8. Aparokshanubhuti (Self-Realization): Verse 25
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
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🗓️ 9 November 2017
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this series of talks, Swami Sarvapriyananda lucidly unfolds the path to direct "Self-Realization" presented by Adi Shankaracharya in Aparokshanubhuti. This talk - delivered on September 22, 2016 at the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, CA - covers verse 25 in "Aparokshanubhuti (Self-Realization)". The text for this series is a translation of Adi Shankaracharya's Aparokshanubhuti by Swami Vimuktananda.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Ome, Shriharim Paramanandam, Upadestharam Ishwaram, |
| 0:46.3 | Vyapakam, Sarvalokanaam, Karnam Tannam, Tannam, Tamnamamamam paranam tamnamamya. |
| 0:55.0 | Right. |
| 1:00.0 | So we are studying Aporokshanubhuti. |
| 1:06.0 | This is the path of knowledge. |
| 1:10.0 | The human condition is understood here as the unfortunate result of ignorance. |
| 1:19.6 | Ignorance about what? |
| 1:22.6 | Ignorance about our true nature, who we are. |
| 1:26.6 | The proposition is, the claim is, if only we know ourselves as we truly are, then all our |
| 1:33.9 | problems would be solved. |
| 1:35.7 | It is because we do not know who we are, what we are, that we make a mistake. |
| 1:41.9 | From ignorance comes error. |
| 1:49.0 | We do not know that we are this immortal unchanging consciousness and we make a mistake. We think we are the body and mind |
| 1:54.0 | which is presented to this consciousness in front of this consciousness |
| 1:57.0 | or illumined by this consciousness. |
| 1:59.0 | And once we think we are body and mind, and we don't think it, we feel it, it's our |
| 2:03.9 | reality. |
| 2:05.9 | Then starts samsara and all our efforts to free ourselves from samsara. |
| 2:11.2 | If the root causes ignorance, then the solution can only be knowledge. |
| 2:20.2 | You see, what cures ignorance is knowledge. |
| 2:24.6 | That's why, in the last few verses which we were studying, |
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