57. Mandukya Upanishad - Karika 4.11 - 4.13 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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🗓️ 7 June 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches one of the shortest and most profound Upanishads accompanied by Gaudapada's Karika. This lecture covers Karika 4.11 to 4.13

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0:00.0	Ombhadram Karnebi Shrinuya Madhya,
0:06.0	Bhadram Pashya bhaqshabhira jatra,
0:10.0	Stirae Rangai, stushuwagam, Sastanubhi,
0:15.0	Vyhhrava Oam shantay shanty shanty.
0:44.3	Swasti is welfare. I think that's, we need a lot of that now.
0:48.3	All over the world and especially here in USA.
0:59.0	So we were studying the fourth chapter of the Mandukya Karika, the Alata Shanti Prakarana. And here the main theme, at least one of the main themes, is taking up for consideration
1:08.0	other philosophies, other points of view and refuting them.
1:13.6	We just saw how Godapada in verses 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, he has told us about the Adwaita position
1:26.6	that our, that we are the Thuria by nature.
1:32.3	We are, that is our real nature.
1:35.3	He gives the examples of, you know, a yogi who is born
1:40.3	with yogic powers because of the sardana done in past birth. So we are born.
1:45.0	It's like a superpower that we have, that you are the Thuria.
1:48.0	We are not subject to old age and death and disease.
1:52.0	That is the body.
1:54.0	We are not subject to frustration and disappointment and ups and downs.
1:59.0	That is the mind and so on.
2:01.6	So that is our superpower, like the Siddhi of the yogi.
2:05.6	We are born with that.
2:07.6	It's our real nature.
2:09.6	Another example he gives is the nature of fire, for example, is heat.
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