Ask Swami 6/28/2020

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 91 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 June 28th, 2020. List of questions with timestamps: 01:00 -- What does Vedanta say about justice in society? 16:15 -- How do we drop identification with the body? 26:55 -- Why does the Quran say that Prophet Muhammad is the last prophet? 37:44 -- If I am Brahman, who is under delusion? And If Brahman is fulfilled, what need does Brahman have for power? (Second question repeated at 42:05) 51:06 -- What is Vedanta's approach to the Anatman of Buddhism? 01:16:25 -- Is the reflected consciousness the same as the pramata (the knower)? 01:25:32 -- How can the law of Karma explain the sudden loss of so many lives in the current pandemic?

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0:00.0	Ome,
0:02.0	Ome,
0:04.0	O'm,
0:05.0	Ome, Asatoma, Saghagamaya, Tamasoma, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:32.6	Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shanti. Ome, leady, shanty, shanty.
0:38.3	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real,
0:43.3	lead us from darkness unto light,
0:46.3	lead us from death to immortality.
0:49.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:53.3	So I'll request Diane to read out the question Oh, peace, peace, peace.
0:54.8	So I'll request Diane to read out the questions.
0:59.8	The first question is from Ranjani R.
1:03.5	I have been reading about Vedanta for the last 15 years.
1:07.7	While the Vedantic teachings resonate with modern psychology and modern physics, I've
1:13.6	been unable to draw from the teachings for a sociological understanding of the human condition.
1:20.5	The subject of inquiry is the self, but what is its relation to the society while one inhabits the body and this world?
1:30.0	How are ideas of justice and equality contemplated in Vedanta?
1:35.5	Many explain away the injustices in the world through notions of Maya or karma,
1:41.2	but that seems to me to be lacking compassion and empathy. What is this impulse of justice,
1:47.6	and what is its place in the pursuit of truth? How does one grapple with such high philosophy and
1:54.2	scriptures that also condone caste or gender-based violence? Must they be seen as individual human actors,
2:02.6	acting from a place of pain or weakness alone,
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