Ask Swami 4/7/2019

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2019

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Question and Answer session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on April 7, 2019. List of Questions with Timestamps: 0:00 - On Vedantic meditation. 9:20 - How to overcome the fear of unknown and revel in the silence. 19:36 - In Nirvanashatakam, bliss is first negated but then accepted. Which is it? Difference between Ananda and happiness. 28:47 - Do negative emotions persists after Enlightenment? 48:10 - Should we trust our own insights? 50:28 - How to combine Vedantic meditation with the practice of Mantra meditation. 58:20 - How can the universe come out of nothing? Does Advaita Vedanta recognize an Omnipotent, Omniscient and Omnipresent God? 1:10:18 - Which meditation should we practice - Vedantic or Mantra? 1:11:32 - Is the presence of a life force (Prana) an illusion?

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Swami Vivekananda said, what we need to do is to attune the subject to the absolute.
0:44.3	What it means is, the subject means I, me, myself.
0:51.3	And right now we are attuned to the body mind.
0:55.0	I think I am this limited person.
0:57.0	I don't think it, I feel it, it's my reality.
1:01.0	Attuning the subject to the absolute means
1:04.0	shifting the reference of the I.
1:07.0	I am Brahman, I am the absolute, I am that unchanging awareness.
1:12.6	So shifting that reference, that is the solution, that is the practice.
1:17.0	In fact, all practice is there.
1:20.5	What we are doing is this.
1:24.2	The shifting of the attuning of the subject to the absolute, it cannot be done at once.
1:32.3	The skillful way of doing it is, first become aware of the physical, the gross, the physical,
1:41.3	then move to the subtle, then from there move to the causal and from there awareness of awareness.
1:53.0	So first catch hold of something that can link the physical to the subtle and that is the breath. So that's why we first
2:02.5	become aware of the breath. Attention is drawn to the breath. Attention is
2:08.7	already on the physical world on a thousand different things. Withdrawing
2:13.5	the attention from a thousand different things to the breath in one location.
2:18.2	That is, could be the stomach, could be the nostrils, with inflow and outflow of breath.
2:24.9	After the mind comes down to a certain extent there, then begin to notice more subtle
2:31.9	things, perceptions. Sound is a good thing because your eyes are closed.
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