounjaji papaji also many satsangs you may find helpful Hooe this helps you, namaste 🙏 let there be peace let there be love for all beings universal om 🕉 shanti shanti shanti 🕉 🙏
How wonderful to hear Swamiji speak of Anandamayi Ma! Much much appreciation
🙏🙏🏻🌺🌻🌺Pronams,deepest Pronams, Maa Anandamoyee..Pronams Rev.Maharajji.For me,blessings is the only path, O,Mother, never ever cease from blessing this very child, so that the obstacles always trying to dissuade me help me to quicken my journey towards Realization. For my head is in inexplicable turmoil.🌻🌺🌻🙏🏻🙏 Pronams 🌷 Rev.Maharajji, Everyday l offer my gratitude to you 🙏 Bless me.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@smritirekhadas6057
Ай бұрын
Silence is experienced sometimes n a desire to deep down within come ,but if I continue I feel Silence. But l am unable to co ntinue feel like lying down. But I have to go n react with them bcz of my health n age.. I don't know what should do it. Am l too ambitious? Am I endangering myself,remember Holy Mother 's warning about seekers going mad bcz of overenthusiasm.Lead Your sure n kindly light, O Mother, I await .pronams Rev.Maharajji.For 1🙏🙏🙏
I needed this talk Swamiji 🙏🏻❤️🔥 when I was a young boy, i experienced the death of a brother. One day while I was crying, I was suddenly torn down the middle by what I'm guessing now was the Kundalini within starting to move. Then I was overcome by "the holy spirit" (raised Christian) which was this feeling of pure bliss and I knew that to be my real Self. I wouldn't say my mind stopped - but my perspective shifted completely. I understood that I was actually the observer of this imagined person who happened to be suffering. I literally saw myself in the room, and the room itself, and I was all of it. I used to be able to slip in and out of this state at will. Was this technically sabija samadhi?
this cleared so many of the questions i have been encountering
❤ the clarity! Very convincing ... what Swamiji is saying about once you EXPERIENCE the reality beyond mind, the further experiences of the world, mind etc cease to be obstacles- this thought first struck me after listening to a few NDEs ftom some very articulate minds-- and that EXPERIENCE of a few moments is SO REAL/TRUE- that it never leaves them for a moment from that point on returning ( in most xases unwillingly !) to their physical bodies! Their entire being is so aware of that realm beyond the life on earth in physical bodies-- its what i understood all the dualities and conflicts thereof just disappear in th air!! Now Swamiji's explanation ofcourse clarifies this further... Thank you❤🙏
@janetownley
4 ай бұрын
Yes, that’s so true of people who have had near-death experiences. It makes sense. How could you forget? 🙏🏻🪷
I like how this dude explains stuff.
Pranams Swamiji ❤
जय जय जय गुरुदेव 🙏
Pranam Swamiji
Pranam
প্রনাম গুরুজি।
Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
NAMASKAR SWAMIJI
Thankyou...for sharing this talk❤️❤️❤️🙌
Thank you!
Thankyou, Swami Ji 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thank you very much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great Story.. Namaskar
Absolutely beautiful explanation.
Great teaching Swami
Superb. Beautifully explained. Pranam Maharaj.
Great teaching Swami ji 🙏 Thank you so much
Gratitude for the question
Brilliant analogy Swami. Thank you
প্রণাম মহারাজ 🌹🙏🙏🙏🌹
🙏💗 Jai Sri Ramakrishna 💗🙏 Pranams Swamiji 💐🙏🌈
Amazing explanation 🙏🏽🙏🏽👍
Pranam swami ji
So grateful ❤
Koti koti pranams Swamiji!🙏🙏🙏...🙏
॥जय श्रीरामकृष्ण॥ Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻
What a intriguing question and what a great answer. I am really indebted to Swamiji for giving so much of clarity in my spiritual progress
Wonderful
Swamiji pranams at your feet. What a valuable talk
I do have great respect for a tradition that can teach with a smile and openmindness...
Thank you for sharing the wisdom🙏
Swami ji, i have been watching your videos for last three years finally after watching this video the concept is clear. Thanks a lot for this explanation... 🙏🏼
I just love this teacher
Thank you very much Swamiji for this wonderful teaching 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you. Very truthful🙏 Amazingly simple explanation. Gratitude!!
I love watching and listening to Swami ji. Its a Pure joy.🙏
Charan Sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so much for this awesome video.
So wonderfully explained..
swamiji you are a gem , we are so grateful
Thank you for kindly guidance. Finally properly understood the reason for endeavor to be free from ignorance. The same ignorance made me almost give up and live as it was given.
This is the most underrated knowledge for the seekers and aspiring fellows. Great! It is not about silencing mind but liberating it 🙏
Beautiful pranam Maharaj ji
Such an enlightening explanation! Pranaams Swami ji! 🙏
First time ever someone explained enlightening so lucidly.
Example of the screen to a child well explained about the realized soul acting in the world. Swamiji your talk is very precise to the point. Swami Vivekananda's point well well explained
By far the most knowledgeable guru!! What is good about him, he listens patiently to the question regardless of how long they are as in this case & responds specific to the query. I have seen several others who chose to talk what they want and know rather than responding to the specific question
Great question leads to monumental answer.
So nicely and clearly explained. Pranam Maharaj .Peace Peace and Peace.
Excellent explaination
Hari 🕉️🙏🏻Wonderful gyan for us 🙏🏻
Very well explained to an ordinary family person who has actually never been exposed to such deep spiritual experiences but he can understand the nuances of spirituality by listening to this talk. PRANAM. Thanks Swami ji.
'' Only when you have two you have samsara..when you have no two, you have no samsara. Your free.'' Profound.
Hari Om Maharaj ji 🙏🙏🙏
Wonderful 🎉❤
Swamiji you have helped me so much as i am too a combination of all 3 paths, basically a child of God with great attachment emotionally to Divine parents in all forms ....trying to get knowledge through study of Geetha Upanishads etc also doing japa meditation and trying for stillness of mind. Need your blessings in my march ahead. 🙏🙏🙏🕉️🌺
Insane ❤ explanation, that I needed, it's been years since I lived in fear hearing all the stillness, samadhi... Stop the mind... teaching and freaked like anything. Now your explanation, brought some clarity today. I know what I need to work on. With knowledge is also possible, it is a relaxation. Now, whatever that shortens the journey.. I can do it without fear of losing everything.
Mind and brain are two different things. Its possible to empty the mind. But brain runs as long as it lasts.
Swami ji has explained the issue so convincingly. Pranam Swamiji .
Wow.. wata explanation.. cleared my doubts..
🙏Thankful
Mind blowing talk about mind❤❤a long question of mine is answered ♥️thank you Swami sarvapriyananda jii🙏
super like...thank you
❤ so deep. 🪔
Namaste. I enjoy listening to you almost daily. When you quoted a swami or yogi saying only when the mind is still you can know/feel God , in my experience at times even when I am living daily doing my routine stuff I can still 'hear' the divine communicating with me, comforting me and loving me. Very clearly. So it is not necessary to have the mind under such strict control to know God. Just an observation...
@ramakrishnanpanchapakesan299
5 ай бұрын
This can happen in two ways, and both will be seen by the world as some form of madness/ mental derangement. 1. The first one is due to a deep passion for and love for God, and constantly returning the mind and thoughts to revolve around God. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and devotees like Mirabai, exemplify the highest levels of such " madness" in and for God/ chosen deity. During their lifetimes, they also faced ridicule and were called mad. But they did not care for the calumny and taunts of the world. But God or God's voice was not sensed by them as a constant background chatter, infiltrating into the mind, but any of their conversations with God were only when they voluntarily/ volitionally endeavoured during prayer and worship , or even during lay activities to so communicate with God. 2. The second type of experience of frequently or constantly 'hearing' God and communicating with him, is in fact a delusional state of the mind arising from schizophrenic tendencies and/ or bipolar disorder, and needs medical treatment. One needs to be sure which one of these methods/ forms of " communicating" with God is the reality in one's case, and without a proper Guru to assess the true Nature of your God experience, self- assessment is not reliable. Doctors would classify both types as a sort of madness. But the first type is an ennobling madness for God, the second one is a life sapping, enfeebling delusional medical madness.
I have been listening him for 5 years and he has changed my perception about God
Thank you Swamiji 🙏 you made it so simple to understand
Matchless articulation of a brilliant question....! Such profound deliberation and insightful clarification perhaps become possible only when the preceptor is self-realized ! The simile of cinema and screen seem to be the best to think of ! If the mind can be consciously detached from the objects of distraction or delusion following any branch of 'Yoga' (or any other methods whatsoever) expounded in the scriptures like 'Rajyoga' or 'Kriyayoga' for example, it can be zeroed in on the absolute being ! Once this sublime state is achieved, the mind that is accustomed to get busy in worldly affairs, begins to experience the ineffable truth, inexpressible ever new joy and can decisively distinguish between the 'REAL' and 'UNREAL' . Respectful salutations to revered Swami Sarvapriyanandaji maharaj 🙏🏻💐
Great respect for his knowledge and ease with which he explains. The movie screen analogy caught me
Muito esclarecedor.
Very nicely explained in simple words and analogies.🙏
🙏🙏PRANAAM MAHARAJ
WOUNDERFUL!!!!
Joy Thakur Pronam Maharaj ji
The swami makes us understand, it is not our , it is grace .❤
@bcal86
4 ай бұрын
❤Grace😂
@bcal86
4 ай бұрын
🎉😢
Ram Ram ❤
The consciousness that observes the mind is the real Brahman meaning if the mind is still and silent it goes into observance mode which is what is Brahman, a thing or a state that cannot be explained because it is beyond description like in the Mandukya Upanishad. Yet it has to be spotted or experienced meaning only the experiencer knows and none else. Therefore, the best way is to make efforts life long or even through more future lives to ultimately catch up with the Truth until then happy endeavouring😊. The one and only Jagadguru Adi Sankara however said that it is possible to experience and in fact went on explaining the same for others to follow in his elaborate Bhashya or commentary on the principal non-dual texts namely Bhagavad-Gita, the Ten Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. We have to keep listening to these commentaries and practise for the grand realization to dawn on.🙏
Poojya Swamiji Pranams!! Swamiji, there is a state of mind where it goes blank. There is no thought working in the mind nor anything like enlightenment happening. It happens automatically just like that without any efforts. It appears to be a biologically buit in traint/state. After listening to all the spiritual discourses we find we are not where we were nor reached where we should be.
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The last sentence is the crux 🙏