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🗓️ 19 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 Sahanavavutu, Sahaubhunaktu, |
0:05.0 | Sah viriam karawahawahyriam karawahy. |
0:10.0 | Deja Svinawhidhhhhhāhāhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh So we are studying the third chapter of the pancha-dashanty, shanty. |
0:21.6 | Shanty. |
0:23.6 | So we are studying the third chapter of the Panchadashi. |
0:32.6 | And we are at the very end. |
0:36.6 | Just to remind you, what we have done is And we are at the very end. |
0:45.3 | Just to remind you, what we have done is that this chapter is based on the Taitereopanishad. |
0:48.9 | The Taitereopanishad is the root text for this chapter. |
0:57.7 | There, in the second section of the Taitiri Upanishad, Brahman is defined as infinite existence consciousness. |
1:00.2 | Now, the author Vidyarany approaches this theme in his own style. |
1:05.6 | What he does is that look at this body mind system. The ultimate reality Brahman, which is supposed to be our own reality, |
1:15.6 | is first of all different from this body mind system. |
1:21.6 | This body mind system is studied as a cave with five layers. |
1:26.6 | The five layers, the first layer is the food sheath and the second layer is the vital |
1:31.8 | sheet. |
1:32.5 | The third layer is the mental sheet and then the intellectual sheet and then the sheet of bliss. |
1:38.2 | So none of these five are the real self. |
1:41.7 | So that's the first thing we saw there. |
1:43.3 | A bit a lot of subtle analysis, why we are not this body mind complex. |
1:50.0 | So that ultimate reality, Brahman, is different, in Sanskrit, |
1:55.0 | Vailakshana, different from these five sheets. |
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