18. Aparokshanubhuti (Self-Realization): Verses 50 to 52

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2017

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This talk covers verses 50 to 52 to in "Aparokshanubhuti (Self-Realization)". In this series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda lucidly unfolds the path to direct "Self-Realization" presented by Adi Shankaracharya in Aparokshanubhuti.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Shre Shri Harim Paramanandam, Upadestharam Ishwaram, Vyapakam, Sarvalokana,
0:53.3	Karnam, Karnam Tamaamamamya.
1:03.0	Brahmas Satyam Jagat Mithya. The Sanskrit phrase means Brahman alone is real, the world is an appearance.
1:13.6	Literally the world is false, but the word false can be misleading.
1:19.6	A more precise way of formulating it would be the world is an appearance of Brahman.
1:25.6	Appearance in the sense what appears is not real
1:28.9	and the real never appears.
1:31.6	So Brahman
1:32.5	misunderstood is the world.
1:36.0	The world
1:36.7	rightly understood is
1:38.9	Brahman.
1:40.9	Now the reality of
1:42.7	Brahman and the falsity of the world, if you put these two together,
1:50.0	the upshot of it all will be the non-duality of Brahman.
1:56.0	What did I just say? If Brahman is real and the world is an appearance, it's not real in itself.
2:04.6	In that case, there is no second reality apart from Brahman.
2:08.6	No second, non-dual.
2:10.6	And hence, Brahman is non-dual.
2:13.6	All the discussions which are going on right now are to support the claim that there
2:22.4	is such a non-dual reality. Brahman is the non-dual reality. No second reality apart from
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