Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Nov 24th, 2024

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 87 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

01:53 - How can I reconcile devotion and non-dual knowledge?

23:27 - If I realize I am pure consciousness, do I also have a vision of God with form?

31:21 - What is Mahat (universal intelligence) in the Samkhya philosophy?

34:24 - Is it possible to practice Bhakti without God or deities?

36:28 - Can you talk about your experience with the monk who said "we are missing it a thousand times every moment"?

54:03 - Can consciousness remain by itself without appearing as objects?

59:13 - Why should I strive for enlightenment?

01:09:00 - How can I keep up study of Advaita without losing interest?

01:14:33 - Is the experience of nothingness in deep sleep the same as the experience after death, or for enlightened souls?

01:18:15 - Does everyone have to go through experience/enjoyment in the world before enlightenment?

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Sadgamaya, Tamsoma, Jototyrgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:26.6	Ome, Shanty, Shanty, Shanty, He.
0:34.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:45.7	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:52.3	Good morning, namaste everybody.
0:55.0	We are back again for another installment of, we ask Swami.
1:03.0	So we get all these questions from all over the world and we came up with this idea of an internet forum, so where we select some of those
1:16.4	questions and we tried to discuss them and try to answer them to the best of our ability.
1:22.0	And it's uploaded on the net.
1:24.5	So that has turned out to be one of the most popular things which we do over the years.
1:30.3	We also take questions from the live audience. So if you have questions, I'll ask you to raise your hands.
1:37.3	I'll call upon you. You can come forward here and there's a microphone. You can come here and ask your question.
1:45.0	Diane is going to read out the questions from the internet audience.
1:50.0	Diane, what do we have this morning?
1:53.0	Well, we have two questions on the same subject, Swayanji.
1:58.0	The first one is from an 18-year-old from Calcutta in India called Atri.
2:05.3	She says, I was a hardcore atheist for as long as I can remember. I was also severely depressed and suicidal for the longest time.
2:15.7	It was only recently that I came across one of your talks titled,
2:19.3	Who Am I?
2:21.3	Which really made me reconsider.
2:23.3	For the first time, I found the most logical, rational explanation to God,
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