The Universe as Seeing | Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda

Vedanta Society of New York

Hinduism, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Swami Sarvapriyananda explains the last verse from Chapter 2 of Yoga Vasistha Sarah. He draws upon G.R. Malkani's work, among others, to elucidate Drishti-srishti-vada, the doctrine of creation through perception. The Yoga Vasishtha Sarah, translated as Nectar of Supreme Knowledge, is an Advaitic text consisting of 223 verses. Reference text: https://www.vedanta.com/store/Nectar-of-Supreme-Knowledge.html ► To support the Vedanta Society of New York: http://www.vedantany.org/donate

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0:00.0	Ome, Asatoma, Saddamay, Tamaso ma juteirgamaya,
0:19.0	Mritiurma, Amritam Gamaya.
0:23.6	Ome, Shantay, Shanti, Shanti, Shanty.
0:30.6	Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, lead us from darkness unto light, lead us from death to immortality.
0:41.3	Ome, peace, peace, peace.
0:47.3	Namaste and good morning everybody.
0:49.3	It's a really beautiful winter Sunday.
0:53.3	Yeah. It's a really beautiful winter Sunday.
0:57.0	The subject which we have taken up this morning is interesting, profound, very deep, very non-dual.
1:10.0	Surprise, surprise. very deep, very non-dual.
1:13.6	Surprise, surprise.
1:17.6	Yes, the universe as seeing.
1:23.6	This comes, it's a theme which is comes again and again in Advaita Vedanta. We'll talk about it today.
1:27.8	Today I'm going to draw centrally from this book, the nectar of supreme knowledge.
1:35.1	I've been giving a few talks on this on and off in the last few months.
1:39.6	This is actually an English translation of Yoga Vashishtasara, which is, which translates as the
1:48.0	essence of Yoga Vashista, and that is actually a condensation or an extract, let's say,
1:55.0	from the original Yoga Vashista. The Yoga Vashista Ramayana is a huge book, more than 30,000 verses.
2:06.2	So the context there, I mentioned it earlier also, but just to recapitulate, the prince Rama, young Rama, he suddenly becomes very non-dualistic and it decides I won't be a king I don't want
2:18.2	this kingdom I want to go away and you know become enlightened and go away to the
2:23.8	forests or mountains and become enlightened want to give up the world so his father
2:29.1	the king is of course naturally worried if you don't have the prince the crown
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