The Tenth Man | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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“The tenth man counts the other nine, each of whom is visible to him, but forgets himself, though his Self is ever known to him”. Swami Sarvapriyananda expands on the allegory of “the Tenth Man” as taught in Chapter 7 of the book, Pancadasi by Vidyaranya. This chapter is inspired from a verse from the Brihadharanyaka Upanishad (Mantra 4.4.12): "If a man knows the Self as ‘I am this,’ then desiring what and for whose sake will he suffer in the wake of the body?" Mantra 4.4.12: आत्मानं चेद्विजानीयादयमस्मीति पूरुषः । किमिच्छन्कस्य कामाय शरीरमनुसंज्वरेत् ॥ १२

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatom, Asatom, Sadgamaya, Tamaso ma Jyotirgamaya,
0:20.0	Mritiurma am Amretam Gamaya.
0:25.6	Ome, shantay, shanty, shanty.
0:31.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real. Lead us from darkness unto light.
0:39.3	Lead us from death to immortality.
0:43.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:50.3	Namaskar and good morning everybody.
0:53.3	I see a few familiar masks.
0:58.0	Today is also Mother's Day.
1:04.0	So happy Mother's Day to everybody who's here and those who are watching online. Today is also Rabindranath Tagore's birthday.
1:22.6	But I heard naturally in India in the midst of so much sickness and suffering and death, nobody is in much of a mood to celebrate anything.
1:34.3	Our subject too is relevant. It has to do with suffering and how to overcome suffering in a very deep, permanent way.
1:47.0	The mantra of the Brai Dharana Kupanishad.
1:53.0	Atmanam Chedvi-Janiyaat,
1:57.0	Ayam-asmete purusha, Kimichan-kasya-maya,
2:03.6	Shereeram anusangvaret.
2:07.6	If we were to realize ourselves
2:12.6	as I am this infinite existence consciousness place,
2:16.6	in that case, with that realization, who would, for whose sake,
2:24.3	desiring what would one go on suffering along with the body?
2:30.3	So a view of human suffering, the nature of suffering, and the true nature of ourselves, what we truly are, that we are not the suffering body, not even the suffering mind, and that we can realize something beyond suffering.
2:46.0	And by realizing that we go beyond suffering.
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