Ask Swami 6/7/2020

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 74 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 7th, 2020. List of questions with timestamps: • 2:30 -- What is the difference between individual and cosmic consciousness? How can we realize the reality of one consciousness? • 34:18 -- Why is private spirituality not spirituality? • 39:25 -- I am in school and have lost interest in studies. I would rather seek the spiritual truths. What are my options? • 47:27 -- How can the formless Brahman produce a universe of forms? • 56:16 -- How can Brahman in Sri Ramakrishna's Vijnana Vedanta be beyond cause and effect if the universe is a real manifestation of Shakti? • 1:08:11 -- I was brought up in a christian tradition but have become interested in Vedanta. Is is possible for a person to be pulled into Vedanta by no conscious effort? ► To support Vedanta Society of New York: http://bit.ly/SupportVedantaNY

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0:00.0	OOO, Asatoma, Sadgamaya, Tamasoma, Jhothir Gamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaia.
0:23.6	Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shanty.
0:29.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:40.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:45.3	Good morning and namaste everybody.
0:51.3	By everybody, of course I mean our vast virtual audience which is spread across the world
0:59.0	and I realize in many places it's not morning.
1:03.0	Here we have just a handful of four or five people.
1:08.0	Diane is here to ask questions, read out the questions we have received from the
1:13.2	internet audience. I've been away for about seven or eight months. So over this period of time,
1:22.6	a lot of questions have come in. A lot of questions have accumulated. And I feel it's sort of bad
1:27.4	that I cannot deal with all the questions that I cannot answer each and everyone's questions
1:34.3	but we can we have made a selection with the help of our team we have made a selection of certain questions which we will respond to.
1:47.0	The questions are relevant to everybody.
1:51.0	So while you may not have asked this particular question, the answer to that question
1:58.0	may strike a chord deep within you.
2:04.6	So it's good to listen to the questions, not to be eagerly waiting,
2:06.5	when is my question going to be answered?
2:09.7	Listen to the questions and listen to the answers.
2:12.5	The truth is very simple and it's only one truth.
2:15.0	It's being taught.
2:17.3	It's coming to us in different ways. So the way this will go is I will ask Diane to read out a question and respond to it and then go on to the next one.
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