Consciousness and Self in Vedanta | Swami Sarvapriyananda @ University of Michigan

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In this discourse, Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks at the University of Michigan on the nature of consciousness and self in Advaita Vedanta.
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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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Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

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@stevenmccarthy112 3 жыл бұрын

This is one of the most important voices in the world today. I have found a goldmine

@sumukhhegde7161 3 жыл бұрын

Hindus have been speaking out about the "caste, cow and curry" portrayal of Hinduism in American schools-a sad legacy of continuation from the British and German highjacking of our narrative. Hindu American Foundation is an important organisation trying to set things right and place the power of narrative back to the Hindus. Kindly spread the word and do as much as you can. Thankyou.

@khamnung-saowa 2 жыл бұрын

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@sarkarkitchen9467 2 жыл бұрын

Truly a goldmine.

@VijayKumar-er5jd 2 жыл бұрын

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@sumukhhegde7161 2 жыл бұрын

@Anonymous what you don't understand is that these ppl have asserted their "adhikara" as the most important dispensers of vedic knowledge without the consent of traditionalists. And they are doing injustice to our Shastras by misinterpreting it.

@funkymoonboots1971 5 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite teachers at the moment. I have recently discovered the Upanishads and feel blessed to find exactly what I wanted in a teaching. It fits perfectly with my modest but hard earnt self realisation. Many dark years have gone before me to find the light. I put my hands together in gratitude!

@adityatiwari8826 5 жыл бұрын

What are you other fav teacher... Please tell as i have started to explore this aspect of knowledge

@RaviTrivedix 5 жыл бұрын

Swami Vivekanada wrote extensively on Upanishads, so his complete works are a great collection. In terms of KZfaq speakers on Upanishads - you can listen to - Sri M - Satsang Foundation, Mooji ji (channel is Moojiji). If you are reading a specfic Upanishad then search for talks on the same, and you will see many speakers. Om Shanti Shanti

@mariechew9523 5 жыл бұрын

Vincent Trull A

@bubulg1 5 жыл бұрын

@@RaviTrivedix Ravi, Happ to see that you too listen to Sarvapriyananda ji. I am a big fan of him and listen to him all the time.

@abhishekkhandelwal3582 5 жыл бұрын

Aditya Tiwari Fees days back I was at Sivananda Ashrama in Rishikesh and there attended a talk by Pochur Venkataramana from Ramana Ashrama. His talk was just amazing.

@samenderrana 3 жыл бұрын

Tonight in dream I met swami ji put my forehead in swami Ji’s holy feet had talks for long time, had meals with him, amazing experience ❤️❤️❤️💐💐🌹💐🌹🌹🌹

@johnkarki3 5 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest intellectual spiritual master we have with us today. The way he presents his ideas, wisdom clearly reflects how much profound knowledge he got. I wish in further days Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and many other intellectual atheists sharing stage with Swami. I wish you a long life with full of happiness.

@sunilkumar-ws7ld 4 жыл бұрын

Omtatsat

@tatwamasi3536 4 жыл бұрын

I have a fren with your name John, it’s the evolved and realised consciousness within u that’s able to acknowledge and appreciate the higher realm of consciousness

@theyoungindians9027 3 жыл бұрын

Both Sam Harris & Richard Dawkins are intelligent people but very public oriented people. Their goal is to satisfy their ego by winning more people's appreciation than make sense of any philosophy. So both people with different goals.

@Ramachandra-fd7mv 3 жыл бұрын

Well Said.

@Ramachandra-fd7mv 3 жыл бұрын

Very much needed, infact.

@meenac6198 5 жыл бұрын

On behalf of all Vedanta students I wish you a very Happy Teachers Day swami sarvapriyanandaji your Vedanta classes v v v valuable n useful you are the ideal teacher

@kathleensutherland6593 5 жыл бұрын

Good to see Swamiji at my Alma Mater. Excellent talk, as always.

@sivakumaranbazhagan1672 3 жыл бұрын

which school?

@kathleensutherland6593 3 жыл бұрын

@@sivakumaranbazhagan1672 University of Michigan (where I attended law school).

@sivakumaranbazhagan1672 3 жыл бұрын

@@kathleensutherland6593 sorry i didnt watch the video yet just too much adhd..nevermind and thx for the info.

@hello123s 3 жыл бұрын

@@sivakumaranbazhagan1672 stfu

@hello123s 3 жыл бұрын

@@kathleensutherland6593 u r replying to a 2-year-old comment.. Shows how busy u r in ur life n how much has that " law" degree paid off.. 😂😂

@rochellelisa7959 5 жыл бұрын

Swami Sarvapriyananda is very eloquent and thorough covering the topic

@seemab1397 3 жыл бұрын

To have Vedanta taught so eloquently, so lucidly expounded to you when you are sitting at home, is unbelievable yet so true. What prayers, what blessing could have made this possible, I can only wonder.

@bethanienaylor 2 жыл бұрын

What he says about nondual, I feel it so very deeply that it is true

@nancysutton7891 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Swami, for an even more perfect and comprehensive presentation of 'experienced truth', and it's place in this ever so 'modern' world. You are a delight to listen to, and a great blessing to have finally found. ox

@seemab1397 3 жыл бұрын

This is true learning. It emancipates. Pronam to Swamiji.

@glenc5185 3 жыл бұрын

10:15 - The 'Hard problem of consciousness' (How can we explain first-person experience?) 19:40 - Panpsychism (Consciousness as a fundamental, irreducible constant of the universe) 25:04 - Advaita view of concsiousness (That thou art) 31:16 - Problem of 'God-centred' religions (Perfect yet uncertain existence) 34:20 - Problem of 'self-inquiry-centred' religions (Certain yet imperfect existence) 35:00 - Advaita philosophy resolves the problems (Perfect, certain existence) 38:40 - Difference between consciousness studies & other speculative sciences (Consciousness is inherent in all experiences of human life) 41:30 - Four theories of the relationship between concsiousness and its objects (Object is primary, consciousness as epiphenomenon; Consciousness is primary, matter is a product of consciousness; Matter and consciousness are both fundamental realities that interact with each other; The non-dual reality of consciousness appears as its object) 45:24 - Exploration of advaita vedanta as directly-experiencable

@halliyahudugi 2 жыл бұрын

@jyotibiswas6332 2 жыл бұрын

Mindblowing knowledge

@bardoteachings 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting time stamps!

@bardoteachings 2 жыл бұрын

1:21:57 Why does individual ego/mind return back to awakened state as a particular manifestation presented as body-mind after each night but it never does so after death? In other words why are we not immortal? Isn't having to manifest more and more body-minds after previous expired a bit pointless? 1:27:31 How long after critical damage to physical bodya is subtle body present to be put back to physical body untill it dessolves into higher form of consciousness? So technically it's not completely impossible to have something like "sleeves" as in Altered Carbon to transfer subtle body into a different (available) physical body?

@nivita9830 5 жыл бұрын

Everything one really needs to know is in this wonderful talk if one does exactly as Swamiji prescribes - hear, reason, meditate upon it. We're blessed that the Ramakrishna Order has entrusted people like Swamiji to deliver/share India's ancient scriptural teachings here in the West (btw I don't think we need to get ANY validation from Western authors/philosophers/etc. They are far from being the authority on truth and have MUCH to learn from the EAST.). India's ancient scriptures and those that teach them w/a deep understanding of their meaning (like Swamiji), are the country's true national treasures. Thank you for sharing the message of TAT TVAM ASI w/us Swamiji.

@TheLastOutlaw289 2 жыл бұрын

Everyone from Rene Descartes down aren;t really philosophers...they are western existentialsit navel gazers. Nihilists...these men have nothing to offer. They can't grasp sublime teachings which require true contemplation.

@marymolloy562 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLastOutlaw289 the reason is that philosophy was separate from religion.

@dilipbhaibhavsar2948 5 жыл бұрын

Pranam Pujya Swamiji. Every talk is excellent and leading us to deeper and deeper in the cave of our heart. Thank you very much.

@jamesjosheph3006 3 жыл бұрын

All the answers I was searching for a long time, on the basis of science and spirituality, I could receive . Let Existence help swamigy to satisfy more souls.

@awesomeisasawesomedoesyo182 3 жыл бұрын

Superb lecture! Thank you Swamiji.

@pasupathil4113 7 ай бұрын

Swamiji is enlighting number of Commen people like me by realising us that we are all Bhramam which is existence knowledge and bliss.Pranam swamiji.

@LokeyeMC 3 жыл бұрын

Finally reached enlightenment/bhramagyan this year and am now stumbling across Swamiji for the first time. It's wonderful to find someone who knows so much about this state. There is so much vocabulary for these experiences. Once I heard him say the words "ankara shakti" (?) which he mentioned is the word for the awareness of the ego from the background reality . Wonderful! I've lived such a long life without realizing all along that this state was possible much less that there are so many words for this state that are already mapped out and charted by Ramakrishna.

@sdbaral7721 5 жыл бұрын

Though a late comer to this video I throughly appreciated your discourse and explanations. Your illustrations for a point of inquiry are clarifying and demystifying which mark a mind of academic knowledge tempered by introspection and exactness.Sincere Thanks.

@Birbhadra011 3 жыл бұрын

Always a pleasure to listen to Swamiji. From far above the space, if we look at Earth, we will not see it, only open space. If we get little closer it would be a speck of dust moving around in the space. We will find it static and would not be able to see the movement inside it. As we draw nearer and nearer to the Earth, we will see its outer sphere but not the movements inside. But as we come into the earth biosphere, we start to see planes, mountains, oceans and jungles. As we come nearer to the ground we see all type of movement of human and animals as we focus ourselves further, we start to see the insects. Further down we start to observe atoms and molecules and further down, at one point, nothing except the open space. Therefore, as an ultimate reality the Earth is made up of nothing, but it appears to be object for a short while when we are at an appropriate distance of Earth in space. Therefore, we and all the objects including the Earth is just the projection of empty space as objects. Because we are seeing, touching, smelling, testing and hearing it, we are separate from it. That means we are different from those objects (projections) including our body that we see and perceive around us.

@ramakrishnansuppiah7053 5 жыл бұрын

very enlightening yet simplified. namaste and thank you swamiji

@idorsev 5 жыл бұрын

Your teaching is valuable...thank you...one day the world will think advaita...

@ssk1117 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing teaching... No words🙏

@drsujatavaidya7276 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for a very rational explanation for so much of all we already know...

@anagha.aniruddha16 2 жыл бұрын

Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji 🙏🏻 Maharaj, I receive Shri Thakur’s blessings through your Retreats 🙏🏻 Thank you Vedanta New York 🙏🏻

@krishnamoorthyvaradarajanv8994 3 жыл бұрын

Swami...prakruti...(nature) and purusha..ie. the Chaitanya in body.. Amazing lecture, which is too big for people like us to follow/digest..🙏🙏🙏

@hariprakashak3506 5 жыл бұрын

You mentioned Dr S Radhakrishnan I feel very happy as a teacher September 5 his birthday Teacher 's day

@anudeeparakkathara5520 5 жыл бұрын

1:02:07, “you have to switch it off sir”.Firm and polite in a single sentence.🙏

@kris13iam 3 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe university students aren't educated enough to know to turn off their phones before the lecture

@lakshman19902000 5 жыл бұрын

pranams swami sarvapriyanandaji- we are all fortunate to listen to his various lectures- modern Vivekananda

@reversefulfillment9189 2 жыл бұрын

You crushed that talk Swamiji! Mindblower bro. Thankyou.

@desertportal353 5 жыл бұрын

So thorough and encompassing !!!

@sarahmoore403 3 жыл бұрын

My God I am in love with this swamiji. Such and important voice.

@chalanidesilva2255 4 жыл бұрын

learned so much listening to this Swami, thanks so much Swami

@chaitalimantri1467 5 жыл бұрын

My Guru My Teacher Happy Teachers Day 💐

@vanamatrika.. 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful.... it is like almost hearing swamiji in sarvapriyananda maharaj....

@kamleshsrivastava3342 Жыл бұрын

My 40year's scattered search of complete knowledge of self and selfless ends here today. I will try to connect to lotus feet of Shri. Sarvpriyanandaji for rest of my life. Hope he will allow my efforts. Om !

@myvideo12all 2 жыл бұрын

You are a great genius. Your vocabulary is exemplary!💐

@KaziNasir 4 жыл бұрын

You was totally absorbed. You are a brilliant teacher 🙏

@artsudeshnaganguly2104 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent class....talk...Swami ji

@pramodvora2067 2 жыл бұрын

Swamiji, you managed in words the inexplicable! My words will be insufficient to express gratitude for the knowledge you impart to the many "souls"!

@viveksanyal2773 5 жыл бұрын

you are greatest like swami vivekanand ji 👍

@anindyaarthub6724 5 жыл бұрын

Never speak out before knowing anyone... Our purpose is not to judge anyone in this life but realize what we truely are.

@jaydevnathsharma4425 3 жыл бұрын

Namaste Swamiji

@sadcapyyoutube 4 жыл бұрын

Knowledge Beyond Bounds

@BhupendraTamu 4 жыл бұрын

Extraordinary 🙏🙏🙏

@jackfro34 2 жыл бұрын

World needs more teachers like you guruji.......and lucky are those who are able to get enlightened by recieving some drops of wisdom from the ocean of knowledge that's you.......

@arijitmukherjee2532 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome explanations of excellent ancient philosophies. Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge.

@saiprakashk.j8000 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@uwebernhard4059 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful teacher, thank you very much, may all beings live in peace

@HopeForPeaceNow 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic. wonderful. SO clear. thank you.

@milagrosalexander7210 Жыл бұрын

Such an amazing spiritual teacher. Thanks Swami ji❤

@handymujizati861 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing knowledge

@FriendlyMom Жыл бұрын

My fav Vedanta teacher

@desertportal353 5 жыл бұрын

"Those who believe in emptiness are incurable" Nagarjuna About belief vs direct experience as experienced by the Self.

@jigyanshushrivastava6153 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant... Sir... Hamare yaha par advet vedanta ki class honi chahiye...

@kavithaprabhu84 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏼 Jai Ramakrishna 🦢

@TheEntreHub 5 жыл бұрын

My Hero.....Back with a bang,😁

@the_real_hacker_ 2 жыл бұрын

Good lecture 🙏🏻 It's good that the gaps have been acknowledged in the description

@soulmuzings8844 5 жыл бұрын

Great video!! found you through suggested videos. I just started a KZfaq Channel not long ago and very interested in the human evolution and spirituality topic. Keep following your passion and creating great content. Sending you good vibes and lots of love 💖

@QuestingNeurons Жыл бұрын

"A little space opens up between You and the Mind". Wow!

@Ramachandra-fd7mv 3 жыл бұрын

Superb.

@TheGuiltsOfUs Жыл бұрын

Powerful!

@krishnabakshi6405 Жыл бұрын

Pranaam Swamiji!

@frankfeldman6657 2 жыл бұрын

Love this man. Solace of my old age.

@sujathasujatha9060 2 жыл бұрын

Vedanta basically it is explained in a very simple and in a easy way 🌹 Pranam Swami ji 🙏 Those who want to enter in this ocean it's really encouraging ❤️❤️

@ravidadlani1 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swamiji. I would love to see you, Chalmers, Harris, Dennette and Hawkins debate on the same stage. ☺

@blissfull8274 5 жыл бұрын

Ravi Dadlani Lol. He’ll eat those materialists alive 🤣🔱

@adityaSingh-gk1kw 5 жыл бұрын

It would be amazing debate!

@mtomat007 4 жыл бұрын

love you Swamiji ♥️

@anupkalyani1643 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent 😊😊😊

@lencoller6477 Жыл бұрын

What a. Wonderful explanation of spirit, succinct, vocabulary outstanding he makes it so easy to understand,but now to work. Thanks swami ❤️

@hope4652 2 жыл бұрын

This was mindblowing!

@jsg465 4 жыл бұрын

thank u swami ji

@atman4437 Жыл бұрын

brilliant no words to thank you

@jalajamenon8664 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very very much Swamiji🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@devotee6863 5 жыл бұрын

Swamiji...

@jameskuttyjoseph656 5 жыл бұрын

Such a subtle subject. How nicely Swamigy explains! Only we have to hear that repeatedly.

@arunmanna2676 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@motivationalquotes3474 5 жыл бұрын

Pranaam swamiji. Jay Ramkrishna

@rosappan 5 жыл бұрын

Namaskaram Guru 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@pampasadhukhan9006 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant

@shrinivashukeri447 2 жыл бұрын

Great explanation

@Kassam786 3 жыл бұрын

Swami Sarvapriyanada's talks are always inspiring. However, to gain a deeper experiential insight into the core idea of Consciousness, of which Awareness is considered as one of the dimensions; transcending the intellectual inquiry of mind to directly experience Consciousness (SatChitAnanda) is imperative according to the ancient Indian subcontinent spiritual wisdom traditions.

@vish2553 2 жыл бұрын

Please watch/read Swamy Dhayanda Saraswathi Ji articles, videos on this. Sat Chit and Ananda( btw it’s not bliss, it is Poornam from limitlessness) are all one and same. Thanks 🙏

@tolifeandlearning3919 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swami ji

@noneall 5 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@parijat51 2 жыл бұрын

..it is a great surprise to me while listening (श्रवण) to Res. swamiji...that I know that what Swamiji speaks about..The Truth... Namaste to Swamiji🪔

@gireeshneroth7127 4 жыл бұрын

Pure awareness associating itself with its own Sankalpas and suppositions constitute the mirage like appearances of Drashta Drisya diversities in it.

@rajeevranjan-nz4xw Жыл бұрын

Salutations!

@pingaligopal5205 Жыл бұрын

Awesome 👏👏👏👏

@pingaligopal5205 Жыл бұрын

Certainty plus perfection🙏🙏🙏

@tmprasadtm5148 2 жыл бұрын

Jai shree gurudev

@bhagwanmishra7243 Жыл бұрын

स्वामी जी बातें समझ में तो आगयीं। किंतु उस अवस्था में धारणा नहीं टिक पातीं। अभ्यास साधना श्रवण मनन निधिध्यासन करने पड़ेंगे। लौकिक सुखों को प्राप्त करने में लगा हुआ मन बुद्धि इन्द्रिय आत्म चेतना को भूल जाता है।सादर चरणस्पर्श