157. Bhagavad Gita Chapter 13 Verse 17 Cont'd I Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 9 March 2025
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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Verse 17 from the Thirteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The Song of God".
🔆 Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13 Verse 17:
ज्योतिषामपि तज्ज्योतिस्तमस: परमुच्यते |
ज्ञानं ज्ञेयं ज्ञानगम्यं हृदि सर्वस्य विष्ठितम् ||17||
Jyotiṣhām api taj jyotis tamasaḥ param uchyate
jñānaṁ jñeyaṁ jñāna-gamyaṁ hṛidi sarvasya viṣhṭhitam ||17||
🔴 The self-luminous light of consciousness revealing even all that is luminous, He is beyond obscuration by the darkness of ignorance. He, the light of knowledge, He, the quest of knowledge, He, the way to whom is knowledge -- in the inner-most recess of all beings is He established.
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| 0:00.0 | OOOWM, Vasudeva, |
| 0:04.0 | the Votham, |
| 0:06.0 | Kamsachanuram Ardana, |
| 0:10.0 | Devaki, Paramanandam, |
| 0:15.0 | Krishna, Vandhi, So we are studying the Thuraghani Jagad Guru. |
| 0:23.6 | So we are studying the 13th chapter of the Bhagavad Gita. |
| 0:28.6 | And we were on a particularly beautiful sequence of verses. |
| 0:35.6 | Among the six questions which Arjuna had asked, what is the field and what is the |
| 0:42.3 | knower of the field? What is knowledge and what is to be known? What is spirit and what is nature? |
| 0:49.6 | Six questions. We have already, we have looked through four of the questions and the answers. |
| 0:56.0 | And the last question which was being considered is what is that which is to be known. |
| 1:01.0 | Which means what is the ultimate reality? What are we trying to realize here? |
| 1:06.0 | What is the ultimate nature of God, the absolute, the self? |
| 1:10.0 | So that is the question. |
| 1:11.6 | And the answer to that, |
| 1:13.6 | Krishna delivered in six or seven very beautiful verses |
| 1:18.6 | from verse number 12 to verse number 18. |
| 1:22.6 | And we have been seeing that. |
| 1:25.6 | Now in verse number 17 there occurred this phrase, |
| 1:31.3 | Jy Sharm, upita jota jota, jota, tamasaf, paramutjata, |
| 1:35.1 | light of lights, forever beyond darkness. |
| 1:38.6 | So we have already gone through that, |
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