Is Awareness Experienced as an Object? | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Swami Sarvapriyananda discusses the nature of awareness.
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  • @Gacha_lunna_65578
    @Gacha_lunna_6557814 күн бұрын

    The Pure Consciousness is all Intelligence Perfect, it as if comes down lower to mind-matter, it is Ignorance, but power that enable to, as if create limited illusion. It is really a miracle, this Maya.

  • @bsr8255
    @bsr82552 жыл бұрын

    The moment I start watching swamyji videos, I feel so happy and all smiles while watching. Great people doing so much for the welfare of the people across globe. 👏 🙏🙏🙏

  • @boitumelomorobane189
    @boitumelomorobane1893 жыл бұрын

    This is the first time someone has put it words and I see a clear picture without doing excessive brain work to understand. Thank you

  • @amanitamuscaria7500

    @amanitamuscaria7500

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think the difference is, he REALLY understands it himself, and has no egoic desire to appear mystic and unobtainable. It makes him a very good teacher.

  • @indranilchatterjee2673

    @indranilchatterjee2673

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@amanitamuscaria7500 Absolutely true.

  • @tstrays100
    @tstrays1004 жыл бұрын

    Another beautiful talk! Thank you Swami for expanding my heart. You always fill me with peace and calm. Truly love you!!!

  • @rajasekarkunjithapatham7021
    @rajasekarkunjithapatham70214 ай бұрын

    ❤ SARVAPRIANANTHA THE GREAT 🎉

  • @Abheek
    @Abheek2 жыл бұрын

    What a wonderfully simple example of oneness through the wave. It is not a wave, but water. No distinction remains thereafter. Thank you Swami ji 🙏🏽

  • @sudeshnamitrapal9804
    @sudeshnamitrapal98044 жыл бұрын

    Profound.Swami your speeches come to me as homework everyday to try and realise.In the process I feel so happy and and each day is a new horizon to me.Grief had led me to start listen to your speeches.At present I feel am on a journey ahead where I have left grief behind and walking towards infinity ,my conscious awareness.Cannot thank you enough.Such a positivity

  • @artdadamo3501
    @artdadamo3501 Жыл бұрын

    Inspired by wave/ocean discussion at about 12:00 Imagine a conscious ocean wave. The wave sees itself as separate from other waves. The wave realizes that one day it will cease to be, an event it calls “beach.” The thought of beach prompts the wave to question itself. What am I, really? What happens after beach? I am part, thinks the wave, of a vast, ancient ocean. I am not ocean but ocean is me. Yet, I feel separate and vulnerable and afraid of beach. What can I do to consciously realize my identity with ocean? To physically merge with ocean, I would have to cease to be. Which would be the death of me. But I can go halfway. Now and then, I’ll sit and meditate on my identity with ocean. Sitting in meditation, I’ll try to cultivate a still peaceful mental state. In mentally giving up thoughts, emotions, and physical movement, I abstract myself from myself and feel myself as ocean, vast and unlimited. Some say that at beach we merge with ocean. Seems reasonable. Now, back to meditation.

  • @kk-sy1rm
    @kk-sy1rm3 ай бұрын

    Simplified,elegant talk

  • @swamivedantanandapuri1322
    @swamivedantanandapuri13229 ай бұрын

    Pranaam maharaj🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @111rave
    @111rave3 жыл бұрын

    A Beautiful example of objectifying your awareness happened in this video itself when swamiji realized that his quote about awareness was very commendable after he said it. The tricks and jokes our souls play on ourselves for our ahankara's realization are amazing.

  • @govindapal3430
    @govindapal343010 ай бұрын

    🕉🙏lovely explanation..which bring all types of satisfaction in the heart.

  • @pujaraswant7624
    @pujaraswant76243 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully explained 🌹🌹 Gratitude to Swami ji 🙏🙏🌹🌹

  • @belapcela
    @belapcela4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for bringing this knowledge to the rest of the world.

  • @anirbanmukherjee1820
    @anirbanmukherjee18202 жыл бұрын

    Swamiji is such a person with whom a scientific observation is possible. Thank you very much.

  • @rajasekarkunjithapatham7021
    @rajasekarkunjithapatham70214 ай бұрын

    ❤A thought cannot think another thought. A feeling cannot feel another feeling.🎉

  • @jmmabram
    @jmmabram4 жыл бұрын

    Thank You

  • @Saurabhgupta23671
    @Saurabhgupta236713 жыл бұрын

    I like "the appearance of maya in me" the most. Thank-you guruji

  • @thyagarajanradhakrishan2327
    @thyagarajanradhakrishan23274 жыл бұрын

    I Love 😍 Jai Maha Guru Deva 🙏 💐 Sharano Sharanarthi 🙏

  • @duttakunal82
    @duttakunal82 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a big fan of the Swami, and also of Arnold Schwarzenegger, so it's doubly gratifying to hear a person from Arnold's land and the Swami, in the same video... "Awayuh-ness". "I'll be back.. ". :D (No offense meant).

  • @jalajamenon8664
    @jalajamenon86649 ай бұрын

    Thank you so much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @gaston8951
    @gaston89513 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful!!

  • @Husamkallangodan
    @Husamkallangodan4 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful 💙

  • @dilbagh_singh
    @dilbagh_singh4 жыл бұрын

    I extend my gratitude to you swami ji for your services to the society.

  • @moumitakundu
    @moumitakundu4 жыл бұрын

    Profound

  • @sheelapotdar737
    @sheelapotdar7378 ай бұрын

    Beautiful knowledge

  • @swamitattvavidananda7646
    @swamitattvavidananda76463 жыл бұрын

    Sri Swami Sarvapriyanandaji is a vibhuti.

  • @gitanair8000
    @gitanair8000 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much Swamiji.Pranams Sarvajiii 🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @MP-rg8dv
    @MP-rg8dv4 жыл бұрын

    Very nice swamiji, you simplified the complex matter of something and nothing or absolute.

  • @kk-sy1rm
    @kk-sy1rm3 ай бұрын

    Amazing

  • @kunalkadam1052
    @kunalkadam10522 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, sir

  • @omsingh4582
    @omsingh45824 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir 🙂🙏

  • @MrJorge7938
    @MrJorge79382 жыл бұрын

    Pure GOLD teacher!!🤗

  • @MsSumandas
    @MsSumandas2 жыл бұрын

    Yes I was looking for this answer too

  • @Thegardenhose
    @Thegardenhose Жыл бұрын

    So beautiful 🙏

  • @apurbamandal8137
    @apurbamandal81372 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing🙏

  • @TheUnsayable
    @TheUnsayable Жыл бұрын

    As always, such profound explanation by Swami Sarvapriyanand 🙏💐

  • @thedivineguidanceshheetal667
    @thedivineguidanceshheetal6673 жыл бұрын

    Greetings to Swamy jee. He is one of the distinguished authority on vedanta. I adore his style and profound way of making understandable with ease. Heartiest regards 🌈🙏

  • @mohinighosh2164
    @mohinighosh21644 жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏ur awesome Swamiji so helpful these lectures...love the pauses...space to absorb...every word u speak thank u

  • @pasupathil4113
    @pasupathil41132 жыл бұрын

    Very clear about absolute coinciousness Swamiji.

  • @thomasdowe5274
    @thomasdowe52742 ай бұрын

    Or, more simply, "I AM."

  • @VivekaVani
    @VivekaVani Жыл бұрын

    11:06 🙏

  • @atrayeeroy4501
    @atrayeeroy4501 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful! A proper answer to a relevant question. Thank you Maharaj, and my pranams to you.🙏🌺📿☺️

  • @shabnamsunil9917
    @shabnamsunil99172 жыл бұрын

    Beautifully explained. Thank you Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏

  • @anagha.aniruddha16
    @anagha.aniruddha163 жыл бұрын

    हरी: ऊॅं 🙏🏻नमस्कार स्वामीजी 🙏🏻

  • @graceelohim
    @graceelohim3 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful explanation....

  • @victoriahangula382
    @victoriahangula3822 жыл бұрын

    This class allows total freedom from intangment from material falsenes. 👌

  • @sheilaroy5376
    @sheilaroy53762 жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @mokshajetley9244
    @mokshajetley92443 жыл бұрын

    Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna Jai Sri Ramakrishna

  • @mukeshdesai2862
    @mukeshdesai28624 жыл бұрын

    0:50. ;3:00. ; 4:05. ;6:00. ; 8:00. Akaarpanyam. ;11:30. ;

  • @VivekaVani
    @VivekaVani Жыл бұрын

    1:10 👌

  • @ssudhak2
    @ssudhak22 жыл бұрын

    So much similar to Tibetan budhism

  • @noone3216
    @noone32163 жыл бұрын

    Ah, I've considered this. You get into this loop of: I'm aware. Now I'm aware that I'm aware. But now I'm aware of the awareness of my awareness. And now I'm aware that I'm aware of the awareness of my awareness.. and so on. I like to illustrate it as 2 mirrors, facing each other., you know, you get that repeating reflection and it just goes on and on and on? That. But the mind. And the awareness is you, the person looking down the infinity mirror and seeing no end.

  • @HareeKrishnaauttarakhand

    @HareeKrishnaauttarakhand

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you don't read Bhagvad geeta which is Gods words and beating in the bush here there give your own interpretation then how can you understand consciousness. First thing is no body can describe what is brahmn ,because no body can speak it ,one who realize he can not speak because it's not the subject of words, then how you can speak, that's why without mercy of the supreme soul or God no body can understand him as it is mention in upnishad

  • @hargurdevsinghchopra7673
    @hargurdevsinghchopra7673 Жыл бұрын

    Awarness can be exepreience at highest level i e highest chakra sahashara

  • @vcoachingclasses4986
    @vcoachingclasses49864 жыл бұрын

    Guru ji its good to upload small video like this

  • @desertportal353
    @desertportal3533 жыл бұрын

    Good description of awareness. The very obsession to objectify is the inherent property of duality itself. This is suffering. Buddha suggests to wake up. Duality continues as appearances but the objectifying of them along with grasping and rejection is seen for what it is.

  • @tonysoliz2513
    @tonysoliz25134 жыл бұрын

    💧

  • @iamthat8165
    @iamthat81652 жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @jiteshsejwal2821
    @jiteshsejwal28213 жыл бұрын

    Fav passages at 2:30, 3:38,7:13

  • @mad-bhaktimlabhateparam2592
    @mad-bhaktimlabhateparam25924 жыл бұрын

    Everyone please read Srila Jiva Goswami's Sat Sandharbas. Thank you.

  • @subhashchanderkaushish2007
    @subhashchanderkaushish20074 жыл бұрын

    Hari Om prabhu ji parnam, humble submission 🕉️ is an an symbolic (AKAAR) REPRESENTATION of BRAHMN very well defined in MANDUKYA UPNISHED which is a derivative result of meditation as already experienced by saints, also the point of reference for guidance. This symbol appears in the forehead in the process of meditation in a natural way. So can we call this phenomenon as an objective formation of SPIRITUAL AWARENESS? Respectful regards.

  • @Skylark-ns1mz
    @Skylark-ns1mz Жыл бұрын

    We are the parts of one awareness. Ok, but we all exist with our individual identity as a man. If we dissolve ourselves in one awareness, then we will lose our identity as a man. Then nothing comes and goes for a man whether the awareness is vast or eternal. Similarly, if a wave dissolves in the water of the sea, it loses its life and identity. There is no benefit for that wave whether the sea is vast or not. Is it like this?

  • @nitishgautam5728
    @nitishgautam5728 Жыл бұрын

    I just can't believe you sir that awareness is something non physical Niether energy not matter .. How can you be so sure ? Please if you can provide logical proof for it.

  • @souvikkumarnag6373
    @souvikkumarnag63734 жыл бұрын

    Joy Thakur !!

  • @tashilhamu4510

    @tashilhamu4510

    4 жыл бұрын

    Souvik Kumar Nag his name is sarvapriyananda not joy thakur

  • @harshverma3281

    @harshverma3281

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tashilhamu4510 he is saying jay thakur..which means hail Ramakrishna (thakur) He just added bit of Bengali (bongali) to it,😂😂😂😂

  • @tashilhamu4510

    @tashilhamu4510

    4 жыл бұрын

    Ami jaanbo ami mojak korbe

  • @pjj2490
    @pjj24906 ай бұрын

    If I don't have a. Body and mind then I don't have any awareness. In sleep I don't have any awareness. When my body and mind wake up I am aware even of my sleep. Even Awareness seems experienced through mind

  • @MP-rg8dv
    @MP-rg8dv2 жыл бұрын

    Swamiji then what's about the awareness equation that *Pure mund = pure intellect = pure chitt*. I mean thru pure mind only we realize our true self or by direct method as you told 🌹🙏

  • @tookie36
    @tookie363 ай бұрын

    Why is the subject “I”? Why not “I am the object” reliant on the subject?

  • @monikavarma4
    @monikavarma43 жыл бұрын

    Pranaam swamiji - am looking for answers to two questions - when does praana and consciousness enter the foetus? how does prrana and consciousness/aatman work in the foetus in the womb? many thanks in advance. regards.

  • @HareeKrishnaauttarakhand

    @HareeKrishnaauttarakhand

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you don't read Bhagvad geeta which is Gods words and beating in the bush here there give your own interpretation then how can you understand consciousness. First thing is no body can describe what is brahmn ,because no body can speak it ,one who realize he can not speak because it's not the subject of words, then how you can speak, that's why without mercy of the supreme soul or God no body can understand him as it is mention in upnishad

  • @anirbanmukherjee1820

    @anirbanmukherjee1820

    2 жыл бұрын

    But if can not speak... realisation is also a different awareness and speak is also.. so it is not something that is staring with born baby or something... awareness by the physical process can only start. If consciousness is one universal then it is eaternal.

  • @parvatiswamy543
    @parvatiswamy5434 жыл бұрын

    I was listening to the lectures on Srimad Bhagavad Geeta by revered Swamy Sarvapriyananda. Unfortunately all the lectures have been removed/ deleted. Like me many of the devotees may be interested to hear the lectures. Please upload the all lectures again Thanks Jai Sri Ramakrishna

  • @sunflah

    @sunflah

    4 жыл бұрын

    Spotify. Podcast called vedanta talks. There's the bhagavat Gita, along with 3 other texts that you might wanna listen to..

  • @amritkunwar3113

    @amritkunwar3113

    4 жыл бұрын

    They're available in soundcloud :) all of them

  • @dr.muralidharanmullasseri4988
    @dr.muralidharanmullasseri49883 жыл бұрын

    Everything is ok,but Guru Sreeramakrishna always like Duality than Non dual why?

  • @rollinrovn
    @rollinrovn4 жыл бұрын

    Go vegan!

  • @allnone4277
    @allnone42774 жыл бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏