24. Mandukya Upanishad - Karika 2.16-2.18 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 2.16-2.18

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0:00.0	Let us start with the peace chant.
0:03.0	Ombhadram Karin'i Shinuyaamadeva,
0:09.0	Bhadram Pasha bhaqshabhirya jatra,
0:14.0	Stirae Rangai, sthushtu wagham sasthanubhi,
0:20.0	Vyhyahyahya Sastanubhi, Vyashem, Deva, Hitha,
0:22.6	Yadayyhu.
0:24.6	Svastin Indra, Vridhhhrava,
0:28.6	Svvusha Vhhhhhhhhhah,
0:32.6	Svastakshio Arishthanymih. Swastin nobri Haspater Dhadh.
0:42.3	Oam Shanty, Shanty.
0:48.3	Last time, we were studying in the Mandukya Karika, the second chapter, we had gone up to verse number 15.
1:01.0	Right? If those were following, 15? Yes. What was going on is this. Godapada is attempting to prove that our waking experiences are as unreal as our dream experiences.
1:23.6	We all admit, universally admitted, that the dream experiences are not to be
1:28.9	taken as being real. Now the waking experiences also are not real, they are false,
1:37.9	and Gordapada is using the dream, the example of the dreams, to prove that. He's
1:43.6	using logic based on experience to prove that.
1:47.0	His strategy has been so far to show that no real difference, no significant difference can be shown between dreams and waking.
1:57.0	Somebody said, no, no, dream objects are all in here. Whereas waking world, things are out there.
2:03.6	Just as in the waking experience, we see that a book out here, we consider it to be real.
2:08.6	And if I imagine this book in the mind, I don't consider it to be a real book.
2:13.6	I don't say I have two books. I have only one I may imagine this in my mind but that's not a second book
2:18.3	Similarly using that logic somebody said
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