Ask Swami with Swami Sarvapriyananda | Oct 20th, 2024
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2025
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Q&A session led by Swami Sarvapriyananda at the Vedanta Society of New York on Oct 20th, 2024. List of questions with timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:15 - What is the importance of earnestness and renunciation to progress in spiritual life.
13:37 - Do we need a Guru, and what is the relationship betwen the Gurua dn teh Advaitic Self?
19:31 - Is consciousness the controller of actions or is it just a witness?
31:09 - How do we go from reflected consciousness to ‘I am Brahman’?
41:17 - How can I cultivate a desire to meditate and to form a genuine enjoyment of the practice?
01:04:21 - How can I overcome doubts in spiritual life?
01:09:45 - How can dream state be considered equivalent to the waking state?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Asatoma, |
| 0:02.0 | Sadgamaya, |
| 0:04.0 | Tamsoamah, Jhothirgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya. |
| 0:26.6 | Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shanty. |
| 0:34.6 | Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness, |
| 0:41.3 | to light, lead us from death to immortality. |
| 0:45.3 | Ome, peace, peace. |
| 0:49.3 | Namaste and good morning. |
| 0:53.3 | So we are gathered here for one more episode. |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah, it's like a soap opera. |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, all these questions from all over the world, |
| 1:10.0 | people asking about various things concerned with spiritual life. |
| 1:15.6 | So we felt, you know, I had to feel bad that is unable to answer these questions. |
| 1:21.6 | Because if you try to write back on email, it's not satisfactory to anybody not to me not to the person who |
| 1:29.6 | asked the question and then somebody suggested that why don't you just |
| 1:35.1 | discuss them online you know then it'll be preserved people can listen to it |
| 1:40.0 | and later also and that's how this started a few years back and it's proved wildly |
| 1:45.7 | popular so what we do is our heroic team selects a few questions yes a few |
| 1:58.3 | questions from the internet audience from the thousands which come from all over the world. |
| 2:08.1 | And then we take those selections and we try to answer them. |
| 2:15.2 | All right. |
| 2:16.9 | Let's go on. |
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