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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

8. Vedantasara | Texts 35-39 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Vedantasara (Essence of Vedanta), which is a 15th-century Advaita Vedanta text written by Sadananda Yogendra Saraswati.

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0:00.0

Akhandam Satchidhanandam, Avang Manasaguchiaram,

0:10.0

Atmanam Akhila Dharam, Ashraya Bhishda Siddhya.

0:17.0

So today, Jayant is our co-host and he'll keep a lookout for other people coming in.

0:26.0

And also for your questions, you can write in the chat.

0:31.9

I encourage you to write questions in the chat and then also we can do some live interaction.

0:36.8

But before I start

0:37.7

today I found something interesting I was reading this Bengali book which contains

0:44.3

questions and answers with Swami Bhuteshanandaji Maharaj who was the 12th president of

0:50.1

her order and I am also initiated I took initiation from him so in this question answer

0:56.4

he actually is this is a there's a portion where he is admonishing the monks so there is usually

1:01.9

is to be a group of monks gathered around him who would put questions to him so he's giving

1:06.7

a gentle scold he was always very gentle but a slightly gentle scolding to the monks.

1:11.6

So this is Bhuteshanji Marathi. Remember he was 98 years old at that time.

1:17.6

But he mentions the Vedantasar and that's why I thought I'll read it out to you.

1:22.6

I'll read out the Bengalian translator as we go along. So he is saying to the gathered monks,

1:28.3

Bhaibhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhah and attain enlightenment.

1:38.3

Behbonhah, sanchardh chere yashchah bhaat kish do something, do you, don't think that because you have given up a worldly relations

1:50.0

and, you know, renounced the world, you have done something really great.

1:55.0

It's nothing.

1:57.0

It's nothing.

1:59.0

Bhala-fowar-hath shittas thulbog.

2:01.6

It's how much of a shukhah bhaa

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