2. Panchadasi - Chapter 1 - Verses 8-10 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 12 January 2025
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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Panchadasi, a fourteenth century manual on Advaita Vedanta written by Vidyaranya.
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| 0:00.0 | Ome Saha'navavu, Saha'naubhunaktu, |
| 0:07.0 | Sahhidiam Karavahawahy, |
| 0:11.0 | Tejasvinawadhi, tamas, Tumavidwitwishawahy. |
| 0:19.0 | Oam shanth, Shantayshantay |
| 0:21.6 | Shanty Shanty |
| 0:22.6 | Shanty |
| 0:24.6 | So we have just started |
| 0:28.6 | Panchadashi |
| 0:29.6 | A well-known Adhwaitic text |
| 0:31.6 | of non-dual Vedantah |
| 0:33.6 | written by Vidyarinyaswamy |
| 0:35.6 | more than six, 700 years ago. |
| 0:38.3 | And it's a text of 15 chapters, as the name says, |
| 0:42.3 | Pachadashi means something with 15 chapters. |
| 0:46.3 | In the beginning of the first chapter, he does something remarkable. |
| 0:51.3 | That's where we are right now. |
| 0:53.3 | From the third verse to the tenth verse of the first chapter, |
| 0:57.0 | Vidyaranya demonstrates with the help of only our day-to-day experience |
| 1:03.0 | and with reasoning that our self, our real nature, is infinite existence, |
| 1:10.0 | infinite consciousness, infinite place. |
| 1:13.7 | This is remarkable. He does not appeal to scriptural authority. |
| 1:18.3 | He doesn't say because the Upanishads say so, you are Brahman. He doesn't say that. |
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