Easter Inspiration | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on Evagrius Ponticus' Chapters on Prayer on the occasion of Easter.

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Sadgamaya,
0:04.0	Tamasoma, Jotyrgamaya,, Mreturma, Amritam Gamaia.
0:25.6	Ome shantayshanty, shanty.
0:32.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death unreal to the real lead us from darkness unto light lead us from death to immortality
0:42.3	Ome peace peace
0:47.3	Good morning everybody
0:51.3	It's good to be good to see all of you and be back here. This is a very auspicious day. It's Easter.
1:00.0	Arguably, along with Christmas, this is the holiest day in Christianity.
1:07.0	In fact, this whole week is the Holy Week in Christianity.
1:10.9	You have Thursday, which is the Last Supper, which marks the Last Supper.
1:15.1	Friday, the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and Sunday, the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
1:22.6	So this is Easter, Easter Sunday marks resurrection.
1:26.6	What does it mean?
1:29.3	You see, from a Vedantic perspective,
1:32.3	one can understand Christianity as a Bhakti tradition,
1:36.3	a tradition of devotion to God and faith and surrender to God.
1:42.3	Among Bhakti traditions also, there is a specific kind of Bhakti tradition which is
1:48.1	devotion to the avatar, the incarnation. Now I know immediately there will be theologians who will say,
1:55.2	no, no, no, the Hindu idea of incarnation, the avatar and the Christian idea of incarnation are different.
2:00.4	There are differences, but I don't think there are major differences.
2:03.6	It's basically talking about the same phenomenon, divine phenomenon,
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