Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Mar 23rd, 2025

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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

00:00 - Intro

01:43 - Explain the two ways of approaching non-duality: “I am all of it” vs “I am none of it”?

15:24 - Is devotion (bhakti) merely an aid to knowledge in Advaita, or something more?

29:58 - Is the intense love of God (parabhakti) a form of insanity or mysticism?

36:16 - Is Advaita Vedanta falsifiable?

52:06 - The importance of asking questions in the study of Vedanta.

58:44 - Should we always practice unconditional love?

01:11:14 - What is the real meaning of ‘jada’ (insentient) in Advaita?

01:20:30 - What is the relationship between Maya and Chit (consciousness)?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh
0:07.0	Oh Ome, Asatom, Asatom, Sadgamaya,
0:28.6	Tamasoma, Jyothirgamaya, Mritiurma am amritam Gamaya.
0:38.3	Ome, shanty, shanty, shanty, he.
0:46.3	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light,
0:53.3	lead us from death to immortality.
0:57.0	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
1:03.0	Namaste and good morning everybody and welcome.
1:06.0	Yes.
1:08.0	So we are here for a session of questions and answers.
1:13.5	We get all these questions from all over the world.
1:17.1	And our brave team goes through these questions and classifies some of them
1:23.7	and brings presents some of them here.
1:28.9	And we also take questions from the live audience here.
1:36.1	So, Diane is here with some of the selections for this morning.
1:41.5	What do we have today?
1:42.9	The first letter is from Averup Chakrabori from
1:46.9	Guru Graham, India. I'm immensely impacted by the line in the Ashtavakra Gida, Yata, Prakasayata,
1:56.8	Iko, Dehamanam, Tata, Jagit.
2:08.2	Contemplating this, I find that non-dualism can take these two independent roots.
2:12.5	I am all of it or I am none of it.
2:19.7	When I take the first route, I feel an unbroken sense of love for all beings, as they are the same being that is in me.
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