10. Aparokshanubhuti (Self-Realization): Verse 27 to 28
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2017
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
In this series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda lucidly unfolds the path to direct "Self-Realization" presented by Adi Shankaracharya in Aparokshanubhuti. This talk - delivered on October 11, 2016 at the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, CA - covers verses 27 and 28 in "Aparokshanubhuti (Self-Realization)". The text for this series is a translation of Adi Shankaracharya's Aparokshanubhuti by Swami Vimuktananda.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The O'HRiharim Paramanandam, Upadestharam Ishwaram, |
| 0:46.3 | Vyapakam, Sarvalokanaam, Karnam Tannam, Tannam, caranam tam namyaam. |
| 0:58.0 | So we are studying Aparokshanubhuti and we were on verse number, I think it was 26. |
| 1:10.0 | We had done 26 and we are on 27 so what is going on |
| 1:16.1 | here in Sanskrit it is called Atma anatma vivica it means differentiating |
| 1:24.5 | between the self and the not self between who I am and who I am not. |
| 1:30.3 | And by differentiating between these two, we gain knowledge of who we truly are. |
| 1:37.3 | You see, Vedantar claims that we do not know who we really are. It's a startling claim. |
| 1:42.3 | I suppose we think that we really know who we are. That's the first thing that we know. But Vedantta says we really are. It's a startling claim. I suppose we think that we really know who we are. |
| 1:45.9 | That's the first thing that we know. |
| 1:47.4 | But Vedanta says we do not truly know who we are. |
| 1:51.0 | And this not knowing who we are is at the root of all our suffering. |
| 1:58.2 | The whole project in Vedantaah is to overcome suffering. |
| 2:01.6 | And suffering is due to this thinking, feeling, experiencing ourselves as this limited, finite individuality. |
| 2:10.6 | This person of flesh and blood, this body and this mind, and this little life, this is who I am. This feeling that we have, the complete |
| 2:20.2 | conviction that we are this, this is at the root of our suffering. And why do we feel this? Why do we |
| 2:28.7 | actually feel this? You see, because of the body, you see, it all centers around this body, this limited body. |
| 2:38.0 | I think I am this body. |
| 2:41.0 | If you ask, where did the body come from? |
| 2:44.0 | According to Vedantah, the body is a product of our karma. |
| 2:50.0 | Actions which we have set in motion in past |
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