Ask Swami 10/11/2020

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on October 11th, 2020. List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:03 - Is the awakening of the Kundalini and the recognition of our real nature as the spirit the same as Aparokshanubhuti? 11:08 - If you are already Brahman, what is the purpose of a appearing as a sentient being and finding Brahman? 18:35 - How do I know that this awareness that I am is the infinite? 29:00 - [Part 1] How do we have duality in experience when reality is non-dual? 37:54 - [Part 2] If Brahman is neutral, why does Brahman manifest? 47:28 - If Brahman cannot be experienced as an object, what kind of experience is there in Nirvikalpa Samadhi? 55:45 - Why do we believe there is one awareness and not many awarenesses?

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0:00.0	Asatoma, Satya,
0:02.0	Amritya,
0:03.0	Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya,
0:04.0	Amritam Gamaia.
0:21.6	Ome, shanty, shanty, shanty.
0:26.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real,
0:30.6	lead us from darkness unto light,
0:33.6	lead us from death to immortality.
0:36.6	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:40.3	Good morning everybody, namaste to everybody.
0:46.3	I hope everybody here and in our virtual audience worldwide
0:52.3	you're all keeping safe in these troubled times.
0:56.0	So welcome once again to this new edition of Ask Swami.
1:02.0	I must say, I was looking at the selection of questions,
1:06.0	that I must say that I'm so amazed and happy to see the depth and the subtlety of the questions that we are receiving.
1:14.6	That's really wonderful.
1:16.6	We are receiving so many questions that it's impossible to answer more than a fraction of the questions that we have got.
1:24.6	We try to make as good a selection as we can. Remember when I'm talking about, especially about Adwaita Vedanta,
1:31.3	Adwaita Vedanta is simple.
1:34.3	It's about one thing only, that your own true nature.
1:38.3	So whenever I'm answering questions, whatever the question is, whoever has asked,
1:42.3	basically I'm trying to point to one truth about ourselves.
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