Nondual Meditation - Retreat Part 6 | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This retreat lecture series on Nondual Meditation based on Adi Shankaracharya's exposition in Aparokshanubhuti guides viewers through steps to transcend identification with the body and mind, moving toward a direct realization of the Self as pure consciousness.

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0:00.0	Ome, Ome, Ome, Oh.
0:23.6	Oh.
0:24.6	Oh. Oh. Oh.
0:39.3	Oh.
0:41.3	Oh.
0:44.3	Oh.
0:45.3	Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.
0:56.0	Oh. Ome. The essence of Adwaita Vedanta can be put in this way.
1:41.3	To realize that I am consciousness and consciousness is all.
1:47.0	That's it.
1:49.0	First step is to realize that I am consciousness and nothing but consciousness.
1:56.0	So that we will do in a non-dual meditation now.
2:00.0	Then the next step we will see in this session itself that this consciousness we will do in a non-dual meditation now. Then the next step we will see in this session itself that this consciousness which we will discover experientially is all.
2:08.6	So these two things we will do.
2:11.6	First, a non-dual meditation to discover that I am consciousness.
2:15.6	This is the Neti-Nati meditation.
2:23.3	To make it as simple as possible, it's like this. Whatever is an object, it's an object to me. It's not me.
2:28.3	You proceed in this way.
2:31.3	Here is the book.
2:33.3	I look at this book and I say,
2:35.4	It is not me.
2:38.5	It is not me.
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