List of questions with timestamps: • 6:25 -- How to know the Self when It cannot be objectified? Is inference sufficient? • 27:30 -- While we agree that waking, dreaming, and deep sleep are experienced in consciousness, why can't we say that they are real instead of unreal since they are indeed experienced? • 44:50 -- If the realization of atman is an experiential reality, then why is there a logical conflict between different spiritual traditions? Does it mean that the realized master's have different experiences? • 54:35 -- If consciousness illumines Maya, then why does it need the support of Maya to realize itself?

I have listened to many of his talks over the last year. I am an Assistant Professor and he is one of the best teachers I have come across on any subject, but certainly the best on non dualism Advaita Vedanta. Uplifting to hear him recite whole passages from The Upanishads in fluent Sanskrit. His references and direct quotes are so varied and diverse. From ancient texts of different religions to neuroscience and quantum mechanics, all delivered with a sweet smile, great anecdotes and wonderful sense of humour where necessary. One day I will travel to New York and pay homage to this great teacher.

Swamiji...your audience is 'universal'...we are all eagerly waiting in different time zones for your unmatched talks! When you talk, the whole universe stops to listen!!! Pranams!!!

Swami ji , each of your talks takes to the next realm. Your words pierce right into the ignorance. Gratitude Swami ji for adding all fragrance to non-duality with your chiseled words coming out of all deep studies and contemplations you have been doing through. Bow down to thy holy feet Swami ji.🙏💐🙏

Thank you for still continuing even without people in the seats. I really appreciate you more and more every video. Thank you Swamiji thank you 🙏

Wonderful to have you back Swamiji. Your talks give us immense strength and courage. A big thank you to your team to make this happen. We salute the ER professional for the great service!

We are all here Hon. Swamiji🙏

Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏻

If we try to understand Consciousness without the help of the teachings of Sri Ramkrishna we will never be able to achieve our goal. The classic example of a cloud covering the sun, when the cloud passes the sun becomes visible although it is always there, similarly when the veil of ego is removed by HIS grace Consciousness will be revealed. In this Kaliyug He came in the form of Sri Ramkrishna to teach the world the highest philosophy with simple stories and illustrations.

Such Profound Wisdom ... feeling blessed. Koti Koti Pranam Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏

Pranams Swamiji ❤

Swamiji, Namaskar 🙏 I am a Tibetan living in Los Angeles. My name is Pema and I listen to you when ever I get a chance. It makes me feel good and informed. I am Buddhist by birth and still am. Thank you. I may have a question for you next time. Thank you very much for all your videos.

What a profound knowledge you have , I am blessed to come on your channel.

Koti koti pranaams Swamiji. You keep me going through good times and bad (which of course are just an appearance in consciousness) 🙏

Thank you Swami, you are truelly bridging the missing gaps of the seeker! I am so gratefull for your dedication and your excellency in teaching! Be blessed...

Swamiji🙏you are simply amazing superb words cannot express you are our this generation's Swami Vivekananda Jr. God bless you 🌹

Extremely wonderful in depth explanation of Vedanta philosophy. Pranams to Revered Maharaj.

Pranam to Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏 Gratitude towards all the team members who are making this possible in this crucial time. 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you very much for such illuminating talk.

Pranam swami ji

I can listen to swamiji all day long!!! Pranam Swamiji! 🙏🙏🙏

Thank you so much to swamiji, the Vedanta society, the IT team and everyone involved! We're blessed to have you! :) Such a beautiful talk again as always! You really are chaning the lives of so many around the world! 🙏🏽🕉

Just outstanding. Thank you Swamiji.

Every time it's deeper and Enlightening!!

Namaskaram Guru 🙏🙏🙏

এত অসাধারন সব আলোচনা ,অথচ এমনই দুর্ভাগ্য ইংরাজী তে বেশীরভাগ আলোচনার জন্য অমৃতকথার সঠিক অনুধাবন পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ করতে পারিনা।মনটা খারাপ হয়ে যায়।

Swamiji, Your patience, clarity and communication is matchless! May you continue to inspire us towards Self realization!!!

Really thankful to this Great Master . I don’t know what blessings I have that I accidentally came upon Swamiji’s ( with Deepak Chopra ) interview on KZfaq a couple of years back. That is when I started listening to his lectures. No words can express my gratefulness oh great master 🙏🏽🙏🏽 . All of us who hear you are really blessed 🙏🏽🙏🏽

22:30 - feels like swamyji is explaining from his own direct experience... Pranams...

Namastae swamiji🙏we in India are listening to you with heart and soul..thanking you for answering questions that clears our doubts too..

Thank you Swami. Felt enlightened.

Swami ji it's grace to hear u

Swamiji. As always your clarity is “out of the world”. Grateful to have a realised “person” helping us understand Vedanta through your commentaries on all commentaries & answer relevant questions arising in us sadhakas. 🙏

Pranam Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏...

Pranam Maharaj and Pranam to your dedicated team Salute them Eagerly wait for your sessions 🙏🙏

Thank you Swami. You are my rock in the illusionary tempest of inactivity!

Thank you, Swamiji, and everyone who helps make these videos.

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

Good morning Swamiji...from Kolkata.. Wonderful talks ... Thanks for all yours Grace and Light

Namaste Swamiji, Please restart the Gita class when it's possible. Greatly miss your Gita classes

Thank you Swamiji

Thank you Swamiji.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Your words clear our doubts and provide so much clarity. We are greatly indebted to you🙏🏼

Thank you Soo much...SOTOKOTI PRONAM SWAMIJI🙏🙏🙏

Great to see you Swami.

Pranam Swami Ji Thanks for the previous teachings You are giving to us. I have really no words to thank you Thank you agaim

Pranams Swamiji.. Every time we listen to your lectures, there is great sense of peace and divinity, a feeling of upliftment... 🙏🙏 Koti koti pranams

My prostrations to Swamiji. Now that Swamiji is back we will be blessed more with his recent wonderful learning interactions during is study and also get to continue of Bhagavad Gita from chapter 3 Verse 17 on wards! Sincere thanks to the team behind that is making this invaluable thing happen. Thanks a ton.

Swami ji namaste...thank god u also appeared from the "sunn smadh" state or absolute state to manifestation state..haaa.. we missed u. Whenever I listen to u I feel like I'm listening to the meaning of verses in Sri Guru Granth Sahib (living guru for Sikhs today). There is lot of similarity I can see. I wish I can sit with u and share my learning on advaita from Sri guru Granth Sahib Ji.

I am here too / i love it

Again feeling blessed and with immense gratitude in my heart I bow down to you Swamiji for this wonderful enlightening knowledge session.I also Express my gratitude to all those through whose efforts this knowledge session could reach to us.Pranam to all of you 🙏🙏

Namasthe Swamiji.When someone asked me the same Q about SELF as subject I wasn't able to give correct answer .ofcourse it is my ignorance. Today I am happy to get a perfect answer .Tnk u.🙏

i will fill those chairs every single day... thank you swami and team.. !!

Superb q nd A session ... Loved it....pranam Swamiji

Thanks Swamiji!...That you spoke about the similarity of Buddhism and Advaita pointing towards the same IT, I am so glad you humbly pointed to that Truth; and reminds me of what both of us so positively discussed and debated! The Brahman of Advaita is same as Void of Buddhism! - in as much as they both pointing to a unknowable reality of that Source (IT) in the best possible way of expressing IT with dualistic language of this 'transactional' world! And when I say the following I say it very humbly but have to say it - the sentimental foolishness and/or arrogant (intellectual) foolishness (again mere words only!) in humans including the religious minded or spiritual minded people keep interfering in expressing the truth in the manner it can be pointed to equally (from all schools of thoughts). Understanding that any mystical experiences AFTER ALL are ONLY experiences in this existence and NOT beyond this existence...We need to stop making others as Gods and the Realized ones and not blindly follow anyone, and be our own God! Realize our own Divinity or Warriorness (again words only!) - as my great Warrior Swami Vivekananda so ardently spoke about... As you suggested, I have read more widely including Osho and Alan Watts and have contemplated further and humbly believes that I have come closer to living at the Source :)...My presence is as much as just 'in' this world as it is 'of' this world. Thanks again for your humble existence and presence amidst this humanity. Soham! P.S. Probably you may have already read, but if you get a chance, pls read Osho's - Tantra: The Supreme Understanding, and Alan Watts' - The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are

Thank you Swamiji for your brilliant answers to wonderful questions. You are a beacon of light. Please stay safe.🙏🙏🙏🌷🌷🌷

Thank you for explaining the self in the first part of this question-answer session. I was struggling with this very same question. Thanks also to the person who framed the question so well.

Swamiji🙏

God bless you Swami, and everyone watching this! 😊 😁😀

Swami, your clarity, humbleness and the incredible grasp of the scripture let’s you aim your arrow of enlightenment straight to my Atma. I feel an awakening approaching. Is it possible without meditation? Namaskar. I was going to wish that the universe conspires to facilitate your journey but listening to you I realise that that would just demonstrate my lack of understanding your message. What can Brahman say to Brahman.

Thank you Vedanta NY

@31:45 Bradley. - what appears is not real and Reality never appears 🙏 Pranams Swamiji 🙏

Thank you 🙏

Amazing lecture by an incredible soul 🙏🙏🙏 Enlightenment thru internet @ 35:20

Gratitude

Beautiful answers. It gets me a feeling I'm pursuing philosophy and psychology education here. :)

💕🤗🌾🍃Hari Hari Thank you 💕🤗🌾🍃🕉

Brilliant explanation

I just washed my hands few moments ago. After that I was looking for my gamcha (a thin towel) all over the room but unable to find it anywhere. I just took few moments and calm down my mind a bit. Moment later I realized that the towel is in my neck which I am using as mask! ~ Moment ago.

Profound. Pranaams.

this too shall pass ✌️

Thank you for this session and making it available for us in the unmanifested form :) please try to have more of these Ask swami sessions the answers are very relevant during the enquiry process...

Swamiji, Apni Sanyasi manus, boyesheo almost amar babar kachakachi. Apnar charan sporsho, Shastange pronam janiye Khoma prarthona kori🙏.. .. parle khoma koredeben🙏. Ebar ami agya chai.🙏🙏🙏🙏 ..(khoma kore deben Baba🙏). Apnake somman kori prochando.. Apnar health are well being prarthona kori. (Bhalo thakben are Khoma kore deben baba🙏).

🙏 swamiji, I am here.

HARE KRISHNA, OM NAMO NARAYANAYA SWAMII

Thank you for sharing

Respect.

Missing you a lot

Swamiji Namastye, I listens your every video, very knowlegable and helpful on this spiritual path to remain calm and move foeward to reach to parmatma ,thanks for your great contribution One questions arises - when we say every thing atound is illution , projection of ego , all play of maya ,temporary- then when somebody is doing wrong karma it should not count true or meaningful when it is only maya ? I dnt know my question is making any sense but i think knowlege and discrimination is the key of this spiritual journey 🙏

Swamiji. Thank you for your talks. I have been following many and they have been immensly helpful to my spiritual path! I'm a big believer of learning from different point of views. I believe that the furthest the origin of the point of view the greater the learning potential. I love how you always draw connections between the Advaitan point of view and that of other spiritual traditions. I have never heard you mention Daoism. I also follow that tradition with great interest and love the concept of ultimate reality of a flowing Dao from which all forms emanate. Could you ever consider drawing a parallel between Advaita and Daoism? From two such traditions which emanated independently in different cultures we are bound to get a nice lesson in examining their differences and similarities! Thank you in advance for your consideration ! 😊

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The joke in the start had me laughing out loud! So funny :D

Namaskar Swami ji, Please restart your lectures on Gita from where you left ie 3rd chapter. I don't find anywhere such a systematic series of lectures on Gita, which is so very useful for self study. Hope God will get it done from you at the earliest.

very nice

Very nice👍👏🌹.

Thuriah is the Subject. According to Vivekananda, when you meditate, self looks back itself, so meditation you experience the Self as subject looking back subject itself.

I've once seen a western interviewer looking at Papaji, and firing the first question: "Who are you?" :D Papaji answered (after laughing) "I an That"

Pranams Swamy ji, How to switch on with Bhraman to Maya, Maya to Bhraman in every breathing 🙏🙏🙏

Pronam

Tejaswi, it is not unreal, it is illusion; Shankara was precise with his choice of words. He said Jagat "mithya" (illusion), not asatyam or unreal. Illusion is not unreal!

Another example I have encountered is the "concept" of black holes - something from which not even light can emerge, due to its intense gravitational force. You can only infer its presence through what can be discerned from the events horizon, the edge of the black hole. Is a black hole real? Or, is it simply a concept that is inferred? Do we need to "see" a black hole to know that a black hole exists? What about the dark side of the moon? Never "seen" but clearly inferred.

Respected Swamiji 🙏my humble request - in near future it would be great if you can explain the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

What are your insights on astral travel and astral world are they real? And can we meet the dead through astral projection??

Is there something beyond thoughtless awarness in meditation?is there anything deeper than that?

The notions of Self-knowledge and Self-consciousness can be tricky. The eminent R.D. Ranade wrote that 'the Self can become an object to himself... Self-knowledge or Self-consciousness is the ultimate category of existence ('A Constructive Survey... ''). Can it be said that Consciousness is Self-reflective? Thank you, A. Martin.

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Pranam, please consider my question : how apaurushey of Vedas established or proved by Advaita Vedanta?

Pls do a playlist on Swami vivekanand literature on vedanta

What is initial singularity. How was it created.

Calvin, don't try to comprehend the Self using your faculties, using mind. Self is the Turiya, the fourth, the common undercurrent cutting across the 3 states of mind: Jagrut, Swapna, Sushupthi (waking, dream and deep sleep). Think; where are you during deep sleep? How do you infer that you were in deep sleep? Hint: what's happening during deep sleep? Figure this out and you are there! 🙏

Please upload the latest Ask swami session in youtube. We can see it. It says it is a private video