Pure Consciousness: Still Point at the CENTER of the Mental Storm
When the mind's turmoil becomes overwhelming, it can be impossible to maintain your attention on pure consciousness at the center of your being. But, you can discover those mental storms to be harmless collections of thoughts and emotions, as insubstantial as a soap bubbles.
Your essential nature is consciousness or awareness by which all mental activities (vrittis) are known is called atma, the true self, the inner divinity that is sat chit ananda, limitless eternal consciousness. That consciousness is reveals the vrittis of your mind (manas) without being affected by them, like the sun is unaffected by what it shines upon. Atma is the sakshi, the independent observer or awareful witness of all your thoughts, emotions, and perceptions.
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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After years as a seeker, I finally came across your wisdom, Swamiji. It's like finding water hidden deep in the ground after a dry period. So called Gurus crossed my path one by one. Somehow it seems I have found out of the forest of Samsara. Thanks from Austria, Swamiji!
@mystikcamaleon
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100% 😊
I am so glad I found your channel Swamiji! Your teachings are so clear and easily understandable, I could not have asked for a better teacher! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 🙏🏻😌
Thank you. This brings me so much comfort, it really helps me 🤍 I'll come back to it many more times in the future 🕊️ Peace, love and joy to all who come across this comment, you will be okay 🤍
Infinitas gracias🐣, Swami Tadatmananda🌟,por ser nuestro maestro💫, en la comprensión y el conocimiento , que es la Meta de Vedanta⭐⭐⭐. Gracias, graciaa, gracias por los subtítulos en español😍 . Desde Chile, abrazos sinceros.🍁💖🍁💖🍁
@danielestilo
2 жыл бұрын
Grande Ingrid! Awante Advaita Vedanta 🙏 Disculpa, como pones los subtitulos en español? Me encantaria mostrarle estos videos a mi Madre pero ella no sabe ingles.
@ingridcanales8165
2 жыл бұрын
@@danielestilo Estimado Daniel, feliz de poder ayudarte. Es muy fácil, mira el extreno superior derecho del video, verás 3 puntos organizados verticalmente, presiona allí y te aparecerán varias opciones, presiona donde dice Subtítulos, y elige Español, así de simple😉. Desde Chile un abrazo sincero🍁💖🍁
@danielestilo
2 жыл бұрын
@@ingridcanales8165 Muchas gracias!
@ingridcanales8165
2 жыл бұрын
@@danielestilo saludos cordiales, feliz de poder ayudarte 💫✨
Great great great clearance of mental turmoil and reminding our true nature. No more messing with false mind 🤜🤛
In only a little less than 20 minutes, you have destroyed my ego for the past 50 years. Please accept my humble three bows of immense gratitude. Thank you 🙏 Thank you 🙏 Thank you 🙏 For you teaching of liberation through perfect perception!
Thank u Swami ji you give Perfect Wisdom to Humanity with Selfless service that God gives u. You do good service to remove illusions from Mind of all Human Races. In my Life I am never get Solution and Experienced Consciousness properly. I am Confuse and in illusion, even after doing lots of Spiritual Practices dharma , rituals like Worship diety Gods. Meditation etc. But you Give Solutions to my Problems about Spiritual Consciousness easily . I am Happy with u Swami Ji u make kindly, Compassion to help this World to remove from illusions . OM OM OM OM 🙏🙏🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷🌷
Your channel is a wonderful library Swamiji. … a solid Sat Sangh. I can not thank you enough. 🙏🙏🌹 🌹
Beautiful illustration of mind as bubbles floating in consciousness 👍🏻🙏
The best teacher. My namaskarams to swamiji. I am very fortunate to listen his teachings. I don't have words to Express my feelings and happiness. Anantha koti namaskaramulu to all gurus, parama gurus, guru paramparas of all paths of all traditions.
This was extremely well explained in an understandable way. The analogy of the bubbles was very on point when explaining the vrittis jumping around in the mind. Thank you. Excellent channel.
Wonderful clarity of vritis and conciousness.Thanks you Tadatmanandji
Unbelievable, thank you so much 🙏🏼
Truly Brilliant visuals and explanation Swamiji!
Aatmiya GURUJi.. Hare Krsna. Experiencing greater, higher HAPPINESS hearing, listening understanding and Your Shiksha again and again. Thoughts/Emotions/Sensations are Changing CONSTANTLY trying to disturb CONSCIOUSNESS which is ever UNCHANGING in Nature. NOW, am trying to ignore Vrities and focusing on ATMA, CONSCIOUSNESS. Loving you one and all Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
😇 Listening&Learning. Thank you Swami-ji.
When true understanding is found every moment becomes joyous if you find wisdom like yours Swami Tadatmananda is precious thank you for your insightful lecture .
I am just loving these lectures! Thank you, Swamiji! 😊
I think I experienced a similar feeling as you did after watching your video. It really hit home for me. I have listened to it at night In bed countless times, and now I don't take my mind so serious as before. Thank you!
Wow Amazingly simplification of complex topic. Its a blessing to listen to your teachings 🙏 🙏 🙏
Thank you Swami , ancient vedantic teaching are illustrated in a clear and simple form .
Pranam Swamiji. Wonderful explanation. I am also disciple of pujya Swamy Dayananda. I did 3 months course in 2000 at his feet.
I know that's too late for comments, but I can't let to register here, my profound admiration and respect for the clarity and simplicity of Swami Tadatmananda, really a great Vedanta teacher. I make my reverence to your deep knowledge and your clear understanding my dear Master.
🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿I am from South Africa 🇿🇦, I’m so blessed in every breath for the knowledge I have attained
Brilliantly described 🙏
No one, could have explained our "True nature " Our true self, so beautifully as you , respectful Swamiji. My humble Pranams .🙏🙏
Amazing content once again. I believe you and Rupert Spira to be the best teachers of non duality.
Indeed it's a blessing from Swami Dayananda Saraswati himself to have bumped into your channel. 🙏 I I had met Swamiji in Arsha Vidya headquarters in Annaikatti way back in 2013. He blessed me immensely and gave me an apple. I can resonate with every word that you have uttered on the torment that the mind suffers and struggles with these vrittis . the struggles of my mind has now reduced to a great extent by the grace of Devi.🙏🌺 I had a wide range of deep spiritual experiences which stirred up a great deal of muck which was unimaginable to process. Slowly, it settled and some clarity dawned. Very recently, I had this experience of falling into a black hole after which more clarity emerged in my inner space. Now frequently , during my sleep, I feel I am enveloped in a complete deep dark space and I realise this as I wake up, not when it is actually happening. I looked for many scriptural references to understand what was happening within me. I am unsure if I could draw any parallels so far. May I request you to give me any scriptural reference to these experiences and throw some light on this.🙏🙏 I do not have much knowledge of the Vedas and my quest for knowledge has intensified. I had a deep urge to read Nasadiya Suktam, which I was just not able to comprehend. While I did a search on KZread for the commentary, your channel was the first to appear.🙏🙏 It's indeed God's will that I am crossing path with you as a seeker! With much gratitude. Sree Matre Namah 🌺
Great explanation 👌 Clearly explains about Consciousness, thoughts, emotions & senses. Bubble metaphor is easy to understand and gives much clarity
Priceless knowledge, thank you very much.
wow. I didn't even know what I came here to learn, but this discussion & explanation was phenomenal. Thank you so much.
So thankful to you swami 🙏🏽
Amazing explanation..concept of floating bubbles..perfect..Thank YOU Guruji.
I found you and your channel some years ago, and from time to time i still need a refresh, for a cleansing and clearing, when getting affected and attached too much by evil surroundings.... thank you thank you...
You've made it perfectly clear. There is immense gratitude in this heart.
Much love swamiji from 🇰🇪
I appreciate your channel and the information you are providing so much! Thank you for your hard work 🙏🏻 This video alone has helped me immensely!
Very lucidly expressed!🙏🙏🙏
Pranams Swamiji , pure joy to listen to you each time and this one is priceless ! 🙏
Another wonderful teaching of Swamiji You are the perfect teacher I had heared this principles hundreds of times before but I had never understood them as well as when you explain them. Thank you
Thank you Maharaj for your wonderful talk🙏🙏🙏 🙏🙏
Well explained. Thank you swamiji.
Very good example from your experience 🙏🙏
4:44 "Why do you take your mind so seriously?" Wonderful! Now, on to the rest of the video. "The goal of Vedanta is not to have a perfect mind; the goal of Vedanta is to have perfectt knowledge." Magnificent! Fun fact: my endocrinologist's first name is Satya.😊 Dr. Satya Krishnasamy. Maybe i will learn what samy means.
@radh8640
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@David Collins The name *Samy* is evolved from the name *Swāmi* Satya Krishnaswāmi means Krishna, the true lord Satya Truth Krishna Krishna Swāmi Lord / Master 🙏
Thank you so much,you tell things in such a simple way,even a non vedanti will understand. you so openly told about your emotional turmoil in initial days,normally people will hide it when they become famous
Prnaam 🙏 Your channel has been a solid Sat Sangh Swamiji for last few years. It has become a wonderful library as well:). 🙏🙏🌹🌹 Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Guru ji , you are a good teacher your knowledge has transformed my thinking pattern. Thank you
Swami Infinite gratitude for your love and affection that reached your friend here in Brazil... Gratitude
Profound teachings rendered in such a simple manner! Thank you Swamiji!!
Thank you Swamiji. Very lucid ...great clarity.
I am still trying to scratch the surface but I found a great help in your teachings, yours metaphors and all the resources that you put in your presentation make the knowledge so palpable and comprehensible. Thanks a lot for your time and dedication 🙏
@redpillmatrix3046
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Do you meditate ?
No words to express gratitude. Thanks alot. 🙏🙏
Aatmiya GURUJI... Hare Krsna. Yes, my true Nature is PURE, Unchanging, eternal Consciousness. However Vrities (thoughts/feelings/sensations) constantly keeping appearing/disappearing in Consciousness it is demanding persistent efforts of forgetting *I Am Not Vrities* but #I Am Consciousness# Shifting FOCUS from Vrities to CONSCIOUSNESS. Loving you one and all Now and HERE in this Light and Moment.
Pranams Swamiji, thank you for sharing teachings in such a special way!🙏
Om Shanti ... Thank you very much..
Your teachings are priceless and we are blessed to have you . I thank God for you . Thank you so much Swami ji 🙏
Salutations and my hearty thanks to Beloved Swamiji for the excellent and lucid presentation! “ Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God “.
This is good 🙏 The lap of Maya/Shakti always coaxes us back to the “center.” We think the storms are negative, but it is all Vidya Maya. All points us towards the calm eye and send us that direction whether we realize it or not. To paraphrase Meister Eckhart: We see demons, but those are really angels trying to free us from the earth. 🙏
Thank you Swami ji, this was just what I needed to hear today! 🙏🏼
Thank you Swamiji for teaching this valuable perspective.
Thanks dear teacher. Your lessons have greatly improved my life
Thank you, Swamiji. This is a blessing for me.
Incredible. Waheguru 🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️
Thank you Swamiji 🙏Namaste! Swamiji, a thought, for example, 'The debt bill is coming soon 'emerges a lot during my meditation .this thought bursts immediately and emerges soon again. Thoughts are not real.But this thought 'The bill is coming' can stir the mind storm fiercely as well as its consequential thoughts so that I am totally lost and have no perspective at all. It affects me a lot. And when I finish my daily meditation, the bill comes in front of me, so real that I can not deny it. Thoughts can be harmless, but the worldly reality is so cruel . No any question, just think of this and share. Thank you for so vivid teaching again.
@k14michael
3 жыл бұрын
Bills are real, so pay it!
@lnannie8446
3 жыл бұрын
@@k14michael sure, seems no other choices
I thank the Universe for You. Thank you. Om Shanthihi Shanthihi Shanthihi
Thanks Swami. That was super clear!
Thank you Swamiji...such a relief to have perfect knowledge rather than a perfect mind!
Thank you Swami ji for explaining the concept very clearly. It helped to meditate for few minutes once in while without any disturbance or need not to focus too much.
Guru Devo namaha 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Thanks Swamiji. So mind is basically the sensations, thoughts and emotions and it appears or disappear in the consciousness. Without consciousness there is no existence for the Mind.
Beautiful! Pranams Swamiji 🙏
I love the bubbles metaphor. Very enlightening
Superb swamiji
Pure gold
What a beautiful video. Thank you, Swami!
Wonderful teachings Swamiji. Teaching the fundamentals of vedanta in such lucid way I think any novice can easily grasp it. Accept my humble Pranams swamiji. Similarly I would be happy if you teach the most difficult subject, that of transcending body mind ego living in the reality as the reality without an iota of doubt. Thank you so much swamiji.
Genuine compassionate sharing of tender awareness, thank you!
This is pure GOLD for the seekers and the students who are stuck in the middle in this journey. Can't thank you enough Guruji. Koti koti Pranam. How can I contact you?
This is great! 🙏🏾 thank you
thanks for sharing all your thoughts and teaching with me/with us!
Thanks swamiji for this wonderful explanation on pure consciousness in a simple and lucid way. I will practice and implement in my day to day long life and be peaceful as far as possible.
Given that the essence of the human problem is the identification with Vrritis and failure to know oneself as pure awareness, and given that the only way to conquer the vrritis is to gain the sure knowledge that one is limitless infinite awareness, this surely means that the start of spiritual practice is to become aware of being aware, abiding in awareness, since this moves us away from the Vriitis I to our underlying substance, and the middle and end of spiritual practice is this self same self inquiry. I.E. the traditional initial vedantic practice of karma yoga etc are only somewhat accomplishing indirectly the same separation of the vrritis from one s true self as awareness, but most mature modern persons are ready for the direct path of self inquiry, this inquiry distils the essence of all other spiritual practices hence the genius of ramana Maharishi s version of Vedanta, perfectly suited to the needs of the modern mind, whereas traditional Vedanta more suited to the social structure of Indian society which has more devotional and ascetic atttitudes.
@k14michael
3 жыл бұрын
Well said!
Om shri gurubhyo namaha 🙏🌹🌺🌹🌺🌼🍁
Que instrução valiosíssima!! Gratidão Swamii!!
WOW Swamiji - So On Point… !
Beautiful and calming. Thanks.
Please keep posting your divine teachings frequently
@fernandoruiz2719
3 жыл бұрын
Every Saturday
Very nicely explained . Swamiji pronam
This a beautiful way to describe EMPTINESS....thank you...!!!
@carlosaguirre410
5 жыл бұрын
Vedanta..the way to the absolute truth..
We live in a world where few people have any idea that it is possible to find inner peace. Powerful distractions pull us in many different directions. None of them advance us in any meaningful way. Is this condition unavoidable? Is it in the nature of every human being to seek escape from that which binds us to a lesser existence?
Thank you for your great teaching! 🙏🙏 I have some extraordinary experiences that's why I can easily grasp it. Thanks ISHWARA for those experiences. though I am struggling at the moment. But I believe that one day I will have reach that point. According to my knowledge, it is very difficult to understand for those who don't have spiritual experiences or don't have any spiritual knowledge. Without knowledge and experience, it's very difficult to grasp. Because it's beyond our mind, body, intellect and perception. At the moment I am facing some challenges but by those vedanta's knowledge and some extraordinary experiences, I am able to face those challenges. Thank you very much गुरुजी! 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🕉️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
🪵🙏 Pranams Swamiji
Namaste Swami Ji
Thank you Swamiji
Wow.. amazing thanks swami ji
Thankyou swamiji😊
the thought is a mere bubble, in fleeting , insubstantial collection of name and forms
Swamiji's Guru enlightened him by saying, "why do you take your thoughts so seriously?" Another great teacher, Huston Smith, who has written extensively on religion, published back in 1958 a superb book, "The World's Religions," once went to a Zen center. He found the prolonged sitting to be quite miserable, all his joints were hurting, and he went and complained to the Zen master. The master struck him with a verbal bolt of lightning by saying, "ah, pain, health, these are all distractions. Set them aside and move on." And sometimes all it takes is to listen to a joke to break into a laugh and release the joy within. This web page featuring Huston Smith and Bill Moyers is superb: billmoyers.com/content/wisdom-faith-hinduism-buddhism/ I see, more and more so, that Swamiji uses Buddhist teachings and practice extensively. Nothing inherently wrong in that of course, but Hindu Gurus usually avoid the word "Suffering," which is constantly used by Buddhists. The Buddha did say that Dukkha exists. But our entire lives are not dukkha. Dukkha is not the essential nature of our lives. Yes, we feel like sh*t at times. We have pain. Financial strain. Emotional trauma. All kinds of things. It becomes very valuable to become an observer, to learn and practice mindfulness. There we go again, a Buddhist approach. Which is fine, really. It is invaluable to study and blend the teachings of Vedantha, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen, to really understand things. Buddhists stick to the word "Mind," and never venture into discussing Aathma. The Buddha persistently declined to talk about the Aathma. So Buddhists declared that their belief is in "Anaatha," or "no Atman." I sincerely believe that this is not what the Buddha intended. He just felt that such a discussion of the Aathma is not the way for us to be enlightened, rather that we need to follow what he called the "Noble Eightfold path." Honestly, if I hear the word "Suffering" once more, I'm going to throw up! :)
Thank you oh kind Sir and gratitude
Thankyou. Wonderful communication.