No Greater Gain | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Religion & Spirituality, Hinduism

4.8 • 681 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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"Having attained Which, he does not think of any other gain as superior to That; being established in Which he is not shaken by the greatest of miseries." Inspired by this text from the Bhagavad Gita (6.22), Swami Sarvapriyananda elucidates the nature of ultimate knowledge and bliss. यं लब्ध्वा चापरं लाभं मन्यते नाधिकं तत: | यस्मिन्स्थितो न दु:खेन गुरुणापि विचाल्यते || 22|| yaṁ labdhvā chāparaṁ lābhaṁ manyate nādhikaṁ tataḥ yasmin sthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vichālyate

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0:00.0	Oum, Asatoma, Sadgama, Tamasoma, Jutyrgamaya,
0:04.0	Mritiurma, Amritriturma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:24.6	Ome shantayshantay, shantay.
0:30.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light,
0:36.6	lead us from death to immortality.
0:40.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:48.3	Good morning and welcome everybody.
0:51.3	I think it's sort of the first really cool day of the fall.
0:55.0	We have been studying the Bhagavad Gita and we are on the sixth chapter in our Gita
1:04.0	and there's this verse which we have been studying in the past week, which is basically what I'm going to talk about today.
1:13.6	There's a beautiful phrase in that verse where Krishna says to Arjuna, what you gain in spiritual
1:21.6	life is the greatest gain. There is no greater gain.
1:26.6	Young Labdva, na chaparam lav Mannyate, adhigam tattah,
1:31.3	Yasmin's stitha, Dukhya, Guruna Apinavichalya.
1:35.3	In the 22nd verse of the sixth chapter, Krishna says to Arjuna,
1:43.3	having attained which one does not think that there's anything higher to attain,
1:48.0	any greater gain to have,
1:50.0	and having been established in which one is not shaken
1:57.0	by the, one is not shaken by the greatest of sorrows.
2:01.6	Na duckeena guru up, guru na,
2:03.6	when we hear this, three kinds of questions arise, or we can ask three questions.
2:13.6	Why is spiritual gain the greatest gain? Why not something else? Why is it greater
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