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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

3. Panchadasi - Chapter 1 - Verses 11-14 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Panchadasi, a fourteenth century manual on Advaita Vedanta written by Vidyaranya.

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So,

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Saha'navavutu,

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Saha'nobhāryam Karavah,

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Tejasvinawadhi,

0:11.0

Tamasthumavid vishawahy.

0:15.0

Oam shantishantishand, they

0:29.6

have the strangest bookshops in the ashrams in the Himalayas. And they have this tiny additions so that somebody can carry it in their pockets or in their little.

0:36.6

I remember this one book shop where you wouldn't have to pay anything.

0:44.2

The price of the book is that you would read it. It's written on the book, the price.

0:49.1

And there was this another book shop where I tried to buy a book, a particular book which I wanted, and they said

0:58.4

it's there in the bookshop. But they wouldn't give it to me. I went once, I went twice. The third

1:02.8

day I asked another monk in that, asked him, what's wrong? I mean, they keep putting me off.

1:06.9

And they said that they've never ever sold a book so they don't know how to do it

1:11.0

If you can ask them for it they'll give it to you

1:13.6

So next day I went and asked them and they were so relieved he said yeah you take it

1:17.0

so in the first ten verses especially from verse number 3 to 10, something interesting has been done.

1:35.0

Purely on the basis of our lived experience and on the basis of reasoning,

1:41.4

Vidyaranya the author has tried to show us that our real nature is

1:47.0

Satchid Ananda. Infinite existence, infinite consciousness, infinite bliss.

1:53.0

Come, come. That is the central teaching of Vedantantha.

2:00.0

From now onwards, it will start. We'll That is the central teaching of Vedantanth.

2:03.6

From now onwards, it will start. We'll have lots and lots of philosophy and lots of discussion, logic, various questions to be considered.

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