Dakshinamurti Stotram - Session 7 | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 681 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 100 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 | Ome, Asatoma, |
| 0:02.0 | Aasatoma, |
| 0:04.0 | Jhāhma, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurma amritam Gamaia |
| 0:26.6 | Ome shantay shanty shanty haehanty hey |
| 0:34.6 | 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 to immortality. |
| 0:43.3 | Ome, peace, peace. |
| 0:48.3 | Ome, Ishvaro Gururatmethi, Muti, Mutti bhidhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. There is an old Indian analogy called |
| 1:18.7 | Singha Valokanayay |
| 1:21.4 | The analogy of the |
| 1:24.5 | Lion looking back upon the ground covered. |
| 1:30.3 | Now it is said that when the lion moves majestically through the forest, |
| 1:36.3 | once in a while it looks back upon what ground it has covered. |
| 1:42.3 | Basically it means revision. So we have to look back upon the ground covered. |
| 1:48.0 | You are the lion. |
| 1:50.0 | So you're going to stop now and look back upon what has been covered. |
| 1:54.0 | In the six verses that we have done of the Daksinamurti Stotram, |
| 1:58.0 | which has 10 verses in the original version composed by Shankaracharya. |
| 2:01.6 | The first verse answered the question, |
| 2:06.6 | Who am I or what am I? I am this one non-dual consciousness. |
| 2:11.6 | Then the second verse, it answered the question, |
| 2:16.6 | what is this universe? |
| 2:18.9 | What is it that we are experiencing, this cosmos? |
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