Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Feb 23rd, 2025

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Feb 23rd, 2025. List of questions with timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

02:10 - How should we pray? What should we pray for?

07:19 - I intend to become a monk. How can I maintain inner peace in the midst of the world before joining?

14:48 - What is the best way to read through a text with others?

18:50 - Is reflected consciousness the same as witness consciousness?

30:28 - How do I apply Vedanta to day-to-day life?

38:23 - How can the world be an appearance to Brahman?

54:01 - How can I understand consciousness through service?

01:01:21 - How does the mind drop attributes?

01:07:21 - If everything is an illusion why am I not an illusion as well?

01:18:35 - If no company is better than bad company, how can we practice this without hurting others?

01:23:50 - What is it that I want?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness and to light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:20.0	Ome, peace, peace, peace. to light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:24.4	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:29.3	Namaste and good morning, everybody.
0:37.0	We have another Ask Swami today.
0:38.3	So this started years ago when we started accumulating lots and lots of questions from the Internet
0:46.3	audience from all over the world.
0:48.3	And then somebody, actually it was a monk who had a bright idea from our main monastery in Belur Mutt.
0:55.0	They said that why don't you have a program where you can collect the questions and answer the questions.
1:00.0	And it's good so that the answers are preserved on the net and it's available for everybody.
1:09.0	So what we do here is there's a mix of questions which we have selected.
1:15.5	And selection is important because we get hundreds, hundreds, if not thousands of questions.
1:21.7	And we have an intrepid team, which goes through all of that and selects a few and presents it to me.
1:28.3	We have some of those and some questions from the live audience, all of you here.
1:32.3	I'll ask you to raise your hands if you have a question and then you come forward here to the first row
1:37.3	and tell us your name and ask the question in brief.
1:41.3	And I always say that don't wait for, when is my question? When is he going to answer my question?
1:46.0	Often, if you hear the question of somebody else's question and listen to the answer, it might be of help to you, help to us.
1:55.0	So it's good to listen to all the questions and the answers.
2:00.0	All right, Diane has the questions.
2:02.6	We'll take some questions from the Internet audience first.
2:05.6	Good morning, Swami Ji.
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