Ask Swami 4/10/2022

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Q&A session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Apr 10th, 2022. List of questions with timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:24 - Isn't enlightenment part of Maya? 16:05 - The witness consciousness, sat, chit, ananda, the basis of all truths, cannot perform any action. The mind removes its own veil. How can we turn this understanding into meditation? 34:10 - In the Gospel, Sri Ramakrishna says to "dive deep". What does this mean? 50:05 - What does Sri Ramakrishna mean when he tells Naren "He who was Rama and he who was Krishna was born again as Ramakrishna, but not in your Vedantic sense"? 59:30 - How do I know if I am progressing spiritually? How can one recognize an enlightened being? 01:15:25 - Why is there a tradition of fear in relation to God?

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Sadgamaya,
0:04.0	Tamsoamah, Jotaer Gamay
0:21.6	Mritiurma Amretam Gamaya
0:26.6	Oam Shantayshantay
0:31.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real,
0:36.6	lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death
0:42.3	to immortality, oh, peace, peace, peace.
0:52.3	Good morning and namaste everybody. Good morning.
0:56.0	We started with a hymn to Sri Ramachandra because it's Ramnamavani today.
1:02.0	It's also Palm Sunday. So it's the Holy Week which culminates with Easter.
1:09.0	So first of all, it's good to be back. I was away on a month-long trip in India after more than four years. And I had thought that it'll be a sort of a change, a break, a bit of a restful time. I had four or five lectures scheduled, but quickly all the gaps got filled up,
1:32.3	and I ended up giving some 26 or 27 talks, sometimes two a day,
1:38.3	and meeting loads and loads of people, visitors.
1:43.3	So this ask Swami, what we do is we take questions from all over the world
1:50.0	and we collate them.
1:54.0	There's a team which organizes, classifies and presents them to me.
1:58.0	But we also take questions from the live audience here.
2:01.6	So those of you want to ask questions.
2:04.6	Well hold on to your questions, but you will get your chance.
2:07.6	When I ask you, raise your hand. I'll call you up here.
2:10.6	Tell us your name and ask your questions.
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