I am very happy. because of, the first time I have listened Vedanta by English man

Now I am seriously pondering on it. This guru really delves it deep. You have to listen to it in bits & pieces to fully understand what he preaches. I have been listening to many preachers, and of course they too are very good. But he is delving it deep and bringing it home. And finally you have to have stomach for all this. Intellect & intelligence is not going to get us there.

Brief and Very right teaching. Non dual vedanta teaching is supreme teaching out of all teaching in the world. Thank you very much👌🌹.

There is a special thrill in listening to a Westerner outpouring such a highest wisdom in so simple words. His pronunciation is good even for Asians, Westerners as well as for the people from the Far East. Salutations to you Sir! 🕉

One of the most profound talks on Vedanta. It always baffles me that me who is born in Hindu culture, brought up in Hindu culture really know nothing at all about Upanishad teachings and here is someone who was born and brought up away from it and found this knowledge. Again near and far also is my illusion isn’t it ?

This guy has the best explanation of Vedanta and advaita I've ever heard, he's an enlightened being, and its a shame there are so few of his talks on KZfaq...I salute you Ira

It is a very great explanation. Ira is so calm in explaining all the things scientifically and also spiritually. Its indeed our Good Fortune to receive more from Ira. What a treat indeed. Can't wait to listen to more of his talks.

Such a wonderful person...cannot thank you enough.. appreciate it so so much sir 🙏🙏

✨So simple, so obvious. The most clear, elucidating Advaita Vedanta mentorship. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!! ✨🙏🏼✨

This gentleman deserves a wider audience.

The more I hear more layers open up.. I heard this many times.. almost as a reference source. Now after 4 to 5years, hearing this seem to reveal a deeper level understanding and connection. Love you Gurudev…❤

I like this guy. His words come into my heart easily unlike other Vedanta teachers' , which is very strange ....

Advaita vedanta is so close to zen, it's actually amazing

I overheard about Vedantic concepts from your childhood, kind of understood & agreed to them but still have some gaps, he is the right place to fill. Thank you, He has all capabilities of a right Guru (although he says he is not).

So excited to see you on KZfaq again Teacher Ira Schepetin. Your last video opened new doors in my experience of myself. Changed my world, it did. I searched and searched for more from you..... to no avail.... and now this!! Thanks for sharing again.... and more please. Namaste. _/\_

This lecture is amazing. Probably the best explanation of the key concepts of Advaita Vedanta.

Wow, what a treat to have more of Ira to listen to, thank you very much for this upload *gets comfy*

Thank you Ira S. for your western experience helps bridge the cultural gap in explaining Advaita Vedanta. Not to mention your humility and easy going manner. I have been studying your talks and welcome these new additions. Seems to me there is an upsurge in non duality lately, and its good to see where it comes from.

Great thanks Ira for explaining Non dualism Vedanta theory in perfect words. Best part is that he added nothing but explained what it is.

Ira is no spring chicken but can talk over an hour, and make a lot of sense. I wish our politicians were this deep.

What can I say but thank you for this great presentation !!! Here are really subtleties to the practice which I have really missed from other teacher.

This is a great summary of the five fundamental concepts of Advaita Vedanta. Here's a breakdown of what the speaker discussed, along with some additional insights: 1. Atman (Self): The Witness: The true self is not the ego or the "I" concept, but the pure consciousness that witnesses all thoughts and experiences. Unchanging and Non-Dual: This witness is timeless, without qualities, and beyond duality. It's the same for everyone. Self-Evident: The witness is always present and doesn't need anything to light it up. 2. Avidya (Ignorance): Misidentification: The root of suffering is mistaking the transient ego and the world for the true self. Superimposition: We attribute qualities of the witness (existence, consciousness, bliss) to the objects of experience (body, mind, world). Discrimination: The path to liberation is to discriminate between the subject (witness) and the objects (everything else). 3. Relative and Absolute Perspectives: Relative Truth: The world of duality, where we experience time, space, and suffering. Absolute Truth: The ultimate reality of non-duality, where there is only one, unchanging Brahman. Reconciling the Two: Vedanta recognizes the validity of the relative perspective while pointing towards the ultimate truth. 4. Karta Tantra (Action) and Vastu Tantra (Knowledge): Action Dependent on Ignorance: All actions arise from the mistaken identification with the ego and are ultimately ineffective in removing ignorance. Knowledge a Direct Realization: Realization is a direct recognition of the truth, not a result of effort or action. Sadhana (Spiritual Practice): The purpose of spiritual practice is to purify the mind and make it fit for understanding the truth. 5. The Method of Advaita: Neti Neti (Not this, Not this): The Upanishads use a method of negation to point towards the self, which is beyond all concepts and descriptions. Deliberate Superimposition: Concepts like the witness are used as tools to guide the mind away from gross identifications, but eventually even these are negated. Silence: The ultimate teaching is silence, as it aligns with the nature of the self, which is beyond all words and thoughts. Key Takeaways: Liberation is a State of Being: The true self is always free and liberated. Ignorance creates the illusion of bondage. The Importance of the Teacher: The role of the guru is to guide the student through the process of removing ignorance. Self-Inquiry is Essential: Vedanta encourages introspection and questioning the nature of the self. Remember: This is just a brief introduction. Understanding Advaita Vedanta requires deeper study, reflection, and the guidance of a qualified teacher.

thank you for taking the time to make this video....namaste!

Very clear and precise explanation of a liberating subject. Excellent talk lesson Ira, and we thank you.

Very deep knowledge explained in plain words and lovely examples. Thank you for uploading this video. Namaste!

❤️🌹🌎🌹❤️thank you ,thank you thank you , to guide us to awareness ,shanti shanti shanti

Clearest, most concise overview and explanation I’ve come across in years! Brilliant in its simplicity. A true teacher!

I am so grateful for this third video.

Great explanation. Blessed to be able to listen. Pranam.

So persuasive. Great!

Jesus: Before Abraham was, I am Jesus also pointed to the Self beyond space and time, I don't understand why it is being stressed so much that only Vedanta teaches this. It's just perhaps more hidden in other traditions, but all have, in the mystic traditions the pointing to the Absolute truth of the universal I am. Other than that, this talk is golden

Amazing explanation!! Superb !! The last part really pulls the carpet from our feet. Thank you very much.

So many concepts, so much studying, so many practices and philosophy. And yet, life is the most simple thing.

Well Explained we appreciate 😘

for me you are the shankara thank you

Only one word ‘Amazing’ Much obliged

this is a great talk! thank you

It's always there yet hard to reach It's within us yet we hardly feel it It's empty yet so full It's so real yet so absurd It's only one yet it's countless It's advaita vedanta

Thank you very much for this!

i love this guy so magical

Thank you Ira. You have a great clarity and ease of explanation on this subject. And it's all incredibly helpful.

Fantastic teaching and fantastic teacher. I'm glad to have an opportunity to watch it. Deep and useful. Thank you 🙂

I think it might be worth your while to check out the Vedanta society. Swami sarvapriyananda. Very lucid on this subject.

Not the idea we have of ourselves, but the witness of that idea. Im been frustrated waiting through less developed notions of the self among programers, and western christians, and western skeptics (of christianity, and faith based religion) for so long it was so refreshing and invigorating to hear talk of the Atman and Advita Vedanta's clarity. I'm sure there must be a relationship between my exhilarated, almost like relieved reaction to hearing these and that I was raised in it, with the satsang of experiencing the knowledge, and its likely that my emotional reactions are bias confirmation form hearing the voice of wisdom I recognize from childhood, long quiet all around me, and disparaged by more popular, and less developed thinking- or so I'm biased to think :/

Those who are interested Sri Ramana Masharshi was the self realised master who lived In the last century and he his famous method is called "self enquiry"to realise your true self .His works are true words of wisdom to clarify non duality or "advitha..Please do read "Who Am I , Reality in fourty verses (collection of poems) .Many people had reported getting the glims of the self by his mere presence .(please do read Paul Brunton book " A search in secret India")

thank you very very much. As a follower of Guru of Kasmir Shavism for 35 years I found your description of the differences between that and Advaita Vendanta very interesting. I have recently changed towards Advaita Vendanta but feel Kasmir Shaviism has opened my heart, and never had to strive towards satisfying all my desires, It just opened my heart. My question is what benefits do you see Kasmir Shavism providing. Laird Mintz thank you

Magnificent exposition .. thank you 🙏

Thank you very much Guruji. :) Hari Om.

Yes many thanks for posting! Please more if possible.

Very interesting stuff.

Thanks Ira, you’re my Shankara 🙏🏼

Thank you! MUCHAS GRACIAS!!!!

Authentic,Magical,Great.😉

*REFERENCE + LINK :* @29:39 Ira refers to a book to get a full understanding of theses concepts, in more depth. It is *Sankaracaria's Introduction section to the Brahma Sutras, called AdyasaBhasyam* (hard to spell when he says it, so here you go) I also found the full book including sanskrit, word for word meaning, translation, and explanatory comment I prepared a short link to the downloadable PDF or EPUB : bit.ly/Adhyasa-Bhashyam Good Luck and Enjoy. Namaste.

Really create lecture! Do you have a good recommendation for a Upanishad book that includes the Adi Shankara commentary?

Ok, so the 5 fundamental concepts that I gather from this excellent exposition of Advait Vendant and some of my own individual interpretations (based on reading Tattvabodham) are as follows: 1. Non-Duality: The Atma (our consciousness / life force) is part of the Supreme consciousness called Brahman (though Brahman also includes the entire universe and all the matter and energy in it). Therefore, since Atma and Brahman are not two different things, that's why this philosophy is non-dualistic in nature. Rather, an Atma is an aspect of the Brahman. We are not the body we possess or any of the worldly things we possess, but rather, we are the Atma. So, 8 billion Atmas in the world, all part of the Parmatma (Brahman). Essentially, we, the Atmas, use our respective bodies to just interact with the rest of the Brahman. 2. Getting rid of ignorance: The sole objective is to realize point #1 thereby removing our ignorance where we think we are separate from each other. This ignorance is the source of all problems that we face. 3. Attaining bliss: To attain bliss, stop seeking other things to make you happy, because they are already a part of you. They are part of the Brahman and so are you. The chith (brain) corrupts the Atma by thinking about worldly things, but Atma has to realize it is one with the Brahman which means it already has everything (attain Moksha). 4. Training our minds: We have to train our minds (chith) with Saadhna to be able to attain Moksha. Kartu tantra and vastu tantra, meaning wanting to do things a certain way and wanting to possess certain things, is not going to help us attain Moksha. We have to settle our mind down so that ego, anger, anxiety, jealousy etc. (that cause us to want to do things a certain way or possess certain things) can be eliminated. 5. Method of teaching: Atma has no qualities. It is pure nothingness. Ego and other emotions are ephemeral and not real. Method of teaching in the Upanishads is to treat the Atma as a witness to the life of the body in which it is in while we slowly eliminate what we are not. We are not the body, we are not the ego or our emotions, we are not the blood flowing through our veins or the breaths we take. We are nothing.

Thank you guru ji.

If this body, senses, mind/brain, skin etc are not 'ME', who feels the pain when these objects are injured. Who screams out? ME or the mind, body? The pain of the body is felt by the mind, and the feeling by the mind sends out screams of pain. What is the ME feeling and doing when the mind is hurting and the body is screaming out on behalf of the mind which knows not how to scream or express the emotion of pain or pleasure? Is ME simply ignoring the pain of the body, senses, mind?

Dear Ira. First off, Love ya..thank you for you videos. Thought of you with this question: Is Kasmir Shavism a waste of time . 40 years with Baba Muktanada. Now following non dualism . Whats the difference. Even if you were to point out shortcomings of Kasmir Shaivism it at least gave me the energy to meditate for 40 years. Thank you Brother. Laird

Great talk

Esoteric spiritual traditions other than Advaita Vedanta also teach that there "has never been a single thing," that there is only a single Spontaneously Arising Absolute. For example, the Zen Master Huang Po taught this.

I'm reading Ramana Maharashi, and I listened to Ira last year, but finally I'm getting to grips with this rather luminous idea about non-duality. If I can be dualistic a bit, it seems to me Ira is against the view of non-dualism preached by men like Rupert Spira. He might also have a different interpretation from Maharashi himself.

Pretty words for Death. No identity, no response. No will, no doing. No mind, no anything. Life is for the living. A-live.

Wonderfully explained :)

Sanskrit, so revolutionary that woman were not allowed to learn it. But yet lets relive their wisdom. Please do share oh man stuck in the past.

What a great personality he looks like exactly a great indaian monk name loknath baba

Greetings from Chattanooga, TN. I'm a little new to this teaching, about one year in now, but I'm not new to Buddhism at all. I know I am not my body and I am Braham. How do you say that without the "I"? Thanks for sharing you knowledge and wisdom. Nameskar.

Great teacher and great teachings. But he seems to be complicating things a little too much. In spirituality especially in spirituality one should seek to simplify things as much as possible in order to be well understood ..

Pranam guruji 🙏

Thank you, and I believe having absorbed this I'm ready to begin. I would like to know how I'd going about finding a teacher of advaita vedanta in my area. I'm in the US in an area with some Hindu temples, but I'm not sure how to go about it. Can anyone offer me some clues?

Upanishad extract from 4 vedas. 4 veda are core books, nothing should contradict to vedas, there is no contradiction exist in vedas(for book: vedarisi.com). Upanishad is 5th veda, it also called vedanta. You can study to understand difference between vedas and other religion books, you can read satyaprakash book from Dayananda sarasawti. You can also study vedic physics(books like brahmana, nirukta etc) in youtube, but you have to know hindi language.

Drs. Moschetta, Simply want to thank you for your explanation! Only one suggestion that like done by Swami Sarvapriyanand ji can you create your lectures on various Vedas and Upanishads like Bhashyas to cover one by one for one to go thru to learn Vedantic teachings! An online course kind of thing in these teachings! I feel I understand this but am dealing dying of close relative - its with all knowledge still its creating little sadness and sense of loss of one person. Is there vedantic way addressed this specifically? Can you please throw some light on this?

Amazing

I think you've got it, by george you've got it. Advaita in a nutshell. Terrific, I am glad awareness experienced this vid. I am glad the witness observed me listening. Terrific!!!!!!

Can you teach us Mandukya Upanishad please

This is very good stuff....el grego

Beautiful

Namasty. Vedas is A Book of One God. And upanishads Are Interpretations The Man Words.

Can I learn and practice the teachings of Advaita Vedanta without converting to Hinduism?

Will be helpful if someone lists the five fundamental concepts (titles) that are elaborated in the video.

Hi ... How Can I contact Ira Schepetin?? any website or email ?? I am travelling to India and would like to meet the him! Please let me know thank you

Nice video Mr Dumbledoor

This is the best spiritual video I have seen upto now and anyone can easily understand this, be interested to hear Albert Einsteins view on this video.

What is it?

4th part is about the will of the vessel (false self) versus spirit guided action. perhaps.

Hari Om

Wow, another dynamic teaching from a master. However, towards the end, I felt a ting of a cult. Is Adi Shankara really the last word? Adi Shankara says that his is the only way and every other way is suspect? Ramana Maharshi got there by not following Ira's steps or Shankara's lineage. Nisargadatta Maharaj was from an independent lineage altogother. I would love to hear Ira's opinion on those guys. I also find Ira slightly dogmatic about other forms of spirituality. There is a charismatic man in the buddha corner, there is another charismatic man in the shaivism nonduality corner, and too dualism, psychelicic experiences and many branches of mysticism. Are we really to believe Adi Shankara is calling all these branches avidya, mere halfway houses for the characters in this Matrix, and acept Shankara as neo?

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"I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.' Bible > Psalms > Chapter 82 > Verse 6

This guy knows.

How would one account for the human brain having two hemispheres/parts, which have different functions -- that is, the hemispheres operate differently? Tough to explain, easy to ignore.

thanks

Ignorance too must be seen dualistically. two ignorances: Greater Ignorance: to impress the subjective story upon another, in transgression. Lesser Ignorance: to live as the spirit, a vessel of Atman, an avatar in knowing that it is silly to think one knows all, but that what must be known will.come as needed while in spirit. Om Tat Sat

he has an aura

NAMASTE.....GRACIAS...

We love you

I am only excisting, nobody else nothing else

Wow Thank you

What did he say at the end? Adi ho?

I am struggling with the logic of the point at 38.00. The idea appears to be that we are ignorant and in order to attain this peaceful state we are required to attain knowledge. So on the one hand we are already the self in our natural state but then we have to attain knowledge to be aware of this. If you lived on a secluded island and you had no chance of obtaining this knowledge how would you naturally be the self as you would have no one to remove your ignorance?