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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 67 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: • 6:25 -- How to know the Self when It cannot be objectified? Is inference sufficient? • 27:30 -- While we agree that waking, dreaming, and deep sleep are experienced in consciousness, why can't we say that they are real instead of unreal since they are indeed experienced? • 44:50 -- If the realization of atman is an experiential reality, then why is there a logical conflict between different spiritual traditions? Does it mean that the realized master's have different experiences? • 54:35 -- If consciousness illumines Maya, then why does it need the support of Maya to realize itself? ► To support Vedanta Society of New York: http://bit.ly/SupportVedantaNY

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Satya,
0:03.0	Tama, Jyotyrgamaya,
0:18.0	Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaia ome shantay shantay shanty
0:28.6	ome lead us from the unreal to the real lead us from darkness unto light lead us from death to immortality oh peace peace
0:49.3	good morning everybody when I everybody, it just means only I think Patrick and Dr. Tulsi Ram and Dora and the cameraman, Jayant.
1:05.0	It's interesting to give a talk to an empty ashram is without an audience.
1:15.6	It's like a game of hide and seek, I think.
1:18.6	For the last 10 months or so, I was not here.
1:22.6	I was away on study leave at Harvard Divinity School and people were searching where is that
1:29.6	fellow Sarva Priyana and now I'm back and now the audience has disappeared I'm searching for
1:35.6	where is that audience now a sadu in Haridwar many many years ago I think, I think about 15 years ago, I remember he was telling us this,
1:47.0	that the whole cosmic drama is a game of cosmic hide-and-seek.
1:53.0	When we are here in this universe, we are searching for God, and God is hidden, Ishwara is hidden.
2:00.0	We are searching for God. Where can we find God?
2:03.3	And when there is Pralaya, the entire universe is merged back into its causal form,
2:10.5	Biavastah, or to put it in simple terms, when the universe is gone or destroyed in the cosmic
2:15.6	cycle, we have all disappeared, no planets and stars, no worlds, no when the universe is gone or destroyed in the cosmic cycle.
2:19.1	We have all disappeared.
2:22.7	No planets and stars, no worlds, no bodies and minds.
2:26.8	And the Jeevas are all merged back into the causal state into Prakriti.
2:28.8	We are hidden as it were.
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