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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

13. Panchadasi - Chapter 3 - Verses 1-4 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Panchadasi, a fourteenth century manual on Advaita Vedanta written by Vidyaranya.

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0:00.0

Ome Asatoma Sadghamay,

0:05.0

Tamasoma jyotyrgamaya,

0:09.0

Mritiurma amritamgama amritamgama

0:14.0

Oam shanty, shanty studying Panchadashi, which is a text of non-dual Vedantanth.

0:30.6

It dates back about 700 years.

0:33.6

And the Acer is a very well-known Vedantist, Vidyar India, which literally means an ocean

0:41.1

of knowledge. And come, come, come. He has written many books, but this one is his most

0:51.6

famous book, his masterpiece masterpiece if you will.

1:02.0

It's named after having 15 chapters on Vedantah. And in fact, each of those chapters is like a standalone chapter.

1:07.0

So, some were worried, like we want to join in now, but we have missed the first chapter, so can we catch up now?

1:15.6

It doesn't work like that.

1:17.6

Each of those chapters you can take from the beginning.

1:20.6

So we have done the first chapter and instead of doing the second one, what I propose to do is jump to the third one.

1:30.3

There is certain reason behind that.

1:32.3

The second chapter is, first of all, pretty large.

1:38.3

The third chapter, the one which we are going to do is much smaller, much more precise.

1:42.3

And the second chapter is a bit, what word shall I use?

1:48.0

Baroque, it's a little overdone.

1:51.0

The third chapter is much more precise.

1:54.0

So I decided to go on to the third chapter and later we'll come back some time to the second chapter.

2:00.0

But each of them being independent, you being independent, there's no discontinuity.

2:05.2

If you come in, if you come in in the middle of a chapter, there's a discontinuity.

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