Ask Swami 2/9/2020

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on February 9th, 2020. List of Questions with Timestamps: 5:07 - 1) To whom does enlightenment happen if we are already Brahman? 2) How can we be responsible for all the pain and suffering if we are already Brahman? 3) How can Brahman have no characteristics? 37:50 - If we have family, friends, and relationships can we also reach enlightenment? Can we have both? 41:05 - How can Maya be both real and unreal? 45:58 - How to reconcile the ultimate reality with Maya? 54:20 - A discussion on free will inspired by the Bhagavad Gita. 1:07:53 - 1) Does the Vedanta philosophy evolve? 2) Do new insights from science get integrated? 1:21:00 - Can you say more about the differences between Buddhist teaching and Vedanta teaching? 1:34:18 - Can we not measure in a quantitative way how much we understand? ► Support the Vedanta Society of New York: http://bit.ly/SupportVedantaNY Web: http://vedantany.org Soundcloud: http://Soundcloud.com/VedantaNY iTunes Podcast: http://bit.ly/vedanta-talks-itunes Google Play: http://bit.ly/vedanta-talks-google-play ABOUT VEDANTA Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions. ABOUT US Vedanta Society of New York is affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order of India. In fact, this is the Order's first Center started by Swami Vivekananda, in 1894. It was a historic event, for the seed of the world-wide Ramakrishna Movement was sown here in New York over a century ago. Swami Sarvapriyananda is the present Resident Minister and Spiritual Leader of the Vedanta Society of New York.

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0:00.0	Ome, O'm Ashtoamah,
0:03.0	Samajoma, Tama, Tamasoma, Jotirgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaia.
0:27.6	Oam Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.
0:33.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:43.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:47.3	Good morning everybody.
0:52.3	Good morning.
0:53.3	And it's good to be back, although temporarily.
0:58.0	And it's also a very auspicious day because it's the birthday of Swami Adhbutananda.
1:04.0	He was one of the 16 direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna, who they became monks and they were the founders of our order.
1:12.6	Swami Vivekhananda was their leader, but there were 15 other young men.
1:16.6	One of them was not actually young.
1:17.6	One of them was older than Sri Ramakrishna himself, Swami Adwaitananda.
1:22.6	Adhubhadananadhi was the first among all of them to come to Sri Ramakrishna actually, or less. He was also unique in the sense that he was practically illiterate.
1:33.3	And somebody called him the miracle of Sri Ramakrishna, this person illiterate, and he remained illiterate.
1:39.3	And yet he became an enlightened person, a Brahmagiani, a wonderful teacher.
1:46.4	So today, what I thought I would do is a session of Ask Swami.
1:51.3	Those of you, you know that we have these occasionally.
1:54.9	There are questions which come from the live audience here
1:57.8	and questions collected from people sending in emails from across the world.
2:06.1	I know a lot of questions have accumulated. Unfortunately, for various reasons, we have not
2:11.0	been able to do these sessions for quite a while. Only a few of them could be sorted out and
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