Christian Spirituality | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
wami Sarvapriyananda explores Christian spirituality through the lens of Vedanta. He delves into the core teachings of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount offering a unique Vedantic perspective. This talk emphasizes humility, non-violent resistance, and the universal truth found across religions.
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Vedanta is one of the world’s most ancient religious philosophies and one of its broadest. Based on the Vedas, the sacred scriptures of India, Vedanta affirms the oneness of existence, the divinity of the soul, and the harmony of religions.
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Ashtoamah, |
| 0:02.0 | Sattomah, SADGAMAY, |
| 0:20.0 | Tamasoma, Jotirgamaya, |
| 0:25.6 | Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya. |
| 0:30.6 | Oam, shanty, shanty, shanty, he. |
| 0:44.3 | Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality. |
| 0:47.3 | Ome, peace, peace, peace. |
| 0:51.3 | Namaste and good morning and welcome this beautiful Sunday. |
| 1:00.7 | And it is the season. |
| 1:03.0 | Yes. |
| 1:03.8 | That's why we have this talk today on Christian spirituality. |
| 1:07.8 | Usually we do this at the end of the year just before Christmas. |
| 1:18.6 | For many reasons, one particular reason this year is I got to meet the Pope. I don't mean it figuratively, I actually did. |
| 1:22.6 | So the occasion was something called Nostra Etae, which is Latin for in our times. |
| 1:32.1 | In 1965, in the second Vatican Council, the Vatican, they made some decisions and issued a proclamation which is called Nostriati. |
| 1:45.0 | It is basically the idea was that there is truth in other religions. |
| 1:51.0 | That sounds a little strange to our years, but you have to see the history of the Catholic Church to see what a big step jump ahead is for them. |
| 2:00.0 | It was, the document was initially an attempt at reconciliation |
| 2:06.5 | with the Jews and especially in the aftermath of the Holocaust of course the Holocaust happened in |
| 2:12.7 | 1940s and this was 1965 the church moved slowly but it happened I was in 1965, the church moved slowly. But it happened. |
| 2:19.3 | I was in Rome, they showed me the main synagogue there |
| 2:23.3 | where the Pope actually walked down there |
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