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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

47. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 4 Verse 11-13 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 4 (Verses 11-13) 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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In the Bhagavad Gita we are studying chapter 4 and we had seen how Krishna declared himself to be an avatar,

0:14.0

this incarnation of God, and then said that in the tenth verse,

0:26.6

9th verse and 10th verse, Janma karma, Jameedididhyam,

0:28.6

Yovethi tautvata,

0:30.6

Taktwa Dehampunar Janma,

0:32.6

Naeti, Ma, Eitis, so Arjuna.

0:34.6

The one who recognizes that I am an avatar. So Arjuna knew Krishna as a friend and knew him as a person, as a human being,

0:46.3

but did not actually recognize that he was none other than God incarnated.

0:50.3

So one who recognizes the avatar as God incarnated and realizes that the

0:57.0

birth and the actions of an avatar are diviam, divine, not like us. They will escape from,

1:08.0

they'll be freed from this prison of the cycle of birth and death.

1:12.6

So life and get this ever-repeating cycle, one will be freed from it and will not come

1:18.6

back to the samsara. A ma-me-a-tie who attains me, attains to God, which is the idea of

1:25.7

Moksha liberation. That's liberation. That's the general interpretation.

1:30.3

The deeper Adwaitic interpretation of this would be

1:33.3

the word tattvata in reality, who knows me in reality.

1:38.3

What does that mean? Not only as avatara, who realizes that

1:43.3

you are none other than this witness consciousness, pure being, pure

1:50.5

isness and so is God.

1:53.0

The nature of God and your nature are one and the same thing and by that knowledge you are

1:57.0

liberated.

1:58.0

So the first interpretation would be you recognize Krishna as God and worship

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