Master Sureshwara on Transcendence of Karma | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda speaks on the Naishkarmyasiddhi, which is a famous Advaita classic of Shri Sureshvaracharya, an immediate disciple of Adi Shankaracharya, and is said to be a manual embodying the quintessence of Vedanta. The work is held in such high esteem in the tradition of Advaita that it is quoted not only by every important Advaita writer but also by the critics of the Advaita philosophy. The author himself says that the work ‘purports to set forth the epitome of the essence of the entire Vedanta’. ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: http://www.vedantany.org/donate

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma,
0:02.0	Aasatoma,
0:04.0	Tamsoamah, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:26.6	Ong, shanty, shanty, shanty, shanty.
0:34.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness and to light, lead us from
0:41.9	death to immortality, Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:51.6	Namaste and good morning everybody. And welcome back.
0:56.0	After a long summer, I hope you had a wonderful summer.
1:00.0	We are going to kick off our fall session today with this talk today.
1:07.0	I was thinking at the beginning of the fall session, we can go back to first principles.
1:17.1	What is spiritual life, at least what is the ad-dwaita-vedant version of spiritual life?
1:23.6	What is the problem?
1:24.6	What is the solution?
1:25.6	What are we trying to do here? What is the way? And what is the problem? What is the solution? What are we trying to do here? What is the way?
1:28.3	And what is the result?
1:30.3	For that, I have chosen an ancient text written by somebody we have not yet discussed in these classes.
1:40.3	He was a great non-dualist, one of the first disciples of Adi Shankaracharya. His name was
1:50.5	Sureshwar Acharya. That's why the title Master Sureshwar. Sureshwar, which literally means the master
1:56.7	Sureshwara. And the topic refers to a book which he wrote, Naishkarmia Siddhi.
2:03.6	He is well known for that particular text. You see that in the title, The Transcendence of Karmah
2:11.6	Karmah Siddhi. That's literally the meaning of Naishkarmia Siddhi. Before we get into that, we will see what Sureshwaras take is on spiritual life, on the method,
2:24.4	the problem, the solution, in his own words.
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