Dakshinamurti Stotram - Session 3 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches the Dakshinamurti Stotra as part of a spiritual retreat. This Sanskrit hymn, attributed to Adi Shankaracharya, is a profound exposition on the metaphysics of the universe, presented through the lens of Advaita Vedanta. It venerates Lord Shiva in the form of Dakshinamurti—the divine teacher—and explores the nature of reality, consciousness, and self-knowledge.

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0:00.0	AASAT OMA, Jyotir Gamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:23.6	Ome, Shantay, Shanti, Shanti, He.
0:31.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:40.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:45.3	Ome, Ishvaro Gururatmethmi, Murti bhaedheda beghāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāhāh
1:04.0	Sinking, the chant that we do lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness to light, lead us from death to immortality.
1:14.6	Now think of the lake meditation, which I hope we are all doing.
1:19.6	When we look at the brilliant reflection of the colors and all in the lake, what's unreal there?
1:26.6	It's actually the reflection.
1:29.3	It's not that there are trees and the leaves and the sky and clouds and birds in the lake.
1:36.3	When we realize that actually there aren't those things, Actually, it's just the lake.
1:45.2	How do you experience it?
1:47.8	Tree, leaves, sky, clouds, birds.
1:51.9	That's what you experience.
1:52.9	That's what you see.
1:54.2	But when we know by knowledge that it is the lake,
1:58.3	we have gone from the unreal to the real.
2:02.6	When we think, this is a world, I'm inhabiting, good and bad, big struggles, problems, unreal.
2:09.6	When I realize all of it is appearing in one limitless spirit, one shining consciousness,
2:16.6	gone from the unreal to the real. How have you gone? You will
2:19.1	still keep seeing the same thing. That's important. It's not that you will see something different.
2:25.1	But by the eye of knowledge, we have moved from the unreal to the real. And then from
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