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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

37. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 3 Verse 31 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 3 (Verse 31) of the Bhagavad Gita. In this series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of the Bhagavad Gita (The Song of God).

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0:00.0

Did Bill raise his hand?

0:02.0

Yes, Bill. Go ahead.

0:08.0

I have a question from last week.

0:10.0

Yes.

0:11.0

You talked about verse 27?

0:14.0

Let me go to verse 27.

0:17.0

Yes.

0:19.0

In that verse it said all action is done by

0:22.7

property

0:23.4

yes

0:24.1

not by this individual self

0:27.3

that's right

0:28.0

whereas Sri Ramakrishna constantly

0:30.8

says ame yantra

0:33.0

to me yanchri

0:34.0

yes i mean you are the

0:36.2

you operate the machine. Yes.

0:38.3

How do you reconcile these two ways of putting it?

0:42.3

When we identify with the body and mind, as we usually do, we don't say that I'm switching

0:49.3

to body and mind identification now, but that's our default mode as it were.

0:53.3

We think we are this person and here the

0:56.0

primary delusion is I am in charge I do actions and this is my body this is my mind we'll

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