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Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

The Infinite Alone Remains | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

n this exploration of the Shanti Mantra Purnamadah Purnamidam, Swami Sarvapriyananda reflects on the meaning of “The Infinite Alone Remains,” explaining that the same infinite reality (Purnam) appears as God, the world, and our own true Self . Drawing from the Upanishads and the life of Sri Ramakrishna, he shows that the infinite is beyond all limitations of space, time, and object—yet is fully present here and now. The lecture reveals how Vedanta resolves the apparent difference between the individual and the divine, culminating in the insight that the one infinite reality alone exists, expressing itself in countless forms.


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0:00.0

O'm...

0:15.0

Asatomah, Sadgamaya,

0:20.0

Tamasoma, Jut sadgamaya, Tamsoma, Jotyrgamaya, Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.

0:29.6

Oam, shanty, shanty, shanty, hshaunti.

0:36.6

Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real.

0:40.9

Lead us from darkness and to light.

0:43.5

Lead us from death to immortality.

0:46.7

Ome, peace, peace, peace.

0:51.6

Namaste and good morning everybody. I chose this subject this morning.

1:05.2

I think it is the infinite alone remains.

1:09.4

This some of you might have already guessed is from the Purnamada, Purnamidamantra. Purnamadha, Purnat, Purnasya, Purnamadhaaaaaa, Purnamadhaa, Purnamadhaa, Purnamavishi, Oam, shantty, shanty, shanty, it's one of the shanty mantras. I remember the first time I came across it.

1:29.1

I was a kid around Cornish's age.

1:36.0

And in the monastery in Bhuvaneshwar, I was to climb up to the temple, which was on the upper floor.

1:49.2

And I had this strong memory of stone steps climbing up to a room which was a bare room, small room and on a wooden board this mantra was inscribed.

1:55.9

So I used to study a little bit of Sanskrit at school so I could read the mantra. Not that I really

1:59.9

understood much of it. It was written and I would somehow that pulled me I stood there I would every time I would go up

2:09.5

to the temple I would look at it and I would stand and look at it and there was this utter silence in

2:14.8

that room I still have the memory of the cold stone floor beneath my feet,

2:21.0

and the room was sun-drenched. Nobody there. Nothing else there. That room was not really used. It's

2:26.6

just as an ante-room entrance towards the rooftop temple.

2:33.5

Purna-madha-purnam adaf,

2:34.2

Purnamidam,

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