The Essence of All Vedenta Q&A | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Swami Sarvapriynanda conducts a Q&A session following the discourse on "The Essence of All Vedanta" (Based on Mandukya Karika). List of Questions:
0:10 - Consciousness is witness or (sakshi) of what is happening around us. Just like we(eg: human beings) are witnessing everything (all the things happening in the world, body mind etc), concsciousness is also a witness. So if consciousness is a witness, who or what is making the choices that we are seeing around us or even within us?
14:43 - If the world is a manifestation of our thoughts, then how do everyone in the world project the same world (for eg: we all see the same flower etc). Why not different worlds?
20:56 - If Brahman is everything (doer and the done, seer and the seen etc), what is role/purpose/significance of Karma?
29:00 - Do laws of physics apply to an enlighted person?
37:00 - What is confusion? How did we become seperate from Turiya and why/where did this confusion start/occur?
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@VedantaNY 4 жыл бұрын

List of Questions: 0:10 - Consciousness is witness or (sakshi) of what is happening around us. Just like we(eg: human beings) are witnessing everything (all the things happening in the world, body mind etc), concsciousness is also a witness. So if consciousness is a witness, who or what is making the choices that we are seeing around us or even within us? 14:43 - If the world is a manifestation of our thoughts, then how do everyone in the world project the same world (for eg: we all see the same flower etc). Why not different worlds? 20:56 - If Brahman is everything (doer and the done, seer and the seen etc), what is role/purpose/significance of Karma? 29:00 - Do laws of physics apply to an enlighted person? 37:00 - What is confusion? How did we become seperate from Turiya and why/where did this confusion start/occur?

@teddygamel727 3 жыл бұрын

@riturajacharya1472 3 жыл бұрын

what gets reborn? if turiyum is ultimate. is turiyum is taking rebirth due to karma?

@atreyeebhattacharyya7845 3 жыл бұрын

@@riturajacharya1472 Turiyam isn’t bound by the law of karma and hence not bound by the cycle of birth. Jeevatma is the one that goes through the transmigration where it assumes a new body. This is the collection of our thoughts and emotions and energy body (or the sukshma shariara) that reincarnates. That’s my understanding anyway 🙏🏽

@anroyus 3 жыл бұрын

He just went around and repeated standard metaphors. He never answered the question of what is behind making choices in an enlightened mind. This is so typical in this so called sravana sessions. What drives the choices is .. nature. It’s automated and the enlightened does not interfere with the manifestation of choice, as HE is aware of how nature operates and stays as witness, as he knows he is not the doer.

@unified2002 3 жыл бұрын

@@anroyus Then the choice to search for enlightenment, stabilizing in witness and merging into Absolute is all the work of nature ?

@praveenayetur6240 5 жыл бұрын

I have just been listening to Swamiji within the last few weeks ( stumbled on). My mind/ intellect craves for listening to Swamiji everyday. It is amazing how he explains the deepest knowledge? It is very profound ( can't express in words), yet very practical day to day applicable and graspable fashion. ” HE is Current Times Swami Vivekananda” 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@arpanarpokharel 2 жыл бұрын

So true!!!

@dr.gayaatrireddy4669 Жыл бұрын

True!!!

@vasukinagabhushan Жыл бұрын

Brilliant Swami Sarva Priyananda should quit the unnatural and anti Vedic monasteries, get married and start a Gurukul Ashram like in Vedic times. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@JaswinderSingh-yl2er 6 жыл бұрын

Cannot find right words to appreciate these so valuable and filled with deep knowledge sessions. Please keep going Swami Ji. Parnaam

@ajaydalaya2195 3 жыл бұрын

Bro, sikhi is all about Advaita Vedanta too.. Satnam shri waheguruji

@avijittripathi9096 2 жыл бұрын

I have understood non-dualism completely It eliminates sufferings at all levels

@annette4660 5 жыл бұрын

Vedanta NY, Thank you so much for organizing these talks with their Q&As on your channel! It makes them so easy to find. Much appreciated.

@luism.rodriguez3263 2 жыл бұрын

This is a very enlightening talk. Thank you Swami ji Sarvapriyananda. Om Tat Sat!

@adv.madhusudananmp9045 2 ай бұрын

Pranams Swamiji ❤

@meerabhide4888 Жыл бұрын

Hari Om,Pranam, Swamiji.

@TheSouravvideos 5 жыл бұрын

Wow!!! I was so ignorant about the reality. Even though I’m not enlightened, I can proudly say I’m improvised. Much thanks Swamiji 🙏🏽🙏🏽

@jesuisravi 2 жыл бұрын

improvised?

@sankararamaprasad9482 2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps today is my day.... Thanks a ton, Maharaj. All my questions are answered... In Gratitude The Question of Karma, Confusion, witness, application at relative level, grounding of each level, wow... Got it. I cannot thank you enough .... Pranams

@ajitkumardas7561 6 жыл бұрын

Enlightenment is rightly explained with accurate meaning of consciousness. Soul is not apara but pata.

@jalajamenon8664 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Swamiji 🙏🙏🙏

@kieranocallaghan7149 6 жыл бұрын

So So grateful to you Swami.

@vijaylakshmijayachandran5837 3 жыл бұрын

Finally found a guru who is imparting right knowledge.Thanku oh enlightened one.

@pradoshmukherjee735 4 жыл бұрын

Over four months I'm listening to your talks on advaita Vedanta I find myself lucky..... And all worldly pleasures become meaningless.... I bow down to you...bless us Swami so that I can contemplate on the Almighty

@haradhandhak6145 Жыл бұрын

Hari 🕉 pronam sawmije

@purvasharma4983 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much swamiji and team

@pulakmondal7357 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant answers and explanations, great accumulation of wisdom , illuminates our insight!!!

@aksharma4304 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Swamiji and Happy Thoughts शुभेच्छा।।

@pallaviachanta9645 6 жыл бұрын

Swami what can I say.. Each video is truly helpful for all the true seeker's especially these videos are very helpful for non local people. Please kindly keep posting the video's. Thanks a lot Swami. Lots of love and gratitude ..

@leelarao420 6 жыл бұрын

pallavi achanta M k m Q I

@rgc5549181 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you swamiji. Your talks on Vedant are truly inspiring and you have the gift to make all of us understand easily, by means of logic and with your words and examples, that we are actually the Absolute Reality. I am truly grateful to you and please continue to make more of these videos

@rgc5549181 6 жыл бұрын

Swamiji I particularly liked the example of the donkey being tied to a tree. Seems we were all in this state all this time until you clearly explained to us that we are not in bondage and that we are ever free and that sole reason we are suffering is because of confusion of our true nature

@jimmuncy5636 5 жыл бұрын

Where has this guy been all my life? (Aw, I probably wouldn't have appreciated it back when I knew everything.)

@timochaturthapaivansalo4629 4 жыл бұрын

What a joy! Pranams Swamiji!

@aint.sarcastic Жыл бұрын

I'm so grateful 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@praveenp8158 3 жыл бұрын

After knowing that everything is Consciousness, the one reality, the unhappiness in life no longer hurts. The intellect and the mind feels enormously blessed. So many things appear to transpire in the life, but really nothing has ever happened in reality. If at this very instant, the entire creation disappears, what is the big deal? ...... Thank you Swamiji.

@thyagarajant.r.3256 Жыл бұрын

But sir,you must sustain this conviction ,that is the difficulty

@Neeru369 3 жыл бұрын

clear

@maanefisker Жыл бұрын

This is a great teacher

@rapisode1 3 жыл бұрын

These questions were really good! Answers also of course :)

@desertportal353 4 жыл бұрын

Just outstanding!

@madhumathivs7612 6 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing to find answers and get clarity on so many aspects of existence and enlightenment from one source - Swamiji! Deep gratitude Swamiji, every lecture and every session seems to help bring us closer to our absolute truth.. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@nataliejanewallace8376 Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@56590 3 жыл бұрын

Blessed to be listening to this

@drjibankumarsarkar 7 ай бұрын

Pronams revered Swamiji, my spiritual teacher, bless me.

@vshljh 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot swamiji for your wonderful lectures!!

@chhotabheem9103 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much swamiji🥺 Radha Krishna bless you.... Lots of love to you...

@bhuvaneswarinatarajan2583 4 жыл бұрын

Pranam Swamiji, thank u so much 🙏🙏🙏🙏

@ajayyaratha 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swamiji for these Profound talks and amazing, convincing explanations. I feel lucky to listen to you.

@bhupendratomar4575 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your great work

@Vision_Of_Realities 9 ай бұрын

Jai Sri Ramakrishna 🌺🌺🌺🙏🇮🇳

@hs0022 3 жыл бұрын

From 37:00 - 47:40 it’s pure gold and just that alone is enough for enlightenment for the true seeker!

@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy 4 жыл бұрын

Brilliant explanation! 🙏🏼❤️

@muduratimma 6 жыл бұрын

Something shines in consciousness

@prithiphillips4746 Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Thank you!

@prithwirajmaiti3865 4 жыл бұрын

Infinite pranam to JAGAT-JANANI MA SARADA DEVI, YUGABATAR RAMKRISHNA PARAMAHANSHADEV & YUGANAYAK VIVEKANANDA the incarnate of LORD SHIVA.

@srinivasvangala3783 5 жыл бұрын

Clarity in motion Swamiji

@ankurdesai1453 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏 thank you so much swamiji

@MaheshPatel-ry8sl Жыл бұрын

Excellent explanation.

@sarbariroy2660 6 жыл бұрын

Pronam swamiji.I Listen you last one year.thanks for your lecture.i know lot Of thing about bedanta.

@mokshajetley9244 2 жыл бұрын

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

@rosappan 5 жыл бұрын

Namaskaram Guru 🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏

@anirbanbhattacharjee4188 4 жыл бұрын

aaaaah! that last story i laughed freely after so many years and m more happy bcoz i got some knowledge

@d.r.nagavenikrishna7895 3 жыл бұрын

Pranams.

@dan2250 2 жыл бұрын

God bless all of you watching 🙏

@devyogworkshops5962 Жыл бұрын

The answer on Karma is linked to the answer regarding our choices. Both answers are essentially the same. It clarifies a lot of doubts.

@sharauro 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you swamiji. Another beautiful and interesting session.

@rekhav4757 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏 Guruji

@onetwozeroyt 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@understandinglife1161 2 жыл бұрын

Respectfully Swami ji, here is one more riddle : 20x20 is a thought in my awareness , that one which is experiencing is consciousness ! The moment we say “ That “ , it becomes an object !! And consciousness is not an object🙏

@nirodha35 5 жыл бұрын

Reality explained in an unsurpassed way. Thank you!

@muduratimma 6 жыл бұрын

I am the witness in which mind operates, the body operates and the world appears. I am the consciousness shining upon the mind. I am not the mind but the mind appears in me.

@atmannityananda-autognosia 5 жыл бұрын

Only when the ego is dead then the karma doesn't apply to the person.

@101weirdfish 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swami Sarvapriynanda

@santhanammk7104 2 жыл бұрын

On hearing Swamili''s talk on Mandukya Upanisad I am reminded of Tamil sage Thayimanavar's song கலக்கமுற நெஞ்சை கலக்கி திரும்பவும் துலக்குபவன் நீ அலையோ பராபரமே. meaning " Oh Paraparame are you not you who first cnfuse my mind and also clears the cofusioion.! Buddha says" in the beginning there was ignorance " When did ignorance emanate? No answer! ( Swami confirms too)

@NivitaVerma 3 жыл бұрын

I really like the explanation in which he describes our dream world as our projection (hence, everyone in our dream is experiencing a common dream world) - and how he uses this to further explain why we seemingly experience a common reality in the waking world (because it is being projected in One Consciousness).

@CakeChef7 3 ай бұрын

🙏❤🙏

@ganesavenkkatswaminathan1730 4 жыл бұрын

swagatham saranagatham

@anagha.aniruddha16 3 жыл бұрын

हरी: ऊॅं 🙏🏻 नमस्कार स्वामीजी 🙏🏻

@AtulSharma-gf5vs 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swami ji

@sudersan2k7 2 жыл бұрын

Iam unaffected, unchanging, ever present, never absent consiousness

@sumanaghosal5072 6 жыл бұрын

Physical existence is due to confusion ......👌

@pgargey 2 жыл бұрын

Swami - thank you for such nice explanation. I am falling in love with these videos. I have one question. 1. Why is there gross injustice in this world? example: In India there was a horrific crime against a girl in New Delhi [Bus /Nirbhaya case] With no explicit cause from that girl, she gets abused /killed. how does vedanta explain such events?

@drvgpandurangi 3 жыл бұрын

Swami ji Namaskaras to you My name is vinay Pandurangi from Mumbai. Am thoroughly and clearly following and trying to understand the ULITAMATE TRUTH . I feel all your talks and satsang are very lucid and great explanations made easy to understand .was wondering if it was possible to translate the live discussions and lectures be translated in different languages so more people can benefit from these talks and partake this divine knowledge. Maybe In Hindi to begin with.!!!!!. Thank you swamji for your guidance .

@niladridas3506 Жыл бұрын

In my understanding, the theory of Karma is like the theory of quantum field theory. Outrageous statement I know; that is why I used the imprecise word 'like.'

@kbsikandar 5 жыл бұрын

😇💕🌹🙏

@linusn6227 3 жыл бұрын

Listen, reflect and then meditate. Then the simple logic of this wisdom will reveal itself. Ask questions and query but consider with a genuine open mind the Swami’s teaching of Vedanta. Does anyone know a better solution to our inevitable suffering of the human condition? 🙏🏼

@wokeymcwokeface1974 4 жыл бұрын

The last question should be the first one. It’s a great one! Why is there this consciousness or Brahman and why is there this phenomenological world and why is there this confusion of considering that to be real, which is the source of suffering. Why anything exists at all? The answer, as in physics, is we don’t know. The Buddhists deny the existence of everything. But this is when a dose of reality check is warranted. The purpose of Vedanta is to get us to be content and not have ups and downs and the associated suffering. Vedanta does a very good job of that.

@kowsalyag8041 6 жыл бұрын

Swamiji pranams your explanation about mandookya upanishad took me totally away from this entire universe I really experienced a new and blank world speechless motionless ,,,,,,, some reality no words to express thank u swamiji

@skd181086 4 жыл бұрын

I don't know if this question would reach to Swamy Sarvapriyananda Puri ever but I wish it could : The question is : When we dream we experience dream world which goes away when we wake up. And then when we go back to sleep and dream again and it seldom happens that we start from where we had left off in the last dream. But in case of waking world opposite happens almost always - when we go to sleep, the waking world goes away for sure but when we wake up the waking world starts where we had left off before sleeping. This is what makes distinction between waking and dreaming. But I would love to know how does it happen or what Vedanta has to say about it. Why in dreams we seldom ever start dreaming where we had stopped in last dreams. But in waking world we always start from where we left off before sleeping.

@ramakrishnanpanchapakesan299 3 жыл бұрын

If you had a dream (A), in which you went thru many "days and nights", would the world you returned to within (A), after every "sleep/night" within (A), be the same unchanging world, in which you continued from where you left off before going to "sleep" within (A). If it would indeed be so in that "multi-day &night" Dream (A), you need to undersatnd and explain how it so happened. If you comprehend that Truth, your "returning to same waking world" doubt will be laid to rest.

@radovanradovanovic2755 4 жыл бұрын

Joy.. that is your answer.. Joy comes directly from consciousness.. Happiness is from the mind but joy, that is from the Atman. That is the closest thing by which you can conceive or come close to "understanding" the consciousness. It is like positive attitude towards existence and being. Even if you are sad at the moment, there is joy inside you. By joy you are created, by joy you are sustained in Maya, to joy you will return in the end. Other thing that is Atman outside of awaker is space. Space has no opposition it is beyond duality. Empty boundless space is the consciousness of Brahman. And there is of course the light.

@ajitkumardas7561 6 жыл бұрын

Super teflon a nice example of Brahman. Namaste Swamiji.

@Mhlanguli_Marambana 2 жыл бұрын

The story of the donkey was really liberating 😂😂

@dulcedelrosario 2 жыл бұрын

Hello. Thank you for this video. Thank you, Swami for your passion to teach. 🙏🏻 To the admin - I just noticed a minor typo in the title of this video, the spelling "Vedenta"... 😊 Not sure if this can still be edited. Thanks

@brajmohan5055 5 жыл бұрын

what is maya and why it is

@vineetarora2852 4 жыл бұрын

Swami ji, Pranam! If Turiyam is witnessing the everything, can it be said that everything (3 states + cosmic world/prakriti ) are just creation of Turiyam from the repository of experience it possess and also to create the new repository of experience within itself( concept of expanding entropy ). Further, can it also be claimed that Turiyam also possess the sense of self/ego of itself(survival instinct )? Please enlighten. 🙏

@dcoleman4444 4 жыл бұрын

Is the waking dream intentional or is it deliberate, or is it random like in a sleeping dream?

@user-2x5s-r5x6 2 жыл бұрын

For the last question of where did our confusion or error of our real nature come from, swami says that there is no answer. My explanation is that if someone is dreaming and asks the question why am I dreaming, the answer can only be found when one wakes up and when that happens, the dreamer's question won't have much significance. Similarly, this question of confusion only arises when we are ignorant and can't be answered in our present state.

@sathiyasilen7424 2 жыл бұрын

hi i m from indonesia

@premlatacancercentreandimm8765 2 жыл бұрын

Grt teaching Swamiji! My qst is: in consciousness is there a difference between Self -The Ego and Self- the will ( the latter imp for our being) and must me therefore make a distinction!

@devyogworkshops5962 Жыл бұрын

This seems to be the same idea as the first question asked in the Q&A Session, about choices

@EvergrowingYT 4 жыл бұрын

He says something interesting at 32:53: "That which is at a lower level of reality does not affect the higher level of reality" but then in the same breath says "maybe his heart may pound a bit" .... well? That to me seems pretty much like some effect _did_ take place. That is to say, there is only an error in this if wakefulness is a higher reality. Is it?

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

*Better than searching mind bending movies watch such mind freaking videos this makes me more mindbended than those because it makes me curious of the reality.*

@sandeepsaxena3364 3 жыл бұрын

There is no spoon!👍

@cstan1979 6 жыл бұрын

@24:56 In Mahayana Buddhism, Diamond sutra states “Furthermore, Subhuti, that mind is everywhere equally. Because it is neither high nor low, it is called the highest, most fulfilled, awakened mind." Is this awakened mind is Brahman?

@bradstephan7886 6 жыл бұрын

Swamiji, my comment is based on the first question, which I saw as a question of Freewill. If our true nature is not the intellect, but the witnessing Consciousness, what difference does our Enlightenment or lack of Enlightenment make when it comes to the question of Freewill? In other words, just because I am ignorant of my true nature, I am still Satchitananda and not the body or the intellect and, therefore, not the doer, not the thinker, not the decider. As Nisargadatta has explained, "In Reality, things are done to you, not by you."

@sankarakrishnan8707 4 жыл бұрын

Brad Stephan - what’s the question here?

@replyno1 4 жыл бұрын

is the causal body not bondage?

@devyogworkshops5962 Жыл бұрын

One question arises in my mind. How is Moksha (or releases from innumerable cycles of birth and deaths) explained in all of this? Can someone say if Swamiji spoke on this point in any of his lectures, if so, which one?

@coolsai Жыл бұрын

Watch playlist of Katha Upanishad

@hbctrading6427 6 жыл бұрын

Sir, how can I be a part of vendant society.i live in Noida, India.

@MGN01 3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps you can start by joining the Ramakrishna Mission near where you are. They will provide you resources for your Vedanta study (I’m presuming that is what you are looking for?)

@anitadastandon Жыл бұрын

So the death is like awakening from the dream called life!?

@vasukinagabhushan Жыл бұрын

Brilliant Swami Sarva Priyananda should quit the unnatural and anti Vedic monasteries, get married and start a Gurukul Ashram like in Vedic times. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@LaurenceGalian 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Swami! Please, I have a question. I am confused when you spoke of the external world is superior to the dreaming world. You said: "The waking is a higher reality than the dream." This would then set a precedent that concludes the dreaming sleep is a higher reality than the dreamless sleep. And the 4th State which elsewhere you say is Supreme, would actually be the least real of all! Please explain this seeming contradiction. Thank you.

@sankarakrishnan8707 4 жыл бұрын

I guess it is just relative terminology. The 3 states are not real. Turiya is the only real state and is not a 4th state.

@ajaydalaya2195 3 жыл бұрын

There is a difference between dream less and Turiya. Dream less state there is no awareness although all thoughts ceases to exist how ever in Turiya the awareness is the only being that which is exists although all thoughts ceases to exist. Namaste.

@788baljit 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the sessions.Perhaps a simpler way to explain turium to westerners would be to think about the movie matrix-where matrix is the turium and the world we live is the three stages that swami ji has described is in the matrix but turium is beyond that matrix controlling our life.

@pratikpatil6342 3 жыл бұрын

But turium is not a seperate state from first three, that's why it is not good to explain it in that way in my opinion.

@mrityunjayrai63 2 жыл бұрын

In the dream world, the different objects appear separate but the whole dream is one projection of a single mind, the reason dreams appear is due to the material nature of the mind. Using this, can we infer that although this world is a projection of single consciousness, the single consciousness has some materialistic nature?

@kuenzangdorji6088 3 ай бұрын

Will the world cease to exist, the birds cease to sing and flowers cease to bloom when I cease to exist If everything is my projection ?

@hades388 4 жыл бұрын

If am pure consciousness existence bliss then why i feel pain when the body is hurt.......i am not the body then why it's just happen....i know this question is raised by the mind not by me(my true self)but i just wanted to know please clearify it.....🙏🙏

@sankarakrishnan8707 4 жыл бұрын

Varun Wardhan - you feel pain because you are the ahamkara I and not the atman I. When the first I is observed, it will eventually merge into the atman. After that, pain will be there as usual but atman I will know that it is pain of ahamkara I.