5. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad - Mantra 2.4.6 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 75 minutes
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In this discourse, Swami Sarvapriyananda covers only the part of the Upanishad called "Yajnavalkya and Maitreyi Samvada (Mantras: 2.4.1 to 2.4.14)"
The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, one of the oldest and most foundational Principal Upanishads of Hinduism, is being taught in this lecture series by Swami Sarvapriyananda. Belonging to the Śukla Yajurveda and forming the concluding portion of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, its name means “the great forest.” The text comprises six chapters organized into the Madhu, Yājñavalkya (Muni), and Khila kāṇḍas, and is tenth in the traditional canon of 108 Upanishads. Renowned for its profound nondual philosophy, it includes the celebrated dialogue between Yājñavalkya and his wife Maitreyi, where all love is shown to be ultimately directed toward the Self (Ātman), whose realization as identical with Brahman leads to immortality and infinite bliss. For more information, please visit:
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| 0:00.0 | Ome Purnamadha, Purnamadha, Purnamidam, Purnat, Purnamudhātāsa, Purnasya, Purnamadaya, Purnamah, |
| 0:20.0 | Shishati. |
| 0:21.6 | Ome, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti. |
| 0:27.6 | Oam. |
| 0:29.6 | That is infinite. |
| 0:31.6 | This is infinite. |
| 0:32.6 | From that infinite, this infinite has come. |
| 0:36.6 | In this infinite, when we realized infinity, |
| 0:40.6 | then infinity alone remains. |
| 0:42.8 | Oom, peace, peace, peace. |
| 0:49.5 | So we are studying the Brehahdharnia Upanishan. |
| 0:53.2 | One part of it, the famous dialogue between |
| 0:57.3 | Yagya Valkya and Maitrei. |
| 1:01.1 | And in the last class, we got to the heart of the teaching, where Yagya Valkya says three things. |
| 1:09.2 | He tells Maitre, three things. One is the nature of happiness and love. |
| 1:15.3 | That it is for the sake of the self that everything is loved. And because the self is the source of |
| 1:22.5 | the greatest happiness, continuous and greatest happiness, what makes us happy that we love. |
| 1:29.3 | And the self makes us happy. It's not the usual way of thinking, but he draws, but it's also in one sense pretty obvious. |
| 1:36.3 | And then he says that this self is the self of all. |
| 1:41.3 | It's not what at the first glance it might appear to be a selfish |
| 1:46.3 | teaching that everything is for the sake of the self. No, the self is the self of all. The |
| 1:53.1 | self that we are talking about, the real nature of the self, it is one existence appearing |
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