4. Panchadasi - Chapter 1 - Verses 15-24 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
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🗓️ 13 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 Saha'naavavu, Saha'naubhunaktu, |
| 0:07.0 | Saha'evereum Karavah, |
| 0:11.0 | Teja Svinnawadi, tamasthumavidvishawahy. |
| 0:18.0 | Om shant, shanty, shanty, shanty. |
| 0:23.6 | All right, welcome back, Panchadashi. |
| 0:30.6 | Um, |
| 0:32.6 | Vedanta claims we are one with God, existence consciousness, please. |
| 0:40.3 | Incredible claim, but they attempt to demonstrate it on the basis of argument and experience. |
| 0:46.3 | Be that as it may, after this comes the great question, if that is so, if that's's true then what's all this what's this |
| 0:57.4 | world and why are we in this body and why are we where we even studying Vedantah |
| 1:02.2 | what does immortal consciousness need to study Vedantah for why why do we |
| 1:06.7 | suffer come come We suffer. Come, come. |
| 1:15.6 | So the great question of what is this samsara? |
| 1:19.6 | It's actually a more difficult question than the question of Brahman. |
| 1:23.6 | We are existence consciousness based. |
| 1:25.6 | That's pretty easy to say. But then how do you relate that to this life of ours? Why are we suffering and living in this life? That's the question. The question about samsara, huge question which we are going to answer now. |
| 1:49.0 | So that's the question we have to face today. Why do we have this life of ours? |
| 1:51.0 | If we are the immortal spirit, if we are Brahman, then why are we living these lives? |
| 1:57.0 | Why are we at all struggling to realize God, be spiritual, struggling whatever? |
| 2:01.8 | I mean, why is this life there? |
| 2:04.2 | If the one is the ultimate reality, putting it philosophically, then why do we experience the many? |
| 2:09.4 | This universe. |
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