10. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 2 Verse 26 - 27 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 2 (Verse 23 - 25) of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The Song of God".

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0:00.0	Ome, Vasudeva, Sutam, Devam, Kamsachanuram Ardanam,
0:09.0	Devaki, Paramanandam, Krishna, Vande, Jagad Guru. So in the Bhagavad Ghiata we are studying the second chapter.
0:29.6	And Sri Krishna has just given the essential teaching about the Atman.
0:34.6	The Atman means the self, us. What is our real nature?
0:40.3	Vedant in that sense is very simple. It says that we do not truly know what we are.
0:48.3	What is there here? We think it's a body mind, but it's something far more than that, far deeper than that.
0:57.0	I like that saying that what is behind you and what is yet in front of you is as nothing compared to what is within you.
1:07.0	What is behind you, all your past past what is yet ahead of you
1:11.5	whatever is going to happen in life
1:13.9	we think these are the important things
1:16.1	my past and my future
1:18.1	that's what's important
1:19.0	none of that is anything compared
1:22.5	it's insignificant
1:23.7	compared to what is within you
1:26.0	what is within us there's nothing compared to what is within you. What is within us?
1:27.7	There's nothing compared to what is within us.
1:32.7	I think I must have told this joke earlier.
1:35.7	It happened a year before last in Santa Barbara.
1:39.3	I had quoted this thing more than once.
1:42.8	And so somebody left a card in the ashram saying that and the
1:49.2	card itself says at the top of the card it is not handwritten just printed what is behind you and
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