21. Aparokshanubhuti (Self-Realization): Verses 58 to 60
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 31 December 2017
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Shri Harim Paramanandam, Upadeh Starram Ishwaram, |
| 0:12.0 | Vyapakam, Sarvoloqa, Nāraqa, Karnam Tamm Namamamamamamamyaam. We were on verse 58. |
| 0:31.6 | We saw last time a very important verse 57 |
| 0:46.3 | where an important fact was mentioned. |
| 0:51.3 | The world, though it appears and though it is all relative |
| 1:01.8 | usage, empirical dealings, transactions can continue, still it's not real. You |
| 1:10.1 | actually experience it and you can use things there. You actually experience it. |
| 1:11.9 | And you can use things there. |
| 1:14.1 | You can drive a car and you can drink water and satisfy thirst. |
| 1:18.8 | Everything works. |
| 1:20.3 | And yet, it's not real. |
| 1:22.6 | How is that possible? |
| 1:25.0 | The example that was given was the dream world, the experience of your dreams. |
| 1:30.3 | Do you remember the verse number 56? That was verse number 56. A very important verse. |
| 1:39.3 | Just as in a dream world, in our dreams, we see it. We see people, we see things. You may feel thirst and |
| 1:47.9 | there is water and dream thirst is satisfied by dream water. But when you wake up, the whole thing |
| 1:56.1 | is a dream. So it is seen, it is experienced and and it works, and yet it's not real. |
| 2:06.1 | This is important because people have many different kinds of ideas about enlightenment. |
| 2:13.1 | One idea is that when you are enlightened, this world won't appear to you. |
| 2:17.9 | You will see something else or you will be, you'll see only light or something like that. |
| 2:25.9 | Something quite different will appear to you. |
| 2:28.5 | No, the experience of the world will continue exactly like this. |
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