This explains a fundamental difference between the Dharmic & Abrahamic religions. I love the Dharmic view!😊❤

For some reason, the immense scale of things relaxes me when I get anxious lol

Truly amazing stuff. The wisdom of the rishis lives on and is freely accessible on the Internet.

I was in early primary school when a teacher told me infinity was too much for our meagre brains to fully comprehend. And almost 50 years later, I still have to agree.

I think that it is more difficult for humans to understand something not having a beginning rather than the concept of infinity. For example, a sequence of all positive integers is an infinite sequence but starts with 1. This is easy to grasp. Understanding something that does not start is much more difficult than understanding something that does not end.

I am so grateful having found this channel! Your calm, warm way of speaking and explaining is filled with radiant happiness. Thank you so much!

Pranaam Swami Ji. Blessed to hear answer to such very deep spiritual question and an insightful reply. Wish to hear more on such questions.

thank you for this series and the channel! 151k subs!!!

Dhaniyawaad swamiji, I download, share and thoroughly enjoy your insights and interpretations on various areas of our dharma and your focus on Advaita, this being the Sampradaya I was brought up with. I find your discourses useful for my young nieces, nephews and friends who are too busy to pause and consider the fundamentals of Sanathana Dharma. Especially for the millions who no longer read sanskrit or Tamizh

SO Thankful for your arrival and continuance on this grid... ✨ There is a mighty Given (it seems, to moi).. Sincerity cannot find False Hood so freely, un expected

I just want to thank you Swami Tadatmananda for all your work on these videos. Each one has been very entertaining and enlightening!

Happy to see you again Swamiji! I love the subtle detail of the flame in the fireplace 😊 Maya within Maya 😉🙌💜

Such lucid thoughts from our swamiji. Answering very Very deep questions that most others don’t venture to elucidate.

Swamiji sadar dandvat pranam, lam following your videos for past few months. The profound knowledge you impart is truly exhilarating and elevating. All those who listen/watch these videos are truly blessed.

Thank you for your generosity of spirit.

I love your videos and knowledge you share. Thank you!.🙏

Wow blessed to find this channel 🙏 thank you

0:56 😂 I was not ready for that - caught me completely off guard.

Thank you dear teacher 🙏

Wow & namastey to you swami ji for explaining it so well.

Very insightful and thought-provoking. Thank you.

As a Sanskrit student I wish to learn from you in person. Amazing

Grazie 🙏🏻 ogni volta accolgo questi video come un dono che proviene dall'universo d'infinito Amore ❤️

Grateful for your excellent and lucid teaching. Peace!

How beautifully explained, thank you . 🙏🏻

Manifestation is another word used for creation, Seed stage is perfectly sound well, then there is unmanifestation or dissolution and then the recreation again 💖

Basically it is like trying to find least and highest no in a number line. This is what I felt after watching this. Thank you GURUJI for your insights.

Thank you, Swami-ji.

Thank you for putting into words that I intuitively thought but couldn’t express. It always made me frustrated when people asked me “why was the world created?” Or “how did it all start?” I just knew something was wrong with the question but couldn’t explain why. This is what it means to “re-examine your common sense.” People just assume that there HAS to have a beginning of something. There’s no such thing as a “beginning” or an “end”. When is the beginning of a whirlpool? When is the beginning of a hurricane? When is the beginning and end of a cloud? Us humans just make up these “beginnings” arbitrarily for classification purposes.

Thanks Swami, you explained it so well. Thanks for all your other videos. I learned a lot from them ❤

VERY GOOD TO EXCELLENT RESEARCH BY SWAMIJI. I VE ALSO DONE SIMILAR RESEARCH AND MY RESEARCH WAS PUBLISHED IN ONGC MAGAZINES ALSO.

Very good video. Very well explained.

I explain time and movement, or change as the timer on a video player. When you press the pause button you stop time and everything is frozen. For things to happen or play out you need to press the play button and we see the timer restart.

Thanks for your inspiration. I have experienced many aspects of spiritual growth and even more recently a turya state of awareness where complete freedom and perfect peace became my awareness and I then knew consciousness as my Truth. Now, I ask, what is my rebirth and where?

Huh. I think I'm more confused now than before I watched this video! But I also feel like at the center of this confusion is the clarity I'm looking for. So that's where I'll go. Looks like I have something to meditate on this week!

I listen despite not believing any if it. Like a nice comforting bedtime story.

That beard looks great! :)

explained very well

Thanks Swamig

🙏🙏 Thank you Swamiji...

Although it is translated to read: “In the beginning “ that is a mistranslation of the original Hebrew. There is NO definite article THE in bereshit. The actual real translation is more like “at a starting point.”

Thank you

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much Swamiji for the Divine knowledge 🪷💞📿

Thanks for your teaching!❤ I am a new comer and like to learn more about infinity universe from the master like you. 🙏 And the way you explained makes people easier to understand these profound knowledge and wisdom. I am so grateful.

Great, profound insights very comprehensively explained by Swamiji 👌🏻🙏🏻✨

The lucid style of presentation is a joy to listen to. With that said, there are inherent questions that tend to come up - why there is this beginningless cycle of creation. OK, why question cannot be asked because space and time itself is part of the 'creation'. But then what is a cycle if it is not in time? Can cycle be understood without notions of time. Probably not. Did Karma Phala Dhata create time and cycles? The comment is to only show there are inherent contradictions , but Vedanta has addressed these and beyond. Perhaps Swamiji will get into the next levels of understanding in a future video with his own style

Swamiji, why do we have to learn our true nature? Why are we caused to become ignorant and then to realize the Self?

Swamiji, In my enlightened experiences and observation from that state. There are two main state of existance as the maximum state as well as the minimum to the consciousness.It is a pulsating state between the two states in conciseness itself, why this process is required as you describe is a continuous process. ( we observe only the peaks of both states as static. But there is operating pulses of consiousness as energy , that is observed by the observer as per its pre programmed systems of observations) Prabha.

To play...hence Lila (the Divine Play). Kind of like how you create a dream world every night. Why do you dream?

I find both ideas, the creation and the beginning-less neverending (because timeless) cycle interesting, they both seem to me to have a different quality and empower different aspects of existence. The creation idea seems to me to empower the energy of progress, starting somewhere and developing through a process (of learning, understanding, improving). The beginning-less and endless cycle has more the quality of letting things happen and being the observer of existence. Both have their place and serve a purpose. Maybe the "truth" is just a question of the point of view, if a cycle reaches its end it's essence and sum of experience becomes the initial creator (God) of the next cycle. Maybe it's all a process, to answer the initial question? I would be careful to state that one concept (or the other) is a wrong assumption, especially if you don't proof that you haven't just replaced one possible wrong assumption with another.

Beginning can be thought of as motion or, in contemporary cosmological terminology, fluctuation arising within the initial singularity. Before motion stillness.

But if we or the manifest undergoe rebirths what happens when all the karmic undone work is finally done? Or is it never done? If it is never done than the idea is flawed.

Thanks to swami ji for explaining the knowledge of the self in a lucid way... If you want further indepth informations related to this topic of birth and rebirth please go through to the treatise of Adi shankaracharya...

Namaste, om shanti. Thank you.

Pranams Swamiji 🪵🙏

Y por que ? Tengo que creerle a los rishis?

What bout life consuming life constantly

It is True, the One Reality has two aspects the Eternally Constant as Consciousness and the Eternally changeable Power of Consciousness as the recurrent Universe. But in the Recurrent Universe in space and time, there is involution and evolution and though the process in general is eternal each particular individual formation has an initial beginning and an end. God involved itself in limited formation and will evolve itself back to its Totality of Being as the Cosmic/Supracosmic Being.

God I love this video. Thank you thank you 🙏🏼

Esta información es invaluable 😮

So why this unmanifest and manifest or cyclicalic event occur

May everyone's atman flower brightly, even in the most darkest of places.

The why question can not be asked of Awareness.

It's strange how what you say is not only a position many scientists take but the Heat Death which the universe expands so much all matter spreads out into a subtle and cold state as you described being considered the most likely candidate for the death of the Universe. At first this may conflict with your statement on the singularity Universe but may give an insight on the functions that still take place when the universe is "dead."

This question about GOD comes because we think that there needs to be a creator to create something. Like you create a paper using the leaves. And another question raises instantly, who created the GOD?. And the answers by most is he cannot be created. He was forever present. (I shall left this statement from Carl Sagan.) He says, "In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from. And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and decide that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question? Or, if we say that God has always existed, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?”".

Q. Why? A. Why not? It is the nature of the all-inclusive Absolute to function as a diversified unity of Infinite potential Eternally actualizing as a unified diversity or Uni-versé.

I feel you didn't quite answer my question. originally I sent "why is there something rather than nothing?". (the ontological question)I dumbed it down to "why did ishvara create the world" ? but your answer was to fulfill the karmic laws. but my question really is deeper than that. why create karmic laws, why have laws of consequence/reward, why have life, why have "anything". if ishvara is perfect fullness and eternal bliss, why create this whole "play" / "univers" with people, karma, actions, "change". why not just stay in the perfect fullness of eternal bliss and there be "nothing". ie why is there something rather than nothing. why is there anything at all? i posed this question to a christian friend, and he had a similar answer, so god could love us, test us, demonstrate his glory ect. why does god/ishvara "need" any of this to exist. and if they don't, then why "change" the steady state of eternal bliss, and create all this?

I don't understand the concept of infinite consciousness that persist even when things are not manifest. If there is nothing to be coscious of, how on earth can I be conscious? I can't picture in my head "nothing"

But Swamiji, why is the universe cyclical? Why is there this duality of manifest and unmanifest? Activity and stillness? Ishwara and Devi Ma?

Excellent answers, very reasonable and makes a lot of sense to me

The question still remains. Why does the infinite cycles without the beginning and the end with residual karma exist? What is the point of this leela?

The singularity would have to contain the information that exists in the universe.

I think this video highlights an important difference between Vedanta and Buddhism, which is the role of Ishvara. Please take the following comment with the utmost respect and sincerity--I don't wish to cause any animosity, but merely ask questions in the spirit of the ancient Indian philosophical tradition. If you wish to not read it, then you may, as it consists mostly of personal opinions and it is not an attempt to proselytize. How is the argument that Ishvara created the laws of karma any different from the intelligent design argument championed by western Christians? Buddhists would posit that a truly existent divine being is not necessary in a schema of karma, because karma is contained in karma itself. Causes and effects naturally lead to other predictable causes and effects, and each effect is contained in its cause, and vice versa. The notion of an external divinity controlling the laws of the universe is unnecessary, because even uncontrollable events stem from logical causes. When a tornado hits, it's not because a god sent the tornado, it's because competing weather systems caused unstable air to be agitated, which subsequently caused a cyclone. Buddhists would say that any desire to relate an event to a divinity is the result of a subtle clinging to a higher power outside of oneself, or an ignorance of external potentiating factors. If we say that the laws of karma aren't self-contained and are controlled by something external, then in the Buddhist opinion, we have fallen into a trap of dualism. Buddhists would posit that an eternal brahman existing outside of samsara is not possible, because if it were, then we would not need "knowledge" or "wisdom" or "observation" to access it. It would just obviously be there, and everyone would be able to abide in it without engaging in neti-neti. Furthermore, if eternalism were an ontological possibility for anything's true nature, then we should be able to find causeless natural phenomena, which would be similarly impossible. Arriving at nirvana itself is caused by the action of meditation, so in that case, how is nirvana something separate from the samsaric process that potentiates it? Buddhists would instead say that śūnyatā is inherently a philosophical deduction rather than an underlying omniscient/omnipotent deity, and that it HAS to be a mental deduction connected to the impermanence of samsara. Primordial awareness, therefore, must be something inherently connected to the natural order and samsara itself, and it must be all-pervasive in a way that does not negate samsara. This doesn't mean that it's a deity (although it can be personified in that way), but it is the culmination of a sentient being's positive merit and a razor sharp spiritual and philosophical intellect. Samsara in its purest form IS nirvana, and all of its dualistic imperfections arise due to a sentient being's corresponding mental delusions and ignorance. Mental delusions and ignorance come from negative karma, but delusions are not permanent either--They can instead be cleared away so that primordial awareness shines through. As Guru Rinpoche says, "Appearances are not erroneous in themselves, but because of your grasping at them, errors come into existence. But if you know that these thoughts only grasp at things which are mind, then they will be liberated by themselves. Everything that appears is but a manifestation of mind."

Could the Bible be wrongly translated? Maybe it is talking about your daily experience. In deep sleep you are, then you dream. And then you dream so deeply that you think you woke up. All the while, you remain in deep sleep just being.😅 If it is so, then both text say the same thing.❤

To Christians who appreciate Vedanta there is common ground. One doesn’t have to nix the other. 🙏

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Thanks Swamiji. So the Infinite person can not understand finite creation.

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It explains the imperical difference but not the ultimate philosophical difference as both agree that love and compassion are of the greatest wisdom. Swamiji explains the difference only towards the perspective of the very finite (and almost irrelevant) context of the question Alone, in the broader understanding love and compassion are of the far great wisdom beyond this so-called difference

That's nirbeej samadhi & this is how you get out of the cycle

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It is possible that “in the first place” is a figure of speech meaning basically, “at all.”

Very well explained by Swamiji. 🙏🏻 As physical entities it is difficult for us to believe the universe as unreal. The fact is that only brahman or consciousness is the eternal timeless unchanging reality. Only Advaita establishes this fact beyond doubt. Depends on our ability to grasp or accept this truth.

I want to frame the question in another way.. Why God created Laws of Karma.. what was the need or desire to create anything itself..

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There’s a critical logical flaw here. If you are going to posit that the cause of the next cycle of creation is the unfructified collective karma from the previous cycle, you have to come to a point where the karmic cycle began. Or, you can posit that every jiva was created with karma inherent to it, in order to start its cycle and its lifetimes. Whichever way you go, you can’t avoid the fact that our origination is in ignorance & powerlessness, and not in the all-knowing consciousness that somehow chose to forget its true nature, imbue ignorance, desire and karma upon itself, and then thrust itself headlong into an uncomprehendingly long cycle of suffering. No being would do that to itself. I find that the position of there being Purusha, who “creates” Prakriti wherein it itself is immanent, but every soul is individual, with its own identity and journey through this maze, makes more sense. In other words, at the end of the day, we can’t escape from the reality that there is God, who “created” or in whom the creation is “projected”, however one wants to put it, and then there is us, the creation. And we are most certainly not the same, however the Creator has designed the jiva such that It is immanent and realisable from within it, but only when, after a seeming eternity of journeying and evolving through Prakriti, and then finally severing its self-identity with Prakriti, or maturing and extricating itself from the “projection”, by, paradoxically, “dying to itself”, so to speak, does it become “liberated”. Well, what liberation, if one has to cease to exist as it is and has been since its creation , ie forever from its perspective, in order to be “liberated” ? It’s a compelling, but in essence, a circular argument. Only from that perspective, the Truth, or Reality, is non-dual, contingent on the premise that what is real or true, must itself be incontingent. Then in that case, none of us and our problems and suffering are “real” anyway, which defeats the entire point of this darshana as a solution to suffering. As I said, Advaita Vedanta sure seems to be a cyclical, fundamentally logically flawed proposition.

But this is still beating around the bush. Cycle of Universes must have started so why did it start

When ALL beings get self realization what Will happen?

The real answer is no one knows. Also the real question was side stepped by you Swamiji.

Thank you, Swami , Who is worried about the Universe and the creation. ?. I guess it is the Mind with likes and dislikes.If we are able to overlook these two adjuncts created by the flow of mind , creation ceases to exists The Self enquiry could create a threshold to cross over the world of appearances for good.

And how do the rishis know exactly?

🙏 Shivoham Shivoham 🙏

In my view, the question "Is there God?" itself is pointless. The question would have been relevant if there would have been any evidence that God intervenes and gives rewards and punishments according to his predilections. Even if Self enquiry leads you to Nirguna Brahman (and I don't dismiss Nirguna Brahman as figment of imagination), how does the discovery that you are Nirguna Brahman, in any way, affect YOU as a person, I fail to understand. God, as imagined by most humans, if there is one, has gone to great length not to reveal himself to mankind. Why search for God and go against HIS wish? If everyone were happy, as in the imagined heaven, who would bother about God? It's only because there is suffering in life that we want to even think about HIM. Find a solution to suffering. Knowling about God will NOT mitigate suffering. Knowing about self (our ego) and how it is an impediment to happiness will help certainly. The notion that knowing our true Self (the Absolute Brahman) will give us freedom from suffering is of doubtful veracity. Sufferings will be mitigated by right Karma. By following Dharma. Finally, there is no human being who has been happy by doing adharma. But there are people who are happy without believing in God. God is NOT central to happiness. Dharma is. It is possible that in ancient times it was necessary to "invent" God so that people follow Dharma. I think times have changed now and in a rule of law based society we don't need God, irrespective of whether HE exists or not, for us to follow Dharma. We should improve our justice system to mete out punishments in this life rather than in afterlife. On a lighter note, effective justice in this life will probably help a person avoid many unnecessary births and rebirths. 😜 Follow Dharma and you will be rewarded with a blissful life.

Isvara is still the initiator of the cosmos/distributor of karma.

What if, even though the great Hindu, and Buddhism Guru's gain more Siddhis/Supernatural abilities, that, perhaps it is not the objectively truth path and purpose of man & existence. What if we don't have to transcend our uniqueness of "self", nor do we have to transcend our loving attachments. Maybe if we ceaselessly follow unconditional -(towards all people & all life) with our heart, and we follow the ways of dignity in our thoughts words and actions.

God is everything what is, there is nothing outside of God. What do you know about yourself when there is nothing outside of you ? _________________ God knows Love. But with who do you want to share Love when there`s nothing outside of yourself. That would be my answer.

In the grand scheme of things we are no more important than any other life form and will cease to exist in time. Our opinions of self importance are as irrelevant as our endless demands for a divine deity to establish the unknown. A catastrophic event and/or nature itself will see to it that we taught our place in the cosmos in due course.