Vedanta is among the world’s oldest spiritual philosophies and one of its most inclusive. Rooted in the Vedas, India’s sacred scriptures, Vedanta upholds the unity of all existence, the divinity of the soul, and harmony among religions.

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Sadgamaya, Tamsoma, Jotyr Gamay, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:28.6	Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shantay.
0:36.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness and to light, lead us from death to immortality. Ome, peace, peace, peace. Namaste and good morning everybody.
0:59.5	So this is a session of this question answers basically, what we call Ask Swami.
1:08.1	We have questions coming in from all over the world and our intrepid team collates,
1:15.1	sifts through those questions and presents a few for discussion in every one of these sessions.
1:23.1	So Diane will share with us some of those questions and then I'll call upon you, the audience here,
1:29.4	those who are interested, you can come forward. You have to come here and ask your question.
1:33.8	Tell us your name and ask, ask a question. All right, let's see how it goes.
1:39.2	Diane, what do we have for us today?
1:41.1	This question is from Sangha Mitra Batakhaji. Swamaji
1:46.5	Svamajibranams, I am a student of psychology. I have come across the psychological ailment
1:52.5	known as Disassociative Disorder. One of the reported symptoms is that one feels they are not
1:59.9	the body as if they are watching their
2:02.2	own lives as a movie. You had mentioned about a Swami who had said, when the road outside
2:08.8	my window looks like a movie, that day I will know that I am enlightened. So then is enlightenment
2:15.9	just a brain phenomenon?
2:19.2	Dr. Jill Bolte, a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist, in a TEDx talk about her brain stroke,
2:28.4	clearly speaks about how she had the outer body experience, and she felt like light, space and joy, all that, all the
2:38.9	experiences that spiritual people talk about. So is it all about the brain? The argument, the
2:45.3	consciousness is something created in the brain. Can it be ignored? So I'm not the body, not the mind, I am pure consciousness.
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