Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Mar 29th, 2026
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Mar 29th, 2026.
List of questions with timestamps:
00:00 - Invocation and opening
01:32 - Why Vedanta first says you are consciousness and not body-mind if everything is Brahman anyway.
22:05 - How to distinguish pure Self from awareness that seems to arise through body and mind.
50:48 - If I am only consciousness and a witness, what is the meaning of life and experience.
01:00:48 - Why Vivekananda’s emphasis on service can seem different from Sri Ramakrishna’s teachings.
01:11:43 - Why profound inner experience should point to one universal Atman rather than only a local conscious state.
01:24:24 - Where Ananda fits into the description “Satyam Jnanam Anantam Brahma.”
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Asatoma, |
| 0:02.0 | Sadgamaya, Tamsoma, Jotauragamaya, Mritya, Amritamama, Amritam Gamaya. |
| 0:28.6 | Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shantay. Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, |
| 0:41.3 | lead us from darkness unto light, |
| 0:44.3 | lead us from death to immortality. |
| 0:47.3 | Ome, peace, peace, peace. |
| 0:53.3 | Namaste and good morning and welcome everybody to this edition of Ask Swami, where we have |
| 1:02.9 | questions not only from all of you, but also from all around the world. |
| 1:09.5 | We actually have a team which goes through hundreds of emails and questions and selects a |
| 1:20.3 | representative assortment from them. |
| 1:23.5 | And we try to discuss some of those questions. |
| 1:26.2 | And of course, as I said, questions from the live audience here. |
| 1:30.3 | So what do we have today, Diane? |
| 1:32.8 | The first question is from Ashutosh. |
| 1:36.2 | Swami, I'm a beginner in Advaita Vedanta. |
| 1:39.5 | My level of knowledge in this field is zero. |
| 1:43.0 | I've only read Tadva Boda a few times and Atma Boda partially. |
| 1:48.6 | Watch Dregisha Viveka a couple of times and some of your videos. |
| 1:52.8 | So it's not zero really. It's... |
| 1:54.5 | You have at least the elements of Advaiteda Vedant are there with you. |
| 2:05.1 | I get the concept that there's nothing apart from Brahman. |
| 2:09.1 | However, in all the videos, Swami, you keep saying to us that you are that consciousness, |
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