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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Mahavakya Viveka - Panchadasi (Part 3) | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8714 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Swami Sarvapriyananda teaches Chapter 5 (Mahavakya Viveka) of the Panchadasi, a fourteenth century manual on Advaita Vedanta written by Vidyaranya. This lecture is Part 3 of an online retreat from Aug 2020.

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0:00.0

Oh, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.

0:14.0

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

0:20.0

Namaste to everybody.

0:22.6

And I think I saw Swami Nish Sri Vidyanandhii's.

0:27.6

Her name was there in the list.

0:29.6

So I offer my pronouns to reviat Mataji

0:31.6

and it is really an order to have such a presence.

0:36.6

So yesterday, we, in the afternoon session, we learned about the mechanics, the procedures that

0:46.3

are undertaken to arrive at the meaning of the Mahavakya.

0:51.3

Especially, I want to draw our attention to the Lakshartha how we get the implied meaning

0:57.0

why we get the implied meaning why is it necessary and how we get it why do we need the

1:03.0

implied meaning because the direct meaning the Mukhaartha the primary meaning does not fit

1:08.0

you can't get the meaning of the sentence out if you apply only the direct or primary meaning and how do we get the primary meaning does not fit. You can't get the meaning of the sentence out if you apply only the direct or primary meaning.

1:13.1

And how do we get the implied meaning?

1:15.6

So we remember, jihad a jihad laksana, you leave out some parts, the contrary parts,

1:20.9

and you take the common part which gives you identity.

1:25.1

For example, let's apply it to the four mahaakias. So we consider Prajianam Brahma.

1:32.3

What is the primary meaning of Pragyanam and what is the primary meaning of Brahma and what is the secondary meaning of Braggianam? What is the secondary meaning of Braggianam? What is the secondary meaning of Braggianam?

1:43.3

It's this empirical consciousness right now.

1:46.0

As the verse said, Ikshati, Shrinothi, jigrati, you see, you hear, you smell, you taste.

1:54.0

It is like that washer man using the diamond for scrubbing clothes.

1:57.0

So our consciousness right now, what we experience is this person, that's the primary meaning,

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