Finding Peace | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
This lecture from Sarvapriyananda explores various paths to attaining inner peace. It discusses the yogic approach of stilling the mind through meditation, the devotional path of surrendering to God's will, and the philosophical approach of Vedanta that recognizes one's true nature as unattached awareness. He emphasizes that true peace comes from understanding one's essential nature as pure consciousness, unaffected by the changing circumstances of life. He explains several philosophical reasons why our true self is inherently unattached (asanga) to worldly experiences, drawing on concepts from Advaita Vedanta. The overall message is that recognizing our innate, unchanging nature as awareness leads to lasting peace.
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, Asatoma, |
| 0:02.0 | Sadgamaia, |
| 0:04.0 | Tamsoamah, Jhothirgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya. |
| 0:26.6 | Ome, Shantay, Shantay, Shantay. |
| 0:34.6 | Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality, |
| 0:44.3 | Ome, peace, peace, peace. |
| 0:52.3 | Good morning, and namaste everybody. |
| 0:55.0 | And welcome, welcome back. |
| 0:59.0 | We are reopening now for our fall session. |
| 1:04.0 | The subject that I had chosen is attaining peace. |
| 1:12.6 | Now, of course, we are right now, we have the United Nations General Assembly here, |
| 1:17.6 | whose whole job is to attain world peace. |
| 1:19.6 | I didn't have that in mind when I chose the subject. |
| 1:23.6 | It's just a fortunate coincidence. |
| 1:26.6 | But it's a different kind of peace that we are going to talk about. |
| 1:31.3 | It is peace within ourselves, peace in our own heart. |
| 1:35.3 | There is one kind of task which the United Nations is doing attainment of world peace, |
| 1:42.3 | and good luck to them. New Yorkers are not so much worried about |
| 1:46.5 | world peace. We're more worried about grid lock and traffic closures and all that because |
| 1:50.2 | of the UN General Assembly meeting. The two are not unrelated. I remember if you go on |
| 1:58.9 | a tour of the United Nations headquarters here, one of the first things they will show you is a meditation room. |
| 2:03.6 | I think it's named after Doug Hamashkold, one of the early general secretaries of the, would it be secretaries general? |
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