4. Vedantasara | Text 16-25 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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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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0:00.0	So,
0:02.0	Oam,
0:06.0	Akhandam Satchidhanandam
0:10.0	Avang Manasabocharam
0:13.0	Aitlanam Akhila Dharam
0:17.0	Ashraibhista Siddhai So we have been studying the Vedan tasara and the Vedan tasara,
0:25.6	and let us remember the purpose of studying the Vedan tasara, that it will give us a foundation
0:31.6	for an entry into the Upanishads.
0:35.6	So in the Vedan tasara, we were on text number 15. What is going on now?
0:45.3	When we enter into the study of any of these classical texts, we know that there are four preliminaries
0:51.3	which we have to take care of, which we have to pay attention to.
0:57.0	They are called Anubandha Jatushtya.
0:59.0	These are the four preliminaries which encourage us, which inspire us to study the text.
1:06.0	One is Vishaya, what is the subject matter?
1:09.0	The second one is Adhikari, who is qualified to study it.
1:13.3	In fact, Adikari is first, because we are studying that now.
1:15.9	Adikari, who is qualified to study it, subject matter, what is it that we are studying?
1:20.8	What's the book about?
1:22.5	Third is Samanth, relation between the subject matter and the text itself.
1:27.3	And then the last one is projana, which means the purpose, the goal.
1:31.6	What are we studying?
1:32.5	What do we intend to get out of this?
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