Dakshinamurti Stotram - Session 6 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2025

⏱️ 69 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	AASATOAMA, Tama so ma Jotirgamaya Mriturma amritamamaia
0:25.6	Ome shantayshanty shanty shanty hsi
0:32.6	Ome lead us from the unreal to the real lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death
0:41.8	to immortality.
0:43.9	Ome, peace, peace.
0:48.3	Ome, Ishvaro Guruatmhemi, Muti, Muti, Murti Bhedheda, Vibhagin,
0:57.0	Vyomavad Vyaptadehyahāya, daksinamutai namaha.
1:06.0	So the teaching of Vedantā is complete.
1:10.0	What Shankaracharya wanted to teach in Vedant is complete in four verses.
1:15.6	Tatuamasi has been explained, what is knowledge and what is enlightenment has been explained or has been taught.
1:23.6	Now, any good philosopher has to do two things.
1:30.3	One is prove your case and cut down opposite views.
1:38.3	Show that your view is tenable, justifiable, reasonable, and show that opposing views are unreasonable.
1:47.0	What Shankaracharya has now given is the adduitsa view, the non-dual view of the self.
1:54.0	But there are many other views of the self.
1:58.0	So, like any good philosopher, Shankaracharya will now proceed in verses 5 and 6 to select a sampling of the major views about the self, which are against non-dualism, and then cut them down.
2:15.6	That is verse number five, number six.
2:19.5	Like a lawyer.
2:20.9	A lawyer always has to prove,
2:23.8	they have to prove their own case
2:25.2	and to disprove the opponent's case.
2:28.5	The flag is flag.
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