The Ultimate Truth Q&A | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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The Ultimate Truth Q&A | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Swami Sarvapriyananda conducts a Q&A after a discourse on “The Ultimate Truth” (Based on Mandukya Karika). List of questions answered:
0:17 -- How does the Vedantic standpoint compare with the scientific
standpoint of the Big Bang?
8:57 -- If everything including Vedanta is an appearance, how can true
knowledge be attained by studying it? How do we see Brahman as
Existence Itself, and not just something which exists?
31:47 -- If Consciousness Itself is beyond feelings/emotions
(happiness, sadness etc.), then how can Bliss be the nature of
Consciousness?
39:26 -- If one can't experience Ananda (Bliss), then what good is it?
41:30 -- How can one realize that one is not one's experiences (that
one is unaffected/untainted by them)?
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@goelhardik 6 жыл бұрын

Questions asked: 00:12 - How does the Vedantic standpoint compare with the scientific standpoint of the Big bang? 08:54 - If everything including Vedanta is an appearance, how can true knowledge be attained by studying it? 24:10 - How do we see Brahman as existence itself and not just something that exists? 31:46 - If consciousness itself is beyond feelings, then how is consciousness's nature blissful? Contradictory? 41:25 - There is so much bondage with experiences as we have been having so many experiences for such a long time, it's difficult to break away from it. Is there some methodical way we can follow to achieve that?

@kumaraswamy2164 6 жыл бұрын

Hardik Goel thanks

@dextercool 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you - keep up the good work.

@noneall 6 жыл бұрын

Hardik Goel thank you so much for your efforts 🙏🙏❤️❤️

@huuu9809 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you fellow traveler.

@ananda224 4 жыл бұрын

Bliss is the word we use to describe it's nature, and it would be the closes description from the stand point of the mind. However, ananda is not an emotion or feeling and is hard to describe from a non-dual perspective. It's like the nature of a kind person is to be kind. They don't need to feel anything to know that they are kind, kindness is just their being and this is reflected in how they express this kindness. It's the same for our nature. The Self does not experience bliss, bliss is the nature of it's being and this bliss is why it is the way it is.

@rathinbhattacharjee535 5 жыл бұрын

Swami Sarvapriyananda is his entirety is the ultimate truth. I love his talk - clear and precise ! As I said before, he is the ultimate flag bearer of the Society.

@aniruddhasamanta4859 5 жыл бұрын

In transactional reality , Swamiji resembles The Bliss

@vb2556 4 жыл бұрын

This like going into trance.... Just listening to you is enough... Thanks

@adv.madhusudananmp9045 Ай бұрын

Pranams Swamiji ❤

@varunshenoy1906 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Swamiji 🙏 Blessed to hear your teachings

@aksharma4304 Жыл бұрын

Happy Thoughts, शुभेच्छा।।

@taonow369 5 жыл бұрын

At 27:58 the awareness of thought is huge. We are aware of our thoughts, we are not our thoughts. They are objects just like a object in the “outer” world we are that which is aware. Perfect , beautiful example

@ajitkumardas7561 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. I love your concept of brahman. Jay Sri Ramakrishna Jay Maa Jay Swamiji.

@anagha.aniruddha16 3 жыл бұрын

हरी: ऊॅं 🙏🏻 Pranam Swamiji 🙏🏻

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

@sundersrinivasan1127 3 жыл бұрын

Very good Swami ji. Now tell us Swami Vivekananda's famous quotes with their implied meaning

@PrakrutiPatel1708 6 жыл бұрын

Swamiji 🙏 U unfolded the infinite truth of existence Self Realization 😊🙏 Mind is the tool for you , you are not made for the mind 👍😊Mind lies u, rules u, misguide u, etc but you are beyond it..and the controller of your own mind.

@sushantchoudhary6393 6 жыл бұрын

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?” - Sherlock Holmes in “The Sign of Four”. Very Advaita-vedantic.

@amanitamuscaria7500 3 жыл бұрын

Both Sherlock and AdvaitaVedanta are based in exacting logic.

@rosappan 5 жыл бұрын

Namaskaram Guru 🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏🙏 🙏

@sanskritx 5 жыл бұрын

Pranaams!...Such clarity and fluency in explaining the most abstract & difficult of concepts to grasp!...thanks a million!

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

same feeling here..this is the intelligence of a gyani

@KvaedTV 3 жыл бұрын

Honesty is the Ultimate Truth.

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

But one need to be enough honest to accept the ignorance.

@thyagarajant.r.3256 Жыл бұрын

Integrity?

@indrajitbhowmik4507 4 жыл бұрын

Pranams to Revered Maharaj. The teachings of Gaudapada gives enormous joy. This appears to be the highest order of philosophy Man can ever think of. Again with devoted pranams.

@ParagAmbardekar 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this. Profound, informative, educational, and still entertaining.

@Thenarayanaclips Жыл бұрын

Charan Sparsh, Gurudev. Thank you so much for answering all our questions and bringing us into light.

@pallaviachanta9645 6 жыл бұрын

Every single session is very useful swami. Thanks a lot!! Please keep posting the videos.

@mokshajetley9244 2 жыл бұрын

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

@purvasharma4983 3 жыл бұрын

Many many thanks to swamiji and the entire team at vedanta ny

@ashaghosh1933 3 жыл бұрын

Knowledge full speech in a simplified form. My life has changed.

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

glad to hear that..waiting for my life to change now

@niladridas3506 Жыл бұрын

that which can change is not you

@TheGW_Channel Жыл бұрын

Watching this in the beginning of 2023. It will be a great year to experience...

@babukolappan4387 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent session.Pranams swamiji

@kaushik92-lj 6 жыл бұрын

9:33 the funniest thing i ever heard two questions but the meaning of his name is " not two".

@vinayakprabhu7935 4 жыл бұрын

vashu kaushik Every human being is pure awareness in reality, not just Mr. Advait. But every one gets questions because of ignorance of being the Brahman.

@niladridas3506 Жыл бұрын

talk of the century

@MysticOnMission Жыл бұрын

Thanks to Swamiji and Vedant Society and all those who asked the questions, it gave a lot of clarity.

@iloverumi 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for posting! really enjoying this.

@amanitamuscaria7500 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. It is true. I have an intuition that this is the reality and feel very drawn to it, exactly as Swami says. These answers themselves are beautiful insights. 31.46 alone is worth imprinting in your memory.

@VivekGoyalsoya 6 жыл бұрын

Very Beautiful, no words I have to explain how I am feeling after hearing Swami ji. Request you Swami Sarvapriyananda to pls come to India, wish and desire and dream to meet you some day. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

@amanitamuscaria7500 3 жыл бұрын

I think there's a very long queue wanting to meet him in person.

@vinodmohan123 3 жыл бұрын

Great clarity in expression. Prnam Swamiji

@michaeldillon3113 3 жыл бұрын

An absolutely beautiful Q&A session🙏. I particularly liked the section when Swami was talking about Consciousness in the sense that if you are a materialist and don't bring consciousness into the explanation then you are only telling half the truth . So if you have a conference of Cosmologists talking about the universe they can talk in great depth about scientific explanations about the Cosmos but all that discussion , and all that scientific observation takes place within Consciousness which is conveniently forgotten , but something that very inconveniently science knows little about . They are in the cinema taking the movie to be real . At one time films in the cinema had a habit of breaking . You are absorbed in the movie and then the film breaks and the lights come on . You were never in the movie ( which in itself was a set of flickering images that you put together in your mind .))you were all along in the movie . For most people - certainly for me - when the film breaks and the light comes on

@michaeldillon3113 3 жыл бұрын

.......( continuation of comment above )...when the light comes on then that is when your vedantic journey starts are recommences . That certainly happened to me as a 6 year old boy . One minute the world was real , the next a realization that the world was an appearance in consciousness , but I had no idea what consciousness was . Hence my journey started or restarted , but really it was Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi calling me from Arunachala . Wake up wake up !!!! Or in those days when you could hire a boat on a lake near us , when your hour was doing me the Boatman would call from the shore " Come in no 1 , your time is up ". 🙏🕉️

@sankararamaprasad9482 2 жыл бұрын

Pranams Maharaj. Thanks a ton

@najeeves8171 8 ай бұрын

We experience everything through our consciousness because our bodies allow us to do so. I will believe in Vedanta when my consciousness travels to a far off place and gleans events without my body being present and I remember it all when I wake up. Until then, it is materialism FTW.

@bradstephan7886 6 жыл бұрын

Excellent, thank you!

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

nice

@manjugupta7752 2 жыл бұрын

This is what I was waiting for ❤🙏

@annuaravinda 3 жыл бұрын

wonderfully explained with examples. Thank you!

@praveenp8158 3 жыл бұрын

There is no experience outside Consciousness. Nothing can exist apart from Consciousness. Consciousness reveals itself through all experiences and through the existence of all objects. We are already the One, whom we are searching for. This is a great illusion, yet no one is able to see it.

@durga.prasad 6 жыл бұрын

Please upload the question and answers of "Do we have free will?" also...

@drdnukum001 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Swamiji

@bhaktiyoga6451 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@kumaraswamy2164 6 жыл бұрын

Thank u sir

@VkA2018 3 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful video

@kunalkadam1052 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, sir

@sharanbheemareddy9824 6 жыл бұрын

True knowledge.

@apsingh420aps 5 жыл бұрын

Totally enlightening

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

r u awaken

@apsingh420aps 3 жыл бұрын

@@theeternal6890 yes, culturally aware

@donaldstrubler3870 10 ай бұрын

Jai kapish

@annette4660 6 жыл бұрын

Starting at 10:10, a wonderful meditation. I changed the tense to 1st person: I am the truth myself. I am satchitananda, the truth myself, Not this body and mind. But my problem is that under the influence of ignorance, I do not know the fact about myself that I am satchitananda, And in that satchitananda ALONE this body and mind are appearing. But I don’t know that it’s appearing in satchitananda. I just think, this is what is there, and so I am this. It’s an error that I am making. We are all making this error: That because the body and mind are experienced, Immediately I jump to the conclusion, “I AM this thing.” It’s based on ignorance of my real nature. Ignorance of my real nature as satchitananda leads to the error “I am body/mind.”

@pravinakilpady1237 5 жыл бұрын

If we practise this along with the practice of purifying our thoughts,words,n actions this knowledge becomes a living reality..its imp to be loving towards all as they're a reflection of Brahman.

@briechilli4496 3 жыл бұрын

🙏🏽

@rekhav4757 3 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏 guruji

@josef2012 2 жыл бұрын

🙏💗🌈

@hariharan4922 4 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏

@kanemclaren5991 Жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you for your great work & insight. I have a genuine & passionate question that I’d love some help with please….how does one kill The Prime Consciousness/God/Brahma/The Dao? Happy to hear any & all suggestions please 🙏 Ps. Can the source God, if indeed all~powerful, destroy itself? If it can’t then I have to assume that it’s not all~powerful. Or am I missing something? I wonder if the Prime God ever asks itself….”To Be Or Not To Be?”

@noneall 6 жыл бұрын

🙏🙏🙏🙏🕉️

@ajitkumardas7561 6 жыл бұрын

Vedas r no vedas.wow very right. Be Brahma jnani all Vedas will sprout. U r that light.ur Brahman.

@AlejandroGarcia-ek3uy 5 жыл бұрын

Blessings to you, swamiji.

@sarathm7427 5 жыл бұрын

Actualisation of an Objective Versus Realization of The Meaning Why one asks the Question :- Who Am I? When the apparent vagaries ,activities and reasons of Life fail to address the core issue and when they fail to fetch the desired degree of Peace /Bliss, this aspect clubbed with an experiential state of Futility and Im-permanency of such bouts of happiness in any act /thought, one is directed towards the Quest for the Meaning of The Life... Though the Quest is for finding the Meaning of Life, it mostly is redirected / reduced if I may so say, ( even without one's knowledge) towards finding a space wherein one gets Unalloyed Bliss that is to say The Objective of one's pursuits. Thereafter it is a Rooted State wherein one remains in that State.... The ESSENTIAL QUESTION :- WHO AM I is addressed in RELATIVE terms.. from a transient state to a Relatively Permanent state one advances in the quest. But where is the EXPERIENTIAL - CONSCIOUSNESS in the Absence of body-mind-intellect complex? When is one aware of the deep sleep and dream state? In wakefulness When is the question Who am I asked and further answered? In Wakefulness Can the aspect of Awareness examined in any other state other than wakefulness? NO Where/ when does the Experience of Awareness cease to exist? When one is either in Dream or in Deep sleep. Who is this EXPERIENCER? The I Can there be any I in Exclusivity... separate from the Gross? Isn't the I all INCLUSIVE??? Can the sense of I be there in a Rock? mostly cannot as the very Rock is again an inclusivity of The I.... without the I there cannot be anything.... Anything everything is an expansion or extension of the I ......If I is not there nothing remains and in I remains everything the sentient insentient everything.....

@weebie2633 Жыл бұрын

In Vedanta it's Brahman. In Tibetan buddhism it's Self existing awareness..(Dharmakaya) Beyond our conception

@sumanjoshi7902 4 жыл бұрын

If you don’t have memory of experience, then you won’t know the object.

@ssk1117 4 жыл бұрын

Very important 40:00

@theeternal6890 3 жыл бұрын

at point

@ashiskarmakar7292 2 жыл бұрын

@chotu986 6 жыл бұрын

how could i relate myself with astabakra to a devote of thakur,ma swamiji (Chiranjit Banerjee kol-90)

@vinayakprabhu7935 4 жыл бұрын

chotu986 just as GOLD is related to bangle and chain. At the level of body mind, we are all definitely different and distinct. But in essence, we all are Brahman, Sage Ashtavakra being not different from you and me. Please take standpoint of witness and see if this question has validity.

@vimalkumar-kk8rb Жыл бұрын

What's the meaning to be enlightened?

@EnglishTutorDip 5 жыл бұрын

Stop counting God as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ... millions..... and you be liberated immediately.

@hallgerdgarberg8955 4 жыл бұрын

Jesus sey The heven is inn you ,,,!

@chhotabheem9103 2 жыл бұрын

Advait😂😂😂👍

@debashishalder2027 6 жыл бұрын

R/Mj It was agreed that Swami Brahmananda and others received something supernatural from Ramakrishna ji as His holiness considered to be 'Avatar' . Now it's radical Sir, What does reveal as Avatar from the Adwaita Non-dual from point of view? Don't bypass it as something focussed by absolute awareness. Please speak trouth.

@sarathm7427 5 жыл бұрын

Kindly Accept my Pranam Blessed One.. Can you kindly address this doubt , which I deem a barrier in my quest for the Truth. When it is said:- the CONSCIOUSNESS /AWARENESS is The ETERNAL, isn't it that we are claiming only a RELATIVE -PERPECTUALITY vis a vis the temporal elements like body, earth and the like? When we substantiate the argument on CONSCIOUSNESS as an ETERNITY, mostly the aspects of jagrat swapna and Sushupti are brought into the stage. And in their backdrop the All Pervasive Substratum of Consciousness is presented. And it is essentially convincing . But ,for the Realization of such a Substratum, and its all pervasiveness, the state of WAKEFULNESS ( at the physical plane) and a wakefulness /alertness ( at a psychological /mental plane) are very much a Necessity. Isn't it the memory / and the associated experiences of the swapna and Sushupti that act as a primary pointers to the question, What is that which had been a CONSTANT in all the realms of Jagrat Swapna and Sushupti. Question 1. Why the TRUTH, more Aptly ,THE NITHYA VASTHU needs an ANITHYA vasthu for its VALIDATION? Question 2. TILL WHEN DOES THIS SENSE OF AWARENESS /CONSCIOUSNESS PREVAIL IN A PERSON... WILL IT BE A MATTER OF CONTINUITY ( AT REALIZATIONAL LEVEL) EVEN AFTER THE BODY PERISHES? BUT THEN (AS IN THE FIRST QUESTION FOR THE REALIZATION DOESN'T IT REQUIRE A CONTEXT :- A BODY ( WAKEFUL/ALERT ) IN THIS CASE TO VALIDATE THE EXISTENCE / PREVALENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS? PRANAMS...

@vinayakprabhu7935 4 жыл бұрын

sarath m Q1: Ignorance is Anitya vastu. To remove it you need another Anitya vastu. Nitya vastu has no impurity in absolute sense.

@SangeetNepal 5 жыл бұрын

Dear Sarbapriyananda ji, after you approach to enlightenment you can read, vedanta, you can count beads, you can deliver speech to other interested people or Mumukchhyu, once you realise the self you are not in bondage for anything or against anything. Even Lord Krishna says in Geeta, He has nothing to do throughout the Universe yet he is driving the chariot of Arjun. Mukti means free of all bondages and from every action and inaction . When you are acting, really you are not acting, when you are not acting actually you are acting,, whatever you do the realisation never erases even for trillion of years, should we accept the time and space. Once we realise the Brahma one is beyond time and space. You can walk, you can eat, you can do charity work, you can read Vedanta as much you like, there is no bondage at all, there is no bondage at all after realisation of the ultimate truth or Mukti or Nirvana term really does not matter. Whatever the body does you are not doing it so where can be bondage or obstacle after realisation of the ultimate truth? Whatever is done that is done by our senses and our body not by us. we are absolute truth, the absolute truth does not do anything. We are existence, conciousness bliss so existence conciousness bliss does not do anything it is the light only.

@PetroBlownapart 2 жыл бұрын

Here's how I might have tried to answer the first question (00:17) : Big Bang Theory states that all the matter and energy of the universe was at one time concentrated in an infinitesimally small singularity, which then expanded. We can think of the singularity as sat-cit-ananda. From a vedantic point of view, we might say that the space that has appeared to separate the many particles of the universe can be thought of as illusory. From that standpoint, we never stopped being a singularity! The big bang is not an event that occurred in the past; it is continually occurring even at this moment. Brahman is both the infinitesimal singularity and the vast, unfathomable universe. It is not one thing or the other; it is both! But if we put these two manifestations of Brahman at opposite end of the spectrum of time, then to our eyes it appears to change from one form into the other, and therefore the universe appears to be expanding.

@robertjsmith Жыл бұрын

consciousness is an illusion

@babukolappan4387 2 жыл бұрын

👃

@richa4i01 6 жыл бұрын

If all the confusion is created by ‘ignorance ‘ , why did the ignorance even come into picture ? Please reply does it mean even brahman is limited by time so that it was realised by yogis at the beginning of universe and not anymore?

@sayankundu1492 6 жыл бұрын

s J Swami Vivekananda says that Why we're ignorant of our true nature is not known... why does the Perfect think of itself in this human nature as imperfect is not known... But it is the Truth that is what the Hindu says... that we're That ... Sat Chit Ananda.. The answer to the second question is Big No... anyone can realise God or The Truth .. but it has its own consequences which most human beings are not able to sacrifice.... The Question is how Badly do you want Realisation.... if you want it like you need to breath.. you'll get it in that moment itself...

@richa4i01 6 жыл бұрын

Sayan Kundu 🙏thank you for replying. I have been ardent follower of swamiji’s talks. So this followup question to your answer. So if we do not know why ignore came into picture and we need to believe that we are ignorant. So is not like theist belief that we need to believe first in God first. Similarly in vedant we need to believe first that we are ignorant of our true nature. I mean is not the underlying belief of vedanta. With all due respect 🙏🙏someone pls reply

@adityashukla2480 6 жыл бұрын

As repeated why Swami Vivekananda and Paramhanash yoganannad...we can't know the answer of that question...If Maya acted upon Brahman ( Brahman limited by time and space), then the Brahman ceases to be Brahman...hence the question is self contradictory.

@souvikdas1087 6 жыл бұрын

Their is no beginning of ignorance. That is the most radical answer I can say. Actually Swamiji also answered the same question in other lectures. Now, tell me since when you don't know about KZfaq? Let's assume you will have no satisfactory answer. Because ignorance has no starting point. But you can say I came to know about KZfaq when I started to see KZfaq. Last two questions, since when you don't know that sky is not blue? Since when you came to know about the fact that sky has no colour?

@richa4i01 6 жыл бұрын

Souvik Das thank you for the effort to answer this question. I will still try to manan(dwell) on the question. I think it some questions can not be explained in words. This is one of them. Thank you 🙏

@sourcetext 2 жыл бұрын

You are not the body and mind you are Eternal Spirit trapped in the body, you have forgotten over many incarnations. The Matrix is your own bio computer brain machine that keeps You in the illusion of being a physical Being in a physical world via the nervous system and the five senses. Meditation is putting the body and mind to sleep but staying Awake and Alert inside so you can re experience your Self as Eternal Spirit again. If you remain in this state after Meditation its called Nirvana, Samadhi, the Tao cosmic Consciousness, Born again Jesus, Self Realization Yogananda, Inner Witness Krishnamurti. Obtaining the golden fleece Greek mythology, Garden of Eden,etc etc etc all the same. THAT IS THE TRUTH

@najeeves8171 8 ай бұрын

The ONLY thing that the Swami needed to demonstrate in order to debunk the materialistic standpoint is to show that he could experience that microphone without his body. Since he cannot do that, the materialistic viewpoint still holds good. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proofs. Has his consciousness experienced life through another body? Can the Swami swap bodies with one of his other Vedantic colleagues? Can he remotely view events on the other side of the globe as they are happening and provide a live commentary (since his consciousness is not limited by his body)? If he cannot demonstrate any of this, the materialistic viewpoint still stands and the Vedantic viewpoint is forever debunked.

@colinmccowan9056 Ай бұрын

Can you have an experience without consciousness? Without awareness?

@najeeves8171 Ай бұрын

@@colinmccowan9056 Experience, awareness, everything happens because we have a physical brain. Lose your brain/body, lose your experience - period. This is why our bodies need to be valued greatly as opposed to the unproven notions of soul/spirit. Spiritualists have it all in reverse. If you disrespect or lose your body, you lose it all.