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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Freedom | Vakya Vritti - Part 6 of 6 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

This is Part 6 of a series of lectures given by Swami Sarvapriyananda on the text, Vakya Vritti. Vakya Vritti is a text of fifty-two Sanskrit slokas attributed to Adi Shankara and is in the form of a dialogue between an eager student and an enlightened teacher. The text concerns itself with the detailed and elaborate explanation of two Mahāvākyas – aham brahmāsmi and tat tvam asi which are intended to give a direct perception of Brahman. ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: http://www.vedantany.org/donate

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Sattyaam Ghanamantham-Anantam Brahmha, one of the most soaring, sublime sentences in the Upanishads.

0:16.0

This is from the Taityri Upanishad. The second chapter, Brahmhananda Wally.

0:21.4

What is Brahman?

0:23.4

Infinite being,

0:24.8

infinite awareness is Brahman.

0:28.6

It is actually so immediate.

0:32.3

This very existence,

0:33.9

you feel it,

0:34.5

you are immersed in this ocean of divinity.

0:37.1

This very existence, you feel existence right now.

0:39.3

I am and all this is.

0:42.3

This isness without limit is Brahman.

0:45.3

When we limit it, limited beings, limited existence, but without limit, you see it as an ocean of existence everywhere.

0:53.3

And that existence alone, it's there in every existing thing in this universe,

0:58.0

from quarks to quasars, from amoeba to blue whales, everywhere.

1:03.0

And you go further. It is not just existence.

1:08.0

Imagine, like in a dream where everything is actually in you, in you the

1:13.9

dreaming mind. Similarly, everything that is there is in you the awareness in chit or

1:24.0

gyanam as we say in ghanam and you go even further everything is not that

1:34.4

one existence awareness alone is as Vivekand this said all is one and the one is

1:41.3

bliss the waking state it gives us a clue, the dream state it

1:50.0

gives us a clue and the deep sleep state it gives us a clue. The waking state gives us a

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