7. Vedantasara | Texts 33-34 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 12 November 2020
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| 0:00.0 | So good evening and namaste everybody. |
| 0:06.0 | We are studying Vedanta Sara and we are on text number 33. |
| 0:13.0 | So what's going on here is that we have just been told the method of Vedanta, of Adwaita Vedantah is superimposition and |
| 0:24.9 | de-superimposition in Sanskrit, Adhya Ropapavada. So what's going on in Vedantic texts is the |
| 0:31.5 | superimposition or de-superimposition. What is meant by this? We find ourselves in a peculiar situation where we do not truly know what we are. We have mistaken ourselves for these bodies and minds. And this universe, we are mistaken in a Brahman for this external universe. So what is actually the which is actually the absolute existence consciousness place. |
| 0:55.0 | We experience it as subjects and objects, I and the objective universe. This is a mistake. This is what we have, |
| 1:03.7 | where we are right now. So this is called superimposition in Sanskrit, Adhya Roba. This is already done. |
| 1:14.6 | Now the task of Vedant is to correct this error. And remember, what is the goal? |
| 1:15.6 | Once this error is corrected, the promises will be free of the sufferings of Samsara. |
| 1:20.6 | When we know ourselves, as we truly are, we will be free of suffering. |
| 1:25.6 | Now, what Vedant has to do is twofold. |
| 1:31.3 | One is it has to start from its claim that there is an absolute reality, what it calls |
| 1:38.3 | was to reality, existence, consciousness, bliss, non-dual reality. |
| 1:43.3 | And then it has to show. |
| 1:45.0 | It's not enough to say that there is Brahman and that's the teaching. |
| 1:48.0 | No, it has to show how is that related to what we are experiencing. |
| 1:52.0 | If you have to learn anything at all, we have to relate how the one has become the many, |
| 1:57.0 | or the one appears as the many. From the one to the many, a bridge has to be built. |
| 2:01.6 | If I am that absolute reality, how do I find myself in this particular soup, that I am this body and mind subject to birth and death? |
| 2:09.6 | If I am immortal, how is it that I find myself being born and aging and dying? |
| 2:13.6 | If I am beyond suffering, how is it that I suffer from physical illnesses and social |
| 2:18.2 | problems and mental suffering? If I am infinite, why do I find myself limited? So this is from my side. |
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