Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | June 15th, 2025

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on June 15th, 2025.

List of questions with timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

00:48 - What is the difference between the soul and awareness?

10:39 - How do we break the link between the real and reflected consciousness?

27:44 - How is knowledge different from experience?

36:02 - Is enlightenment obtained during meditation or while interacting with the world?

49:38 - Is artificial super-intelligence a feasibility? Could this lead to the end of humanity?

59:27 - Can we design a generalized template for Karma? How can I explain it to my grandchildren?

01:05:55 - Doesn't the "consciousness wave" referred to in Buddhism imply duality?

01:09:27 - What is the difference between realization that the dream is unreal within the dream (lucid dreaming) vs. in the waking world?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Sadgamaia,
0:04.0	Tamsoamah, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurama, Amritam Gamaia.
0:26.6	Ome, Shantay, Shante, Shante, He.
0:34.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness and to light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:43.3	Ome, peace, peace.
0:47.3	The first question is from Gopal Krishna.
0:51.3	I am a retired military officer and received mantra Diction from
0:57.6	revered Swami Bhutashananda in 1986 in the Singapore mission. Can you please educate me on the
1:06.2	difference between the soul and awareness?
1:09.0	Okay, that's a good one because it's an easy one.
1:12.6	But he said the introduction interests me because I was also fortunate enough to be initiated by
1:21.6	Riviet Swami Bhuteshanejee Maharas, but much later, much after this gentleman was initiated. He was initiated in
1:28.9	1986 and I was initiated in 1991. Yes. Yes. All right. What's the difference between soul and awareness?
1:47.1	Now, the English word soul is ambiguous.
1:50.4	I'll give you two sentences, which will show you two different meanings of the word soul.
1:55.7	When we say, oh, he's a good soul, what do we mean?
1:59.9	We mean he's a good person.
2:01.6	Maybe he's noble and honest and sincere and caring and so and so forth.
2:07.6	So it's a good soul. It's a good person.
2:10.6	But when we use words like the immortal soul,
2:14.6	the immortal soul, you're referring to something spiritual then. Not just the personality.
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