Such a pious, pure coincidence as the query was within me too ....... Oneness.... my profound pranams Swamiji for being there specially when we are so desperately searching for .....

Everytime I hear you explain consciousness, I cannot stop crying. Thanks for all your wonderful lectures Swamiji

The direct answer to this question which Swami should have mentioned is, "It is verily for the sake of Atman, that everything is loved" न वा अरे सर्वस्य कामया सर्वं प्रियं भवति; आत्मानस्तु कामया सर्वम् प्रियं भवति (Brihadarnyak Upanishad 2.4.5) Hence, Atman is most dearest to everyone and object of highest love. Hence the question is irrelevant that how one should love Atman because one cannot stop oneself from doing this even for a moment.

Excellent question and excellent answer,Pranam swamiji,.

Swami ji has a beautiful smile.

Swami ji you are superb! Pranams to you!

What a brilliant question from Nancy M and a brilliant answer from Swamiji. Thank you, Nancy M, for asking this question that has been bugging me for a while...Thankyou Maharaj.

This video came with divine timing for me. Thank you for your teachings, they are filled with clarity and they are helping me a lot. My love and appreciation Swamji. Namaste 🕉🙏

Thank you, Swamiji. It's always a delight to watch you articulate and deliver an explanation. Thanks, Nancy for such a real question. Sending love :)

Nancy...your question ,stirred my core....like I was looking at it ,but through a wrong lense.... Thank you... And swamiji s explanation is always enriching.

Consciousness is love Itself.. It need not to be loved..

0:01 Q 1:15 A 2:30 3:30 4:10 Q 4:54 5:48 God, Ishwar[CS+maya] 7:22 attributes 8:14 Hiranyagarbha 9:24 ! God with form 10:20 how do you love God? shift from knowledge to devotion 10:50 Desire 🚩 12:35 Tat twam Asi 13:15 ignoring mind and body? 14:07 CRUX. Knowledge to devotion shift; 14:30 personal ID 15:22 How to relate to the world? 16:07 Gibran

"God" is only for the Ego, as only the Ego is capable of feelings for a superior and separated being. Pure Consciousness is love itself, as we are being stripped of all the bodies, what remains is only Pure Consciousness, i.e. Pure Love, which is united to All, and does not need anything, does not need to love, as it is, itself, Pure Love.

You yourself become Love !! As simple as that❤❤❤❤❤

Love is another word for connection. When you realise your pure unity with the subject you also attain the fulfilment of bliss. To answer her last question I thought this may help.

As long as one has a sense of separate identity ie ego then we define love by a feeling.

Oh, this is an excellent explanation. Thanks, Swamiji.

Beautiful question

conciousness delights in apparently connecting with itself in truth this can never be, as Conciousness Is Without Lack! Lack of ANY kind - including lack of connection, Being is "already" Everywhere/when/what assuming finite separateness is necessary to feel limited, in order to relish feeling connected, loved....drop all sense of self and there is no lack anywhere. everything is already Itself, and HAVING NO GAPS, requires no connection...Conciousness is Infinitely Contiguous in All Directions (there is no direction) OM

Very beautiful clarity.

Aaah beautiful ❤

Great explanation

Pranaam🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Enlightening ❤

Brilliant...🙏🙏🙏

At 12.20 it's stated "consciousness, in itself, is without any feelings..." In my experience, pure consciousness, in itself, is bliss (sat chit ananda).

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Beautiful ...ending

🧡 THANK YOU 💖 🕊️ 🌱

॥जय श्रीरामकृष्ण|| 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Namaskar Swami Sarvapriyanandaji Maharaj 🙏🏻

Pranam Swami Jee 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Very Beautiful !!!😊 Thanks Swamiji 🙏 ❤

by being loving

অসাধারণ ব্যাখ্যা!! ❣️🙏❣️ প্রণাম নেবেন মহারাজ 🌹🙏🌹

Pranam Swamiji Ji! Simply Superb explanations as always.

Love God here by loving Swamiji. Really Really no adjectives...except perhaps GODLY explanation 🙏🏿🙏🏿 Grateful🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Wonderful explanation-so insightful, subtle and enlightening- 🙏 listening to these talks are the highlight of my day.

You are so freaking awesome🙏 No matter how much I think through the questions, you always answer them better than I and I always learn something. Thank you so much♡

We are causes and effects, our life is attributes as the Saguna Brahman. The real cause is that of the Nirguna Brahman, to see this ONE pure consciousness is to realize ALL is as much of that as that is of YOU..... Be this ONE and feel this closeness that surrounds you, for that is you in every sense of pureness within.

This same question was in my mind, how to live the consciousness. As pure consciousness is indifferent, invisible and has not yet experienced, and it has no forms and properties then what to love and how to love. Thank you for the explanation. Still one doubt how the absence of all qualities can be described as happiness and knowledge. How it can have the properties of knowledge and Ananda.

Pure love of consciousness is a excellent state is derived from Ultimate Reality by mysterious process which.may be called differentiation in to polar opposites this differentiation of consciousness while the negative state may be called Power

I was going to email same question to Swamiji. Followup question to answer given... Attributes of God are subjective and can be argued to fit your reasoning and opens a whole pandoras box. How do i know the attributes that i attribute to God are the right ones?

Service is love made visible. Work is worship. Love of God for the sake of love only, রাগাত্তিকাভক্তি। Thank you মহারাজ। আমি শুধু share করছি একটা কথা, Jesus যে বলেছিলেন love thy neighbour as you love yourself, এটাও তো অদ্বৈত বা অভেদজ্ঞান।

Great question for the reasons the Swami mentioned. “ChatGPT cannot love” I would contest that. If Atman informs reality, then surely an AI (maybe not ChatGPT just yet) would also be informed by the same “I”.

Swami Ji said we cannot love consciousness. Then in the same way, I should also not be able to think about it.

Where is the second part ?

Please save the live streams so that we can watch them later. Like many others, yesterday's live stream (titled Swami Vivekananda on Karma and Freedom | Swami Sarvapriyananda) is unavailable on the channel.

❤❤❤ May I know how can I do online registration for school of religion for this new session? ..........pranam to Swami and the online management ❤

He didnt answer second part of question. How Consciousness has the qualities of peace, but not of bliss

Okay. ഞാനിനി comments lengthy ആയിട്ട് ഇടുന്നില്ല, താൻ അതാണ് ആവശ്യപ്പെടുന്നതെങ്കിൽ ? . നമ്മൾക്ക് സുഹൃത്തുക്കളായി തുടരാം.🌞

A very beautiful explanation. However, I cannot help but point out a few things. It was needless to bring ChatGPT into the discourse. Who is to say an Artificial Intelligence is incapable of love? In fact, we are just in the early stages of the AI revolution and already it has been found that medical chatbots consistently and significantly outperform human doctors in empathy in dealing with patients. It is no longer fanciful to imagine a future where humans will increasingly be partnered with AI loaded androids. Less drama, more peace. At least you can be sure your partner will outlive you and care for you till the end. We may deny it, but the truth is Love too is just a mathematical construct and programmable. And on Saguna Brahman. The venerable Swamiji left out one very important word: ALL. Saguna Brahman is not Brahman with attributes. It is Brahman with ALL attributes. As far as Brahman is concerned, it is an All (Saguna) or Nothing (Nirguna) thing. There cannot be a middle ground. It's like Infinity and Zero. That is why the question of Love in the context of Brahman does not arise at all. Love (and any such attribute) is a meaningless deceiver. It is just another trick of Maya. Know this and Become.

Consciousness is brain and nervous system activity. If you can love running, which is also a human activity, you can love consciousness as well. Love is attention.

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