Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda

Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Dec 19th, 2021

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Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Dec 19th, 2021. List of questions with timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:02 - What is the relationship between the reflected consciousness and pure consciousness?
18:30 - When we obtain knowledge of true consciousness, how is it that we continue to experience the current reality?
27:00 - Are the scriptures useless with regard to swadharma?
32:46 - How can we keep children involved with spiritual concepts?
37:11 - If the universe is continuously rising and falling, is the universe something different from the Atman?
44:14 - How can we resolve the conflict between our spiritual journey and responsibilities in daily life?
55:28 - Which is correct, Jiva is Shiva, or everything is a dream?
59:58 - Is all this philosophy just something that has been fed to us?
01:06:00 - How can we define God for a young person?
01:14:26 - What is the relationship between a pure mind and a scattered mind?
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@VedantaNY 2 жыл бұрын

List of questions with timestamps: 02:02 - What is the relationship between the reflected consciousness and pure consciousness? 18:30 - When we obtain knowledge of true consciousness, how is it that we continue to experience the current reality? 27:00 - Are the scriptures useless with regard to swadharma? 32:46 - How can we keep children involved with spiritual concepts? 37:11 - If the universe is continuously rising and falling, is the universe something different from the Atman? 44:14 - How can we resolve the conflict between our spiritual journey and responsibilities in daily life? 55:28 - Which is correct, Jiva is Shiva, or everything is a dream? 59:58 - Is all this philosophy just something that has been fed to us? 01:06:00 - How can we define God for a young person? 01:14:26 - What is the relationship between a pure mind and a scattered mind?

@aksharma4304 2 жыл бұрын

Superb, Happy thoughts शुभेच्छा।।

@spirituality8823 2 жыл бұрын

One Question... If The Whole Universe Is Appearance How It Is So Perfect Like Nothing Seems to be appearance...?? Everything is perfect ???

@spirituality8823 2 жыл бұрын

@@spiritualseeker. Yaa That's True... Everything is answerable by this metaphor... 😊

@DevendraSRpg 2 жыл бұрын

@janukisarcar5430 2 жыл бұрын

Jai Guru Swamiji 🙏

@mindfulkayaker7737 2 жыл бұрын

Very curious I was born and lived in this kind of Island to which one of the questioner refers for the first 36 years of my life That was the Island of Cuba where all religión education had been wiped out since 1959 For mi Hinduism and Buddhism ware exotic words in which some very “primitive Anti scientific people very far away”were still believing The word Advaita Vedanta was totally unknown to me. For me the purpose of life was to study and to get a career that would allow me to buy some good goods and beers to enjoy during the week ends. Thanks God suffering hit me very hard little by little until at present with 67 years of age I can’t sleep a single night without reading viewing or meditating something about Advaita Vedanta Spirituality or non Dualism For me The videos with the teachings of Swami Sarvapriyananda are one of the greatest blessings for our present day humanity

@levanmelikishvili4373 Жыл бұрын

Pranams Swami Sarvapriyananda ji. Amazing wisdom is pouring from your talks. Thank you for all the knowledge that you are emanating 🙏🙏🙏

@widipermono229 2 жыл бұрын

I wish I can transform my intellectual understanding upon this deep spiritual knowledge into my living experience with the grace of God, the Pure Awareness 🙏 🙏 🙏

@smitarastogi 2 жыл бұрын

We introduced our child with Amarchitra Katha books and now he loves them. His Sunday school also included them in curriculum when we suggested them.

@praneelraja 2 жыл бұрын

I would advise you to be a bit careful. Amarchitra kata foundation has been bought by a christian org about 3 years back. I dont know if it was strategic step from them because amarchitra katha books are known to keep hindu kids hooked in hinduism... Oflate amarchitra katha is promoting Jesus and Christmas too.

@aadhiaddz1 2 жыл бұрын

I bow down to the words, clarity and knowledge and words you offered swamiji

@gopinathangopalan4847 2 жыл бұрын

Aum The Most important Subject of Universal knowledge Vedanta Really great worship to Human Dhunya vaad Gurujee swamyjee Devagenam Hredyathma Namaskar Jay Hind Jay Bharat Mata ki jay VanteMataram ♥

@sankarakrishnan8707 2 жыл бұрын

1:23:38 he remembered the last part of the question "Pure mind is less thoughts or pure thoughts". Both. Remarkable attention and awareness Swami has. 🙏

@TheDeepening718 2 жыл бұрын

When we quest within our mind ‘Who am I?’ and reach the Heart, ‘I’ topples down and immediately another entity will reveal itself proclaiming ‘I-I’. Even though it also emerges saying ‘I’, IT DOES NOT CONNOTE THE EGO, but the One Perfect Existence. (which is not a soul or ego).

@jamesheinz6325 2 жыл бұрын

I have watched / listened multiple times. Not for repetition, but for retention as I once heard. I can only offer kind words and Thank You Swami Sarvapriyananda. The opening and closing Blessings are beautiful. Peace to all who read and also to those who don't.

@tvshow5108 2 жыл бұрын

Its always a great experience to watch swamis talk ....so profound , Spiritual and natural. We all are really Blessed to have you in our time. I never saw such a updated and confident subject matter expert like Swami Sarvapriyananda Ji. Thank you for sharing your valuable time and knowledge with us Guruji. Shri Ramakrishnarpanamastu.

@urvashigadekar1313 2 жыл бұрын

Charan sparsh and pranams Swamiji…..grateful thanks for clearing many questions 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@johnathanedwards8430 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swami Sarvapriyananda for your Great Kindness for sacrificing your life out of love for the Truth. Would you agree that without a desire to know the Truth, Advaita Vedanta cannot be grasp, like without the desire to know how to walk, we would be crawling? Namaste 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

@sankarakrishnan8707 2 жыл бұрын

Mumuksuthva - the intense burning longing desire for liberation, freedom and self-realisation, along with shadsampat (6 qualities), is essential to grasp the truth. You could read more about it on the internet.

@paintingforhappinessandjoy1082 4 ай бұрын

Thank you sarvapriyananda swamiji🙏🙏 it is very clear by your description that you are enlightened and you are imparting the knowledge to all of us in such clarity🙏🙏 your name suits your personality so much.. You are like Lord Krishna.. Attractive and pleasant.. Pleasing to everyone🙏🙏

@mokshajetley9244 2 жыл бұрын

Pranaam Swami Saravpriyananda ji. Stay blessed

@amiraarora3363 2 жыл бұрын

Koti koti praram swamiji🙏

@paul68150 2 жыл бұрын

Swami Sarvapriyananda is perhaps the best speaker of Non-Dualism right now in the world. I Always enjoy every single of his Ask Swami sessions.

@mahendrashukla1895 2 жыл бұрын

Extra ordinary enriching explanation. We feel immensely BLESSED.

@profangelinessurgery 2 жыл бұрын

Such clarity.Thank you so much swami

@wuppistruppi4768 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Swamiji, thank you for your wise, clever, joyful, loving way of teaching. I wish you a healthy new year and to all people. Gabi from Germany ❤🌍🙏😊

@sushmasahni7651 2 жыл бұрын

I one I

@anagha.aniruddha16 2 жыл бұрын

Jai ShriRamkrishna dev ki Jai🙏🏻 Jai ShriMahamai ki Jai🙏🏻 Jai Swamiji Maharajji ki Jai🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta New York for sharing this 🙏🏻

@sankarakrishnan8707 2 жыл бұрын

Remarkable answer to chidabasa - Swami is stunning! 🙏

@maheshseshadri490 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Swamiji for wonderful session 👌🙏🙏🙏

@jayshah8602 2 жыл бұрын

Pranam Swamiji!🙏🏼

@jramakrishna3902 2 жыл бұрын

Koti Koti Pranam to Dearest Swami🙏　You are AWESOME!😺🐱😺💕

@pankajgarg1814 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Swamiji. I tried the experiment to focus on God for two minutes. I could connect and focus. Thanks 🙏

@vinodtiwary510 2 жыл бұрын

Great...i m.blessed, i get to listen to him every morning...My humble Pranam to you, Swami ji... 🙏🙏❣️

@Igor-gb1bg 2 жыл бұрын

Ach Swami, you are of the best visitors that's happened to me and the same is true to others.... Bless from.all my heart

@janukisarcar5430 2 жыл бұрын

Jai Guru Swamiji🙏 🌹

@KriB510 2 жыл бұрын

🌟🌸blessed and happy new year Swamiji and Vedanta New York! 🌼✨

@radovanradovanovic2755 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo Swami.

@rajendraprasadrastogi7091 2 жыл бұрын

Pranam Swamiji excellent explanation of consciousness

@edelweisssymons7444 2 жыл бұрын

😇 Thank you Swami-ji.

@kingshuksaha8405 2 жыл бұрын

Swamiji , I am completely intoxicated by the way you preach Rather I find it hard to conc on anything else than 'this' Thanks Swami Sarvapriyananda Maharaj for such enlightening discourses .

@johnbanach3875 2 жыл бұрын

I have listened to many of the swamis of the Order, and although they all preach the truth, this swami delivers it with so much joy!

@graneekfinancialcapitalsol6836 2 жыл бұрын

Ooohhh SWAMI Ji. My KNEES ON THE GROUND, MY PALMS AS WELL AND MY FOREHEAD AT HOUR HOLY FEET. 🙏🏿🙏🏻🙏🕯️🕯️🕯️🕊️🕊️🕊️

@YVDurga 2 жыл бұрын

Humble Pranams Swamiji Maharaj 🙏 💐 Thank you so much for pouring wonderful insights Maharaj 🙏 Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🙏 💐 Jai Maa 🙏💐Jai Swamiji 🙏 💐

@supritisarkar7771 2 жыл бұрын

Thakur maa swamijir shrichorone ojosro koti pronam

@kekaroy2386 2 жыл бұрын

Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏼 The answers were so spontaneous & easy to understand 🙏🏼 …specially make spirituality a part of life🙏🏼❤️🌹😇

@ranadebray5440 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful answers given by you, dear Swami ji. A great amount of learning.

@alexikrystal9451 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Swami. Thank you so very, very much. You are a living lamp in the darkness.

@arpanarpokharel 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful session🙏

@Handas1111 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swami Sarvapriyananda ♾♥️♾

@lathagowda3844 2 жыл бұрын

Great Q & A session 🙏🏼

@aksharma4304 2 жыл бұрын

Superb। Happy Thoughts शुभेच्छा।।

@Acode7940 2 жыл бұрын

Here is the exact quote from William Styron’s book, “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness:” “I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity; my brain...had become less an organ of thought than a instrument for registering, minute by minute, varying degrees of its own suffering. (page 58) And [I experienced]...a curious inner convulsion that I can describe only as a despair beyond despair. It came out of the cold night; I did not think such anguish possible.” (page 64)

@ratnadas665 2 жыл бұрын

I think there is no need to ask same type questions frequently if anyone listen swamiji's previous given lectures too attentively.

@shoo1963 2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!!

@shubhadautgikar9624 2 жыл бұрын

Agree....but swamiji is giving same answer with so much interst and he never gave short answer to this question....vedanta knowledge is so deep and everytime we get new meanings from Swamiji's answer. 🙏

@venkateshjatla1462 2 жыл бұрын

Well hopefully by the 100th time it gets inside.

@krishnachaitanyaalam876 2 жыл бұрын

how to thank in words about the great gurus who got enlightened including swami sarvapriyanda serving the extended fragments of them to recognize themselves as the self.........pranams guruji.........🙏🙏🙏

@nataliejanewallace8376 Жыл бұрын

thank you

@Iyago0RoaDBoXeR 2 жыл бұрын

very good Q&A session swamiji

@Ushamurthy8831 2 жыл бұрын

Swamiji 🙏

@bhaghiappaiya9822 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you swamiji

@sangeetaverma7201 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@kanchanroplekar4748 2 жыл бұрын

Pranam swamiji i really feel myself fortunate to listen to your talks. This is one more grabe of God in my life

@babuatube 2 жыл бұрын

Pranaam Swami ji

@mokshajetley9244 2 жыл бұрын

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

@thapasashi3119 2 жыл бұрын

So beautiful explaintion

@bishalakshipaulchowdhury1126 2 жыл бұрын

Jai Ho!

@rajoshkumarpt451 2 жыл бұрын

Pranaam Swamiji

@caviper1 2 жыл бұрын

Happy new year Swami.

@drsdm23 2 жыл бұрын

Namaskar Sri Swami Maharaj

@ashcatchemable 2 жыл бұрын

Will soon be running from home to become monk 🙏❤️ i love adi dev shankaracharya 🙏

@satyamkaskar 2 жыл бұрын

don't run away, think first

@call2dipankar 2 жыл бұрын

Brahman is here & everywhere, now & always..so there's a possibility that you might understand/get/experience (though I personally don't think it can be understood/achieved/experienced) it while staying where now you are, and doing what now you are doing.

@sankarakrishnan8707 2 жыл бұрын

Good. You can walk, dont have to run. And it is a high energy thing. If that level of high-energy is not there, "monk-like" is better.

@Swarnendu_Kundu 2 жыл бұрын

@ashis singh Very good decision. Don't be distracted by the replies of your comment. Go on Om Brahma

@deepakarya3085 2 жыл бұрын

Can you actually run away from your true identity ??

@bangaloreramaprasad5877 2 жыл бұрын

good evening. refreshing questions and answer session heard on12th jan 2022

@soham1980 2 жыл бұрын

Namaste guruji🙏🏻💐😊 he is a blissful person he makes us to aware that we are blissful and by that the whole world is blissful by listening him 😊😊

@avantikavishalgautam7443 2 жыл бұрын

Happy New Year Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏

@thyagarajant.r.3256 2 жыл бұрын

Jai Ma kali

@richa4i01 2 жыл бұрын

Pure joy

@Acode7940 2 жыл бұрын

It takes "cheek" to even write this since I am no-not-nary-anyhow any Godel, but your comment reminded me that when in advanced calculus class in college i submitted an equation (I think) I called the proof of God's existence. I do think it involved taking time down to the instant, and God was what joined instant to instant. It was fun. I didn't discover "spirituality" until some years later.

@yes-girl7742 2 жыл бұрын

この出家者の頭の回転の速さが凄すぎる。本当に頭の良い人はいるんだなあといつも感心する。

@kumarsaieshrane9692 2 жыл бұрын

@@spiritualseeker. japanese

@Mars-rb9vq 2 жыл бұрын

When the seed was in the ground has nothing , when rain pours it will be alive Need this kind of teaching s for self analyzation

@sankarakrishnan8707 2 жыл бұрын

Swami has created a great problem for the mission. Atleast for me if not the mission. No other Swami can be watched. Try.

@KriB510 2 жыл бұрын

I also enjoy listening to Swami Swatmaramananda of RKM South Africa - the ‘Sri Ramakrishna - the Great Master’ playlist and the ‘Jnana Yoga’ playlist from that center on youtube. I am also a bit partial to listening to the Swamis’ talks from the Southern California RKM on youtube.

@ramramji4393 2 жыл бұрын

सादर प्रणाम 🙏

@erickbedoya435 2 жыл бұрын

❤

@shaktibhushanmaity 2 жыл бұрын

Maharaj my pranams🙏 I think New York wont let you come to Belur Math😊😊😊

@MoVieManiacSwati 2 жыл бұрын

Namaskar swamiji

@babukolappan4387 2 жыл бұрын

🙏

@ramthian 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@mythyatv2928 2 жыл бұрын

Swamiji, Katha Upanishad next episode please 😭😭😭

@anshulsoni5733 2 жыл бұрын

For those who are following Sandeep Maheshwari, this video is nectar.😌😌 I AM THAT But I can't think about that☺☺

@bmn-q1r 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏽

@nelakosigi1 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@nibirnandi4344 2 жыл бұрын

1:19:00 pure or simple mind 1:20:00 i hold the thought of Deity "Saraswati" for 2 minutes 11 seconds with her blessing ..... 1:25:20 A fast mind is a wordly mind 1:26:00 regret

@HanumanDevoteeFromBenaras 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏼ॐ

@rajeevranjan-nz4xw Жыл бұрын

Salutations!

@vijayaraghavan5298 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🌹

@TheDeepening718 2 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, I just wanted to point out that soul and ego are the same thing. If we're talking about souls, we're talking about egos. If the soul is real, the ego is real and cannot be removed and there is no illusion of separateness but a REALITY of separateness if each person is a mind and soul.

@sharauro 2 жыл бұрын

Nope kind sir. It's different. Also in vedanta there is nothing like the soul. Soul can be interpreted in vedanta as the suskhma sharira in which ego is only a component.

@TheDeepening718 2 жыл бұрын

@@sharauro When we quest within our mind ‘Who am I?’ and reach the Heart, ‘I’ topples down and immediately another entity will reveal itself proclaiming ‘I-I’. Even though it also emerges saying ‘I’, IT DOES NOT CONNOTE THE EGO, but the One Perfect Existence. (which is not a soul or ego).

@theeternal6890 2 жыл бұрын

How can I ask my questions.

@suppiahramasamypillay9735 2 жыл бұрын

@sonamchat 2 жыл бұрын

Could anyone please help me with Kali kirtan song swami ji mentioned at 48.52

@pallavi4254 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, can sm one please guide me on how can I drop question(s) in the live sessions? I couldn't find an option to do so.

@kpradeepkumar9945 2 жыл бұрын

I have to ask when we mediated on basis of ( Sheild meditation traityre) upanishad at the stage anandamaya kosh there also been some part of intellectual is presence presence in their t

@nabanitamajumdar8848 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🌸🌸🌸👌👌👌

@DarkKnight-mc5uo 2 жыл бұрын

Where is the swami shivananda life and teachings episode?? it's been quite some time since it was live

@bkgupta6356 2 жыл бұрын

What a best idea is to remember pure consciousness and don't care of reflected consciousness. When ultimately its ( ref con) not true. What is the harm in not thinking of it or avoiding it.

@Acode7940 2 жыл бұрын

My memory of what Styron wrote is that he reached a place so dark that even thought did not exist. It was then that he considered suicide. It was a long period of darkness (thought?) he went through culminating in a moment or so of utter void...not just the train wreck of a long period of reckless or negative thinking. Some suicides seem the result of the absence of thought PLUS the absence of any sense of Being.

@Acode7940 2 жыл бұрын

@@spiritualseeker. From my point of view, since I cannot state absolutely for sure he experienced absence of thought (I just really believe thought was not involved at those moments), we could use another metaphor and state that, looked at from the point of view of the time/space/causation universe(s), there is a point "when" God is incarnating as a human in which "he" loses his sense of self (Being) but has not yet taken on the instrument through which he experiences himself as a human--the sense organs/mind. All humans have this point in the background of their journey into humanness, but only a very small portion of them ever experience it. We experience Either/Or and Styron experienced Neither;/Nor-- a terrible experience. This is the model I have for clinical depression . There are, of course, other reasons people have for committing suicide. Blessings.

@mindfulkayaker7737 2 жыл бұрын

Before Columbus the horizon seemed to be the end of the world After Columbus the horizon still seemed to be the end of the world but the knowledge that there were other lands after the horizon produced a huge change in the perspective of Europeans I think that the same should happen with the enlightened sage

@vijaykrish803 2 жыл бұрын

A minor technical correction, IAS is independent from Princeton U. IAS is really as amazing as swami described it. If you put the two (Princeton U and IAS) together, I cannot think of any other place on earth which has such a concentration of the best mathematical minds. A piece of Fields medal trivia: The only two persons of Indian ancestry who have been awarded the Fields medal are both in Princeton (Manjul Bhargava at Princeton U and Akshay Venkatesh at IAS). The only other person of Indian origin who came close to winning the Fields medal (in the 1950s) was Harishchandra. He was also at IAS

@christyxy702 2 жыл бұрын

The Vedanta society in Las Vegas is in house. I thought about going but I then I think about as the Himalayas and if I can’t concentrate peace at my house, how am I gonna do it there.

@nomnom112 2 жыл бұрын

Don't overthink, just go.

@BIPINGMEHTA 2 жыл бұрын

When the 01/23/22 session of Q & A will be uploaded to KZfaq?

@ritwikgoswami6704 2 жыл бұрын

You have been in Deoghar. But you have never mentioned about Thakur Anucool chandra, the another spiritual luminary after Sri Ramakrishna.

@akhitwr 18 күн бұрын

1:19:57 Test for impure Mind

@meenal1974 2 жыл бұрын

what is mind and how is it different from brain? Also sukshma sharir (subtle body) include what if it has mind then subtle body must reflect consciousness. what constitutes the mind. if subtle body includes mind, then we can think after dying ? please answer,