Weed is quite strong.

He says "I think the moment you give a description to god or label something as god then you've moved away from god because you've confined god to that image, to that description, to that label." And then immediately after saying this, he attempts to describe god by saying "I think of god as being pure consciousness. This consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the universe." (etc etc) And this this is just his first few sentences. I wonder if he really believes what he's saying.

Deepak you are simply amazing and highly intelligent. You truly got it!

It's okay to use symbolic / mythological / anagogic / allegorical language AS LONG as you are able to give some analytical explanation of what you mean when you are asked to; and Deepak has never done that.

Thanks for this video

The way or Tao is to transcend all analysis and Deepak articulates this perfectly.

Excellent.... thanks 🙏.

GREAT debate! I really LIKE the both sides been disgusted!👍🏻🙏🏻 Thank you both!

I know we can agree to disagree. Agreed. Deepak Chopra simply does not deserve to be included as a guest on this or any other venue that is trying to have serious thinkers discuss serious topics. My objection of him isn’t his religious views, but his character, he is an opportunistic charlatan.

We are all spiritual beings having a human experience we are connected to God trough our highest self. We are in human form to expand our soul. The soul lives on the body dies. Deepak has a great view on the miracle it's only a shame that in this conversation the interviewer feels attacked because Deepak comes across to correct him and I think we then miss out what is really important love, understanding, empathy and respect etc. We all come from the same source and go back to the same source it doesn't matter how you call that source god, the universe or Allah. I wish everyone a good and fulfilling life.

Once you realize that you are dealing with fiction, you will stop searching for answers.

Deepak should really say 'Hinduism conceives of God as pure consciousness' or the Bhagavad gita or this particular Upanishad etc... that's where his premises really originate.

Please invite Fr. Augustine Pamplany CST of CST Religious Congregation, based in Kerala , India. His Book : Cosmos, Bios &Theos Introduction to Philosophy of Science, Scientific Cosmology & Science -Religion Dialogue.

Hinduism is above science. Modern scientists have found the distance of the Sun from the Earth spending lots of money. But in holy 'HANUMAN CHALISA🚩' it's poet and saint Goswami Tulsidasji Maharaj had already mentioned the distance. This holy poem is being recited from so long in India in almost every Hindu homes. That's the level of consciousness our saints have. Their practices in past have presented miracles in front of humanity. Unfortunately these practices have been lost and very few people are there left with these.

Deepak is only an expert in talking non-fact..... he is probably pretty adept at checking his bank account...... Hope I am wrong, but it really did seem as though Deepak "exampled" Robert as Sinner, and himself as Saint....🤔

This guy... Let Oprah interview him. He's a quack.

When HE takes everything away, he's left with "God", as he says, out there and HIMSELF behind all that isn't it? Otherwise he's not really free. Is there freedom without the notion of the self? It'd be like saying "It wasn't me, it was my free will." Also, when he says "God" I think he means "his external life" or a kind of social life to which he's intimately connected, or love, if you will. Then the question is: is this love correspondent to and supported by something physical, all the way down to reality?

❤️ human stories are important ♥️

he firmly believes in his intuition .....and that has gotten us nowhere.....it's time to be counter intuitive...or maybe revisit certain beliefs...what came first, the chicken or the egg....we know for certain that a chicken comes from an egg...so the egg came first?....so we don't know HOW it started, but an egg has to be there.

If you loose feel of time and space then spirituality makes sense interestingly techniques to that are practised by all religions and evidence is there in previous advanced civilizations as well

Sir and meditate every day for next 5 years you would know God....Deepak knows it i also agree with him now.😌

Schrödinger's cat is the only one who really knows this infinite god of imagination and consciousness. If you remove all descriptions of god, and all the infinities, and all imagination, consciousness is left to be the observer of nothing. And he/she is in a box that can't be opened because there is no observer and the cat can't open the box. Just like my father said, everything is everything.

Here looks like both gentlemen are right. Robert says Allah Alohim Khuda. Deepak says consciousness. Some might know that in the Sufi thought there's something called Fana Fillah, which means you completely destroy yourself for God. Again it may not be right to accept this in the Sunni school, we don't do it. We live like normal human beings with problems and issues and few happy things

Excellent interview. Scary reading the terrible hate in the comments.

Deepak Chopra is most probably right about God because many or most Neat-death experiences support or affirm his statements about God...Where there's remarkable CONSISTENCY among different independent sources of information, the likelihood that GOD exists is very high.

Ken Wilber

God / universe is one personality but it has many interpretations like a human mind or a flower

I dunno folks, but a guru wearing diamond bling in his glasses makes me skeptical of his wisdom.

The Judeo Christian Islamic conception of a separate god from creation. Is probably the most illogical of all.

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The problem with what Deepak is saying, is that it imperfectly refers to an ineffable spiritual truth. Thats why he places so much emphasis on avoiding labels, because you can only realize the things he is talking about by experiencing them yourself firsthand, in a manner denuded of concepts and words. If you learn to experience the here and now (through meditative practices or otherwise), his seemingly ambiguous and poetic language starts to make a LOT of sense. ----- P.S. THIS IS COMING FROM A FORMER ONTOLOGICAL MATERIALIST

I think the consciousness formerly known as Deepak is great. It's best to listen to if you take a drink everytime he says consciousness.

Ask him individual karma than 😅

We believe in these myths because we know that one day we will stop being and we won't accept that.

And God said, let there be light...Well who was there to take note ????

Glad to see the interviewer’s frustration with this guy’s deliberate vague answers. Closer to Truth should be smarter and more respectful to the quality of the venture to take this guy seriously. This guy is not committed to clarity of speech and intellectual honesty otherwise he would have clearly said his description of god (as pure consciousness) is not compatible at all with the notion of personal god. Why he doesn’t admit it? Because he’s a salesman and doesn’t want to lose customers from those with emotional and cultural attachments to the Abrahamic religions. This is the second time I see this guy is unduly taken seriously on Closer to Truth. Disappointing!

Invite Rupert Spira.😊

Yep, this is how humans became intelligent, by realizing one self and sharing experience with others of the same kind. Some human apes adapted cultural process, others didn't and probably went extinct. Maybe this kind of narrative doesn't fit in modern society, but this is the story about phenomena of cultivated mind. Thing is, we became so much more over centuries, nobody cares about emptiness of human soul deep inside anymore, since our God of man kind allow us to be free, do what we want and have a good time. Within reasonable and moral limits, of course, even if our fragmented, disillusioned and dislocated consciousness works without it just the same.

So the Self is God ,, go a bit further in Buddhism and you realise the Self is an Illusion . So God is an illusion

People like deepak chopra are the literal physical reason why nobody wants to take consciousness as a serious study topic

I think I get what DC is saying... but I don’t understand the hostility!? In the Upanishads it says that “Atman is Brahman” ie. that the spark of consciousness within us and all sentient beings is the spark of the divine ie. God. That doesn’t contradict that a description or concept of God is already not God. That’s why in Judaism the name of God cannot be spoken, in Islam, no image can be made etc. Hence we can only talk in metaphors, parables and allegory. I think it’s here that DC and RK appear to argue, because different cultures/religions have used different images for God. All are approximations! In the Abrahamic religions, the Otherness of God, like the otherness of other people is emphasised. In the Eastern wisdom traditions, the innermost aspect of the transcendent/divine is emphasised. God must be both the foundation of our being and (from the egos perspective) the ultimate other. I would just add that I don’t think it’s right to say God is pure consciousness, but rather God is the void (aka the “Divine Darkness”), from which all being emerges. However... already that can’t really be God, or I’ve contradicted myself. 🤔 “To the seer, all things have verily become the Self: what delusion, what sorrow, can there be for him who beholds that oneness?” ~Isa Upanishad “The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’” ~Matt 25:40

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This actually makes sense. I do believe that even electrons have some type of proto consciousness.

Seems fascinating that Chopra here is 73 years old and seems quite educated. He could take a course in analytic philosophy though, in my opinion.

First study PLATO and then consult the ocean.

Flaw in Deepak's model of Reality: Assume a person realized the impersonal "God" (pure Consciousness). OK, fine: everything is That Pure Consciousness. Say that person becomes a so-called Guru. Deepak implies that all good qualities are attributes of this "God"; but then he claims that Saints and sinners are in the same category. That being true, a God-Realized person would be capable of still engaging in rape, thievery,, and all of the qualities of being a con artist. There are many examples of such persons, (names not mentioned). Looks like that Realization of the impersonal God didn't help that "person". Since kindness and unkindness are equally Consciousness, Deepak hasn't explained the question of Ethics. The facts don't support his model.

...and some heavy dose of LSD will help to know god/infinite consciousness

Don't know of closeness to 'the truth' but if one seriously follow Hinduism we would be better human beings.

Deepak is a quack, he speaks none-sense and sells snake oil. Whenever you interview him, you disparage your channel.

He goes back n forth with stupid arguments

Bulshit. His bank account has his name all over it

I agree with Deepak Chopra!!

Amazing the ignorance of most on here.... Scary.... Read cutting edge science...... Ties in with pure consciousness being fundamental....

Creationism and evolution are both wrong. According to Relativity, past, present and future exist simultaneously therefore there is no moment of "creation" or actual causation for things to "evolve"...everything is infinite.

I think the host is missing the point.

Indian can talk.

Just admit it there is no God.

Excellent.... thanks 🙏.