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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

1. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 1 Summary | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8681 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda summarizes the first chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The song of God".

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ome, Vasudeva, Suttam Deba, Kamshachanuram Adhanu Ramadhanem.

0:17.0

Devaki, Paranandam

0:21.6

Krishna Vande Jagad Guru

0:25.6

Sari Rama Krishna said

0:31.6

that the goal of human life is God realization.

0:35.6

Swami Vivekhandi said the goal of human life is to manifest the divinity within us.

0:43.3

Now if we are asked that, our first reaction is, well, that might be the, that maybe that is

0:52.3

the goal of human life, it should be the goal of human

0:55.0

life, but that's not really my goal at the moment. What is my goal at the moment? My goal at the

1:00.9

moment is, I guess I need to earn money and take care of the family and my job and my role in

1:08.8

community, maintain good health, be happy in general. But all of those things,

1:16.8

if you analyze, if you generalize, what are we trying to do? What we are trying to do is we are

1:24.0

trying to be happy, we're trying to overcome suffering, we're trying to attain happiness and peace.

1:30.3

Attainment of happiness and overcoming suffering, that is our prime motivation.

1:37.3

Whether you are doing it in a worldly sense or in a spiritual sense.

1:46.3

The deep motivation, the underlying motivation is always the same.

1:54.3

At first we think that there is

1:57.4

happiness in these activities that we do in the world outside.

2:03.6

I am unhappy. I think I'm poor, therefore I'm unhappy. If I become rich, if I earn so much money, I'll be happier.

2:11.6

I think I am alone and I'm not married or I do not have friends, I am unhappy.

2:18.3

So if I have friends or I get married and have a family, then I'll be happy.

2:24.3

I think because I am a very ordinary person, nobody knows me, nobody values me, therefore I'm unhappy.

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