Analysis Of The Great Teaching | Swami Sarvapriyananda

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Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Sage Uddalaka asks his son Svetaketu: What is that knowledge by which we hear the unhearable, perceive what cannot be perceived and know what cannot be known? Inspired from this story from the Chandogya Upanishad, Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the great saying (mahavakya) - Tat Tvam Asi (That Thou Art). This discourse is also inspired from a verse from the Brihadharanyaka Upanishad (Mantra 4.4.12) as taught in the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya: "If a man knows the Self as ‘I am this,’ then desiring what and for whose sake will he suffer in the wake of the body?" Mantra 4.4.12: आत्मानं चेद्विजानीयादयमस्मीति पूरुषः । किमिच्छन्कस्य कामाय शरीरमनुसंज्वरेत् ॥ १२

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0:00.0	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness and to light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:20.0	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:23.6	The subject we have got today is the analysis of the great teaching.
0:29.6	See, what is this about?
0:32.6	When we were discussing in the last few weeks
0:36.6	a wonderful mantra from the Brihadharanyak Upanishad.
0:40.3	One of my most favorite mantras in the Upanishads.
0:44.3	It is,
0:46.3	Atmanam Ched Vijaniyyat,
0:48.3	Ayam asmete purushah.
0:51.3	Kimichan Kassiakamay,
0:53.3	Sharririram Anusang jureate.
0:56.0	I am not this body, not this subtle body, the mind,
1:13.6	or the causal body beyond the mind, the consciousness which is a witness of the three bodies,
1:19.6	the consciousness which is a witness of the three states of waking, dreaming and deep sleep,
1:24.6	the consciousness which is a witness, the substratum of the five sheets of the human personality.
1:31.3	The annamaya, prana may, manomay,
1:33.3	Vigyanamaya, anandamaya.
1:35.3	If I were to realize this, then what would be the result?
1:39.3	Kimichan Kassiakamaya, Shereeram Anangyareth. Desiring what and for whose sake would one continue to suffer with the body, along with the body? Would one continue to suffer with the body? What does it mean? That if, and that if is a big one, it means that if we take to spiritual life and we become enlightened, then this follows.
2:06.6	If we do not, then samsara will continue.
2:10.6	Enlightenment requires a conscious choice, that we take up spiritual life and methodically pursue it till enlightenment.
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