Ask Swami 1/22/2023

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Jan 22nd, 2023. List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:22 - Can Brahman be equally immanent and transcendent? 21:37 - Who is the doer of action? 33:15 - Swamiji, what is your daily routine? 34:34 - Can art lead us to the infinite? What is the nature of abhyasa? What is the nature of vairagya? 54:20 - If Buddhism believes in reincarnation, why not the Atman? 01:01:40 - What do you mean by an appearance in consciousness? Is it permitted to think of consciousness with qualities? 01:06:36 - How can we be sure that this waking world does not occur in our mind like a dream? 01:12:50 - Does moksha happen at once, or does it happen over time? 01:17:10 - Why are there so many different perspectives on moksha? 01:19:14 - Can there be spontaneous enlightenment without spiritual practice? 01:23:24 - How can reality be truly One? 01:34:01 - When a spiritual seeker becomes stuck, is a guru necessary?

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0:00.0	Ome,
0:02.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:03.0	Jhāhmah, Jotyrgamaya,
0:19.0	Mreetiurma, Amritam Gamaya, Mrettiurma, Amritam Gamaia.
0:23.6	Ome, Shanty, Shanty, Shanty, He.
0:29.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light,
0:36.6	lead us from death to immortality.
0:40.3	Oh, peace, peace, peace.
0:45.3	Good morning and namaste everybody.
0:49.3	Good to see all of you.
0:53.3	And also we have an extensive virtual audience all over the world.
1:01.0	So it's actually people from all over the world who send us these questions which we try to answer,
1:10.0	only a fraction of which unfortunately and
1:12.3	very unjustly I think but we are constrained by time and we haven't had these
1:18.5	ask Swami sessions for a while now so I was told between the last one and
1:24.3	this one nearly 1500 questions have piled up.
1:30.3	But our team does a really good job of classifying and selecting and giving me a few of them.
1:36.3	So, Diane will read out as usual some of those questions.
1:42.3	We'll also have questions from the audience assembled here.
1:46.0	You have to raise your hand, I'll call upon you, come here,
1:50.0	and there's a microphone, tell us your name, and ask the question.
1:54.0	Keep it short as far as possible.
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