5. Bhagavad Gita | Chapter 2 Verse 16 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2018

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 2 (Verse 16) of the Bhagavad Gita. This series of talks unfolds the highest truths of Vedanta through the study of "The Song of God".

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0:00.0	Ome, Vasudeva,
0:04.0	Vandah,
0:05.0	Devam,
0:06.0	Kamsachanuram Ardhanam
0:10.0	Devaki, Paramanandam,
0:14.0	Krishna, Vande, Jagad Gurum.
0:19.0	Can you hear me? Can everybody hear me at the back? I don't know why I can
0:26.5	I can't hear myself oh now now it's okay yeah yeah before we start we had a very interesting experience this evening.
0:40.3	There is a conference at NYU in the Philosophy Department on the hard problem of consciousness.
0:50.3	Many of you know what it is, thanks to me. I've been going on and on boring you about it.
0:57.4	And today the discussion was the ad-dwaita Vedant answer to it. So a professor from Australia,
1:04.5	all the way from Australia, Miri al-Bharishi came and she gave a talk. Some of us, we went to attend it.
1:09.8	Some of you are here, we went,
1:11.6	we were there together. They were thinking, who are these strange people? So, imagine the top
1:20.0	people in philosophy, especially in philosophy of mind, Ned Block and others, I mean, these are
1:25.2	names to be reconned with. So they were there and what we are studying here,
1:31.3	that was being presented there in more philosophical language.
1:37.3	When the presentation was going on, I was so delighted, you know,
1:41.3	the things that she was saying are almost, if you put them in
1:45.3	Sanskrit, that's exactly what Shankaracharya was saying 1400 years ago, exactly the same
1:50.5	things. Not only that, it's a tough crowd. Somebody said it's a tough sell. Obviously, you
1:55.7	don't expect them to buy it or immediately take up, take it up. But even the questions they asked and the hard questions they asked,
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