Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Dec 24th, 2024

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Nov 24th, 2024. List of questions with timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

02:44 – How can Shri Ramakrishna’s statement “only God is your own” be reconciled with Holy Mother’s “everybody is your own”?

17:51 – Does stopping all thoughts reveal pure witness consciousness and lead to realization?

32:18 – Is the gap between two thoughts where pure consciousness shines, and can it only be noticed afterward?

38:43 – How to address fear of meditating after experiencing non-duality and loss of individuality?

49.36 – Why didn’t you adopt Kashmir Shaivism despite its elaboration compared to Advaita Vedanta?

57.36 – What did Swami Vivekananda mean by “Eternal progression is eternal bondage”?

01:04:28 – How to reconcile Buddhist teachings on emptiness with Vedanta’s views on self and no-self?

01:19:48 – Is pure consciousness the same as God, and why are there so many names for God?

01:26:02 – Why doesn’t the Headless Way result in infinite love and bliss as described in non-duality?

01:34:24 – What is the relevance of spiritual teachings in a future dominated by super-intelligent AI?

01:47:18 – How to practice forgiveness effectively and overcome anger?

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma, Tamsoamā, Jyargamaya, Mriturma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:25.6	Oam, shanty, shanty, shanty, he.
0:33.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:42.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:50.3	Namaste and good morning everybody.
0:52.3	So we have Namaste and good morning everybody.
1:05.0	So we have one more session of Q&A discussion. We started this several years ago when we had all these questions which were coming in over the internet.
1:15.6	And it's impossible really to write answers to so many people.
1:20.6	And even if you do write, it just starts a conversation, doesn't it really?
1:25.6	And then those questions and answers
1:27.9	remain limited to that person.
1:32.3	So somebody gave me this idea, actually it was a monk in Belurmat
1:35.8	who gave me this idea of having a series of open Q&A.
1:39.8	So that's how they started.
1:41.2	And it's become very popular over the years.
1:52.0	So we have literally thousands and thousands of emails coming in from all over the world and we have a brave team of volunteers who sift through all of that and select a few questions every month.
2:02.6	But these questions advantages, it's representative of many more questions.
2:07.6	And these questions and answers, they remain online.
2:11.6	Thanks to this new technology, you know, on YouTube it's there.
2:14.6	So you can refer to it again and again and other people also get the benefit of it.
2:20.0	I often say that you don't really have to wait for your question to be.
2:23.3	When is it going to get to my question?
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