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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

28. Vedantasara | Texts 159-169 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Vedantasara (Essence of Vedanta), which is a 15th-century Advaita Vedanta text written by Sadananda Yogendra Saraswati.

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I'm

0:02.0

Ome,

0:06.0

Akandam Satchidhanandam

0:09.0

Avang Manasagocharam

0:13.0

Aitla Dharam

0:16.0

Aksraibhishasidhai

0:20.0

I take refuge in the self, the indivisible,

0:24.6

the existence, consciousness, bliss, absolute,

0:28.6

beyond the reach of words and thought

0:31.6

and the substratum of all

0:34.6

for the attainment of my cherished desire.

0:40.3

So the Vedantasara, and it's reached a very crucial part,

0:47.3

where we are trying to understand the statement

0:50.3

that thou art, that pharmacy.

0:53.3

In fact, this is the very heart of Adwaita Vedant. If you

0:57.0

want to express Adwaita Vedant in one sentence, it would be this, you know, one of the Mahavakias,

1:03.0

that thou art. You know, sentences which express the identity of Jiva and Brahman, of the individual and the absolute.

1:14.5

The meaning is not straightforward actually.

1:17.1

As we have seen, it has to go through three stages.

1:20.1

We have to process the sentence that thou art through three stages, which are basically

1:25.4

three relationships.

1:27.4

If you recall recall the three relationships

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