The Unattached Self || असंग अहम् || by Swami Sarvapriyananda
"I am without attachment, without attachment am I, say this truth again and again, meditate upon this truth, I am of the nature of existence, knowledge and bliss absolute, I am without decay, change and death, I verily am!"
Inspired by this vedantic hymn, Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the spiritual practice of detachment.
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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.
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After going through almost all the videos of Swamiji, and being a student of Advaita Vedanta for so long. I can say that this is one of the most important lectures Swamiji has ever delivered.
@magnamia
11 ай бұрын
Absolutely! :)
@subhradeepghosh6690
10 ай бұрын
Hey! you have just stolen my words😊...
I cannot view this reverend master without my heart opening in the warmth of devotion and tears of gratitude flowing from my eyes for the clarity of teaching and purity of truth that is granted to us.
@arijitnaskar8151
3 жыл бұрын
Blessed r you🙂
@Innerexplorer67
3 жыл бұрын
True that 🙏
@candacevavra3063
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks again Swamiji! I am learning Sanskrit as I listen to your talks and want to learn more, so I got a set of Sanskrit flash cards. Namaste!
@abhakochar6683
3 жыл бұрын
Steve Bernard I resonate with your sentiments entirely ... I feel the very same for Swami ji 🙏🙏
@2006akkgmail
2 жыл бұрын
I more than agree with you sir! While some problems in life are difficult to handle, Swami-ji has helped me come to terms with them and view them from a different perspective.
I know exactly what he is talking about. I had this I AM that I AM experience when I was 19 years old. I didn't know what "enlightenment" was then I didn't even know what Hinduism was or mysticism. What I did know was that the religion I was raised in was no longer working for me and I began to really search within. My "enlightenment" came by way of vigilant introspection and asking the right and high quality questions of myself. I want to say I was guided by wisdom herself, or God or the Holy Spirit because how could I have known what questions to ask to begin with?! But I did... and I walked around in an almost trance like state for about a week. The veil was lifted from my eyes and I saw God everywhere as everything. Exactly the way Vivekananda and many other describe. My experience did not last because I was ignorant about how to further maintain it and overtime I became part of the world again but I never forgot that time. Ever since, nothing was ever enough, nothing ever compared or came close. Not for 15 years but I am now finding my way there all over again, and I am excited to return home.
@davids8443
2 жыл бұрын
I too had this same experience. In the years since I have learned that by holding on and seeking such I only got farther away from the truth of what that experience was pointing to. States and experiences come and go. But there is nothing to grasp and no one to grasp it. I am is the unchanging witness. We are always already home.
@sebastianm8028
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for sharing. There are many like us who are lucky enough to experience this at least once in their lifetime. Let us practise saddhana until our minds are clear enough to be able to bask in the sunlight that we are all the time. Let us attain Jivanmukta in this life by the grace of Holy Trio! Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
@AmazingCreationsKannadiga
Жыл бұрын
Watch baap level sadguru
@bronsondiamond2025
Жыл бұрын
I had the same experience of gaining enlightenment and falling back into the world, it's more common than you think. Even Plotinus admitted he only experienced true bliss 2 or 3 times in his entire life. We rise and fall and repeat. We are always becoming. To claim total enlightenment is missing the mark. I know you'll back on the path as many others have.
@Drew_Hurst
2 ай бұрын
Beautiful! Thoughtless-awareness-meditation is what sustains it. And will likley regain it for You too. Be blessed by The Divine ♾💚🌞
অভয়:- Fearlessness অহিংসা:- Nonviolence অসংঘ :- Nonattachment আনন্দ:- Bliss
@mrinmoylai4813
2 жыл бұрын
অসঙ্গ
@saurabhghosh4954
11 ай бұрын
Noted.
@user-yi4cn9xp1m
11 ай бұрын
Thanks great
He seems to have no ego. Never speaks of himself. This is my favorite video of his. The best.
Wonderful talk! 🙏🕉 And here is the poem Swamiji quoted: He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity’s sunrise. ~William Blake (1757-1827)
@abhishekshah11
3 жыл бұрын
You saved me a google search
@theceilidhboy
3 жыл бұрын
@@abhishekshah11 happy to help 😊
@remamenon9802
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Never was a talk so relevant to my life. I was so stressed out with college, exams, failure and life in general. The moment I saw this video, it talked directly to something deep within me and was in tears all the while of this video. It was so deep, it was so true, it was a direct experience of unattachement.
@saurabhghosh4954
2 жыл бұрын
True, I understood this is root cause of all the sorrow we go.
@Asad-kw3ty
2 жыл бұрын
👌👌 sprituality has become like my daily routine life now I understand how fool and ignorant I was ! I was seeking calmness and happiness in outside 25 years of my golden life wasted till god guided me to indian spirituality and dear swamijis I quit drug and alcohol gradually but the best years of me missed .why no school and university teaches sprituality to students? if only I knew myself in teenage years now why again school lessons are the same govs must include sprituality lessons to their schedules ? I think the biggest brands dont want humans consume less ! So they dont choose politicians who are their slave in the whole world the story is same😠
@Asad-kw3ty
2 жыл бұрын
👌👌
@balajiranganathan6535
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks wp
Such a powerful teaching. Imagine if every adolescent and teenager was taught this knowledge, and they really embodied it, regardless of their education or background, what a compassionate world would we find ourselves in.
@aaryawn
3 жыл бұрын
This exact thought comes to my mind when I get to know more and more about Vedanta Philosophy.
@aaryawn
3 жыл бұрын
The only solution to world peace.
@aaryamdev108
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@harishkapoor5165
3 жыл бұрын
अभय अहिंसा असंग आनंद
@ST-jb8vz
2 жыл бұрын
Correct
Swami Sarvapriyananda is a blessing to mankind today, even to anyone just merely heard of him let alone the showers of wisdom....
@rosappan
3 жыл бұрын
Swami is the untimely Divine incarnation of Swami Narada in this generation. Blessed as We. We have his divine Grace and company Namaskaram my dearest Guru. Apart from Shiva, I only regard You as my Guru 🙏🙏🙏
@padminimishrra2895
3 жыл бұрын
a
@kiranbathla7335
3 жыл бұрын
Profound and filled with ultimate truth, thanks swami ji
@hs0022
3 жыл бұрын
But don’t just be a fan and simply praise him try to follow the teachings which is the most important goal of his videos and what he intends for us to do.
@babuok9112
3 жыл бұрын
O
Pranams to Revered Maharaj🙏🙏🙏
Asang aham Asang aham punah punah, pranam maharaj
Pranam, pranam, pranam
SO I AM NOTHING BUT THE ULTIMATE REALITY!!! APART FROM MY BODY AND MIND TO PUT IT SIMPLY I AM NOTHING BUT THE MOVIE SCREEN!!!
No words to describe how beautiful your words are to listen too...you are a phenomenal medium of teaching words of wisdom...✌
@amitkkori
Жыл бұрын
Rrrrrr
Swami Sarvapriyananda is an amazing soul.. Forever Indebted and Grateful 🙏🙏🙏.. This lecture speaks of Heart of Vedanta..
@rnavaneeth6907
3 жыл бұрын
Ew
@tarapadapal3578
3 жыл бұрын
@@rnavaneeth6907 The lecture is brilliant।Gouri pal।Garia
@snigdhachandra9643
3 жыл бұрын
🙏 Maharaj please be with us always... please continue pouring the Divine Honey into our ears and sweeten our souls...
@premghai5024
3 жыл бұрын
@@rnavaneeth6907 ouuiuhhhkhkhhkkùķğy9⁸
@ravishankarswaminathan6768
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful... Explained with such clarity the fundamentals of Advaita Vedanta.. My salutations.
May we all hear listen and meditate on this Great Teaching that Swami Sarvapriyanada is selflessly channeling to us, a teaching so old that it beginning cannot be found and therefore its ending shall never be as long as there are suffering sentient beings. We are extremely blessed to be able to hear this teaching, it is the True Wish Fulfilling Jewel because it removes our ignorance desire hatred and attachment that are like veils hiding our True nature. Om Peace Peace Peace! 🙏🙏🙏
IMHO there is no other spiritual teacher living in this world today, that I know of, that could have explained the reality of our existence in such a profound and entertaining manner as Swami just did!
@sadhikaany4157
3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree with that ! :) :)
@RAIRADIO
3 жыл бұрын
Agree
@bronsondiamond2025
Жыл бұрын
What about me?
Oh my Allah,, What am I watching. I am discovering myself afresh.... Then who I am? Swami ji..
@simba2797
3 жыл бұрын
Same thing Sufism talks about. When you think about it everything is one ! Maulana Rumi says - I am the universe in ecstatic motion.
@shubhamsaluja9494
3 жыл бұрын
watch the mandukya upanishad by swami ji u will get your answer
@adwaitvedant3297
3 жыл бұрын
Anal haq (Aham brahmasmi)
@asamvav
3 жыл бұрын
Read Ibn Arabi to get an Islamic perspective of the same doctrine. Fusus al hikam.
@richardwiediger7298
3 жыл бұрын
@@asamvav many saints and sages have preached this truth!
Pranams to Revered Maharaj.🙏🙏🙏
हरी ओम तत्सत 🙏
Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
One of the best lectures ever heard.ll🙏🙏🙏
Even an intellectual understanding of this truth can make a big difference in our life. Pranams to Revered Maharaj again and again.
@paulreed480
3 жыл бұрын
Yes true
07:36 - "I Am" - Notice your Own presence. 11:48 - the Upādhi - Attributions on "I Am". 19:52 - the Example of Light's Unattached-ness. 26:02 - the Adhiṣṭhāna - Ground of Reality. 29:53 - the Vivarta - Appearances in "I Am". 37:48 - Nothing is attached to You either. 46:31 - What is the Nature of "I Am"? 54:13 - What is Happiness?
@nanditachatterjee4037
3 жыл бұрын
Nirmalya Majumder Thank you
@bhaveshjoshi3081
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@deveshchourasiya9785
3 жыл бұрын
💐
@sandeepsaxena3364
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks a ton!
@RubenaSinha
3 жыл бұрын
I love your teaching it makes it easy to practice in our life
Listen to this once in a while to remind me of unattached self.
@user-yi4cn9xp1m
11 ай бұрын
Detachment is real freedom
@user-yi4cn9xp1m
11 ай бұрын
Attachment bide us to samsara
I have no words to explain what I feel after hearing him every single time ,I wish I get chance to see him once in my life time 🙏🏻 Swamiji you have given my life to a totally different turn and now iam growing each day with the help of the wisdom which was available all the time but you explained it so beautifully that now everything is clearly visible .
@Swami_721
3 жыл бұрын
Same with me.. श्री: हरि शरणम् 🙏🙏
@ArjunKumar-fk1kx
3 жыл бұрын
Same here..we are indeed very lucky to hear him
@100angry
3 жыл бұрын
Well said, knowledge was available but only due to Swamiji talk , it logically reaching to my heart and turning me to the right direction in this Sansara
প্রণাম গুরুজী। জীবনে অসঙ্গকে উপলব্ধি করতে পারলে জীবন চির সুন্দর হয়ে যায়। কত সুন্দর করে আপনি বোঝালেন। কোটি কোটি প্রণাম আপনাকে।
I have learned all from Acharya Sarvapriyananda…huge respect and gratitude to him 🙏🙏
Much gratitude for shining this light of wisdom with such grounded understanding🙏🌹 Vedanta continues to open my heart & mind to the infinite knowledge, which has been hidden in my culture. I remain steady on the path of love, meditation, service, and study. Peace💓
@rattanjyot
3 жыл бұрын
You have made my life! Please accept my gratitude at your feet.
@Putinrussia1234
3 жыл бұрын
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@sudhir911
3 жыл бұрын
What a comment! Thank you thank you thank you.🙏🏽
@randomactofacommonman8596
2 жыл бұрын
Genius 🤩
@chhetrigaurav
2 жыл бұрын
ucc
It is quite remarkable that an Indian Vedanta monk would make us aware of so many gems found in the writings of our own Western thinkers and scientists that we may not have discovered otherwise. Much gratitude and reverence for such open-mindedness in a teacher coming from an Eastern background!
A masterpiece of Swami sarvapriyananda....🙏🙏 "Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu, Guru devo Maheshwara Guru sakshat, param Brahma, tasmai shri guravay namah" 🙏🙏🙏🙏 My salutations to you Swamiji.
Pronam Thakur Maa swamiji Maharaji
Bravo! This video moves to the top of my list of favorites from Swami Sarvapriyananda.
@100angry
3 жыл бұрын
Who am I , IIT Kanpur is my best till now.. first time I saw this Swamiji ..and has been my most favorite till now..and that 2 parts... Best till now.
@harikrishnaraghuraman3348
3 жыл бұрын
Each teaching is a gem
हरिःऊँ,प्रणाम, स्वामीजी.
Excellent!!! Wonderful!! Thanks and pranam Swamiji !!!!!
Revered Poojay Swami ji. Sadar pranam. Very clear explanation. Hari om.
Pranams to Swamiji. Eternally grateful to Sri Ramakrishna and His loving angels of the order......for sharing this eternal Truth. Feel so relieved and joyous.
Brilliant talk ( as usual) from Samili. True the real meaning of " upadhi"
Swamiji Excellent. Pranams
What an honor it was to meet my guru! Many blessings to you Swamiji I cannot wait to see you again someday and thank you for all of your teachings 🙏🏻🕉🙏🏻
Om Shanti 🙏
Pranam
What a joy to listen to Swami Sarvapryananda! Another wonderful talk..Highest use of the internet, surely. 💝 💝💝
The confusions of life unbelievably removed in a very simple way! A great teacher can only do this!I am really thankful to him! Now on I must practice the ' un- attachment' in every step forward in this life! I believe I can achieve that!
Thanks so much for your teachings and practices 🙏🏻🙏🙏🏻
No matter how many times I listen this specific talks, I feel amazed. 🙏🙏🙏 Swamiji
Tameva bhantham anubhati sarvam Tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhati
Thank you very very much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏
Thank you Swami ji for this wonderful teaching. I am so impressed by the depth of your understanding and your ability to communicate so precisely and clearly. I love your phrase 'spiritual bypass'. Well said. Incredible to realize that the I AM is not attached. Even attachment is only an appearance.
True Self is unattached to all objects of this universe including our body and mind. Hence we can see our thoughts as objects arising in consciousness and disappearing into consciousness .We are not attached to it.
pranam swamiji
Om namah shivay Ram Ram 🙏🙏
This is by far one of the best videos here on KZread! Thank you very much.
Pranaam🙏🙏
What a profound talk. It doesn't get any clearer than this. Thank you Swamiji. Pranams 🌺 🌺 🌠 🕉 🕉 🙏 🙏
My mind was highly tensed.. I came through this video randomly.. And i am blessed that i came across such a great lecture by one of the greatest monks today... Shat Shat Pranaam Swami ji🙏🙏🙏🙏
I am sooo happy to be grateful to swami Sarvapriyananda
Masterpiece!!! This is the panacea for all our sufferings!!
Swami ji, thank you for so eloquently explaining the secret to achieving peace of mind and how to deal with the ups and downs of life. Detachment is beginning to seem more and more appealing. Ever so grateful.
@achintyabiswas5388
3 жыл бұрын
But we don't feel the way you have reasoned out.
Thank you Swami for this fabulous lecture, it really moved me. May we all reach our full spiritual potential.
@atrayeeroy7647
3 жыл бұрын
I was told by a saint (in the real sense, as he is Very pure) to be and remain Asanga. But I hardly understood what he meant at the time. I have been reading Vedanta literature for some time, but listening is quite something else. As I was experimenting while listening to you, there were flashes in my mind that the fact is really quite simple. One has to only honestly see it. Pronam Maharaj. May Holy Mother bless you heàrtily. And Thank you.
This is a very clear talk. I am reverse to consciousness, the witness. And everything what comes after when you say I am, that is dealing with the body and the mind. It is a wonderful talk about unattachment of the witness. Thank you Swami Sarvapriyananda. ❤
Thank you Swamiji... so much depth yet presented in such an accessible manner. 💜🙏
I always find Swamipriyanadas talks uplifting and inspirational. I have to come back to to this one, probably more than once, it must be one of the most profound I have ever heard. I feel very blessed to be able to hear his talks.
Thank You Swami Ji
Pranaam maharaj
glory to Mahavatar Babaji 🇮🇳 ❤🎉😊
Really, every one needs it. It's truth
Sri gurubhyo namaha 🙏🙏🙏
A unique hymn well explained by the revered swami ji. Om!
Swamiji Maharaj, Thanks for your wonderful Lecture 🙏
Absolutely beautiful talk.
What an amazing lecture and what an amazing man. Everyone should hear this. This is transformative. Thank you Swamiji for your eloquence and kindness
@richardwiediger7298
3 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree more!
@MohanKumar-eg9qi
2 жыл бұрын
you have no idea what illogicity this chap is saying. do think a bit before you go ga- ga over this swami. keeping on repeating 'i am this that or fhe other "simply numbs the mind.
@vjayaraman1
2 жыл бұрын
@@MohanKumar-eg9qi Cant teach Calculus to a fifth grader...need to come to high school at least
@MohanKumar-eg9qi
2 жыл бұрын
@@vjayaraman1 indeed!!.so why dont you grow up and become a clg student and stop repeating this swami like a UKG kid recites nursery rhymes.
@vjayaraman1
2 жыл бұрын
@@MohanKumar-eg9qi I'm a calculus teacher...fyi
Swami! the way YOU explain is always quite amazing, simple, straightforward and full of aliveness. Gratitude & Pranams
Your lectures show the depth of your knowledge Swamiji. Thank you for the perfect explanation
🙏 Asangoham explanation is Swamiji’s master piece. Thanks &Pranams.
Captivating, lucid and imperative knowledge. As usual! S Maharaj is a rare gem. Wish I was there at RKMVD when he taught there..I was forty years too early!
Such a wonderful and inspiring teacher. Thank you Swami.
Tq swamiji
glory to sri ramakrishna 🇮🇳 ❤🎉
Thank you Swamiji
Beyond the sum of all experience, the shining sun alone knows no shadow
27:33 to 27:39 - It has to be open to everything, allow everything to happen and then completely detach… extremely powerful. Thank You Swamiji
I am thankful to Swamiji for this beautiful philosophy which has changed my whole thought towards Spirituality , it was a soulful discovery which I will practice whole life, Asangoham 🙏
glory to prabuddha mahabharat 🇮🇳 ❤🎉
So wonderful language can't express. Pranams to revered Maharaj again and again.
amazing... Swami ji PRANAM
Undeniably, greatest lecture of Gurudev. So much clarity when he explains these vedantic vocabulary.
Very enlightening lecture on Vedanta!
Swamiji pranam . I watch this video again and again especially when i pass through any crises . Your teachings help me in these difficult times . Thank you swami .
Hey Swamiji, thank you for this clarity. 🙏🏼🙏🏼
🕉 SRI MATA KALIKAYA NAMAH 🕉 🕉 🕉 🕉 🕉 🕉 🕉 🕉 🕉
"Like water off a duck's back". 💮
pranams
Most sacred youtube channel
With this class I got the answer to my questions raised in past, i am terrified and bored of this dream, when will I wake up? I am not asleep, my mind is! I am already awake. Doesnt matter if mind is asleep, I just don't have to let it transfer its qualities on me. Let it be asleep or terrified or bored! 😊🙏
@mhhhjj4190
3 жыл бұрын
Mananam Niddhidhyasan 😊
much appreciated, thank you , thank you ,namaste
🙏🙏🙏 guruji
JAY RAMAKRISHNAYA NAMAH
Millions and millions of thanks
Pronam Swamiji. If I am ever favoured by the grace of God to meet you in person in Belur Math Kolkata, I cherish the fond desire to lie prostrate on thy holy feet and seek your holy touch for sustaining my flittering spiritual awakening. 🙏🙏🙏